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Saturday, August 08, 2009

Rocky's Beef: The Greatest Action Figure Prop Ever?

A few days ago we examined GI Joe action figures.

Now we discover that that the movie Rocky *also* has action figures, created in 2006 by JAKKS Pacific, Inc. You get Rocky, Apollo Creed, Burgess Meredith's plucky trainer guy... and this classic piece:

Yes, it's the side of beef Rocky walloped during training.

The full boxing-the-side-of-beef scene from the 1976 movie doesn't seem to be online. But the slab does make a cameo appearance at about 1:15 of this training montage:



More Rocky action figures here.

Labels: Burgess Meredith, G.I. Joe, Rocky Balboa, Side of Beef, Sylvester Stallone

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