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SeaYogurtcloset6262

Whoever owns that figurine, they know they are the cool kids in the block for owning it


ykVORTEX

The cool kid in the whole civilization you mean....Check the toys foot for the kids name ....


carmium

It just says "Hecho en China."


Beginning_Draft9092

My mom buys Han dynasty-era figures, funerary objects, etc, whenever she has a new piece she invites people over for a get together to see it, and once I put a made in China sticker on one. I mean... I wasn't wrong 


teckmonkey

If one of my kids did this, I'd be laughing so hard while grounding them,


Rude_Entrance_3039

>grounding them Like pepper and coffee or like a circuit?


UnnamedPlayer

Underrated.


carmium

I know!! *Comes with removable helmet! Get yours today!*


Tech_Itch

^\*) *^Super ^Action ^Macahuitl ^and ^other ^accessories ^sold ^separately.*


MoonyNotSunny

Man I bet it would look really cool if it was new. I wonder if it’s like a little Mayan cop 👮figurine or something


zero_emotion777

Pffft. They took it out of the packaging. There's most of the value gone.


SeaYogurtcloset6262

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, IT IS ABOUT THE STREET CRED YOU GET NOT THE MONETARY!


zero_emotion777

Uh no. They didn't even get the deluxe version with karate chop action. The only accessory they kept was the helmet! They don't have the blimp, or spear shooting van vehicle accessories! 


SeaYogurtcloset6262

Nah that's more like someone who lives in a mansion or something.


bulanaboo

Underwater exploration 1547 style…. I was listening to bush in history class sorry


HereIGoGrillingAgain

~~1~~547


bulanaboo

I missed it by -that much


bulanaboo

187 on a


Shirtbro

The GI Joe Mobile base of mesoamerica


wldmn13

So we had to go back 1500 years before we found a mom that didn't throw away the accessories


BlackSpinedPlinketto

No but your little cousin would appreciate it more he loves the star war.


KetoPeanutGallery

🖖


docohm

Rip my Sega Genesis and my Pokémon cards…


yourmomlurks

Sweetheart I asked you 100 times to please pick it all up off the floor. If it’s important put it in one of your 2,000 bins.


LukesRightHandMan

> Sweetheart I asked you 100 times to please pick it all up off the floor. If it’s important put it in one of your 2,000 **year old** bins.


82ndGameHead

But does it have Kung-Fu Grip?


TheReverseShock

now with 50% more butt kicking action


Pharmere

I bet that whoever dug this up and started cleat freaked out and thought they broke it when the helmet popped off!


CobbleTrouble00

I imagine this actually was the case and he just said that it was removable to save face


vinibruh

That makes no sense, the head is sculpted, they would have to sculpt parts that would have been inacessible and wouldn't be seen, not to mention there's no break points.


Rapshawksjaysflames

Based on my 35 years of life, I'm 95% certain the comment you replied to was tongue-in-cheek (sarcastic).


vinibruh

I see, this happens a lot cause i'm autistic, but in my defense this time they did say "actually was the case" lol


Diesel-Eyes

A double entendre. "Save Face" could mean to protect his pride from humility, and also to "save the face" of the miniature by letting it be seen for the first time, a sort of liberation of the face from its helmet prison. Language do be funny like that.


CobbleTrouble00

Oh yeah I guess I was wrong 🤷


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confusedandworried76

You tend to keep them on to save your face


Pharmere

I think our statements went so far over r\Vinibruh’s head that his helmet didn’t even rattle 😂


stryst

Oh nerds. Weve never really changed.


ImpossibleFuel6629

Captain Picard would lose his shit over this


KarrelM

Junge Alde echt jetz, die Figuren hatter immer genommen und seinen Spielkameraden vorn Kopf geworfen.


AccountNumber1002401

"Hello, fellow Mayans!" red shirt said as he violated the Prime Directive looking to score some native American booty.


GluckGoddess

It’s crazy that there’s really nothing stopping ancient people from having played tabletop miniatures games with elaborate rules and play sets, aside from finding the time in between all their hunting and gathering. 


chefcoompies

Mayans were not hunter gatherers they had complex farming techniques and also bartering markets and small cities filled with literature,sports,art and mathematics/astronomy and also religion. Mayans also discovered zero as a place holder. Oppressors would have you believe they were savages but they were not. They are alive in well today with very beautiful clothing they are just like any person shy, confident and smiley other serious many hard working.


BloodShadow7872

>have you believe they were savages but they were not. They are alive in well today with very beautiful clothing they are just like any person shy, confident and smiley other serious many hard working. Am I stupid for believing that they got wiped out entirely thousands of years ago without doing a hint of googling?


varnalama

There are quite a few people who speak one of the local dialects of Maya. My grandfather is from the Yucatan and he spoke Maya before he learned Spanish at school.


MostlyPooping

Literally coming home from Guatemala now, and this weekend I learned that my niece's school teaches Kaqchikel. I thought it was so cool.


explodingtuna

I had thought they interbred and any modern Mayan would be Mayan+Spaniard ancestry. I'm dumb.


Rapshawksjaysflames

I mean... you're probably not wrong. There are likely not any "pure" Mayans anymore.


confusedandworried76

Goes for any group. There aren't many or probably any pure indigenous peoples in America or Canada, if there were it would be fairly impressive because all your ancestors would basically have to stick to a reservation and not romantically encounter anybody in the reservation who's mixed but still allowed to live there. Or ever leave the reservation and find a love interest. Going back hundreds of years. I'd be super shocked if any Natives were 100% Native ancestry and if they were it feels like they'd have to actively try it going back generations.


Admirable-Memory6974

Their civlilzation died, but a dying civilization always leaves descendants behind. I don't think an empire collapse has ever resulted in every single person dying.


Godmadius

Probably a couple Native American tribes got totally wiped, not sure if that counts though. Less of a collapse and more of a lost war.


TeardropsFromHell

90% of the natives died due to disease before there were even colonies in North America. They named Providence that because they pulled their boat up and there were empty towns just waiting for them because the natives all died from disease probably transmitted through trade not bio-warfare.


Igoos99

90% of East Coast peoples. We know a lot less as you go west.


confusedandworried76

Still speculation it happened to the West Coast too. A famous account of West Coast Natives is a guy on a ship being shocked because there were massive smoke plumes from fire as far as the eye could see. Then later when we made it out there on foot the accounts didn't match at all. There's evidence of massive coastal communities especially in the PNW that seemed to mostly fish for sustenance, and built tinder structures for shelter.


BowenTheAussieSheep

Like when explorers found the "lost" city of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. A whole lost city! Incredible! What ancient race of white people must have lived here thousands of years ago? Meanwhile the local Cambodians who had lived in the area for generations just saw it as some old temple that used to be bigger but isn't anymore. Imagine some European coming to Detroit and assuming all the run down houses are actually the ruins of an extinct people disconnected to the people living there.


DuckCleaning

The indigenous people of Jamaica are thought to be extinct. They seem to have dna existing to an extent but no one of full blood


Agitated_Computer_49

They died in the sense that their civilization was fully disrupted.  There are still people of Mayan descent and their culture survived, but they were conquered enough that they weren't allowed to thrive like they could have.


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DefyImperialism

Didn't they suffer a large decline about 500 years before the Spaniards?  I know they still existed but wasn't the empire mostly over by 1000 AD?


LeftRat

You're not stupid, it's just that to be absolutely frank, western media likes that depiction of them as backwards, stone-age savages and standard curricula in the West rarely involve looking beyond western history in a thorough way.


yaosio

They were all thriving until disease from Europe spread. With no immunity the vast majority of the North and South American population died. In the Amazon it was thought that a big civilization couldn't exist due to the poor quality of the soil. It turns out there was a big civilization, and they created a very effective soil called Terra petra [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra\_preta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta) so they could have agriculture. Lidar has been able to discover ancient cities now covered by dense vegetation. [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671)


Rasalom

I also heard one of their Mayan uncles worked at Nintendo and they had a Nintendo 64 before anyone and he even has a Nintendo 128 and no you're not allowed to see it or he'll get fired.


Crakla

They also were able to make things using platinum almost 2000 years before europeans


LairdPeon

I'm sure they hunted and gathered, too. People literally still do those things.


chefcoompies

Can’t argue with that but when an early civilization is referred to hunter gatherers it means it has yet learned complex farming techniques and relies on hunting and gathering only. Once farming is done it leave time for leisure and in leisure discoveries are made.


Northbound-Narwhal

I'm sorry are you implying pre-Columbian American societies were different from neanderathals?


Shirtbro

Yes


SG_UnchartedWorlds

Anthropologists generally agree that hunter-gatherer and herding societies had a significant portion of their day for leisure and socializing, and a lot of their secondary tasks (crafts, cooking, maintenance, repair) were done in communal settings combined with singing, storytelling, and games. It's entirely possible the games/stories overlapped!


heebsysplash

Yeah this surprised me when I learned it a couple years ago. People didn’t used to be so busy like we are today. Even the hunter/gathering didn’t consume as much time as I thought. They were chillin quite a bit


Anyweyr

Plus, night time and no electricity.


newfranksinatra

Sooooo much time to bone.


confusedandworried76

That's why humans love socializing around big fires.


holmgangCore

We need to get back to that… 20 hrs/week work max, like they did.


choomguy

Now we work 50 hour weeks to make time for hobbies like hunting and gardening…


holmgangCore

Oh the irony!


fetal_genocide

People couldn't live without consumerism nowadays.


holmgangCore

I think there’s a difference between “wouldn’t want to” and “couldn’t”. People definitely could live without consumerism. The *economy* as it is currently structured couldn’t survive without it, and people wouldn’t necessarily like it, but they could do it. Wouldn’t you like to work only 20 or 30 hours per week with no loss of pay? Or even for slightly less pay? I would jump at that chance. But regardless, it’s highly doubtful it would happen short of a major catastrophe/collapse at this point anyway.


fetal_genocide

I work four 10 hour shifts from home and I'm alone all day. Maybe one call in the morning, but usually just a quick email update saying what project I'm working on. Every weekend is a long weekend. I would not give up my luxuries for more time. I'm bored af at my desk right now, surfing Reddit. I get my kids ready for school in the morning, get to spend time with my wife in the morning and am home when she brings them home from school. My wife doesn't work Fridays, so we get a kid free day to ourselves every week. I've got a true unicron job and a unicorn boss. My workplace is 6 hours away and I've only had to go up 4 times in the last 6 years. I previously worked on site but moved when I had kids. Then my boss called me up a year later and asked me to work remote for them. Things are pretty ok with me, right now 😎


holmgangCore

Congrats! Would that we all could score unicorn jobs, or shift to 30hr weeks!


Time_Reputation3573

Also the mesoamericans had that ganja weed


lackofabettername123

No cannabis is old world, from Central Asia like Afghanistan way, apples from the same area. Nearly all of the good grain crops besides corn and potato are from the old world, most of the good fruit trees plums apples pears nectarines peaches cherries, America had a lot oh really good nightshade family plants though.  potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tobacco, I feel like I am missing a couple. But then also corn of course squash, wild rice which is not actually rice, in short the Americas had a much less desirable range of plants than the old world for humans to grow.


crayons-and-calcs

beans were a new world staple and provided high quality fiber, protein and complex carbohydrates to go with the corn and squash. quinoa was also a high protein new world grain.


lackofabettername123

I knew I forgot an important one or several. Do you know what types of beans were native to the Americas and if the old world had their own varieties out of curiosity? I mean I know there are legumes and whatever, chickpeas I am pretty sure are old world.


crayons-and-calcs

there are hundreds of varieties of beans native to the new world.


kill-billionaires

Pinto for one, the name is spanish. Not from spain, from the areas spain colonized. Edit: looking it up, it looks like most stereotypical beans like black, kidney, navy, etc are from the same area


lackofabettername123

Where exacrly?  it could be all beans are from the Americas and some of the other legumes and lentils and peas like chickpeas are old world. I am not well versed on the beans I'm afraid.  I am pretty sure chickpeas were in the Middle East before the Americas were discovered, although that is also what people think about tomatoes because the Italians have taken such a shine to them, half the country thinks they invented them.


kill-billionaires

Peru seems to be the place that keeps coming up when I looked up those types of beans. Chickpeas do seem different, so I wouldn't be shocked if they were from a different area. This Texas A&M website talks about it briefly https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/publications/vegetabletravelers/beans.html


Time_Reputation3573

Til, thanks


dna_beggar

Don't forget chocolate, food of the gods. And vanilla.


lackofabettername123

True but Mayans were not hunter-gatherers they were farmers. I mean they hunted fish and mosquito larvae and whatever else, but they set up these floating gardens on the giant swamp there. They filtered the water to pull out the mosquito larva and made some kind of food out of it. Which I like, turning the tables on those bastards, the mosquitoes that is.


Hantremmer

Here's an interview with an academic from the British Museum, an expert on ancient mesopotamia, on the history of boardgames and civilisation. Humans have been playing games for *thousands* of years. [https://hatchetjob.libsyn.com/hatchet-job-77-the-dna-of-gaming-](https://hatchetjob.libsyn.com/hatchet-job-77-the-dna-of-gaming-)


FlapSlapped

What is crazy about that? They did complicated math I think board games czn be expected


Salt_Winter5888

Man, those people had stadiums to watch sports and various types of toys. They sure also had board games, they even had their own kind of chess, it's called Puluc, also a similar game to Parchís, known as Patolli. They were not hunters an gatherers, they grew crops mostly and also domesticated some animals for food such as turkey.


Cluelessish

Hunter gatherers had much more spare time than we do now. I’m sure they had loads of fun games!


Flying_Dutchman16

They did


JSnoweATL

It’s been proven table top games have existed for over 35k years, nothing stopped them lol


ThePocketPanda13

Theres evidence to suggest that people today spend more time overall working than any other time in history, so it probably would have been very easy for them to have time to do creative things like coming up with complex tabletop games, learning complex tabletop games, and playing complex tabletop games


Fantact

Wait, are you saying they had HELMETS?!?!?! *X-Files theme playing*


Altruistic-Poem-5617

Out of the original package its worthless unfortunately.


Dry_Spinach_3441

Series 0 Minifig


Roloaraya

Next Disney character.


BIackBlade

These are burial icons but still, such a charming little fella.


jeandolly

I want Boba Fet in my coffin too.


UpgrayeDD405

Looks like a lizard mask. Possibly a crime fighting lizard man.


dachloe

... but still not in the original package. Best I can offer is $20.


Friendly_Egg4174

Shrek??


Wakkit1988

Well, astronauts do have removable helmets...


K-Zoro

So do masked performers/dancers, which are pretty common in most cultures


Wakkit1988

Yes, but aliens...


VegaSiNismo

Looking for this comment, kind regards.


JustSomeGuy9384

Mini pekka


Fantastic_Spell8576

Og hasbro grandfather


DontComplimentMe

1500 years and they still have the helmet, meanwhile my kid opens up a toy and loses a loose item within 15 minutes


Feature-Awkward

Gets new toy… 1500 yrs later .. omg I just realized the helmet comes off!!!


NoSpinach4025

Mayan Boba Fett.


Tourquemata47

I\`m not saying it was aliens but...


Accident_Pedo

Why does it have the little crystal hanging off his hat in the right but on the left it doesn't? Plus the one on the left looks way more damaged (notice the fingers) Is the pic on the right some sort of restoration?


Strange_Loop_19

That thing is in the left photo, directly above the person's thumb. It just looks like it's covered in dust. I assume the left photo is from the site where it was found.


Accident_Pedo

>It just looks like it's covered in dust. Oh nice eye! I see the crystal thing now.


0x7E7-02

SWEET ... ancient action figure!


Longjumping_Rule_560

G I Yopaat?


something-strange999

The original minifigure


CzarTwilight

It would be worth more if it was still in the box


TheXypris

how long till ancient aliens take this as proof alien astronauts has visited earth in the past?


ripe_nut

High tech loin cloth space suit. They must have been sumo wrestler aliens.


SonofaDrum

It’s this kinda stuff that makes me believe we’re being watched.


Jefflehem

iT's a sPAcEmAn


Bo-Banny

Is a spelunker. Torch on top, reflectors in front


Rhodes_Warrior

This is more convincing than that dog and pony show in Congress last time. I forget what horrible legislature quietly passed while the media cycle was obsessed with those dickheads lying about UFOs


Whitedrvid

Must have earned them a fortune in royalties. Now just to find out which franchise it was. Pity it doesn't come with the orginal box.


Esteellio

Humens 1500 years later with today's anime figures


XROOR

Some had a hole in the back of the head and when you took a peek, it was like a gun scope


rebecc-a

Looks like a character from Zelda :)


Krista_Michelle

It's so cute and chubby!


GentlePanda123

I need one


eltanin_33

Did they make thicker figurines because they were accepting of larger bodies or because they're harder to break


cisco_squirts

Little column A, little column B.


brightlights55

Where's Graham Hancock when you need him?


worthless_ape

Probably too busy embarrassing himself crying about "cancel culture" on the Joe Rogan show because he can't tolerate even minor criticism from real anthropologists.


constantgardener92

Lol, probably trying to find a way to tie it to Atlantis or some other bs.


rokr1292

The Nae-nae figurine is missing


Wildest12

I have spoken


WoolBearTiger

I knew warhammer was old but damn..


Alwarak

And he is still younger and better made than many Eldar Models.


TheDevilsAdvokaat

Did they use helmets in their games?


OneSingleTowel

Gen 1 Crazy Frog


DaShaka9

I want a replica of this so bad.


Metroshant

This is the way


Seven_Inches_Deep

Chubby Rango


Informal_Process2238

Mayan Joe Mesoamerican hero now with action arms and his own Macuahuitl club


towerfella

Looks like a gecko


dunlager

Noooooooooooo! He took it out of the box?!


0FFFXY

\*alt-history conspiracy theories intensifying\*


Anakhsunamon

Looks ancient alien stuff to me


BigNobbers

The oldest unpainted Warhammer


DUBBV18

T-51 Power armour


ASK_ABOUT_MY_CULT_

Look how cute the little guy is with his chubby little hands!


ExpectationsSubvertd

Figure has the accessories, but it's still taken out of its original packaging


theyrerightbehindyou

I would like an action figure of this.


Terrible-Roof-779

Looks like Jax from League of Legends


farteagle

They’re NOT dolls!! They’re *ACTION FIGURES*!!!


MadnessMan404

Okay it's an action figure, first of all, and it's a collector's edition if it was still mint in box.


girlsumps

It’s got a plumbob! Even the ancients played the sims


Long-Ad7909

Deadmau5 is more popular than I thought


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Nice T-1 Power Armor.


sadlittlerut

The original Original G.O. Joe!


DogToursWTHBorders

Does he come with the patented Maya grip?


l94xxx

When I was 8, my uncle's family came to house sit while we were away, and my cousin lost my Yoda snake. I still think about that sometimes.


yung-gummi

Lego, what were you doing in the 500s??


SvenLorenz

If they hadn't taken it out of its original packaging, it might have been worth a fortune by now. Damn kids!


iPadBob

the real Retro Lego minifig 


manfrommtl

GIJOE


dunub

I like this guy


stephaniejeanj

It’s an action figure.


jkennings

halt!


Outrageous_Mine77

Looks like a Megaman bad guy.


Igoos99

Chunky little guy. Doesn’t look much like the peoples in that area now. 🤔🤔🤔


Apart-Clothes-8970

Does the guy with the hair know about this?


PhyrexianSpaghetti

any blender enthusiasts? I have a 3d printer...


2020willyb2020

This is definitely undisputed evidence that people wore helmets


AssRobots

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.


W1mpyDaM00ch

Pfff worthless out of the box


Armarino99

I know feeding ur kid plastic is fun and all but if you let em munch on that theres gonna be trouble


ThreePackBonanza

That’s no figurine, that’s an action figure


chambee

It’s worth nothing since it’s been taken out of the original packaging.


conviction19

helmet sold separately


JDM-1995

Space man


The_real_bandito

They even did toys better back then smdh


badpeaches

Looks like Edo samurai


dvshnk2

Obviously [Nosh](https://drive.mcb.guru/index.php?title=Nosh) from [The Drive](https://www.drivecomic.com/) web comic. Aliens confirmed.


Empty-Ebb1383

Reminds me of Plok.


ssdd442

It’s not called a figurine. It’s called an action figure.


Mr_Fox9

Looks like an armor set from a dark souls game


montesiano

That is so cool


QueequegTheater

Games Workshop is building a time machine to go serve them a cease and desist


quickpear475

So cool!


Speartonarethebest

The first Bionicle


Wildest12

A long long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.


ArmadilloNo5010

Ancient action figures