Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet is easily one of the most adorable game series mascots we’ve seen in the last decade. He’s just a smiling dude made from burlap, buttons, and a zipper. While you can’t pick up Sackboy in all his stuffed, zippered glory yet, you can at least get him in articulated plastic. Meet the Sackboy action figure
For a hunk of plastic, this Sacktion figure is surprisingly fun. He stands about 4 inches tall, and has joints in his shoulders, wrists, hips, waist, ankles, and head. If you can pose him in LittleBigPlanet, you can probably pose his action figure. This version is the “Happy” variant, with a little rubber tongue sticking out of his big, smiling mouth. This guy has loads of personality.
This action figure comes with two “accessories,” and neither are particularly useful. One doesn’t even make a bit of sense. That squiggly pink thing is supposed to be the “Poppit Lasso,” the tool you use in the game to customize different things. The action figure version is a soft plastic tube with a wire inside so you can bend it in different shapes. I have no idea how to use it. It doesn’t peg into the figure anywhere, it can’t actually hold up or attach anything, and it’s basically nothing more than a bendy stick. I get what it’s supposed to be, but I just don’t see how it fits in an action figure sense.
Sackboy also comes with stickers. Again, you can’t really use them with the action figure (a clear acrylic pane connected to the lasso would have offered a place to put the stickers and tied the whole package together), but who cares? You get stickers! Hell yeah!
If you want to pick up your own Sackboy action figure, you can grab him for $15 on Amazon, or possibly less at your local comic book store.
