Toy company Forbidden Planet recently released a series of Breaking Bad toys that feature the main characters of the dramatic TV show as collectible plush dolls.
As the street-savvy high school dropout, the Jesse Pinkman doll is portrayed with his slouched posture and baggy clothes including a knit toque and a hoodie. Of course, his doll was finished off with an angry, disheveled expression, with scruff and fight marks. The Walter White doll features his alter-ego Heisenberg, when he went through a tough-guy, hat-wearing phase. His expression clearly states "you don’t mess with me."
The Breaking Bad toys stand at 8-inches tall and also come in a smaller key-chain version where they are dressed in the yellow HazMat suits they wear to cook their special brand of blue meth.
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