Okay been out hunting on the internet trying to find out when they will be releasing a female action figure for Avatar.?? Apparently Mattel has no plans to create a Katara OR Toph OR Azula OR Suki... should I go on?!?

When you read the descriptions on their site, they even point out that these toys are for BOYS and I quote:

"The Avatar Deluxe Battle Benders Assortment brings the Avatar characters to life and allows boys to recreate the bending combat they see on TV." From more than one toy.

"The Avatar Vehicle Assortment brings the vehicles and mutant creatures that boys see on the TV to life. Boys can play with Avatar Roku's Dragon or the Fire Nation Rhino and take their fantasy figure play to the next level." From the vehicles assortment.

Now I ask you... are they living in a cave??? Did they not see how one of the most in demand action figures for Teen Titans was the White Raven??? Did they not see how action figures of Starfire, Terra, and other Ravens sold?

Apparently, girls are not 'important' enough for them to make.?? C'mon!?? You could take that silly looking Aang figure in the water tribe clothing and simply change his head - instant Katara.?? They can make over 5 different Aangs, 3 different Sokkas and 3 different Zukos (at last count) but NOT ONE SINGLE FEMALE from the show!!!

Okay... this was just upsetting to me and who knows, if enough of us rally to request them, MAYBE just MAYBE we can change their mind.?? I guess you would begin with Nick.com.?? Here's the website for the Mattel Avatar toys: http://www.avatartoys.com/fp.aspx?st=10&e=avatarlanding??

done venting for??now - I guess all that's left to do is....

I totally agree! There is absolutely no reason why Mattel cannot create Katara, Suki and Azula 'action figures' as they are an intergal part of the Avatar storyline. We're hoping and praying??for a tea-loving Uncle Iroh action figure with recordings of Mako's voice too!

I think that this is really a??restrained yet idiotic marketing move on the part of Nickelodeon and not necessarily a sexist statement from Mattel.

In other words they are testing the mass receptivity to Avatar products first before adding new items. Case in point, the appaulingly lack of all things Avatar in comparison to SpongeBob products to buy on Nick.com.

Our 7-year-old son would be in domestic happyland if we could redo his room completely in Avatar stuff??but there are NO Avatar bedding sets or decor items to buy??but painfully there are like 10 different varieties of SpongeBob bedding sets.

We own??TWO sets of Avatar Season 1 DVDs (both the individual??DVDs and the compilation sets)--one for us (my husband and I) and one for our kids for their TV room. We also??own every single action figure, vehicle and role play item from avatartoys.com.??We have not been able to find the newest item 'Roku's Dragon with Roku' set on walmart.com, otherwise we would have that too.??(http://www.avatartoys.com/fp.aspx?st=10&e=avatarlanding)

Also??toywiz.com has??the 'Blue Spirit Zuko' (http://www.toywiz.com/atlabsz.html) and 'Water Vortex Aang' (http://www.toywiz.com/atlawva.html) action figures which haven't even been advertised on??avatartoys.com yet.

The point being that??my husband and I??LOVE??Avatar and so do our kids but we are adults with disposable incomes and are more than happy to purchase anything and everything Avatar. The only??problem is??Nickelodeon??won't make more stuff to??buy and we can't buy what they don't make.

We asked our 7-year-old if he would??have 'issues' with a??Katara 'action figure' and he said no because he would just??have Aang save??her or have her whip Sokka's butt in waterbending like??she did in 'Boy in the Iceberg.' The fact is Nickelodeon's reserved marketing tactics??of Avatar products??is not only frustrating for fans??but is also??very short-sighted in terms of stretching the limits of their own product profitability.

Avatar has earned the right to stand??among the Nickelodeon animated elite. It's??time they started marketing Avatar products accordingly.

The BIGGEST mistake Nickelodeon has made with Avatar is to CONSTANTLY misjudge the Avatar audience and thus their consumers with real purchasing power.??

Avatar??may have been intended for??boys 9-14 but the FACT is the Avatar fanbase??exceeds this demographic by leaps and bounds. Case in point: NO other Nickelodeon show has more than 10 independently-run fan websites which are actively hit every day. Adults and girls??are Avatar fans too! Our 13-year-old daughter wears Avatar t-shirts to school and??if you have a teenage daughter you know that??for??Avatar to have passed the teenage fashion-conscious litmus test it is??saying a great deal.??

If Nickelodeon was smart next Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa season??there would be infinitely more products to??buy for holiday gifts and hopefully next??Halloween there will be more costumes to choose from than just Aang like Katara, Suki and Azula for girls/teenagers.

ok, now that's just dumb. i'm sorry, but that is dumb. my little sister, who is 9, she loves avatar, and when we went to the mall and saw no girl dolls, both of us were mad out of our minds! i think we should start a petition or something, because us girls like action figures too! or at least some of us.