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By Serge Thorn, Architecting the Enterprise
This is the first installment of a three-part series discussing how to be successful in implementing an SOA initiative through TOGAF® 9.1.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has at times been challenged, but it is now on the verge of mainstream acceptance. It now shows maturity, success and even signs of popularity. SOA is an enterprise-scale architecture for linking resources as needed. These resources are represented as business-aligned services, which can participate and be composed in a set of choreographed processes to fulfil business needs.
In 2012, the use of SOA for pivotal emerging technologies, especially for mobile applications and cloud computing, suggests that the future prospect for SOA is favourable. SOA and cloud will begin to fade as differentiating terms because it will just be "the way we do things". We are now at the point where everything we deploy is done in a service-oriented way, and cloud is being simply accepted as the delivery platform for applications and services. Many Enterprise Architects are also wondering if the mobile business model will drive SOA technologies in a new direction. Meanwhile, a close look at mobile application integration today tells us that pressing mobile trends will prompt IT and business leaders to ensure mobile-friendly infrastructure.
To be successful in implementing a SOA initiative, it is highly recommended that a company create a SOA Center of Excellence (CoE) and The Open Group clearly explains how this can be achieved through the use of TOGAF® 9.1. This article is based on the TOGAF® 9.1 Framework specification and specifically the sections 126.96.36.199 Partitions and Centers of Excellence with some additional thoughts on sections 126.96.36.199 Principle of Service-Orientation and 188.8.131.52 Governance and Support Strategy.
I have looked at the various attributes and provided further explanations or referred to previous experiences based on existing CoEs or sometimes called Integration Competency Centers.
The figure below illustrates a SOA CoE as part of the Enterprise Architecture team with domain and solution architects as well as developers, Quality Assurances (QAs) and Business Architects and Analysts coming from a delivery organization.
Establishing a SOA Center of Excellence
The SOA CoE supports methodologies, standards, governance processes and manages a service registry. The main goal of this core group is to establish best practices at design time to maximize reusability of services.
According to the TOGAF 9.1 Framework specification, a successful CoE will have several key attributes, including "a clear definition of the CoE's mission: why it exists, its scope of responsibility, and what the organization and the architecture practice should expect from the CoE."
Define a Vision
A SOA CoE must have a purpose. What do we want to achieve? What are the problems we need to solve?
It may sound obvious, but having a blueprint for SOA is critical. It is very easy for companies, especially large enterprises with disparate operations, to buy new technologies or integrate applications without regard to how they fit into the overall plan. The challenge in building a SOA is to keep people, including IT and business-side staff focused on the Enterprise Architecture goals.
In order to realize the vision of SOA the following topics should be addressed:
- What to Build: A Reference Architecture
- How to Build: Service-Oriented Modeling Method
- Whether to build: Assessments, Roadmaps, and Maturity Evaluations
- Guidance on Building: Architectural and Design Patterns
- Oversight: Governance
- How to Build: Standards and Tools
The SOA CoE would first have a vision which could be something like:
"ABCCompany will effectively utilize SOA in order to achieve organizational flexibility and improve responsiveness to our customers."
Then a mission statement should be communicated across the organization. Below are a few examples of mission statements:
"To enable dynamic linkage among application capabilities in a manner that facilitates business effectiveness, maintainability, customer satisfaction, rapid deployment, reuse, performance and successful implementation."
"The mission of the CoE for SOA at ABCCompany is to promote, adopt, support the development and usage of ABCCompany standards, best practices, technologies and knowledge in the field of SOA and have a key role in the business transformation of ABCCompany. The CoE will collaborate with the business to create an agile organization, which in turn will facilitate ABCCompany to accelerate the creation of new products and services for the markets, better serve its customers, and better collaborate with partners and vendors."
Define a Structure
The SOA CoE also needs to define a structure and the various interactions with the enterprise architecture team, the project management office, the business process/planning and strategy group, the product management group, etc.
The SOA CoE also needs to create a steering committee or board (which could be associated to an architecture board) to provide different types of support:
- Architecture decision support
- Maintain standards, templates and policies surrounding Integration and SOA
- Participate in Integration and SOA design decisions
- Operational support
- Responsible for building and maintaining SOA Infrastructure
- Purchasing registries and products to grow infrastructure
- Development support
- Development of administrative packages and services
- Develop enterprise services based on strategic direction
Define Measurements
According to the TOGAF® 9.1 Framework Specification, "Clear goals for the CoE including measurements and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It is important to ensure that the measures and KPIs of the CoE do not drive inappropriate selection of SOA as the architecture style."
Measurements and metrics will have to be identified. The common ones could be:
- Service revenue
- Service vitality
- Ratio between services used and those created
- Mean Time To Service Development or Service change
- Service availability
- Service reuse
- Quality assurance
Define Testing Activities
As stated in the TOGAF® 9.1 Framework specification, "The CoE will provide the "litmus test" of a good service."
Clearly comprehensive testing activities must be described by the SOA CoE. In addition to a set of defined processes related to Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) testing, functional unit testing, regression testing, security testing, interoperability testing, vulnerability testing and load, performance testing, an analysis tool suite may be used to tailor the unique testing and validation needs of Service Oriented Architectures.
This helps test the message layer functionality of their services by automating their testing and supports numerous transport protocols. A few examples include: HTTP 1.0, HTTP/1.1, JMS, MQ, RMI, SMTP, .NET WCF HTTP, .NET WCF TCP, Electronic Data Interchange, ESBs, etc.
Only by adopting a comprehensive testing stance can enterprises ensure that their SOA is robust, scalable, interoperable and secure.
- The CoE will disseminate the skills, experience, and capabilities of the SOA center to the rest of the architecture practice.
The Center of Excellence will promote best practices, methodologies, knowledge and pragmatic leading-edge solutions in the area of SOA to the project teams.
- Identify how members of the CoE, and other architecture practitioners, will be rewarded for success.
This may sounds like a good idea but I have never seen this as an applied practice.
Define a Skill Set
According to the TOGAF® 9.1 Framework specification, "Recognition that, at the start, it is unlikely the organization will have the necessary skills to create a fully functional CoE. The necessary skills and experience must be carefully identified, and where they are not present, acquired. A fundamental skill for leading practitioners within the CoE is the ability to mentor other practitioners transferring knowledge, skills, and experience."
Competency and skills building is needed for any initiative. SOA is not just about integrating technologies and applications – it is a culture change within the enterprise, which requires IT to move from being a technology provider to a business enabler. There may be a wide range of skills required such as:
- Enterprise Architecture
- Value of SOA
- Governance model for SOA
- Business Process Management and SOA
- Design of SOA solutions
- Modeling
- Technologies and standards
- Security
- Business communication
It has to be said that lack of SOA skills is the number one inhibitor to SOA adoption.
- Close-out plan for when the CoE has fulfilled its purpose.
Here again, I am not sure that I have observed any SOA CoE being closed…
In the second installment of this three-part series I will discuss how the Center of Excellence defines a Reference Architecture for the organization.
Serge Thorn is CIO of Architecting the Enterprise. He has worked in the IT Industry for over 25 years, in a variety of roles, which include; Development and Systems Design, Project Management, Business Analysis, IT Operations, IT Management, IT Strategy, Research and Innovation, IT Governance, Architecture and Service Management (ITIL). He is the Chairman of the itSMF (IT Service Management forum) Swiss chapter and is based in Geneva, Switzerland.


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Seamus76 wrote: It includes a "free-for-all" territory, the Timucua War Zone,
Seamus76 wrote:I apologize for the misunderstanding. You are correct, the TImucua War Zone, is one bonus zone, which includes 27 territories (17 warriors, 3 chiefs, 5 weapons, and the fort and conquistador). Excluding the fort and conquistador, any one the territories can be attacked by any territory bordering the area (6 territories in all), and all territories within that zone can attack each other, and any of the 6 bordering territories. The Conquistador can only be attacked by a territory within the Timucua zone, and is the only territory that can attack the fort. It would start +4 neutral.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) traded under umbrella of Healthcare sector, apart from individual factors many macro and micro factors also affects in different manner to the whole sector and industries. Shares ascend 1.63% to trade at $51.61 in the last beat. By excluding these economic factors, the firm is standing on an inconsistent situation. To cut down amount of noise on price chart, shares of firm has 20 days moving average price of 2.87% from last close price of 51.61 and act as support or resistance of price limit. This will give analytical advantage to a shorter-term trader since it pursues the price more intimately, and consequently produces less "lag" as comparison to the longer-term moving average.
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Strawberry Bread Pudding - Pink Saturday
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I know it's summer, and I know that 2010 has been declared The Year of the Pastry Chef. I'm okay with all that. It's not my intent to buck culinary trends, or the calendar for that matter. I know that sensible people don't make bread pudding in July and I suspect that most pastry chefs and food snobs feel this homely dish is not worthy of their attention. They're dead wrong. The Marquess de Queensbury Rules of the Kitchen clearly state that any dish, however homely, can be made at any time of year. The only condition attached to its execution is that the dish must be delicious. A stale loaf of bread and a glut of fresh field strawberries were my inspiration. My muse led me to a site called The Daily Loaf - The CL Cookbook where I found a recipe for strawberry bread pudding. I made a few minor changes to the recipe, put it in the oven and 40 minutes later had a wonderful dessert. The original recipe uses a caramel sauce for garnish. I thought that to be at odds with the strawberries, so I served ours with French vanilla ice cream. I really loved this and will use frozen berries to make it in the winter as well. I hope you'll try this simple dessert. It is wonderful. Here's the recipe.
Strawberry Bread Pudding...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite, inspired by the Daily Loaf
4 eggs
2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1/4 cup golden brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
12 ounces crusty stale bread, torn or cut in bite-size pieces
2 cups fresh or frozen (thawed) strawberries, sliced
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease an 8 x 8 x-2-inch pan. Set aside.
2) Combine eggs, milk, sugar (white and brown, vanilla extract, spices and salt in a small bowl. Whisk until blended.
3) Place bread pieces into a large bowl. Pour milk mixture over bread and toss to combine. Let sit for 15 minutes to allow milk to be absorbed into bread.
4) Fold in strawberries and pour mixture into baking dish.
5) Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until raised and puffy. Insert a toothpick into center and if it comes out fairly clean, it's done. Let cool for a few minutes before serving. Yield: 8 to 10 servings.
Caramel Sauce
1/2 stick of butter
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1) Put butter in a small pan or sauce pan over medium heat and let it melt.
2) Add brown sugar and stir until it's combined. Lower heat. Stirring constantly, let sauce slightly simmer until sugar is completely dissolved and it is slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Serve drizzled over warm bread pudding.
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61 comments :
- Lyndas recipe box said...
I'm loving this dessert Mary, and I think the vanilla ice cream is perfect with it!
Have a wonderful 4th!
- July 3, 2010 at 12:26 AM
- Susi's Kochen und Backen said...
I love bread pudding no matter what time of year it is and this one looks so unique with the strawberries. I do agree that vanilla ice cream seems to be the more obvious choice!
Enjoy the 4th!
- July 3, 2010 at 12:46 AM
- Eileen said...
I have never attempted bread pudding. I always found it daunting for some reason. This looks delicious, though, I have to say.
- July 3, 2010 at 1:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Pudin de fresas! Oh fantastic. I love to eat bread pudding.
- July 3, 2010 at 1:27 AM
- Monet said...
I agree...bread pudding should be enjoyed year round. I especially liked your addition of strawberries (since it normally isn't done). I have a lot of stale bread that might need to find its way into a casserole dish...
- July 3, 2010 at 2:09 AM
- Ana Powell said...
Wishing you a lovely Pink Saturday.
That is the perfect strawberry bread pudding, delicious ♥
- July 3, 2010 at 2:21 AM
- Regina said...
Happy Pink Saturday Mary.
How Yummy.
R e g i n a
- July 3, 2010 at 3:10 AM
- Diane said...
This sounds amazing. Think will try it with my overflow of cherries that I have in the freezer. Diane
- July 3, 2010 at 3:18 AM
- pigpigscorner said...
Bread pudding is so simple to prepare and so satisfying! This looks amazing with the strawberries!
- July 3, 2010 at 3:25 AM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
I agree--I think of it as seasonless--or course living here I think most everything is seasonless! ;-) It looks wonderful too--so pink and pretty.
- July 3, 2010 at 4:35 AM
Generally I don't like soggy bread (so I tell myself!) but I Do like bread and butter pudding, or a charlotte! This looks good too, and if you have a lot of strawberries to use up, what about a rhubarb and strawberry crumble or a strawberry charlotte with cream?
Have a great day, Mary. Blessings...
- July 3, 2010 at 4:40 AM
- The Words Crafter said...
I've had this only once-at a birthday luncheon. Loved it but never got a chance to get the recipe. Thanks so much for posting this! Have a great weekend!
- July 3, 2010 at 5:38 AM
- Jeannie said...
So simple to prepare but so gorgeous! Bet the taste is delicious too!
- July 3, 2010 at 6:15 AM
- Ciao Chow Linda said...
I don't find it odd at all Mary - and I do love the addition of vanilla ice cream rather than the sauce.
- July 3, 2010 at 6:25 AM
- Lucie said...
Mmmm, Mary, this looks scrumptious! A great breakfast treat or dessert--perfect!
- July 3, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
bread pudding in any form...
This is so tasty sounding... And I have a small batch of stale bread and some frozen berries... breakfast tomorrow!
great post
- July 3, 2010 at 7:21 AM
- PeggyR said...
Another strawberry winner! Happy Pink Saturday!
- July 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM
- Sarah @ Mum In Bloom said...
This looks delicious and I'm glad you blazed the trail and made this during the summer. This would be good with a lemon sauce or glaze too. Thanks for sharing Mary :)
- July 3, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Martha said...
There is nothing better than bread pudding and the strawberries have to put it over the top! I agree, vanilla ice cream -- not caramel sauce!
- July 3, 2010 at 7:52 AM
- Joanne said...
I personally believe that bread pudding should be eaten every day of the year. So, I'm all for this! Love how fruity it is.
- July 3, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
I've never made bread pudding! I bet adding a little rhubarb into this would be fabulous as well.
- July 3, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Tracy F. said...
Yummy! I've never thought of strawberry bread pudding. What a tasty idea!
- July 3, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
This is a homey dish Mary and the perfect way to enjoy the last of what strawberry season has for us.
- July 3, 2010 at 9:37 AM
- lisa said...
My husband loves bread pudding! I think he's going to love the addition of strawberries. You can't ever go wrong with vanilla ice cream either.
Happy Pink Saturday!
Enjoy the holiday.
- July 3, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
I guess that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder - I don't find this bread pudding homely at all. I think that it is lovely and perfect for the holiday weekend. You can't go wrong with fresh strawberries and ice cream!
- July 3, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Faith said...
This lovely bread pudding is the perfect way to transform a stale loaf of bread into something delicious! I could eat this for breakfast or desser (and probably any time in between :) ).
- July 3, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Gloria Baker said...
I love this Mary, look awesome! all your last recipes (really always!) are georgeous, have a nice 4th July! blessings, gloria
- July 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Baking is my Zen...sweet nibbles for the soul said...
I made my first bread pudding with Sweet Melissa Sundays baking group. OMG. Heavenly.
The addition of strawberries is a fabulous idea for summer eating!
I like that it's the year of the Pastry Chef. YaY!
Mary, have a wonderful day and Happy July 4th!
- July 3, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Joe Ambrosino said...
I absolutely love bread pudding, Mary! Happy 4th.
- July 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM
there are NO rules... that's the best thing... if you want it... cook it... eat it... delicious!
- July 3, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- Tricia said...
Ohhhhh --yum!!! I love bread pudding and this looks like a wonderful variation. I love how adding the strawberries makes it a much more "summery" dessert. Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful 4th and a blessed Pink Sat.
- July 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM
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- July 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Sushma Mallya said...
looks yum mary...
- July 3, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- SKIP TO MALOU said...
I love making bread pudding because I do have bread "scraps" all the time (as I stated in my recent post, and yeah you dropped in when i made that---haha virtually that is)
your addition of strawberries makes me think of my cereal with strawberries... it adds the umph to a boring blah...happy pink saturday!
- July 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Velva said...
This is not a homely dish! This is an awesome dish. Love bread pudding.
- July 3, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- The Chef In My Head said...
Start a new trend, bread pudding is great anytime of year!!
Happy 4th of July ~ Leslie
- July 3, 2010 at 2:27 PM
- FOODESSA said...
Mary...I just came back with a great big basket of berries! Now...all I need to do is decide which one of your last two desserts will get made...with a little twist of my own of course ;o)
For now...an ice-cream parfait is screaming for those strawberries.
Flavourful wishes, Claudia
- July 3, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
I am glad that I am not a food snob, because this looks amazing.
Happy Pink Saturday and Red White and Blue weekend, Mary.
Thanks for your fun visits to my blog.
- July 3, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Vegetarian Yogini said...
Dear Marry...thanks for enlightening me on the previous cake recipe- Blueberries shall go to the Ball on the 4th of July!
That is what I call creativity: when a cook knows how to efficiently use leftovers and still come up with a masterpiece like your pudding- this overrides any rules of when to eat what! As usual- this one gets a very high mark from me!
- July 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Unknown said...
I don't know how you do it Mary...I'm not a fan of bread pudding at all, but here I am - mouth watering and actually WANTING some strawberry bread pudding!! :) Thank you!!
- July 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM
- Katerina said...
Mary I love strawberries and you are right, there is no wrong season or time in general, when it comes to a good, tasty and honestly made sweet such as this one.
- July 3, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- Deana Sidney said...
we are having such gorgeous berries this time of year... I look forward to trying your recipe with them... bread pudding is sooo good!
- July 3, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- Umm Mymoonah said...
That's a lovely bread pudding with strawberries.Have a nice weekend.
- July 3, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
Bread pudding is my new thing. Love this recipe.
- July 3, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- oneordinaryday said...
Oh, this looks fabulous. I can't wait to try it.
- July 3, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
I love bread pudding any time of the year, Mary! With fresh strawberries in season this will be a wonderful dessert to enjoy.
Happy Pink Saturday and Happy 4th of July!
- July 3, 2010 at 10:17 PM
- caren said...
Sounds delish to me! Have a safe and fun July 4th!
- July 3, 2010 at 11:47 PM
- JEANNE said...
Hi Mary, I do love bread pudding. I learned to make it when i was 18 years old with my neighbors recipe. actually she didn't have a recipe. she cam over and told me what to 'throw' in to the pudding. It was delicious. She also took a variety of canned fruit and thickened it with cornstarch. We put it over the bread pudding. Pineapple chunks was one of the main fruit ingredients with cherries as well. We used sugar to sweetened the mix. You sure did hit a memory. I love the strawberry idea.
Happy 4th of July.
Hugs, Jeanne
- July 4, 2010 at 1:09 AM
- Jamie said...
The Year of the Pastry Chef is definitely for me and I say that anything you like can indeed be made whenever you want it! This bread pudding is perfect and I love it dotted with fruit.
- July 4, 2010 at 4:05 AM
- Chele said...
Yum! Going to have to give this one a try ;0)
- July 4, 2010 at 4:20 AM
- My Little Space said...
This is truly mouthwatering! I want a big slice of this. haha... Have a great day.
- July 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- suesueb said...
I adore bread pudding and this looks delicious! Happy Pink Saturday and Happy Fourth!!
- July 4, 2010 at 8:26 AM
- Ashley@thehungryscholar said...
I have never made bread pudding before, and I think this may be the first recipe I try. I love strawberries.
- July 4, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Lawyer Loves Lunch said...
Sensible, shmensible! Anytime is the perfect time for bread pudding, particularly one as delicious as this :)
- July 4, 2010 at 10:46 AM
- Le said...
Hi Mary!
Thanks for dropping by my blog, gave me a chance to check yours out!
I haven't had bread pudding in years, but this sounds fantastic! I'm so jealous that strawberries are well in season there!
Will keep popping back here to check out your recipes :)
- July 4, 2010 at 5:21 PM
- Unknown said...
What a beauty, your bread pudding is speaking to me, it's saying, Patty make me because I am so delicious and you will love the way I taste:)
- July 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- Salsa Verde said...
Hi Mary,
Strawberry is a fantastic fruit , no matter what you do with it, and this bread pudding looks so gorgeous and delicious!!
- July 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- Diana's Cocina said...
Sounds delicious ~ what a perfect strawberry bread pudding.
- July 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Michelle said...
Looks very good... you can't go wrong with strawberries!!
- July 6, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- Seedplanter Designs said...
Hello Mary! I'm so glad you visited my Seedplanter Designs blog, because it led me back to this delicious blog of yours! I'm skidding in late to this Strawberry Bread Pudding recipe, but it really stirred my taste buds. Since we're long past strawberry season, I'm hoping my jumbo bag of frozen strawberries (I keep them in my freezer - love strawberries!) will do.
I can see your blog and I are going to get along just fine.
- November 13, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- oak dining tables said...
This is nice! I would love to try this. Never used strawberries in my puddings.
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How does Asnuntuck Community College compare to other colleges with respect to real results?
What happened to students who enrolled at this college? Find out how many graduated, how much student loan debt they're stuck with, and how much they get paid on average in their jobs. This can give you valuable insight on what the ROI might be for this school.
Of the 222 students that were expected to graduate on-time in 2020 , 135 remained at the school past their freshman year, 58 graduated on-time (two or four years depending on the degree) and 83 within a reasonable time (three or six years or within 150% of the on-time duration).
|The majority of undergraduates (61.0% ) continued past their freshman year.
|26.0% undergraduates completed their degree "on-time" (within two or four years depending on the degree)
|37.0% undergraduates completed their degree in a reasonable time (within three or six years depending on the degree)
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A total of 138 Asnuntuck Community College students entered loan repayment in 2009. After three years, 15.9% of these students ( 22 out of 138 ) defaulted on their loans.
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On average, graduates of Asnuntuck Community College earn about $31,000 in their early career.
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We've all known the joy and insanity of action figure addiction. When you really love a particular superhero comic or TV show, there's nothing cooler than owning a tiny plastic approximation of your heroes. But you know you've hit rock bottom when you start amassing figures that have absolutely no purpose, and no way to play with them.
Here are 10 of the most pointless or useless action figures ever made. We've celebrated the most inappropriate toys of all time before — but there are some action figures that just have no good reason for existing.
1) Star Trek: Voyager — Mutated Tom Paris from "Threshold"
This is the one that made me think of this topic. Let's commemorate the worst Star Trek: Voyager episode ever, with a completely pointless action figure! For those who missed it or chose to repress it, "Threshold" is the episode where Janeway and Paris manage to go faster than Warp 10 in a shuttle — but going at such fast speeds causes them to hyper-evolve into weird amphibian people. And then the mutated Paris and Janeway have sex, and produce three amphibian babies. Which Tuvok then shoots with his phaser. In any case, here's a Tom Paris figure, complete with his three babies. They never made a mutated Janeway figure, so you can't even act out scenarios where the two of them take care of their mutant offspring together. We asked Robert Duncan McNeil if he had this action figure, and he said he probably has one in a box somewhere. Even the guy who played Paris doesn't love this figure.
2) Doctor Who — The Flesh Goo Pod
I have to admit I'm biased, since the "Flesh" two-parter was probably my least favorite Matt Smith storyline. But let's suppose you loved the episode where people use vat-grown duplicates, or "Gangers," to do hazardous tasks, and then the Doctor miraculously gets a "Ganger" of his own. I'm still not sure how you play with this action figure, or what the point of it is, even if you keep it mint in the box. It's a mass of goop, probably similar to the kind with eyeballs and stuff in it, except that it's white and milky, and it has Matt Smith's head and part of his arm floating around in it. (Actually, the box says "Random 'The Flesh' Parts!". So maybe each box has different random parts, and you have to buy a bunch of them to get a complete Matt Smith? That would be sort of interesting.) In any case, this is a toy that commemorates the split second when a duplicate melts down into snot, or a sentient being dies. I'm just not sure how you imagine the half-snot, half-Doctor creature going on adventures. Update: And commenter Schardy mentions an even more pointless toy: the "Destroyed Cassandra" figure, which is just an empty frame. I love that the packaging says "fully poseable."
3) The Real Ghostbusters: Screamin' Janine
Arguably, this belongs more in the category of "inappropriate," but I'm including it here because it's also totally pointless. Kenner put out a line of "Screamin' Heroes" toys for the cartoon show The Real Ghostbusters, the idea being that you could wind up their torsos and then they would spin around really fast when you pushed a button. Like, they saw a ghost and got really really scared. Not nearly as cool an ability as, say, Kung-Fu Grip. So the whole line was pretty pointless — but then there's the Screamin' Janine figure. When you wind up her torso and press her special button, her skirt flies up. (If you hold her by her legs instead of her torso, I'm guessing this doesn't happen. But still.) As various people have pointed out, Janine is actually quite fearless on the TV show. But also, why is her skirt flying up exactly?
4) Legends of the Dark Knight: Assault Gauntlet Batman
Legends of the Dark Knight was actually a quite good comics series, in which some great creators told one-off stories about Batman — originally, they were all about Batman's early years, but eventually they branched out a bit. And then the Legends of the Dark Knight action figure line came out and... it was kind of weird. This is the most ludicrous example, but I remember when these toys hit the stands and it was like, "Why would Batman ever wear this?" Given that Batman's main goal is usually Ninja-like stealth, the red cowl is kind of awesome — and then there's the "missile-strike gloves," which are basically like huge guns on his hands. There are lots of terrible Batman action figures out there — here are 10 more — but I remember this entire toy line being kind of useless and missing the point of Batman.
5) Battlefield Earth figures
Somebody, somewhere, probably loves Battlefield Earth, John Travolta's misbegotten adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's novel about aliens who've conquered Earth only to be bested by ancient fighter jets. But the whole notion that a toy company thought there would be a huge demand for Battlefield Earth figures — among kids? Among collectors? — is kind of scary. Like, people are going to want to relive all of the great moments from the film, like Travolta saying, "Exterminate all man-animals at will, and happy hunting!" Pictured at left: Jonnie in the Learning Chair figure, complete with history book and "psychlo-blaster." Hours of fun.
6) Aunt May from Marvel's Famous Covers line
The cover of Amazing Spider-Man #115 shows Aunt May in a frilly apron, menacing Spider-Man with a gun — and for some reason, the Toy Biz folks decided this was an iconic enough moment to include as a mail-order figure in their "Famous Covers" line. With the advertising tagline, "Special Offer for Marvel Maniacs!". And maniacs are pretty much the only people who would love this toy — she's got a tiny head on a huge body, with freakishly elongated arms and hands that could tenderize meat from a distance of twenty yards. Her facial expression is also horrifying, with one eye squinting and the other eye bugging out. Check out some more alarming photos here. But there's also the question of why anybody would really want a Spider-Man-shooting Aunt May figure — there are lots of great reasons to have an Aunt May figure generally, but why this particular moment in her life?
7) Star Wars: Spirit of Anakin Skywalker Figure
Remember at the end of Return of the Jedi, when the Ewoks are jammin' out on Endor and everybody's feeling the Yub-Nub vibe, and then Luke sees the ghosts of Obi-Wan, Yoda and Anakin? Except Anakin is now Hayden Christiansen? Me neither. Basically, this is a toy designed to commemorate Lucas screwing with the original trilogy. Ghost Anakin has a gauzy silvery cloak, that's supposed to approximate his happy Force Halo, and which would probably be gone in five minutes if you actually tried to play with this thing. And a "Jedi Spirit" coin, which he got from jumping over a Jedi mushroom. I'm guessing. Even if you preferred the revamped version of RotJ, I'm still not seeing what the point of this toy is — is Ghost Anakin going to go on adventures? Is he going to appear to Luke throughout his post-RotJ travels and tell him all about the Lake on Naboo? Actually, that would be sort of entertaining, now that I think about it.
8) Dennis Nedry from Jurassic Park
Nedry is the shlubby guy who agrees to steal some embryos from Jurassic Park and sell them to Biosyn, only to wind up getting killed by a seemingly harmless Dilophosaurus. He's played by Wayne Knight, aka Newman from Seinfeld. Of all the characters from the first Jurassic Park movie, he seems like the worst candidate for an action figure — and apparently, the makers of these figures agreed with that, because they chose to make the toys look nothing like Wayne Knight or Dennis Nedry. The Nedry figures are well-built, square jawed and rugged-looking, with a nice shoulder holster and (in one case) cool sunglasses. It's like they're advertising the fact that they had no reason to make an action figure of this guy.
9) The Rock Lords
This is sort of a gimme, but we actually asked Doug Goldstein, the former editor of ToyFare Magazine and a writer for Robot Chicken, what the most useless action figure ever made was. And this is what he came up with: The Rock Lords. They're robots that transform... into rocks. And then once they're rocks, they just sort of sit there. Maybe roll around a bit. It's stealthy, I'll give you that. Nobody ever suspects that rocks will suddenly bust out into robots. But it's not quite as cool as turning into beasts or cars or whatever. As Goldstein says, "I guess it's the fun of having a rock on the floor that you know is secretly a robot, and you get to imagine that for however long the dumbest of kids could possibly imagine such a thing. There was a robot form. I'm sure the robot was very proud of being able to turn into a rock."
10) Shannon from Lost
This is one of the most inexplicable action figures ever made — basically, it's Shannon sunbathing amidst the wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815, with her eyes closed. She has a bottle of suntan lotion and another bottle of water. And she comes with Danielle Rousseau's map. Her joints don't move, so all she can do is lie there looking kind of comatose. There was also a Charlie figure, showing him going through heroin withdrawal, which at least offers some interesting scenarios. But the Shannon figure has zero playability — she literally can't do anything but sunbathe, while the action happens around her. She should at least be able to use sex to get Sayid to kill random people.
Additional reporting by Rob Bricken


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Five Things You Can Do To Bring Spring Into Your House
Spring is on its way. If you want to get a head start on the season, and push away winter's doldrums, then these five projects have your name on them. Plants will blossom, leaves will bud, warm days will bring that sweet smell of fresh air and grass back. Streams will fill up with water, and the sounds of birds will reemerge. Even if the weather is still chilly and the trees are still bare where you live, you can make your house feel like spring.
1. Spring cleaning: Getting rid of winter's dust is hard work, but it really can refresh your house. Whether you do a deep cleaning, or you just giove the place a good tidying up, spring cleaning is an excellent way to bid winter goodbye as you welcome in the unfettered days of spring and summer. Read our guide to easy and efficient spring cleaning.
2. Put up a spring mantel display: Is your mantel still covered in pine garlands and red candles? It's time to change it up. Bring spring into your living room by creating a totally spring-centric mantel display. See inspiration for spring mantel displays.
3. Clean and prep your deck: Wintertime weather gives wooden decks a beating. Fortunately, we had a professional carpenter in Denver (with its famous winter weather) write an article on cleaning and prepping your deck for spring. Find out how to clean and prep your deck for spring!
4. Start an herb garden: There might not be leaves on the trees yet, but adding some green plants to your house will bring spring indoors. Pep up your house with a small indoor garden. Herbs like rosemary and basil are easy to grow, and are edible, too. Get ideas for container herb gardens.
5. Get spring home maintenance on: From cleaning out the gutters to having a heating and air conditioning expert tune up your HVAC system, spring home maintenance will get the winter dust and doom out of your house, and will give you a feeling of having a fresh start. Check out our spring home maintenance check list!
How do you bring spring into your house? Share your tips in the comments.
Chaya Kurtz writes for Networx.com.
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