BRUCE DICKINSON Interview Page 11
By Fredrik Hjelm

FH: I know you have the "Eddy" action figure coming out soon through McFarlane...what was the band's involvement with that?

BD: We didn't have a huge amount of involvement apart from approval of the end result. We recognized that McFarlane was a fairly twisted individual in his own right, so we were very confident that we would come up with the goods. We're very delighted with it, I think it's great. I think the reason we never did it before is because years ago there were really no manufacturers that understood what it was about. You know, they would come up with this cheesy sort of Paul Stanley figure with stuck-on wig and stuck-on hairy chest, and we didn't want one of those (laughs!). The one thing that we never got with Maiden, that we really wanted to do, was the "Iron Maiden Pinball Machine." In the '80s, there was a pinball machine sort of craze and we would have done anything to have an Iron Maiden Pinball machine made just so each of us could own one!

FH: Last Question...Bruce Dickinson's Top 3 movies...

BD: Umm...I gotta pick one by Stanley Kubrick, which one will that be? (Long pause), God...this is a terrible question! "Prisoner Of Zenda," "North By Northwest"...and (long pause), still have to think which Kubrick film, let's have a look here...there's "2001: A Space Odyssey"...brilliant but, no. "Paths Of Glory"...that would be my first pick.

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