The World of Springfield is a series of Simpsons action figures which ran between January 2000 and September 2004 and was released by Playmates Toys. The collectable action figure series is called World of Springfield because the goal of the line was to build a miniature Springfield through a series of interactive action figures and play sets. It eventually encompassed over 200 different figures/characters from the series, 40 interactive play sets (toy re-creations of interior settings and town location settings within Springfield), and 3 non-interactive diorama town settings.