Posted on 10/21/2014 8:05:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Toys Я Us is pulling its four collectible dolls based on characters from AMC’s hit series “Breaking Bad” after taking heat from a Florida mom who launched a petition campaign last week.
The dolls are based on the series about Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turns into a crystal meth dealer, and his sidekick Jesse Pinkman. The figures have a detachable bag of cash and a bag of methamphetamines.
Toys Я Us, which is based in Wayne, New Jersey, told The Associated Press late Tuesday that the dolls are being removed immediately from its website and shelves. …
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ROFLMAO
Amazing how so many on this thread do not see the problem with this. There was a time when you would have seen the viking kitties zot out people who thought crappola like this was okay.
My husband and I watched the first episode of B/B. We were hooked and did a blitz watch of the next 61 episodes over a 10 day period. What a wonderful show. Not for kids of course.
FR does seem to be evolving. Or maybe that’s devolving....
Hopefully, it was one of those 1990s 40+ inch CRTs, and it imploded real good.
And you were wearing glasses and gloves ...
What about the “pulp fiction” action figures, comes complete with a .45 automatic, cardiac syringe, pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
CC
You keep using that word. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
/InigoMontoya>
CC
You are right this is a show absolutely not for kids, but does give a lesson of how people can change given the right circumstances, and events.
“Saturday Night Live used to have a recurring skit about a slimeball toy hawker who sold Maimway Products”
That was Dan Aykroyd as Irwin Mainway. Amongst the “Toys” he was pitching was “Bag O’ Glass”, “Bag O’ Vipers”, “Bag O’ Sulfuric Acid”, “Mr. Skin Grafter”, “Pretty Peggy’s Ear Piercing Kit”, “Doggy Dentist”, “General Tranh’s Secret Police Confession Kit”, “Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk”, and “Teddy Chainsaw Bear”. The skits were real funny with Jane Curtain as the person interviewing Irwin Mainway in disbelief of the product he was pitching.
Ping
Actually, I'm just against self-righteous busybodies telling businesses what products they can and cannot sell, and telling me where I can and cannot state my opinion.
I worked for “We B Toys” for about eight months; it started out being just for the Christmas season but I was asked to stay on and did until I got a better and higher paying full time job and no longer had to work in “Retail Hell” just to make ends meet ; ),
I mostly worked on the “We B Babies” side of the store (and don’t even get me started on waiting on the hormonal and overly emotional pregnant women, helping them complete their Baby Registry or even worse, them trying to return baby shower gifts they absolutely hated and went to great lengths of telling me why or why the MIL or SIL was a “biotch”, and some of which hadn’t even been purchased at “We B Babies” – had Target or Wal-Mart tags on them but insisted that I give them a refund or store credit for returning them) but I also worked on the toy side especially during the Christmas season and filled in on the toy side of the store as needed.
I was rather amazed how many adults collect action figures and also Lego sets. Every time a new Star Wars or Star Trek or Harry Potter, etc. action figure or Lego set came out, there would be adults (OK, Nerds : ), ) lining up before the store even opened and a lot of the new and most collectible action figures and Lego sets would sell out in the very first hour, and they were not buying them for kids.
I might also mention that Toys R Us sells video games, some of which like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and Assassins Creed” are rated “M” meaning “Mature” i.e. – Not Meant For Kids. As I recall the few times I worked in the electronics department, anyone purchasing an “M” rated video game had to show ID to prove they were 18 years old or over.
Does overly concerned Florida Mom also complain about Toys R Us selling “M” rated video games?
She probably will once she finds out they are selling these video games that she, like the BB action figures, has no intention of buying either for herself or for her kids but will do what she can to prevent anyone else from buying them because…..she doesn’t like it!
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