"It's a hoax -- and it's not funny," Gov. Deval Patrick said.
I guess that's one way to describe it when your bumbling reaction to a glorified Lite-Brite shuts down the city of Boston. Another reaction might be to laugh at glowing images of the Mooninites, but as they might say, "These ads are too complex for you to compute with 100% of your primitive earth brains."
Can someone post a picture of these things that caused such a stir? I agree - it wasn't a "hoax", if no intent to cause terror was involved.
you got it right.
I do think that the marketing firm should have been intelligent enough to put a label on the lite-brites saying "this is a promotional tool for a TV cartoon" just in case someone wondered what it was. But still, I can't believe the authorities were actually detonating these things!