Aaron Paul still mad
Of all the stupid choices of something to pull off the shelves of a toy store this is moronic. These aren’t even play figures but figurines. They don’t have moving arms and legs. They are posed figures. Most likely marketed toward fans of the show who want something at their desk at work.
Nobody is buying these for their kids and no kid is going to want them anyway.
Even more stupid is all the toys that probably should be pulled and are inappropriate are probably still sitting on the shelves.
I’ve seen:
Call of Duty toys, from a rated M video game.
Terminator toys, from a series of rated R movies.
Transformers toys, marketed directly from the movie versions which were all PG-13 and filled with raunchy language and plenty of T&A.
Dark Knight toys, again from a PG-13 plenty dark and violent film.
Freddy, Chucky, and Jason figures galore. Yeah, plenty appropriate there.
So they go after Breaking Bad? A show who’s worst language is the word “bitch”? A show no kid would even be interested in?
Meh, this is a silly thing to get worked up over and IMHO Aaron Paul is making himself look silly.
So you can’t buy toys for an adult-themed show at a toy store. It never would have occurred to me in a million years to look for them there. The comic shop, yes. Online, yes. The video game store, the movie store, the gaming store, the book store. Wal Mart and Target, maybe. But the same place you go to buy a crib mobile and Lego sets? Didn’t register. It’s not like TRU is the only place near anyone where people could have possibly gone to get these toys. Not like there is a store on every corner. I don’t even know where our closest ones are anymore - they keep closing.
Like the OP said, no kid would want them. Toys R Us probably makes a lot more money over the span of 16 years from the mom who’s against the toys than the fanboys who are furious.
And the argument that they sell those actual other toys actually for children under 18 is just…sorry. Yeah, so?
I’m not a Toys “R” Us shopper nor a collector of action figures (not since I was around 12, anyway) but I was slightly annoyed by the ease with which one meddling bitch armed with an online petition can bend the will of a major corporation with an overwrought “what about the CHILDREN???!” campaign.
Looks like the demand (and prices) for the damned things skyrocketed on Amazon due to the publicity, though, so I guess somebody’s happy.
As a fan, I more or less agree with ZipperJJ. As a parent, I question the wisdom of marketing hero drug dealer/murderers in a toy store. Video game “heroes” are in something of a gray area - not a good thing, but not as wildly inappropriate as Heisenberg and his sidekick.
I haven’t been to a toy store in a while, but it does seem odd that they now sell jumpsuit-clad figurines with a stash of meth and bag of cash as accessories.
Yeah, when I was young they only sold stuff like toy machine guns and swords, and lawn darts that you could brain someone with at a hundred yards. You know, harmless kid stuff.
It’s not like had toys of the humping dogs or Megan Fox’s tits, they had toys of the giant robots that beat the shit out of each other, same as they’ve had since 1984.
IMO, it’s weird that TRU had BB figures in the first place. I’d expect those to be the sort of thing you’d have to go to a comic store to get (if you didn’t just get it online).
Yeah, but todays Transformers toys are tied directly to the movies and they market for eachother. See the movie, buy the toys = buy the toys, see the movie.
People seem to have no problem pointing out “OMG, we went to see The Dark Knight and some idiots had their 5 year-old there, what’s wrong with people?”
Well, when you have an endcap in the toy department at Target dedicated to the release of The Dark Knight and all the toys that go with it’s kind of a mixed message.
you know I was all ready to blame Toy-R_us for overreacting to a simple TV show tie-in until I got to “detachable bag of meth”. At that point, sorry you lost me. Unlike light sabers, laser rifles and bazookas, bags of meth is actually something that parents need to worry about their kids forming the wrong opinion about. I realize that the show doesn’t actually glorify drug use, but coming across this figure without knowledge of the show could give the wrong impression.
For the record should the appear I would also oppose the columbine playset, the beat-up-a-fag punching bag, and the my little prostitute action figure with dirty old man sold separately.
Yeah, previously it was only games where your hero got doped up to the gills, action chicks whose clothing was there only to provide strategic support (internal organs? We don’t need no internal organs!), and lots and lots and lots of dolls with guns.
I remember when candy cigarettes were sold in the checkout aisles some places. They were at a child’s eye-level. They were actually promoting actual drug addiction to children back then.
