messed up toys...

[le pire]

JC Penney is offering a very disturbing gift for the kids this year:

"Forward Command Post," a pre-bombed" home complete with a
soldier & an American flag to crown it with; all that's missing
are dead babies and their maimed refugee family. JC Penney also offers a "World Peace Keepers Battle Station" to help the innocents better understand how it is that War Is Peace.

For a photo of this monstrosity,

go to www.jcpenney.com search in the "Toys" section for:

Forward Command Post

E-mail them at:

http://www.jcpenneyeservices.com/csrv/emailus.asp

Re: Item# IH655-0158A

Please email and/or call J. C. Penney to protest and pass
this link on to as many people as possible

[Jim]

Here's a picture of the Forward Command Post

Here's another good one:
Osama bin Laden Action Figure

And this is a hoax:
Jihad Joe

[young raoul]

yup - monstrosity is the word that came back most often from the people I sent it to. I'm assuming that based on le pire's initial post and likely many others around the world that the warmongering bastards at JC Penney got the message - a colleague of mine just tried to dial up the bombed out house and got the message "Sorry. This product in now unavailable" Good one.

yr

[young raoul]

oops - it figures - the dang thing's back up on their web-site agin - gotta mobilize the troops....sorry bout that...

[HiveQueen]

Where are the nobel laureate action figures?

[Rich Potter]

Well, here we are a week later.

What I saw following le pire's instructions today wasn't so bad. It's a GI Joe with some guns. Apparently they've replaced the blown up Iraqi home with a more benign war toy.

--Rich

... If only we could have more benign wars.

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[le pire]

It looks like someone shelled the "Barbie Dream Home..."

Maybe the could make "Bounded & Gagged Hostage Barbie"
"Gang-Raped Skipper," "Dismembered Ken"....


etienne

[HiveQueen]

[quote]Originally posted by le pire:
<strong> Maybe the could make "Bounded & Gagged Hostage Barbie"
"Gang-Raped Skipper," "Dismembered Ken"....</strong><hr></blockquote>

Some group in Davis sponsored an "Alternative Barbie" contest a few years back... some friends of mine won with "Anorexic Barbie" -- they built a tiny hospital bed and equipment, smudged dark circles under barbie's eyes and pulled out a lot of her hair... didn't have to change her figure at all, though.

They do have a bound and gagged barbie available out here (a shop in the Castro sells 'em), but she doesn't seem to be a hostage.

[Barry]

[quote]Originally posted by Rich Potter:
<strong>Well, here we are a week later.

Apparently they've replaced the blown up Iraqi home with a more benign war toy.

-</strong><hr></blockquote>

Iraqi home ???....well, in the eyes of americans, it is

[martin ewen]

its sort of on topic because it concerns dolls and peoples perceptions.
Over a decade ago a certain prankster in San Fran bought a bunch of barbies and GI joes, he carefully removed them from their wrappers and performed operations on them (which he videoed so you could just see the dolls , some gloved hands and surgical instruments)
He switched the voice boxes and in a reverse shoplifting masterstroke, returned them to shelves in toystores.
He sent the videos without explaination to various media outlets and waited.
It wasn't long before a local station ran a story about an upset child who's GI Joe said "Lets go shopping!" when you pulled its string.
(The kid just looked a bit sheepish in the clip)
They also showed a little girl who was much more confused and upset that her barbie said, "Come on men, lets go over the top." when activated.
The story went national and then to a limited degree international.
It was helped by the video which left lots of unanswered questions which held the medias attention that much longer.
It was a successful experiment in creating a meme among other things.

[Butterfly Man]

Kinda sick but while it ain't a toy, it is a fun game to play ...especially if you dislike kids ...

http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles/WackoJacko.swf

[Brian R Wilson]

Jon (the udder Cowguy) gave me a Sigmund Freud action figure for Christmas. It's quite funny, but isn't as good as my Jesus Action figure. The Jesus action figure has posable arms and gliding action, whereas with Freud you can just move his arms.

I've got them both on my computer desk, and they are currently posed as though discoursing, under the desklamp. Update! Now Freud is ashing his cigar off in Jesus hand asking him "Tell me about your father..." Could be a long Friday...

Pics up at...

http://www.orbitalent.ca/jesus.html

[ 12-27-2002: Message edited by: Brian R Wilson ]

[ 12-27-2002: Message edited by: Brian R Wilson ]</p>

[scot]

At least the toy is in bright colours. Corporate America can be more insensitive.

Do you guys know of any toys on the drawing board for next christmas season? Here are a few:

- 3D USA puzzle with optional border fence
- Bouncing Betty - frontline baby doll
- Barbie security checkpoint
- Operation - the infinite justice edition
- for playstation; Wall Street Wally - defend your job against the onslaught of Mexican day laborers
- Nerf biochemical warfare

[Brian R Wilson]

I put pictures up.. www.orbitalent.ca/jesus.html

[le pire]

I was in a comic book store the other day and they had action figures of porn stars, jenna jameson, christy canyon, etc-- fully posable and the clothes were removable as well.


ho ho ho

etienne