"Fury Over 'Violent' Robot Gift For Kids" a Burger King UK Twist

I hate stupid people!

Hmm,
Would the same have happened if they had Harry Potter toys, Order of the Phoenix is 12A as well?
I think not.

So not only American parents react in a stupid way to toys.....

Just read the mirror's 'review' of the film here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/enterta ... -19518514/

Laughed out loud at this

"... with the shelves of Toys R Us positively creaking under the weight of die-cast models of those robots in disguise..."

Die-Cast!?!?!?

So even though it's a parents responsibility as to whether or not they accept the toy on behalf of their own child ... it's still someone elses fault.

Frankly, while I believe there are arguably some good reasons not to let kids see the new movie, the violence isn't one of them. I don't see how that aspect is much worse than plenty of kids cartoons nowadays.

No, if there was something from the movie I'd be afraid of kids imitating, it would be the lubricating. That would just be disturbing. It's arguably best to keep really young kids away from the various bits of innuendo in the movie, as well.

Still, people involved in that article don't seem to realise that they're talking about a movie based (when you go right back, at least) off a line of children's toys. Of course there are going to be kids toys released in conjunction with it! I'd be disappointed if there weren't (heck, I wouldn't be collecting Transformers now if the movie hadn't had a toy line).

Also, it's not like people who get the toys will see the movie. I was just talking to a friend today, and he was discussing how he had loads of Transformers toys when he was a kid, but didn't see any of the cartoon.

In short, there's a technical term to describe the people who sparked this controversy: twits.

The simple response is "dont take your fat little children to burger king then!"

The Mirror isnt worth wiping your arse with, the only UK paper that is worse is the houswife and hippies favoroute; The Daily Mail.

Rediculous.

Maybe they should be worrying about the floods and the lack of drinking water in Glousceter instead? You know, do something useful?

lol The mirror.

Everyone knows the paper of choice for us galant Brits is The Times.

Psychout wrote:The simple response is "dont take your fat little children to burger king then!"

Bingo.

The Master Blaster wrote:lol The mirror.

Everyone knows the paper of choice for us galant Brits is The Times.

Aargh! Um... yes... the Times... not The Mirror... yes.
Although I just read this article and the 'review' hahaha! I the part with die cast made me laugh Aargh!

Have you read their review too?

I thought that it pretty much sounds like the Daily Mirror team themselves. Stupid, dull, thrown together...


I really can't believe anyone reads that shit.

funny thing that they didnt do it when burger king did spiderman 3 which was a 12A here. The Mirror is stupid

I bet that if it were left up to the "NCC", we'd all be only allowed to watch the Teletubbies.

...I'm a bit illiterate when it comes to TF toy terms since I only go for the cartoons and comics, so could someone explain what's so amusing about the "die-cast" thing?

JK Rowling just became a little less creative in my eyes:

Daily Prophet = Daily Times

The Mirror = The Quibbler

My world is destroyed.

tigertracks 24 wrote:JK Rowling just became a little less creative in my eyes:

Daily Prophet = Daily Times

The Mirror = The Quibbler

My world is destroyed.

Aargh! And the most depressing part be that its true

Silver Wind wrote: ...I'm a bit illiterate when it comes to TF toy terms since I only go for the cartoons and comics, so could someone explain what's so amusing about the "die-cast" thing?

'Cause we have not see true TFs with diecast since the early days of generation one. The only ones that have had it lately are the TItanium series, both the 6 inch and 3 inch. Oh and I suppose the re-issues had die-cast too.

Autobots! Protect the humans! But do it in a politically correct, non-confrontational, gender neutral, non-biased way. And for Primus' sake, don't hurt anybody's feelings!

I had no idea that BK were running any kind of promotion. Will have to get up there and buy a couple of kids meals. Are the toys any good?