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Action Group Calls Happy Meal Toys 'Horrifying;' Carton Kids Not Horrified

By Bruce Carton

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The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood has identified the latest scourge that will ruin your kids' lives, and it can be found at the bottom of a McDonald's Happy Meal box. CCFC says that McDonald's has hit a "new low" by giving away Marvel comic action figures that include, brace yourself, "The Thing" and the "Human Torch." For those of you who do not already have a half-dozen of these action figures in the backseat of your cars (I plead guilty with the explanation that I have two boys under the age of 5), CCFC will have you know that the Human Torch "is a man engulfed in flames" and "The Thing, menacingly roars ?IT?S CLOBBERIN? TIME!? at the press of a button." Flames! Clobberin'! Are you listening, America?! For those of you ready to mobilize, the CCFC has a ready-made email (just click here) you can shoot off to McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner admonishing him for his decision to "hand little boys the horrifying spectacle of a man engulfed in flames or a menacing figure that explicitly spurs them to violence," and urging him to end the promotion immediately. My personal experience with these two action figures has...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).