McDonald's Attacked For "Horrifying" Marvel Happy Meals

[Ih8pkmn]

(blinks in disbelief)
(Checks to make sure hip flask isn't drained)
(checks post again)

is this a joke? PG-13 movies ain't even that violent... hell, Inception was PG-13, and it had a total of:

Spoiler

3 gunfights,
2 explosions,
1 actual death,
and alot of lying and deception.

That ain't violent. I've seen kids cartoons that are more violent than some PG-13 movies, and more disturbing.

Wow. Are people TRYING to make their kids so sheltered that, the first shock they get, they lose all will to live and jump off the nearest bridge? I mean, there's protection, and then there's this. Come on! Kids need to be exposed to the world at some point, or they grow up to be total shut-ins.

 

[blarg478]

Jeebus, that is stupid. Looking further, they have gems like:

"Celebrities from films rated R or PG-13, or whose CDs carry Parental Advisory warnings, appear on television programming aimed at young children.13 For example, Justin Timberlake, host of the 2007 Kids Choice Awards on Nickelodeon, starred in the R rated movie Alpha Dog. His CD, FutureSex/LoveSounds, carries a Parental Advisory for explicit lyrics."

in their sexualizing section.

 

[orangeapples]

ahhh, so this explains why the past 40 years of children have all turned out to be serial killers. Its because we have super heroes.

If we don't do anything about these superheroes our kids might start to emulate their actions.

This would explain why whenever I pick up 3 somethings (pencils, pens, butter knives, screwdrivers), I suddenly think I'm Wolverine. It's that damned marketing for superheroes.

seriously though, we need some common sense in America again.

 

[The DSM]

...

Really?

What kind of idiot says this stuff?

I just imagine housewives in America running round yelling "SOMEONE THING OF THE CHILDREN" everytime something like this comes up.

 

[Captain Pancake]

The CCFC needs to GTFO.

 

[Burningsok]

I think it's time parents start teaching their kids whats right and wrong and what's real and fiction. Once that is settled, the parents can let their kids play with these toys and watch movies with violence without the fear of them acting violent.

I swear the more this stuff continues, the more the parents will become to lazy to raise their kids and just let the government and random organizations decide whats best for the children of this country.

simply pathetic.

 

[Con Carne]

Just like any other group out there. (You know who you are) They just need something to ***** about and shit all over everything.

 

[ryukage_sama]

Measured response, fail.
My two-year-old nephew has action figure toys (Batman to be specific), and he has yet to kill my brother and his wife in their sleep. Might it be more enlightening for our children to return to Clifford, Wishbone, and Scooby-Doo for entertainment, maybe, but I don't see Captain America and Spider-Man unhinging society's youth. I wouldn't object to removing the Fantastic Four characters because I never really like them, but given what we've seen McDonalds give away in the past, it seems outrageous to say that these toys are any sort of "new low".

 

[Dfskelleton]

[HEADING=3]IT'S SO VIOLENT![/HEADING]

 

[Rhino of Steel]

I poked around their website for a few minutes because that is all my brain could take. They are actually against Lego sets (as opposed to the random assortments of blocks) because they think it quashes imagination. As someone who spent most of his childhood playing with those Lego sets, building, rebuilding, adapting, combining (fear my medieval castle/space station), and coming up with new strange situations for the little blocks to get into, may I just say this:

Your children all hate you. Every one of them. So have fun in the cheapest nursing home they can find when you're older.

 

[Fappy]

This is why I could never be a politician. If I ever had to consider the opinions of people as stuff as this I'd blow my own head off.

 

[ItsAPaul]

There's kid shows of every one of those figures, wtf...

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Snip

Excellent points!

This is about as ridiculous as all of these "pacifist," "anti-violent," "anti-EVERYTHING" groups formed one big island nation. As Therumancer said, do you think that one group saying "we're not going to kill anybody" means that everyone else gives a damn? "Good for you, you just made our jobs easier!" It's without a doubt positively inane and unrealistic, flying in the face of human nature while encouraging those who do believe in violence to exploit the pacifists obvious weakness.

I wonder where were these blind twits when it came to Burger King doing some despicable Twilight promotion? Because honestly anything Twilight is FAR worse than little Timmy smashing two plastic figurines together in the sandbox. But seriously, I find it more worrisome that they believe that children should go into the real world COMPLETELY blind to every facet that is not "safe." I think it would be more traumatizing to become 18 and suddenly realize life is essentially a lie, people are in battle every day, famine and poverty run amok, and your puppy didn't just go on a permanent stay at a nice farm.

The only reason that the CCFC exists today is because as a species we didn't just suck our thumbs as predators made us dinner to our extinction.

 

[Logic 0]

I think these CCFC people need a lesson in telling the differnce between heros and villans.

 

[Eekaida]

What? Just...... what?? Are they serious? AT ALL?!
Commerial free childhood? In AMERICA? If they're so concerned about commercialism, they should be teaching their kids to be sensible with money and level headed in the face of rampant advertising, not blame the commercial becuase little timmy/mary just HAS TO HAVE the latest whatever.

Of course, that would imply they have brains.

I mean fuck, BARBIE is more hazardous to children than these things are - they're lumps of colourful plastic with a gimmick. If I were a parent I would be more concerned about the crap that actully in the food than the crap that comes with them.

 

[Frontastic]

Oh boy. Ok deep breaths, that was just too funny.

The thing that really confuses me is the idea that they will be addicted to PG-13 movies. What exactly do these people think their goal is? To keep every child in a little bubble of Barney (that's still around right?)? Come on! We've all been watching those movies since very early on!

This dying, little rock of ours just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

 

[dex-dex]

do they not realised that they WERE COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS READ BY SCHOOL KIDS????
MY GOD!!!

 

[Evilsanta]

OMG! So Mcdonalds ruined my childhood when i bought those toys as a kid?! NOOO!

Really, this is just to silly this has to be a really late April fools...Or else they are idoits..