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Related: About this forumMom Wants Toys R Us to Pull 'Breaking Bad' Toys.
Who knew? They might be a collector's item someday. Might have to go there. Even though I have kids I can't stand that store...total rip-off. Target was always cheaper at xmas time. May have to make an exception. Mind your own business, Mom! So much for her kids ever being able to watch it.
By Christine Slusser.
Award-winning show "Breaking Bad" was popular with critics, but one mom says it doesn't belong in a children's store.
The show centers on a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White, who, upon learning he has cancer, turns to making and selling meth to ensure his family will be financially secure once he's gone.
So it is a show for adults. That's definitely how mom Susan Schrivjer feels. She wants Toys R Us to pull toys modeled off the hit show.
SUSAN SCHRIVJER VIA WFTX: "It's about drugs. They're selling it in a children's toy store."
ANCHOR: "The Walter White toy dons a lab coat and comes with two beakers and a gas mask."
SCHRIVJER: "Kids mimic their action figures."
And the action figures come with drug paraphernalia, although the Toys R Us website doesn't come out and say that's what it is. It refers to one of Walter White's accessories as "blue crystals."
Crystals ... as in methamphetamine.
Toys R Us did release a statement saying the toys are meant for ages 15 and up, and they are located in the adult action- figure areas.
Schrivjer has started a Change.org petition to get the toys removed from the shelves. In it, she asks the company to stop selling the collection both in stores and online.
Schrivjer is not only targeting Toys R Us, but other stores sell the "Breaking Bad" toys as well.
Award-winning show "Breaking Bad" was popular with critics, but one mom says it doesn't belong in a children's store.
The show centers on a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White, who, upon learning he has cancer, turns to making and selling meth to ensure his family will be financially secure once he's gone.
So it is a show for adults. That's definitely how mom Susan Schrivjer feels. She wants Toys R Us to pull toys modeled off the hit show.
SUSAN SCHRIVJER VIA WFTX: "It's about drugs. They're selling it in a children's toy store."
ANCHOR: "The Walter White toy dons a lab coat and comes with two beakers and a gas mask."
SCHRIVJER: "Kids mimic their action figures."
And the action figures come with drug paraphernalia, although the Toys R Us website doesn't come out and say that's what it is. It refers to one of Walter White's accessories as "blue crystals."
Crystals ... as in methamphetamine.
Toys R Us did release a statement saying the toys are meant for ages 15 and up, and they are located in the adult action- figure areas.
Schrivjer has started a Change.org petition to get the toys removed from the shelves. In it, she asks the company to stop selling the collection both in stores and online.
Schrivjer is not only targeting Toys R Us, but other stores sell the "Breaking Bad" toys as well.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/national/mom-wants-toys-r-us-pull-breaking-bad-toys/nhkgx/
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Mom Wants Toys R Us to Pull 'Breaking Bad' Toys. (Original Post)
RiffRandell
Oct 2014
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Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)1. "It refers to one of Walter White's accessories as "blue crystals.""
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)2. Well they were!
It's like Indiana Jones with his whip...and my son has some blue crystals from an old lego space set, I think.
He had so many the parts all ran together after awhile.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)3. Yeah, I know
I can just picture a salesperson talking to a parent/customer about this: "Well, uh...they're, uh, blue crystal...things...sort of...um..."
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)4. are 15 and 16 year-olds buying dolls?
Initech
(99,915 posts)5. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul both had awesome responses to this: