Hasbro Wants Children (For War and Cheap Labor)
From to time to time, a friend and I play the "Worst Press Release of the Day" game. Well, we have a winner today! It involves Dennis Quaid and Hasbro and the Marines and how for a shocking two-week long period, for every GI JOE: RISE OF COBRA toy you buy then, they will also donate one of these garbage toys to some small and poor child whose only hope of a future job is to… join the Marines! Or work in some overseas Hasbro plastic toy company.
Be a Hero and Help Deliver the Magic of the Holidays to Less Fortunate Children PAWTUCKET, R.I.–(Business Wire)– Over 14 million children live in poverty in the United States. They need a hero this holiday season and here to answer the call of duty is the G.I. JOE brand from Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS). Hasbro's G.I. JOE brand, the Marine Toys for Toys Foundation and actor Dennis Quaid are joining forces to help make this holiday season a little brighter for less fortunate children. For every G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra toy purchased at stores from November 11 through November 26 (Veteran's Day through Thanksgiving), Hasbro will donate a new toy (up to 300,000 toys with a minimum $3.99 value) to Toys for Tots. Actor Dennis Quaid, who plays 'GENERAL HAWK' in the 2009 blockbuster film G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra, from Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Hasbro, will voice a national radio spot, due to premier on Veteran's Day, November 11, to help raise awareness for this campaign and the positive impact The U.S. Marines and Toys for Tots make on the lives of children.
Hoo boy. Where to start even!
Dennis Quaid doesn't have anything down there, either.
Great Balls of Fire!
I know for a fact the Carrie Prejan juggernaut was sending out Today-show-appearence-related press releases today so this cannot be true. Sorry.
Yeah, I dunno. This seems at the very worst harmless, possibly even, I dunno, "charitable"?
Charity is great! Military recruiting of children: BLECHO. But then I am an old woman.
I don't think giving away G.I. Joe action figures can be considered military recruitment per se, but, then again, they made that movie "Toys" with Robin Williams, so what do I know?
Well, the military's efforts to "recruit" or reach kids are the "best kind" because they are always horrible and laughable. See Toys comment above. If you want to get enraged about something that contributes to pro-military propaganda, look no further than video games. Soemthing that the Army is VERY aware of
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/05/03/protesters-arrested-army039s-video-game-recruitment-center
For every G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra toy purchased at stores from November 11 through November 26 (Veteran's Day through Thanksgiving), Hasbro will donate a new toy (up to 300,000 toys with a minimum $3.99 value) to Toys for Tots.
Yeah, I'm not seeing it. Toys For Tots is a worthy cause, and nowhere does it say they are donating 300,000 military-specific (or even GI Joe) toys as a result.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIOzdUdsuk
Anyone else here not allowed to play with guns as a child? I am so glad my mother had a modicum of common sense.
Guns no. Toy guns were allowed, however. And I didn't kill anybody!
Perhaps this explains my adolescent Anglophilia?
Why? I played with guns too and I'm an Anglo.
Though GI Joe is called Action Man over there. Had one of those too.
Hm. I'm just wrong.
You thought we were running around hitting each other with crumpets didn't you?
"a hot crumpet burning my ears with shame", huh?
No, knives. Obvs.
Not allowed human-sized toy guns, either. I was, however, allowed to play with G.I. Joe action figures.
And I didn't kill anybody, either.
Dad was a developmental psychologist, marched in DC to protest Vietnam. Tried to restrict toy gun play. Older brother made a lovely wooden revolver in woodworking class and played assassin with his friends. I found sticks that approximated assault rifles and played war with my friends. Parents relented; we had oodles of toy guns. Neither one of us owns a gun today, nor have we shot anybody. And we had GI Joe action figures!
We weren't allowed to have water guns. They were water guns in the shapes of dolphins and stuff? Who looked like they were peeing.
That doll makes me want to kill innocent villagers and call Asians gooks while listening to Wagner.
Dad?
Okay, who the hell did Townsend blow to get his own doll?
She do!
Had the same thought. Touché…
"G.I. Joe reporting for duty at Fort Fire Island, sir!" Gotta be an Army puke, cause the Crotch would never allow him to do the Flamey McFlamerson look.
So for 15 days – a period which excludes the busiest portion of the gift-purchasing cycle – the purchase of a specific brand of movie tie-in merchandise will be matched with its cheapest related item (which, by mere coincidence, Hasbro is having a tough time selling anyway).
Also, don't forget to buy G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra© now out on DVD!
This point is my favorite one yet!
At least some future gay boys will have a Merry Christmas. Apart from the eyebrows, that Joe is HOT.
I wasn't going to be the first…
And how 'bout that manly scar on his cheek? RUGGED!
I am thinking about buying it to go with the Sugar Daddy Ken doll. And then sewing matching Pucci print speedo/caftan ensembles for them.
really? you think he couldn't have done better than that piss-yellow hair? i guess it's hard to find a good hairdresser in the jungle, but there's no excuse for shitty home bleach jobs.
furthermore, dude has a goitre.
This doll looks like an albino black dude.
Palm Beach Kenneth is quivering in his white shoes!
It looks like the footballer Djibril Cissé