You’re probably already aware there are only 65 shopping days until Christmas. If you’re a parent, this means you’re frantically fretting about what the must-have toy of winter 2014 will be, but stop looking right now. A woman called Susan Schrivjer, from Florida, has discovered that US branches of Toy R Us are stocking a highly desirable range of Breaking Bad action figures.
The Walter White figurine comes packaged with a duffle bag filled with presumably pre-laundered non-sequential banknotes and a tiny bag of (fake) crystal meth, while the Jesse Pinkman figure sports a gas mask, teaching children an important lesson about the dangers of inhaling the noxious byproducts of the methamphetamine production process.
“I was very shocked and appalled,” Schrivjer told the Today show. “I just think they need to look at their vision and values, as they call them.” Schrivjer started a petition urging the toy giant to remove the figures from its shelves, which received 1,000 signatures within a week.
Toys R Us have issued a statement, arguing that “the items are intended for ages 15 and up” and “are located in the adult action figure area of our stores”, which apparently exists.
No sign as of yet of a model RV with Easy Bake meth ovens, dinky pullstring Tuco Salamancas which yell: “TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT!” or tiny barrels of hydrofluoric acid with rubbery dissolving corpses inside. Surely it’s just a matter of time.
