Gifts Nobody Wants To Find Under The Tree
By
Editorial Staff in
Holidays
On 3rd January 2017
Rudolph's Island of Misfit Toys needs an update for the 21st century: the Island of Knock-Off Toys. There is some awful – and awfully brazen – stuff on store shelves these days. The shameless grubbing to get in on other people's successes knows no bounds.
However, the clumsy attempts to elbow into the marketplace have one bonus: they're so dreadful they're funny. You seriously have to wonder who makes this stuff, and who green lights it. Somebody out there rubber-stamped these things and said, hey, here's a good idea, let's just throw it out there and see if people will buy it. And people do! They must, or the terrible, terrible knock-offs would disappear. Instead, we only see more of them. And here's hoping none of us have to resort to wrapping one of these up this year!
#1 I'd like to say that this raises some deep questions about what it means to be human, but it just looks like some hastily marketed leftovers.
#2 Because what child could possibly know that these aren't authentic Frozen dolls?
#3 If you had any doubts about how poorly named this thing is, check out the expression on the kid's face.
#4 I don't know much about Pokémon, but I know that's not Monica.
#5 Looks like everyone wants to not quite be Kylo Ren.
#6 Knocking off two brands at once, with a funny name, that's kind of impressive.
#7 So bad I almost do want this under the tree.
#8 Is this the work of Ron's broken wand?
#9 Wow, the subtle cruelty of this, attaching an image of a movie to the name of a celebrity who died before it came out.
