Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
This isn't quite related to the movie, but more so to the movie's product line. I was in Toys'R'Us today, and I noticed a 12 inch talking Superman figure. I didn't pay much attention to it, but I noticed a little splash on the box that read, "English-Speaking Toy!" which was then repeated below it in Spanish. That just totally blew my mind that it's now required to denote which language the toy speaks in, especially since you can push the button to find out anyway if you really wanted to! It was funny and amazing and really, really weird. I'm not trying to sound like a hick or discriminatory against people who speak another language, but it just seems like it's going a bit too far. The exclaimation point was rather funny too, as if the fact that it spoke English, as oppose to another language, was a selling point! As if Superman would speak another language besides English anyway! ^_~
This isn't quite related to the movie, but more so to the movie's product line. I was in Toys'R'Us today, and I noticed a 12 inch talking Superman figure. I didn't pay much attention to it, but I noticed a little splash on the box that read, "English-Speaking Toy!" which was then repeated below it in Spanish. That just totally blew my mind that it's now required to denote which language the toy speaks in, especially since you can push the button to find out anyway if you really wanted to! It was funny and amazing and really, really weird. I'm not trying to sound like a hick or discriminatory against people who speak another language, but it just seems like it's going a bit too far. The exclaimation point was rather funny too, as if the fact that it spoke English, as oppose to another language, was a selling point! As if Superman would speak another language besides English anyway! ^_~
I've seen the Superman action figure for this movie. The toy is more masculine looking than the actor upon whom it's modeled.