I was out shopping with my daughter today and I ran into this in the toy store. The Han Solo Torture set?
What the heck is Hasbro thinking these days? Putting the poor guy in carbonite (that was a whole play set) was bad enough but now this?
Look at his face, it looks like he is smiling! What kind of torture device makes a guy smile? My only guess is that Hasbro was not able to take the time to make a Han Solo figure with pain on his face so they just re-purposed an earlier model. Kind of like when they took the muscle-bound Han and Luke figures and put them in those over-sized mech outfits.
You know what the little kids will do with this thing once they get their hands on it? They will remove Han Solo and put that annoying Anakin figure in there.
Let me take you to a little boy's bedroom, in a house nearby. I can hear the dialogue now...
Kid "Why did you have to be such a girly-man?"
Anakin "It was Lucas, he made me this way!"
Kid "I can't believe you become Vader, you don't even sound like him."
Anakin "That was just a voice actor, a big white guy was inside the suit."
Kid "Now you will pay for ruining the Star Wars movies..."
Anakin "AAAAIIIIGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
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Too funny. Ask George, seeing as he pretty much owns Hasbro.
Hi,
Sorry to be commenting here about your earlier post on renovating your home. Just wondering if you did get around to renovating it and if it turned out to be a “do as I do” story. I am thinking about a similar thing for my home. So just curious.
We have not gotten that far yet. We are currently painting the interior walls and working up to ripping out the carpet and fixing the hardwood floors underneath.
Thanks much!
Good luck with your renovations.
I think this is not meant for every kid. If you find your child molesting small animals, you’re supposed to buy him this kit and maybe save him/her from becoming a full blown serial killer in the future.
Toys are very strange today. And I’m not surprised that kids after playing with such toys become aggressive.
That IS one odd toy. Unlike Charbarred I am wondering if perhaps a kid will play with it, see the smile on Han’s face and end up with bondage fantasies. I am not up on the latest toys. I recently saw some “gold” Silly Putty and got excited about THAT. I used to love Silly Putty, especially being able to lift up the Sunday Comics. Now it’s not such a big deal since I don’t read the newspaper but Silly Putty is still pretty cool.
That does look wrong :(
I’m trying to imagine how the meeting where they brainstormed about this went down. Was it like: “Hey, kids today need something to get their anger out. Lets make it possible for them. Let’s give ‘em something to torture and then they’ll be happy-go-lucky all day!”