Stan Lee gets his own action figure…pasty white home-bodies rejoice!
LOS ANGELES - Comic-book fans already know Stan Lee is a Marvel legend. Now Hasbro is making it official.
The company will pay plastic tribute to the 84-year-old creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four and other comic-book heroes by interpreting him as a 6-inch tall Marvel Legends action figure. The toy shows Lee’s likeness wearing khaki pants, a blue windbreaker, diaper and eyeglasses.
“We feel it’s long overdue that Stan Lee be immortalized as an action figure, much like the dozens of marvelous characters that he has created for years and years,” said Eric Nyman, Hasbro’s vice president of marketing. “We want to make it as true to life as possible, so the figure, will also be outfitted with a bottle of “hooch”, and a pocket full of paternity suits. My man Stan got around if you know what I am saying… you do right? Action figure is such a broad term, I mean Christ, this is a doll, an old man doll.” Hasbro plans to spend half a million dollars on production and marketing.
The doll has been described as “creepy”, and “stupid”, and “another victory for overweight nerds who won’t move out of the house”.
The doll will be given away to anyone who wants one for free. It looks to rival in popularity the Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld dolls.
In a related story Hasbro lost half a million dollars in production and marketing funds.
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