Today I got this Target holiday catalog/advertisement thing in the mail. It contained a bunch of decent coupons (coupons I might need to use if I wasn't already done Christmas shopping!) and pretty pictures and such, so I was thumbing through it. I got to this coupon for Legos, and I was all, "Hell yeah, Legos! I love Legos!"
And then I looked a little more closely.
Wait a second.
A slave ship? Really? Couldn't have called it a "rocket cruiser" or something a little less startling?
Now, I will happily admit here that I am clueless about
Star Wars. I haven't seen the movies, and I don't want to ever see the movies. But I'm guessing that there is some kind of slave ship in one of them? I just question the marketing approach in neglecting to find a proper euphemism for the children's toy. And maybe I'm just stuffy or a prude or a crazy liberal, but something about giving a kid a slave ship for Christmas just doesn't sit right with me.
"Hey, little Timmy. What'd you get for Christmas?"
"A slave ship."
Maybe that's why it's $10 off?
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