Friday, December 21, 2007

Galactus: Cute or Not?

When I was a kid, I read what's called "The Galactus Trilogy" in a giant size reprint book of the FANTASTIC FOUR. Galactus was a super-bad guy. A name to be feared. The Voldemort of the Marvel Universe!

And now some dang toy company has made a bonehead item: Cute Galactus. It's just wrong wrong wrong.



Outrage and more at Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin blog.

5 comments:

richardcthompson said...

I'd put him on my shelf next to my stuffed Cthulhu doll, if I had one.

Brian Fies said...

I had the same reaction after recently seeing the "cute" (X-Men) Sabertooth and Phoenix toys, probably from the same line. One a vicious killer who'll rip out your guts and eat them as an appetizer, the other who gets her jollies blowing up a few billion people. Who's the market for these? Don't they know kids don't read comics anymore?

Paul said...

I dunno, the top Galactus is sporting a little too much pink not to be cute.

John Daiker said...

I showed that very figure to my wife in the local Wal-Mart!

Holding it like a china doll, I cooed; "Who's a cute little planet eater? Oh, WHO'S a cute little planet eater?"

GUARANTEED SPOUSAL LAUGHTER.

Mark Anderson said...

I'm not disagreeing with anyone, but I have to say my son LOVES these toys.

He's probably got about two dozen of them now.

And as a parent, I must admit, I sorta like that he can play with superheroes sans all the violence.

That being said, maybe a Happy-go-Galactus is a bit much....