I mentioned yesterday that Burger King kid's meals currently come with toys based on the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs movie. The sailboat made out food will be familiar to anyone who has read the book (I've read the book roughly 100 times myself, although I don't care for the various changes to the text that were made in the revised version):
But hold on a second. The boat in the book was topped by a pennant made of bacon. What's that on top of the Burger King boat? Cucumber?
In fact, the original design featured pepperoni and bacon:
I'm guessing (and only guessing) that the last minute change was made so as not to offend Jews and Muslims who can't eat pork or mix meat and dairy.
*Previously: Toy designer talks about how he designs Transformers.
*Find Happy Meal and cereal toys at eBay.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Toy design can be complicated
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Uhm... Except that the pizza mixes meat and dairy... Hmm. I think I'll go with the "someone stupid messed up" excuse. Unfortunately I find that's the reason for a lot of dumb things I run into lately... :-/
ReplyDeleteNo, the new version looks meatless to me - - mushrooms, olives, and some sort of green thing. Peppers? Plus dough, tomato sauce, and cheese.
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