Toys for good little girls and boys

[lectrobyte]

Those of us who enjoy military history usually just switch on the History Channel for our daily fix of guts, gore and armed conflict. But if you’re a serious war buff, and you want to relive one of the most horrifying moments in the deadliest war in human history, an Italian toy maker has just the thing.

Brumm recently unveiled miniature models of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” Those names may conjure up images of cuddly cartoon characters, but they’re actually the codenames for two atomic bombs that the U.S. military dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11501081/

[MadMaddie]

1. Glamorizing Atomic Bombs......

this is an all time low!!

[VOX]

2. Do these obscenities come with sloughing-skin action figures???

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Too much. :nuke:

[jeff30997]

3. That's sickening !

[sam sarrha]

4. they should come with names and pictures of all the civilians they killed.

and photos of the carnage.. in the 3D viewers with the circle of pictures.

and a scratch and sniff photo of the dead a week after the detonation..

[MercutioATC]

5. Brumm isn't a "toy company", it's a scale-model company.

They make scale models of cars, mostly. I don't see them glamorizing the use of nuclear weapons at all. They're just selling a scale model of the first two nuclear devices used in war.

[lectrobyte]

7. I can understand wanting to have a scale model of a Ferrari or something,

since that is probably as close as I will get to owning something like, but an atomic bomb? Different strokes for different folks... I guess.

On Edit: Their web site does say this about the models:

In everyone's mind eye the words Hiroshima and Nagasaki have always evoked the nuclear tragedy. However very few people know the actual appearance of the bombs that caused this tragedy. With the faithful scale reproductions of "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", we plan to provide a small historical contribution so as not to forget what generated the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.

end quote. So I suppose one could argue historical/educational purposes.

[MercutioATC]

8. Military history buffs, maybe?

Plenty of companies make scale replicas of the Enola Gay. What's so different about making a scale replica of what it dropped?

[Canuckistanian]

6. What next? An Easy-Bake Auschwitz Oven?

This is sickening beyond belief....
:grr:

[NYCGirl]

9. These are obviously not for kids — just for strange adults. NT

[populistdriven]

10. legal for carry on?

[zbdent]

11. Can you order working miniaturized replicas?

There are a few people I would like to send one to . . . :evilgrin:

Gotta be really, really, REALLY low-power, though . . . I'd hate to hurt innocents . . .

[Yollam]

12. How hideous.

Next they'll action figures of burnt victims with skin hanging off, where if you push the button on their back they wail in agony.

People who buy this filth should be reincarnated as victims of the next atomic blast, which will probably be set off by Bush or one of his disciples.