Yes, this is petty, yes there are more important things to get worked up about, but this has really annoyed me!
Took DD and her BFF to see this film in half-term, they both loved it and came out talking excitedly about what they would call their superhero duo team and what their powers would be/what they would invent to fight crime. There are 3 strong female characters in the film doing 'science stuff' (Honey Lemon, GoGo and Abigail the test pilot) and the auntie who looks after Hiro and Tadashi is a sympathetic (if ditsy) character.
So why, when we went to the Disney store the next day to spend some birthday money, were we greeted by a display of BH6 toys and clothing on a stand that was labelled "Oh Boy!", on the "Boy" side of the shop (don't get me started on the sexual apartheid practised in the Disney Store with princesses vs. superheroes) and NONE of the t-shirts featured the female members of the team? Not one of them! There wasn't even a separate "girls" shirt with just Honey Lemon and Gogo.
I asked (nicely) and a very apologetic assistant said that this was what they'd been sent and how Disney had decided to market the film merchandising. He suggested I look elsewhere as they 'might' have licensed the characters to other stores and made clothing with the entire team on them. He also said that he agreed it was silly and they'd done the same thing with Guardians of the Galaxy (ie removed the women).
But really? Do they think boys will be contaminated by having female characters on their shirts, even though those female characters are part of the team - the film's not called Big Hero Four, is it? Why not all of them? And do they think girls don't want a t-shirt with the characters on it at all?
I've found a grand total of 3 t-shirts on Amazon with all the team on them, the vast majority of most of them are of the four men.
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!