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could hardly believe this sick 'gift' in M&S..

113 replies

hovely · 04/12/2006 15:08

...a desk-top rocket launcher (with little foam missiles)

Fabulous. Why not package it up with a few photos of children's bodies being carried out of buildings in Lebanon? Or a couple of shots of tanks on fire with soldiers in them from Iraq?

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 06/12/2006 11:45

"it is much more realistic"

Except, I assume, for the fact that a real missile launcher wouldn't fit on somebody's desk? I'm guessing it isn't that realistic. If it were a life size missile launcher launchng lifesized missiles then yes, I could see your point, But it isn't.

donnie · 06/12/2006 11:52

ys I know ruty, I detest them all and can't bear the way they addle children's brains and render them incapable of sustaining a conversation or concentrating for more than 5 seconds. 'New research' - well hip hip hooray - let's re-invent the wheel as well shall we....

FWIW I will never have any video games/play stations etc in my house. Read a bloody book why don't you????

parp over.For now.

ruty · 06/12/2006 12:02
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2ManyPimms · 06/12/2006 14:00

You don't have a problem with toy hand guns but you have a problem with toy rocket launchers?!

ruty · 06/12/2006 14:42

i do have a problem with toy hand guns that are designed to look as similar as possible to guns being used in war today. Wouldn't be that keen on a toy AK47 for example, would you?

ruty · 06/12/2006 14:43

Mind you a toy AK47 would be far more distasteful than a dest top rocket launcher IMO..

magicstaronthefarawaytree · 06/12/2006 14:47

isnt it more like a rocket being shot into space rather that a missile aimed at people children , buildings etc.

GlennCloseAsCruellaDeVille · 06/12/2006 15:13

I guess worries about rocket launchers should really be balanced with worries about hand guns if we are worrying as they are growing more prevalent and endangering youngsters too..

julienetmum · 06/12/2006 15:16

Dd had a real rocket and launceher at her school last year in the car park. it was called Starchaser, she was very exciteid about it.

julienetmum · 06/12/2006 15:18

Dd had a real rocket and launcher at her school last year in the car park. it was called Starchaser, she was very exciteid about it.

SparklySnowflakeKid · 06/12/2006 15:48

My son got a little rocket launcher with foam rockets from Santa at his school christmas fair - it lasted approx 2 hours - by which time they had pulled the fins off the missiles and the pump thing had broken. It wasn't offensive or lethal - just plain crap.

We also have a space rocket launcher - which is fab

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hovely · 06/12/2006 17:27

Hey Giraffeetc, it is because I get so upset about the real rocket launchers that it struck me as sick to want a replica on your desk.
If you think that's comedy, that's up to you.
Sheesh.

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MistleToo · 06/12/2006 17:30

Why pick on M&S rocket launchers? Some of their jumpers are more worthy of shock.

wannaBeOnTopOfTheChristmasTree · 06/12/2006 17:39

Dear god I cannot believe this thread is still ongoing. FGS it?s a toy! If you don?t like it, don?t buy it, but a lot of people will buy it, without thinking that replica Iraqi soldiers should be strapped to it to make it look as realistic as possible. How many other things could we get offended about?

Let?s get all upset about the game of cluedo, after all, people really do get murdered, so creating a who done it game about murder is in bad taste you know. And let?s not make toy guns because it will inspire out children to go out killing people. While we?re at it let?s stop making toy cars, because people get killed on the roads all the time? in fact let?s all sit in our bubbles lest what we do might offend someone.

Get a grip.

2ManyPimms · 06/12/2006 19:26

Hovely - What I don't understand is that you get all wound up about toy rocket launchers and not about toy guns.

PeachyIsNowAChristmasFruit · 06/12/2006 19:34

Haven't seen this one, my kids were given something similar from ELC last summer, they have at no point associated it with war (we don't do war toys- have enough aggression issues with ds1 anyhow) and they sue it camping and get the kids from other tents over to do who can make it go the furthest competitions.

kittyschristmascrackers · 06/12/2006 20:14

I was going to say something longish but then decided that this must be a wind up????? Surely????

ruty · 06/12/2006 20:27

but peachy surely that is a rocket as in space rocket? I'd be surprised if ELC had started doing toy weapons of war....
LOL Mistletoo. Agree with that.

paulaplumpbottom · 06/12/2006 20:28

I can see it at M7S but at ELC?

PeachyIsNowAChristmasFruit · 06/12/2006 20:31

I kinda assumed they were the same thing, tbh- in that one at M&S would ahrdly be likely to have a weapons code number on it and a destination. If it does its bizarre but still no worse than any other weaponry toy (note that I do not have those at all)

paulaplumpbottom · 06/12/2006 20:34

Alot of people don't let their kids have that sort of thing. I have a girl so she doesn't want them anyway. I sent my cousins boy the book Dangerous Book for Boys and she had a hissy fit because it told him how to make a bow and arrow.

ruty · 07/12/2006 11:48

Are people seriously saying here that if you object to, say, a toy hand grenade or a toy AK47 then you should object to children playing with sticks, bows and arrows and water pistols?

donnie · 07/12/2006 12:25

oh blinkin' heck is this still going on?

ruty · 07/12/2006 14:18

Hey Donnie I'm killing this thread without any help from you thankyou.

PeachyIsNowAChristmasFruit · 07/12/2006 17:13

Bah, I'm not letting anyone else get this LOL!

My kids don't have deliberate weapns, that includes the soft foam daggers that come with costumes, although FWIW if ds1 didn't have issues with his behaviours I probably would ignore those (things like Peter Pan costumes etc). Guns / swords are an automatic no-no and always will be. But sticks and the like? As long as supervised....

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