Disturbing Sesame Street Toys
My wife’s birthday happens to fall on the day before Valentine’s day, which makes for a delicate gift-giving juggling act. I guess I should be thankful that her birthday doesn’t fall right before Christmas. I always thought that, as a kid, the cruelest thing that could happen to you was to have your birthday fall on the same day as Christmas. You would totally get screwed on the gifts because your parents would simply merge the two days together gypping you out of an entire days worth of presents.
At least when I was a kid the gifts were pretty cool. I remember getting an Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, Aurora Monster Models, a Green Machine, a Speak & Spell, and a Big Trak. Admittedly, I didn’t get many toys as a kid, but the ones that I did get were nothing short of awesome.
As an adult I wonder what kind of toys I’ll be buying for my future kids. Slinking through the isles of the toy stores, I found one line of products that I certainly won’t buy simply because of the high creepiness factor:
