"Django Unchained" Dolls Taken Off The Market
After multiple calls for a boycott, the Weinstein company has discontinued the line of action figures.
TMZ just sent a blast that states,
…shortly after advocacy groups like Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and Project Islamic Hope spoke out against the figurines … the Weinstein Company (which produced the film) reached out to the toy company and told them to put the kibosh on the toy line ASAP.
We’re told the toy company agreed, insisting they never intended to offend anyone … and halted production immediately.
Sources tell us … the toymakers only released somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 dolls before shutting down production.
Criticism of the dolls ranged from headlines like “Who the Hell Collects These Django Unchained Slave Action Figures? “to a Change.org petition that asked to “Stop the sale of DJango Unchained slave dolls.” But one of the most vocal people about it was — you guessed it — Spike Lee:
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FireGuyRoy 3 months agoThis is ridiculous just watch the movie before you judge Spike (trying to stay relevant) Lee. You only call this racist because a white man directed it. You are the here! I’m sure Jamie Fox and Samuel Jackson would of signed right up to be in a racist film too!
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SouthernSouthpaw 4 months ago
Like the dude said, just nobodies trying to stay relevant. Al Sharpton can suck a dick.
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Murphytheyeti 4 months agoI bet the people who brought these are happy with the investment, cos no doubt the price has skyrocketed for these.
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oh_the_hugh_manatee 4 months ago
I am getting so tired of how sensitive people are. There was no harm or racism intended by these dolls. They are movie characters. Spike Lee, you must be seriously struggling to stay relevant. No go away.
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Asha 4 months agoBlack and definitely not offended. Now if these dolls came in tattered clothing and a sack full of cotton then yeah. But cmon really ? For those using the Inglorious Basterds example they wouldn’t make Nazi dolls or Holocaust victim dolls. The dolls would be American Soldiers no different than G.I Joe
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at23 4 months agoI’m glad everyone here pretty much agrees how ridiculous this is. Why do we give whiny unimportant shit starters national attention? Maybe it is just a form of entertainment for all the normal people out there who don’t have time to complain about stupid things like this… because I’m getting a good laugh out of it myself.
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Inceptigram 4 months agopeople are so sensitive about everything now a days its quite annoying
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