New Playmo bank causes outrage

[Redmao]

NOTE: We have removed the original link by Redmao because there were in it another links to articules not appropiate for kids. We'll try to add the pictures soon.
Mod team.

http://www.playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=5177
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=5177&cgid=Polizei

Come on! Playing cops and robbers is almost as old as playing cowboy and indians. The cowboys can have their rifles and pistols, but the police can't have a thief to catch?


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Anti-gun campaigners slam new play set
 
Shocking ... snap of play set
Published: 11th February 2013

PLAYMOBIL have been slammed for a new toy set that shows an armed robbery at a bank.
The ‘City Action’ pack contains a masked blonde robber with toy shooter, a suited bank manager, gold bars, notes and a cash machine.
For kids ... box says toys are aimed at kids aged 4-10

Pictures accompanying the set, aimed at kids as young as four, show the raider holding a gun up to the bank boss as he hands over loot.

Another shows the blonde woman emptying a cash machine of tiny toy notes.

Raid ... cash machine snap

Anti-gun campaigners have branded the £35 playset - which says it’s aimed at kids aged four to 10 - as “horrendous”.

Communities Against Gun and Knife Crime spokesman Danny Bryan said: “It is horrendous that young people are given all these images to shape them. It is sending out the wrong message.”
 
Full set ... lets kids build entire bank, complete with ATM, security screen and wads of cash

But the German toy manufacturer behind the set claims it encourages kids to “imagine, invent, create.”

Playmobil sparked controversy in the past with a building site set aimed at youngsters which included what appeared to be crates of beer.

[tahra]

That was SO FREACKING FUNNY!

Gods, they should get a(nother) hobby!

That playmobil actually responded to it makes it kinda sad.

[bonniebeth]

Oh, that's just ridiculous! They're taking the set out of context, this is part of a police theme, so the whole point is for the police to catch the bad bank robber and take her to jail!

[Redmao]

Glad I'm not alone in finding this situation ridiculous.

[Bolingbroke]

The usual do-gooders. 

Problem with them is they get a lot of media attention: they're only a very noisy minority, but because of the noise they generate they make it seem like most people agree with them 

[Jay]

I don't think the set would be that much fun with some figure trying to cash a bad check.  Or with the teller just giving away toasters with every new account.

[bonniebeth]

I don't think the set would be that much fun with some figure trying to cash a bad check.  Or with the teller just giving away toasters with every new account.

If you look at the comments under the article, an awful lot of people agree with us that this controversy is just stupid. As one person said, we all played with guns as kids and it didn't turn us into mass murderers.

[tahra]

My biggest shock was to see it was from UK, not US...  where they're usually fine with kids handling guns, as long as they're real. Plastic cannons are DANGEROUS!   

[playmovictorian]

Not to forget that the banking system has become one of the biggest robber on earth so I really do not know where to begin here  ...

[Rasputin]

I think these articles are very funny and the people who are against the set are very naive, narrow minded extremists. For some reason they write the article to make them appear to think that the mere image of a gun will spark a child into a fit of killing rage.

Thanks for the laugh