Saw this toy at Walgreens and couldn't believe they're selling it! I was appalled! Glorifying hunting to kids.

Two hunters with rifles in back of their Jeep, having a good old time with Bambi, half dead roped to the hood. From Gemmy Industries, Coppell Texas. Toy is made in China.

Maybe I've got it all wrong about this toy. Maybe I'm making a Big Deal out of nothing! Maybe I should buy one and give it to Mrs merkin's, Baby Merkin.

http:/www.gemmy.com/product.cfm?productId=32338

I think your being a little critical. I think it was meant for the adult redneck hunter types. Sort of like the Billy Bass singing bass for the avid fisherperson! (PC There cause yes gal's you can be just as much redneck's as us dudes)!

It said on the box for 6 year olds and up. Would you buy one for your kid, or as a gift for a friends kid?

For a kid no. I think that age limit a little young and still believe the target to be a gag gift for adults. It should be placed in the sporting goods isle next to Billy Bass and not in the little kids toy isle! If they market it at kids then that is just wrong!

Saw it near the check out counter.

I read it more like it was intended as a gag for adult hunters. I mean what young kid is gonna want it just because of it singing "Sweet Home Alabama"?



Item No. 32338
So THIS is where Buck, the Animated Trophy™ came from! This motion-activated deer lifts his head and sings “Low Rider” and “Sweet Home Alabama”! Watch the hunters BOBBLE their heads to the beat as the car BOUNCES and headlights FLASH!! A great gift for your favorite hunter, or anyone! Requires 4 AA batteries (included).

I think it crosses the line in taste. If Bambi was standing near the hunters, that would be different.

Bambi is roped over the hood of the Jeep. To me, that means the hunters have already shot Bambi. The deer isn't dead but wounded and it's singing. What does that teach children? "Wounded deer and animals are funny."

Nope, I wouldn't buy one for my kid, but (living in the good-ol-boy boondocks) there's lots of guys 'round these parts who would.

To be fair, it's not that removed from a statue or a painting of two little kids with fishing poles, carrying a string of trout. It's the same idea, with different tools and a different catch.

True and I've thought about that aspect. However the fish are dead. Bambi is still alive. What are we taught about putting animals out of their misery when they're wounded? The deer is singing so it has to be in no pain. This would teach children, if you wound animals, you can't hurt them.

So....Billy Bass is a live fish mounted to the wall singing with a BIG ASS trebble hook hanging out of it's mouth...that's gotta hurt! He is going to suffocate right?

To me a mounted fish or deer head singing is not the same, as a deer carcass tied across the hood of a Jeep.

True.....I will say that I agree it is an inappropriate toy for a 6 year old child but plenty fine for the 6 year old adult!

And these are the same 6 year old adults you find yelling and screaming while running up and down the aisles of restaurants.

I meant the 40 going on 6 adult's!

Okay kids, the word of today is ANTHROPOMORPHICATION (an-throw-po-morf-e-KA-shun). It is giving animals human characteristics.

I am not a hunter, so I find this kind of stupid. My sister and brother in law are hard core Central Oregon residents and go hunting often - damn he makes great elk jerky. Anyway, in a hunting culture that six-year-old that might receive a gift such as this probably also has been out on a few hunts and has seen a dead deer in the bed of a pickup truck, or witnessed his dad section out an elk to pack it back to camp. Yes, little Johnny Suburbia might find this a bit unsettling, but I'm betting his parents would too, so he should never receive it as a gift. Six year old Billy Hunter would probably think nothing of it, having likely seen the real thing.

Any exposure at the checkout by a kid susceptable to trauma with this thing will be fleeting and forgotten.

Youth Hunter Bill Signed by Gov. Kulongoski

How you gonna get the deer home, if you dont tie it on the No I woldn'tg buy it for one of my kids or grandkids, I think its dumb.

On the other hand, on my 6th birthday, I got a .22.

Who says the deer has to be dead anyway. Any of you ever watch the animated movie "Open Season"! It's a copycat of the deer tied to the hood of the hunters truck that did not get shot but hit by the truck and knocked out. The hunter tied him to the hood and drove into town when the deer woke up!

Nuff Said

Too bad this stupid "toy" doesn't come with a DVD (or VCR) of "Powder".

"Ho! Ho Ho! Santa knows what to get little Craig for Christmas this year!"

It makes a GREAT "Present" for "Re-gifting".

I'd like a Bambi toy where she ties up 2 hunters and drapes them over the hood of their jeep. then we can get that car driving dog in the news to take the jeep for a spin.

My philosophy on hunting: If you're gonna go hunting, be prepared to be hunted.

OH...Man i've got a great idea to add to that. The hunters could sing the Aerosmith song parody "Bambi's Got a Gun"! MARKETING....Wheres marketing when you need them dangit!

Skep and Craig: I'm getting you each one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Deer-Driving-Jeep-Hunter-on-Hood-Figurine-Hunting-Buck_W0QQi temZ320119260902QQihZ011QQcategoryZ10881QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

Now if the hunter just sang "Bambi's got a Gun" it'd be perfect!

What Mrs merkin posted above proves a lot of people think my original post of the toy is SICK!

I'd rather hear the deer sing "Bucky's got a gun"!

or

"He's got a rack (and he knows how to use 'em)"

Impale!

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76jconsumerprobe.phtml

OK.....Fine. Here....this one is for all you "NAMBY PAMBY" nature lovers!
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/openseason/game_standalone/openseason.html

Now here is a toy everyone should have at least four of:
http://bostonlegal.seenon.com/detail.php?p=18566&v=All&DCMP=KNC-G-Denny_Bobblehe ad&HBX_OU=50&HBX_PK=bobblehead%20denny%20crane&pa=netramind