marcicat | merchandising: hilarious and awesome

Yes, my “Iron Man Power Bands” have arrived!

AND they light up!

A few thoughts on these hilari-awesome toys:

1. Yes, they totally fit me, because I have wrists like a tiny child. (My wrists are just about 6 inches around where the bands sit.) I wouldn’t want to wear them all day, but plenty comfortable for shorter periods of time. (The packaging warns you not to let kids sleep in them. Awww…)

2. Yes, they light up. It is awesome.

3. Yes, they make noise. It is not as awesome. (Like most toys that make noise, the noises start to get irritating after you’ve heard them for about two seconds.)

4. But! They turn on separately, and only one of them makes noise. So you can actually have one on — lighting up whenever you move your wrist around, which is a thrill for anyone who wanted those light-up sneakers as a kid — and leave the other one off. (It won’t light up, but it also won’t make noise.)

5. They also have magnets in them. (The sequence seems the same to me whether they’re touching or not, but it’s supposed to be different. IDK, I’m not that detail oriented?) Still, magnets are cool.

*****

“These light up. And they make noise.”

“Your point?”

“Yours don’t do either of those things.”

“I’m thinking about changing that now, believe me. JARVIS, make a note.”

-Clint & Tony, Unconventional Rescue

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