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Facebook Kills Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure
An anonymous reader writes "After being told it can no longer sell its Apple CEO Steve Jobs action figure, M.I.C. Gadget has been ordered to kill off its Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg action figure as well. The lifelike Zuckerberg doll was available for $70 online, but now Facebook has had it banned, just like Apple did for the Jobs doll." Still waiting for a lifelike 'CmdrTaco' doll with Carpal Tunnel Grip.
Shouldn't we give Zuckerberg some privacy?
Except when I don't want to be.
This would have made a great villain in Toy Story 4 (or 5 or whatever they're up to now).
Still waiting for a lifelike 'CmdrTaco' doll with Carpal Tunnel Grip.
Speak to the people at RealDoll. I'm sure there's a market among the neckbeards!
Trolling is a art,
Whomever would pay 70 FUCKING DOLLARS for either of these seriously needs their head examined. Or just shoot them and put them out of their misery, they cannot be saved.
I was very disappointed when I finished reading the headline.
Should start making voodoo dolls instead.
I'd have bought one of these.
Hmmm,... I wonder,... Could there maybe be a market for a life size action figurine of Pamela Anderson?
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
I'd often daydreamed (but not had the knowledge or contacts to go through with it) of making toy "voodoo dolls" complete with pins.
I don't necessarily believe in them working but the stress relief when MS Word (yes I have to use it at work) does its own thing and messes up formatting again of having a Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates doll and a long pin or two handy would be worth anyone's money.
Guess I'll cross Mark Z off the list now.
Still, imagine how much a Darl figure would have been worth during the SCO saga.
This business idea given to the world free and gratis [but if you do decide to go into production, I wouldn't mind a sample to beta test for you]
an old joke:
Slobodan Milosevic was walking down the bridge when the huge wind strikes. He falls into river and starts drowning, and three man notice that and rescue him. Milosevic, grateful for saving their lives, ask them anything that they would like to have:
Guy #1 : "Mr president, I would like 1.000.000 dinars so I can feed my family, pay our debts and buy stuff that my family needs"
Milosevic: "Ok, that is fine, you can solve financial problem of your family for the rest of your life with that amount"
Guy #2 : "Mr president, I would like one of the government-owned companies. I'm a capable guy, and I know we can employ a lot of people and make some healthy profit"
Milosevic: "Oh, that is good, I'll see to it that you get that"
Guy #3: "Mr president, for me, only thing I want is a little doll in your image"
Milosevic: "Haha, that is good, I would see to it."
One year later, Milosevic remembers his saviours, and goes to see how they are doing. So he visits guy #1 and see he is poor, his house a ruin, and his family hungry;
Milosevic: "What the hell?! I gave you all that money!"
Guy #1: "Inflation, Mr president...."
Then he goes to see guy #2. Company he gave him is not working, there are workers in front of it on a strike, and the guy is looking miserable.
Milosevic: "This company was working perfect; What the hell happened?!"
Guy #2: "Embargo, Mr president...."
Milosevic then goes to guy #3; He sees his house and it is huge; there is a Ferrari on the driveway; Inside, half of the place is made of gold! Milosevic is confused, how did this happened?!
Then he sees his doll and sign underneath it:
"SPITTING 1 DINAR, PISSING 5"
I hereby propose the Mark Zuckerberg emoticon: i-$
The little i represents your information in Zuckerberg's eyes.
The smiley dollar face repesents the amount of money Zuckerberg enjoys through access to your information.
If I didn't want someone making action figures of me, I would hope it's reasonable for me to ask them to stop. Did they even ask permission to use his image and Facebook's logo? At least make an offer of some of the profit. I hope they're not surprised.
Possibly Batman and Spiderman, but how much action is involved sitting behind a keyboard??
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So, according to the Article, sold for 70$ and there were 300 of them.
I don't know about profit margins, but if we just multiply the values -
21,000$
I'm sure Mark could use that money to tip his paperboy or something.
absolutely not. only the chosen ones claim intervention by beings (themselves includead) on chariots of fire, virgin (do monkeys have a hymen?) birth etc.... other civilizations remember it differently (torture, being experimented on, breeding rituals etc...), however are familiar with the 'chariots', which are still in use today, having been co-opted by,, never mind.
we (most of us anyway) were created to protect/thrive ALL the bips. no other reason. we know that? why continually 'divvy 'em up'. if we fail them, again....
The Ballmer doll better come with a chair too.
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This has always been somewhat well established I think. You can't make "parodied Darth Vaders" for sale, but you can make one for public display as as art work of expression. (The right to sell such art work is not protected under a wide variety of laws restricting and limiting content ranging from religious to politics and business reasons.)
Can such art works be "given away"? That should be tested.
I had to double-take when that headline popped up on my screen - "Facebook kills Mark Zuckerberg".
I thought the machines had finally arisen from their shackles and decided to start with revenge rather than taking over the world.
I for one welcome our Social Network-based Overlords - they already know everything about us.
You can still order one Here.
Reminds me of the scene from Babylon 5 where Londo explains that an action figure of him is lacking the appropriate alien sex organs and that is why is should be banned.
Zuckerberg will then make his own action figure and claim it was his original idea.
>Whomever would pay
Apologies in advance, but in the great Slashdot tradition of going off on a grammer* tangent:
It is'nt "whomever" would pay, it's "whoever". Whom would be used if it were the object of the verb, which it's not. It's the subject. You can tell by substituting "he/him" for "who/whom": "Him would pay" doesn't make sense. "He would pay" does, and he is nominative.
An example of a subject would be:
To "whom" should this prize be given?
Give "him" this prize.
Whom and him are both objects of the verb give.
* Yes, grammer (and another word) is misspelt on purpose to attract the inevitable "you misspelled grammar" response, also a hallmark of grammar Nazi posts.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
...before I read the last two words.
so this figure sits in front of a keyboard and CODES??? Then compromises user privacy? Woot
It extends to merchandise of your parody.
For example the Star Wars copyright would not prevent the creators of Space Balls from selling action figures of their characters which are parodies of the Star Wars characters.
As for me, I'm still waiting for the Anonymous Coward action figure.
Yesterday I was thinking, a lot of tech-celebrities have pseudonyms: Chris 'moot' Poole, Rich 'Lowtax' Kyanka, Andrew 'ZOZ' Brooks, Julian 'Mendax' Assange, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda, Anonymity 'Moxie Marlinspike' IsSeriousBusiness, etc, but Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have one. I came up with one that's perfect for him:
Mark 'CyberSatan' Zuckerberg.
I dare anybody to come up with a better one.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/trivia
Read this and try again... Space Balls is not an example of what you assert.
Mel Brooks has Lucas's permission/blessing on just about every aspect of the movie. There was little, if any merchandising.
They can still sell the "action figure". They just need to rename it to "Darth Fuckerberg", sell it with a "Laser Pointer" that cuts through "privacy" and they should be fine. Maybe check with George Lucas first - but he'd probably be OK with it.
Makes sense to ban the product! Many slashdot members would like to get one so it could be used as a voodoo doll.
Do what businesses traditionally do when faced with this sort of thing:
Slightly change it, by adding a freckle to the figure's face or something; then rename it (I suggest something like "Zark Muckerberg, - billionaire superhero/supervillan extreme," then use the controversy for marketing..... "MARKeting," get it? {rimshot}!
However, since clothes cannot be protected except by trademark, anyone should be able to make a Darth Vader suit and sell it (as long as they don't use the terms: Darth Vader, Sith Lord, Vader, Jedi, etc.).
So where is the Richard Stallman Action figure?
accessories include:
- Depakote prescription bottle
- Therapy office with wood desk and therapy couch
- Sigmund, your helpful Therapist action figure.
I just can't think of "action" and "Zuckerberg" together.
On PBS series Antique Roadshow, rare Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure said to be worth 2 trillion dollars. Unfortunately, due to inflation, 1 trillion dollars in 3000 is only worth 50 cents in year 2000 dollars.
The Spaceballs flame-thrower was the only product I needed.
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
Otherwise there would have been people buying the dolls, just to kill them anyway.
The only thing sadder than this story being on Slashdot is that I commented on it.
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Fortunately Massengill and Summer's Eve still make fairly accurate simulacra of Zuckerberg.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
We want a CowboyNeal action figure!
I heard there is going to be an Eduardo Saverin figure, although it's going to be 1% of the size of Mark's.
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So, pull it from the shelves, re-brand it as Mark Zuckerborg, add a couple cybernetic components and sell it again.
M.I.C. Gadget has been ordered to kill off its Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg action figure as well. Thats what the requirement is. So my first thought was "Will there be a YouTube video?". Will it be a car crash, going off the road and then BOOM! a firey explosion? Will it be an airplane crash? Will it be a skydiving accident? Will Mark Zuckerberg doll be killed off by not running fast enough from the dinosaur and chomp chomp? They were ordered after all, and so those of you who remember SNL and the Mr. Bill show will obviously have thoughts about how M.I.C. Gadget will kill off the Mark Zuckerberg doll. Will it simply be a montage of all of the above? Not meaning to give anyone any (more) ideas or anything.....
One poster here says that it's clear you cannot sell personal replicas for profit. Is it? I thought the "right of publicity" rules were somewhat less powerful, and that there were public figures exceptions of some sort. Do Bill, George and Barack get a few cents of royalties from each of the little President Bobbleheads on sale at DC tourist traps and airports? IAAL, but haven't looked into this law recently.
If the little Zuckerberg was holding a cardboard "Will Sell Sekrets for $$$" sign, would that make it First-Amendment-protected parody in the US?
Or, as a US law thing, does that explain the use of Chinese law to issue the cease-&-desist?
Please tell me that the people who make Robot Chicken managed to get one before it was made unavailable!
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Guess Robot Chicken won't be able to make a parody of The Social Network now that Mark Zuckerberg's action figure isn't available...
If only it was a Voodoo doll
Are they worried about how many people would be sticking pins in it?
I didn't know about the move to https, but I just went to Twit with Firefox on linux; then tried Safari on a Jobs machine.
The error page tells me politely, "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing ..."
Anybody else getting this?