Toys ‘R’ Us Confirms It’s Pulled “Breaking Bad” Action Figures
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Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC(NEW YORK) — Toys ‘R’ Us has announced it’s pulled Breaking Bad action figures from its stores and its website, after an online petition garnered national attention.
The toy store chain confirmed Tuesday on Twitter, “Let’s just say, the action figures have taken an ‘indefinite sabbatical.'”
The decision comes in response to a Change.org petition from Florida mom Susan Schrivjer, who argued that the Breaking Bad action figures were “a dangerous deviation” from the chain’s “family friendly values.” The petition has accumulated more than 88 hundred signatures.
The figures of Breaking Bad characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman have a detachable bag of cash and a bag of methamphetamines.
Bryan Cranston, who won multiple Emmys for his role as meth dealer White on the AMC drama, cracked a joke on Twitter earlier this week about the petition. He wrote, “‘Florida mom petitions against Toys ‘R’ Us over Breaking Bad action figures.’ I’m so mad, I’m burning my Florida Mom action figure in protest.”
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