It’s one thing to not include them in what are clearly meant to be children’s toys. I mean nerf guns and whatnot litter the toy isles, but I can somewhat understand the concern of glorifying weapons for kids. But the items aimed for adults (like $250+ Hot Toys and statues from an R rated movie ) should come with them. Unadvertised, again fine, but ultimately stupid as kids certainly aren’t buying them. The whole thing is rather insulting. If guns are such an issue for them, maybe don’t have their characters use them at all. We just want accurate representations of the characters and the objects they interacted with. If they used guns, we want to be able to recreate those moments. And where does it end? Can Mr. Freeze not have his freeze gun now? It doesn’t shoot bullets but is technically a gun. Is that why they haven’t teased an Arkham Freeze figure to go with XE Batman?
I suppose it’s the whole double standard that bothers me. They’ll keep using guns in their media but as long as their products don’t come with them, that’s apparently alright. I could even understand no heroes can come with guns, but the bad guys are always going to use them. Taking them away from them just seems silly. I mean it’s their property and they can do as they seem fit with it, but it’s an illogical move that isn’t going to help end the gun debate in the world.
And now we’ve got playmobile making James Bond items so who knows what’s going on in the toy isle anymore