The Boot
Super Freak
"I Just Bought My First Mattel!" - A Hot Toys Related Mini-Rant from The Boot
Yeah. Sounds kinda stupid, doesn't it? Doesn't really sound natural. "Mattel" what? Mattel is a large company that produces a wide variety of products - Action figures, dolls, radio controlled vehicles, cars, games, you name it. It is the name of an entity that produces various items not the proper name of a single item nor the name a type of item produced by said company.
Yet I keep hearing people refer to 1/6 scale Hot Toys figures as "a Hot Toy".
"A Hot Toy". Drives me $#&*#@ nuts.
Hot Toys, not unlike Mattel, is the name of an entity that produces a wide variety of products. 1/6 scale figures, Cosbabies, busts, dioramas, etc. To say you bought your first "Hot Toy" is a wildly incomplete sentence...
Oh, really? Swell!
You don't say! I'm sure you'll enjoy it!
Buh? What toy? Did you manage to acquire an especially popular item? Did you ask someone to throw your Luke Skywalker figure in the oven for a few minutes? What in God's name are you talking about?!
Stop it.
Love,
'Boot!
P.S. I'm not saying he was the first to use it, but I need a scapegoat so I'm choosing to blame Arnie Carvalho. He says it all the time. Newb.
Collector #1 said:I just bought my first Mattel!
Yeah. Sounds kinda stupid, doesn't it? Doesn't really sound natural. "Mattel" what? Mattel is a large company that produces a wide variety of products - Action figures, dolls, radio controlled vehicles, cars, games, you name it. It is the name of an entity that produces various items not the proper name of a single item nor the name a type of item produced by said company.
Yet I keep hearing people refer to 1/6 scale Hot Toys figures as "a Hot Toy".
"A Hot Toy". Drives me $#&*#@ nuts.
Hot Toys, not unlike Mattel, is the name of an entity that produces a wide variety of products. 1/6 scale figures, Cosbabies, busts, dioramas, etc. To say you bought your first "Hot Toy" is a wildly incomplete sentence...
Collector #2 said:I just bought my first Hot Toys figure!
Oh, really? Swell!
Collector #3 said:I just got a new Hot Toys bust!
You don't say! I'm sure you'll enjoy it!
Collector #1 again said:I can't wait for my new Hot Toy to arrive!
Buh? What toy? Did you manage to acquire an especially popular item? Did you ask someone to throw your Luke Skywalker figure in the oven for a few minutes? What in God's name are you talking about?!
Stop it.
Love,
'Boot!
P.S. I'm not saying he was the first to use it, but I need a scapegoat so I'm choosing to blame Arnie Carvalho. He says it all the time. Newb.