Really, Mattel?

Kinja'd!!! "Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
03/29/2014 at 15:31 • Filed to: None

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I noticed something really irritating in this picture someone posted on a Hot Wheels forum:

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Sure, giving the four "Race Team" characters actual faces is alright. Making them cartoony is certainly setting up for either a TV show on a channel nobody has heard of or a 45-minute movie that will come with a playset, so that's alright too. But when it comes to racial diversity, they made the stupidest mistake that seems to ALWAYS happen and nobody cares to take ten seconds to fix it: Don't make your yellow character be the only Asian one.


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Rainbow
03/29/2014 at 15:33

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THEY NEVER FUCKING LEARN


Kinja'd!!! Roberto G. > Rainbow
03/29/2014 at 16:00

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Kinja'd!!! Dusty Ventures > Rainbow
03/29/2014 at 16:28

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1. The movie's out already (look below)

2. He's not Asian. His name is Wyatt and he's American with a Southern drawl and a mullet


Kinja'd!!! greenagain > Rainbow
03/29/2014 at 18:12

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Quit yer whining.
40 years ago they wouldn't have even made a Asian character.


Kinja'd!!! un-hipster > Rainbow
03/29/2014 at 18:20

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There's a Red under my bed, and a little yellow man in my head...


Kinja'd!!! philipilihp > Rainbow
03/30/2014 at 00:45

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I saw that show, the only episode of it, because my son actually really liked it, but this character never struck me as Asian. More white trashy, actually. he wears a trucker hat, speaks in more or less a southern drawl, and his name is Whyatt.