And now I has a sad...

So I see a link from Think Geek in my Twitter feed. And it is awesome. A Batman lunch box. With. A. CAPE!

Such fabulosity can hardly be limited to Bats, so I dig around on the TG site. Nada. OK, no big, they don't carry everything in the world. I found it on Amazon, and see that it's made my Thermos, and head to their site... where I discover that they have totally bought into the whole action heroes are for boys bullshit.

Barbie, Hello Kitty, Dora the Explorer,  iCarly and various cute purse-style lunch bags OR Iron Man, Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, and Darth Vader. Honestly, I may vomit.

Girls get cutesy purses... Boys get severed heads!

I sent the following letter to Thermos, via their contact form:

I was excited to see the Batman caped lunchbox, until I discovered there was no similar one for superHEROINES. Unfortunately, Thermos seems to have decided that girls only want pink and dolls. This is not the case. There are a lot of young girls and adult women who very much want to be part of the superhero scene, but manufacturers have forgotten about us. I see you have both DC and Marvel licenses. There are any number of appropriate heroines that you could use for your products. Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Storm, She-Hulk (one of my all-time faves), Jean Grey... There are lots of us out here in geekland who love our heroines, and buy officially licensed merchandise. Give us a chance! Girls can be heroic too!

If you also think this is total crap, let them know! Use the convenient form on their website (linked above) and TELL them.

This Just In: WoW MegaBloks

Just got home from an errand-run that I completed with a trip to Toys R Us. Out of curiosity, I checked to see if they had the MegaBlok's World of Warcraft sets in yet...

I didn't see any of the larger sets, only the 4 vehicles and 4 different faction dudes (2 Horde and 2 Alliance for each). They look pretty damned cool. :D

Very cool, but... this blog is about plastic heroines... and this set is sorely lacking in females, unless you count Sindragosa. Of the 19 characters that are available (according to their website) not one is female!

I'm completely unsurprised. You shouldn't be, either, if you've been reading this blog at all. *sigh*