Odd Toy I found in Rustan's

Saw this strange toy in Rustan's today. Had to take a pic.
It appears to be a clean-shaven Paul sr. on a trike. Couldn't seem to fix the front fender though. Then the toy demo guy saw me ogling at the thing, and decided to amaze me by operating it. And like clockwork, as if he'd been doing this since birth, he slapped on some batteries, and whipped out a controller! The thing's an RC toy! Pretty cool! And then some weird 80's-ish hair metal song was blaring through a speaker somewhere in the bottom. That was the dealbreaker. I promptly ran away screaming in the opposite direction.

Leonidas? Me thinks not.

With Halloween just around the corner, a whole slew of kiddie costume kits have already emerged at our local Dollar store.

But this caught my eye. Looks like a Spartan's helmet! Kids are gonna wear this? Will their folks even let them? I gotta say you'd have to be one buff 6 year-old to look the part. I can already see it. Lil' kids kicking other kids into open manholes, or ditches while screaming "THIS IS SPAAARRRTAAAHHH!!!"

It didn't have a box, or instructions. Hell, it was missing a cape, shield, and a spear, too.














I wonder how it looks like if I wear it...














...Dumbest... Idea... Ever...