i got an email today from the topps trading card company about their new London bombings trading cards...I was SHOCKED to see a big company like this coming out with such an insensitive product..here's a picture of one of the cards

that's simply disgusting

IstenSzek said:

cosign...that's shocking

WHAT!

Is this real? I don't understand why a racing website would host this picture.

If it's real, it's disgraceful.

If it's not real and it's some sort of a joke, it's disgraceful.

TheFrog said:

the amazing thing is this comes from a huge company..topps is the number #1 card company in America...you might expect something this disgusting from a fly by night company but not such a huge company such as Topps

here is their website http://www.etopps.com/Sto...lehome.asp

TheFrog said:

It's on their website... topps.com. You can even purchase it here.

Explosions Rock London (Wk 28)

Card Description:
In the aftermath of terror attacks on a double-decker bus and three underground trains in London that killed dozens, officials searched for suspects and citizens sought consolation and normalcy. Global support poured in, and PM Tony Blair and Mayor Ken Livingstone lauded the city's unity and fortitude. Within days, residents - "We don't let a small group of terrorists change the way we live" said one - had returned to their customary commutes.

Price: $4.75

thanks both for the info.

right, well IMO that's just a dumb & disrespectful series of cards. The top news stories of each week, eh? Great, so that'll include captives getting their heads severed in Iraq, innocent Iraqis dying, the abuse in Abu Ghraib, death in Israel and Palestine, people getting blown up in london, the terrible loss of life in the tsunami, etc.

fuck topps. idiots.

My opinion is that placing these kinds of images on playing cards trivialises them, It's disrespectful to say the least.



Do people actually collect these? Oh dear. I thought only kids swapped and collected cards of cartoon characters or whatever.

Wrote them an email expressing my disgust.

God bless America.

drcoldchoke said:

I should follow your example and do the same

That is soooo disgusting

anything to make a $



sad as it is ...

wow, that is just disgusting...

what are they THINKING????

Unbelievable.

Some people are so nasty. I remember a few months ago, some dubmass orger made a tsunami joke against me becuase I was asian.

I understand the reaction, but I did a little research and they aren't doing a series of cards based on the London bombings. They are doing a series of "News headlines" cards to try to get kids more interested in current events. Dumb idea, and you wind up with totally tasteless trading cards, but I guess they have good intentions. Why do they think kids will give a flip, just because it's on a trading card?

Just think, somebody actually got paid to come up with such a harebrained marketing move.

now, if you embossed the letters in gold, put it in a tacky frame, and stamped "WE WILL NEVER FORGET" somewhere on it, it would be considered a solemn memorial collector's edition keepsake and they could sell it for $59.95 plus postage and handling.

not that anything like that was done after 9/11....

Anxiety said:

U gotta b a yank!

I think I might start wearing a KKK outfit just 2 educate the children.,

Anxiety said:

Too true!!!!

Anxiety said:

Well, at least it says that they're giving all the proceeds to charity...I guess.

Reminds me of going to NYC sometime after 9/11...our hotel was right outside where the WTC used to be...vendors were everywhere, crowded around the perimeter of the area, selling their crappy "memorabilia" - most items tastelessly decorated with some artistic rendering of the towers crashing down, bluish-purple smoke billowing up around the rubble, or a tacky red sky illuminating the background. To me, it's just sick exploitation.

thescandalouslife said:

Yes.

THE British National Party are using the images for their hate campaign.
makes me sick.

msserendipity said:

Although I still find it disturbing they also mention this:


Topps Chronicles cards document the most significant events occurring around the world each week. Unfortunately, at times, these events may be tragic in nature. Given the tragic nature of last week's event in London, Topps is donating 100% of the proceeds earned from the sale of this card to the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund. This fund has been established in association with the British Red Cross to raise money for the victims and their families.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

but still who would want this

AsianBomb777 said:

not much

surprises me

theys

days

Natsume said:

what the hell, sorry to hear that