Dear Burger King, This is not a Transformer
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Dear Burger King,
I purchased a Kid’s Meal today because it was supposed to have an Optimus Prime Tranformer in it, but here is what I actually got:
Much to my child’s disappointment, the “Transformer” was really just 3 pieces of crap plastic that barely held on to one another. No “transformation” here, it just basically falls apart:
Here is a real Transformer:
I’m not sure how we will recover from this. Perhaps I’ll see the movie on Sunday.
Signed,
Doug
PS: Okay, I didn’t buy it for my daughter, I bought it for me. But she did kind of feel sorry for me.
PPS: Okay, she didn’t really feel sorry for me, she laughed at me.
UPDATE 7/7/2007: I’m not the only one complaining… check out this post from Mark on his crappy transformer. His kid was disappointed!


cheers
I’d be designing an obstacle course!
Doug
Lovely….
Though generally I don’t mind BK: at least you can go there for the food. Somehow on the rare occasions I’m dragged to McD it feels like we’re ordering off the toys menu, not the food menu.
Will
I think you go play ping-pong, right?