Toon Zone Talkback - Girl Injured Imitating Toy Story 3

[NewcomerDC]

This is the talkback thread for Girl Injured Imitating Toy Story 3 (http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/35518/girl-injured-imitating-toy-story-3).

We really don't need this bad publicity to do any damage to this summer's most popular animated film if the family of the child in the story decides to sue Disney and Pixar. I think parents need to keep a better watch on their children to prevent them from injuring themselves.

[Ed Liu]

This is the talkback thread for Girl Injured Imitating Toy Story 3 (http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/35518/girl-injured-imitating-toy-story-3).

We really don't need this bad publicity to do any damage to this summer's most popular animated film if the family of the child in the story decides to sue Disney and Pixar. I think parents need to keep a better watch on their children to prevent them from injuring themselves.
Let me get this straight: a kid does something silly and earns three surgeries and possibly permanent damage as a result, and you're worried about the damage it might do to one of the biggest, most legally heavyweight corporations in the world and the most successful animated movie of all time? I think the kid did something stupid and there's no grounds whatsoever for a successful lawsuit against Disney or Pixar because kids stick things in their nose all the time. If nothing else, Disney can either out-lawyer these parents to nothing or offer them way more money in an out-of-court settlement than they'd ever get going to court. This is not a big story and it's going to do exactly nothing to Disney, so if you're genuinely concerned about that, you can put your fears to rest although I think your priorities are seriously misplaced.

The "parents should pay more attention" argument assumes that parents are completely omnipotent and capable of managing every single minor detail of every single thing that their kid will ever be exposed to anywhere, and that just isn't going to happen. Try watching a young child some time and see how easy it is to do it short of binding them up in duct tape and leaving them in a corner. Some life lessons have to be learned the hard way.

[Rex Kamex]

As bad as I feel for the girl... why did she imitate something from the "this isn't how kids should play with their toys" scene?

[the greenman]

Um, I saw the film and can't remember them doing this. Was it when the kids were playing with the toys destructively? Weird cause that was a quick little montage I can't recall details from.

[moo92]

Um, I saw the film and can't remember them doing this. Was it when the kids were playing with the toys destructively? Weird cause that was a quick little montage I can't recall details from.

Yeah it was, did the little girl say she was imitating Toy Story 3? Like it matters, kid stick stuff up their noses before.:sweat: Besides, Disney will win if anything comes of it cause Disney is very powerful.

[mgr91686]

At first i was angry that they would even suggest that Toy Story was responsible for this, as a battery in no way resembles Mr. Potato Head's eye. Then I remembered that my sister did pretty much same thing at the exact same age... except she swallowed a rock imitating magicians she saw on TV. So all I can say is "Kids do the darndest things".

I hope that she recovers without incident.

[Dr.Pepper]

Although it was a bad thing to happen, I don't think that the parents should be blaming TS3 for it. Kids have been sticking things up their noses long before that movie came out.

[NewcomerDC]

Let me get this straight: a kid does something silly and earns three surgeries and possibly permanent damage as a result, and you're worried about the damage it might do to one of the biggest, most legally heavyweight corporations in the world and the most successful animated movie of all time? I think the kid did something stupid and there's no grounds whatsoever for a successful lawsuit against Disney or Pixar because kids stick things in their nose all the time. If nothing else, Disney can either out-lawyer these parents to nothing or offer them way more money in an out-of-court settlement than they'd ever get going to court. This is not a big story and it's going to do exactly nothing to Disney, so if you're genuinely concerned about that, you can put your fears to rest although I think your priorities are seriously misplaced.

The "parents should pay more attention" argument assumes that parents are completely omnipotent and capable of managing every single minor detail of every single thing that their kid will ever be exposed to anywhere, and that just isn't going to happen. Try watching a young child some time and see how easy it is to do it short of binding them up in duct tape and leaving them in a corner. Some life lessons have to be learned the hard way.
I didn't mean to cause any anger among anyone here. When I read the story, I felt that there would have been the possibility of the adults taking legal action because of the child imitating something that she have seen on-screen. I apologize if I had angered anyone because of what was written in the first post of this thread.

As bad as I feel for the girl... why did she imitate something from the "this isn't how kids should play with their toys" scene?
My guess is that she thought that it was funny. It's not like she was my age and learned to not to stick things up her nose. I hope that the child will recuperate from this event and hopefully will learn as she grows up that there are some things that shouldn't be imitated even if the action is related to what most kids have done in the past and continue to do now in real life.

[Rick Jones]

As bad as I feel for the girl... why did she imitate something from the "this isn't how kids should play with their toys" scene?That's just how it is. Which personally brings to mind an episode of Home Movies where Brendon makes an "educational" video warning against putting marbles in your nose, after his little sister did it, and it just lead his test audience of tots to try it as well. Kids are just going to learn the hard way sometimes. In the movie, that scene was also done for laughs and not as something cautionary for the kids.

Hopefully, this isn't something that affects the little girl's health or appearance drastically in the future. I'm guilty of doing stupid things at such an early age as well, some of which very rarely landed me in the hospital as well but I was fortunate enough that none of it had lasting effects. It would really stink to see a kid have to suffer through life because of a little mistake they made at such a young age. It's not specified but in my head, I just picture it being one of those little watch batteries and it is kind of a scary thought to imagine a kid getting their curious hands on one of those.

[defunctzombie]

Not to make light of the situation, but I don't know who they're kidding saying those button cells come out that easily. I've waged war replacing those things.

[LeatherJeans]

Blaming it on Toy Story? I blame the kid's actions.
*SIGH* Children are wild but at least they're growing up...

[Starlioness]

when I first read the title I thought someone stuck their buzz Lightyear's hand in thier eye or something.. ( I just kept thinking about that one extra on one of the DVD's about Tom Hanks joking about how can anyone sleep with Buzz when he poke your eyes out if not careful.. but then so can woody I guess)..

yeah, sheesh Kids put things in their body all the time.. even batteries.. actually I almost thought too that some one stuck a real Mr Potato eye in their nose.. :p..

well, the moral goes without saying obviously :p

[Alph]

That's just how it is. Which personally brings to mind an episode of Home Movies where Brendon makes an "educational" video warning against putting marbles in your nose, after his little sister did it, and it just lead his test audience of tots to try it as well. Kids are just going to learn the hard way sometimes. In the movie, that scene was also done for laughs and not as something cautionary for the kids.


I thought of that episode too. It's funny, because the episode just aired the other day.



actually I almost thought too that some one stuck a real Mr Potato eye in their nose


Real Mr. Potato Heads are actually designed so that both eyes are stuck together, specifically to prevent kids from swallowing them or sticking them up their nose.


It's damn annoying for us adult collectors though, because separate eyes would be neat....stupid kids, always ruining the play value of toys.

[RonDrakenfan17]

Awe come on, if any thing its the kids fault not Toy Story, the movie itself never tolled the kid to do those things :shrug:

[mimitchi33]

Want to know what this reminds me of?
Someone who died imitating Naruto in a sandbox!
That's right, burrying yourself with sand and sticking dead batteries in your nose makes you a bad kid!
At least this girl didn't die from imitating this.

There was also a few instances when kids saved other kids' lives by imitating a cartoon, like when a girl saved someone's life by using the Heimlich Maneuver she learned from Hey Arnold. In fact, someone on YouTube said they read this in an American Girl article about amazing friends, but it omitted any mention of Hey Arnold. There was also a girl in New York last year who saved her friend with the Helmich she said she learned from Spongebob, and another child who saved his friend from drowing from watching a different episode of that same show.

@the greenman I also don't remember one scene, but I remeber the scene the girl imitated, as it was followed by the scene where Lotso and Big Baby sneak into the restroom. It was the scene where Lotso was put on the garbage truck.
The child probably stuck a button-cell battery in their nose [you know, the ones that Tamagotchis use], because that resembles an eye.