Werbung & Wirklichkeit: Hobbits im Wasserpark

Banzai Wild Waves Water Park

Unter dem Titel ”Tiny Kids Hired as Models for Inflatable Swimming Pool Photo” re-postete Mark Frauenfelder noch einmal diese Bilder: Links die Originalverpackung von Banzais “Wild Waves Water Park”, rechts ein Photo, das BoingBoing-Gastblogger David Ng von dem tatsächlichen Produkt und seinen Kindern machte.

Witzig waren, neben weiteren Beispielen dieser Art, auch die Kommentare:

Honey, I shrunk the toys.

Damn, David’s kids are HUGE.

No wonder we have a trade deficit with Lilliput.

I recognize that grass. That photo was taken in the Shire.

This is no laughing matter. Tiny kids everywhere are having their livelihoods threatened by Photoshop.

Why do we have to think the worst? Couldn’t it just be that the one on the right needs more air? Oh, humanity! Oh, inflation!

Proof that those Indonesian Hobbit People survived to modern times!

So, Randy Newman was wrong?

Und insbesondere dieser:

[…] Most of them had some pretty obvious ’shopping going on, but Banzai was by far the worst. The children are all tiny and often appear to occupy non-Euclidean space (body parts appearing in front of parts of the toy when they should have been behind, etc.) and also are so light that they never deform the edges of pools when they sit down. I regret to say that judging by the way they are sitting in the water, some of these tiny children also have no legs.

Ein weiteres Exemplar findet sich bei Amazon. Zugegeben, der “Banzai Wipeout Curve Water Park” ist wirklich groß:

Aber wiederum auch nicht so groß!

Und dieser hier, gepostet auf Fail Blog, ist zwar kein Banzai-Produkt, könnte aber direkt aus Mad Magazine stammen:

Interessanterweise führt weder der britische noch der deutsche oder französische Amazon Store Produkte von Banzai.