Lego invokes the wrath of social media with a WTF 'back-of-the-bus window-licker' toy
Lego has sparked outrage after describing one of its zany Mixel toys for kids as a ‘back-of-the-bus window-licker’.
The Danish toy brand listed Turg, a half-chicken, half-frog figure for young kids, with the term on its official website. Ultimately, ‘window-licker’, a perjorative term for disabled people seemingly from a by-gone era, riled social media users.
The full description reads: “Turg looks like an experiment that’s gone very, very wrong! Part frog, part chicken, part back-of-the-bus window-licker, this Mixel has the longest tongue of them all.
Lego’s ‘Everything is Awesome’ vibe failed to placate social media users who felt the term was derogatory to Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
