Toy?

[deelaundry]

OK, Taco Bell Kids Meal, now what kind of kid was this created for, hm? I'm not complaining for myself, not at all, but...





Yowza!

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[galaxygirl76.livejournal.com]

Duuude o_O

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

RAWR!

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Wonder Woman! I vaguely remember that TV show. Twenty years later she was reincarnated as Xena Warrior Princess.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

There are often rumors of a new movie -- that would be awesome.

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Years ago my aunt bought a board game for her 10 year old son. The game rating was for ages 10 and up. It was called 'Punchline', and the point of the game was to guess the punchline to jokes. She brought it home and proceeded to play it with her 10 year old child.
First joke: "What did the gay whale do to the fishing trawler?"
Punchline: "Bit off the end and sucked out all the seamen."
She took it away and never let her son play it again.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

BONDAGE GIRL!

... I mean, yeah, Wonder Woman. Of course.

Is that a comic book or is it just a trading card?

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

That was my first reaction! There are all these action shots within the booklet, so why did they pick the bondage-ish one for the front? I love it; it just seems like a racy choice for a kids meal giveaway.

Or maybe I'm just a perv. :D

It's not a card. It's the size of a comic book, but the pages just have information about Wonder Woman and cool pictures. Then when you open it up, it unfolds into a poster that you can look at with 3-D glasses.

[marfisa.livejournal.com]

The original 1940's incarnation of Wonder Woman really was portrayed in bondage surprisingly often. However, I think what's depicted on the poster is intended to be the defensive wrists-crossed-so-bullets-will-bounce-off-the-superhard-metal-Amazon-bracelets position DC universe Amazons used to take when playing a game called "bullets and bracelets." This was some sort of training exercise they supposedly used to do on Wonder Woman's native Themyscira/Paradise Island. Since Wonder Woman herself, unlike Superman, is not bulletproof, she used to cross her wrists like that to fend off bullets in the comics when fighting crime, etc. I'm pretty sure they also used this motif on the old Lynda Carter Wonder Woman TV show, since it wound up being parodied on some old variety show around that time where the actress playing Wonder Woman made some sarcastic reference to how gunmen could be counted on to aim at her wrists. I guess the current generation of comics writers and editorial personnel took her point, because the whole bullets-and-bracelets shtick isn't used much anymore in the actual comic book.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Ooh, awesome history, thank you! I remembered Wonder Woman deflecting bullets from that pose... but there aren't any bullets in the picture : )

The parody joke about shooting at her wrists is funny. I do think, though, that it shows her dexterity and visual acuity to be able to put her wrists in the right places to deflect bullets. Of course, a bullet proof outfit would be even more protection. : )

Are you reading the comic book now? Does she still use her lasso of truth?

[marfisa.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm still reading the comic, which is about to celebrate its landmark 600th issue. The book has been rebooted several times since the 1970's--it hasn't sold very well since the 1940's or so, if then--starting over from issue #1 each time (since starting "from the beginning" is more appealing to both completist collectors and potential new readers worried about not being able to follow a series loaded down with too much backstory/continuity). So when somebody figured out that the issue that's supposed to come out in June 2010 would be the 600th Wonder Woman issue published if you put all the different renumbered series together, there was a big internet campaign to persuade DC Comics to go back to the original numbering, if only for that one issue.

Wonder Woman still has her magic lasso, but nowadays it tends to get used more as just a super-strong rope than a flexible lie detector. The whole truth thing is still an important aspect of her character, though. One writer about ten years ago had her briefly elevated into the classical Greek pantheon as the goddess of truth.

[romeo46.livejournal.com]

I want I want. I love Wonder Woman. If Hollywood gets its act together there will be a live action WW in the very near future.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Wonder Woman is very damn awesome. According to this booklet, "Strong, disciplined, intelligent and even-tempoered, one couldn't ask for a more perfect role model than WONDER WOMAN." That about sums it up.

[bonorattle.livejournal.com]

*RUNS - DOES NOT WALK - TO TACO BELL*

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

HOT.

[remydoodle.livejournal.com]

tsk tsk tsk
kids, they grow up so fast now a days!

[vitawash24.livejournal.com]

Wonder Womannnn!

Oh, the hours I spent as a child, spinning around my living room. :-D

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

William Moulton Marston, the man who created Wonder Woman - who also co-invented the lie detector and had a reasonable career as a psychologist - was a big fan of bondage and submission in his real life and wrote a fair amount about the subject. It really shows in the early stories, and it still continues a fair bit.

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