Not-So-Super Friends

While we were in Hawaii last week, Jessica went to a swap meet/flea market and bought Aidan a set of toys. It was a set of six for $8; pretty good deal, I thought. Granted, they were not "officially licensed" toys. Just a bunch of made in China knockoffs. But at $8, can't really expect too much.

Anyway, we got them back to the hotel room and showed them to Aidan, who promptly went ape-shit over them. He's been in a little bit of a Batman phase. Every superhero that he sees he calls "Batman". But he gets exceptionally excited over actual Batman stuff.

So he tears into the toys and starts playing around with them. Nothing too extreme, just the kind of treatment that you'd expect a two year old to deal to toys. Within minutes, Batman lost his first arm. We were a little surprised that he didn't last a little longer. But before we could dwell too much on it, Spiderman lost a leg. And it just continued from there.

The toys stayed with us for the rest of the trip and on the plane ride back to Korea, but they were not without casualties. Here's a line up of the previously Dynamic Sextet:



As you can see, only the Thing and Mr. Incredible have survived with all limbs intact. I credit their superhuman strength and non-articulated knees and elbows. But the real tragedy is Superman. Have a closer look:



Both arms, one leg and a head. He got hit harder than Christopher Reeve. Boo-ya!