Screw you Mattel!

You corporate greedy bastards!

Everyone is well aware of the whole lead paint scare. This came about from conglomerate companies trying to gain as much profit as possible on sub standard over priced products that have been marketed to death to various children ranging in ages from 1 - 6 years. Thanks Mattel for making my life hell, making my children's grandparents feel like they have been poisoning their own grandchildren with kindness. Thank you for ruining my faith that Mattel was a stand up company that actually had some integrity.

So everyone gets in a big panic about the possibility that their child has been scarfing down lead paint. We go through the vast list of toys shown and discover we have a few of them. In fact some of them were given as birthday gifts to my son (from their grandparents). So we fill out all the appropriate forms and get a postage label and send it off to Mattel like good consumers are supposed to do. Well we wait and wait and wait and wait. Pretty close to 3 months my kid has not been able to play with his beloved Diego Mountain play set thing. I finally receive it back. Did I get a replacement? No. Did I get a small token toy to show that Mattel as a provider of quality educational type toys actually gives a shit about their consumers? No. All I got was a lousy letter in a box with the original toy stating that this toy wasn't affected by the lead paint recall. A fucking letter that states Mattel is returning my unaffected toy as it was received at no expense to me. What fucking asshole wrote that line? At no expense to me? Fucking right no expense to me I didn't start the fucking recall. How on God's green earth would I even begin to be responsible for any expenses incurred for some soulless corporation's mistake? How about a little compensation for the inconvenience? I'm not a hard guy to please, just a small token peace offering... a five dollar gift certificate... a few hot wheels cars. It wouldn't have to be big just a token action to say we're sorry we screwed up in our ever lasting quest to make more money and it skewed our judgement and it won't happen again.

Well you know what Mattel? Fuck You.

There will not be another Mattel made item allowed in this home as long as I draw breath. You fucked up and now I as a consumer am making my stand.