“Yank Austin Powers from toy shelves, mom demands”
If the 2014 Breaking Bad action figure nonsense wasn’t enough to make you sigh then maybe this 1999 newspaper story will do the trick. Now I’m no Austin Powers fan — I saw the first film and was kinda finished — but I’m also not about to run around and yell at people to stop selling toys. Well, an Atlanta mom did exactly that many years ago meaning that the 2014 Breaking Bad uproar was simply replicating the 1999 Austin Powers shenanigans. (And yeah, shenanigans felt like the perfect word there.)
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I remember this! I remember how excited I was to find my first Austin figure on store shelves back in the summer of 1999. I still have most of these: Austin in the red suit, Dr. Evil, Mini-me, Vanessa Kensington, Fat bastard, the Fembot, and Felicity Shagwell. I was a pretty big Austin Powers fan back then (I was in middle school when it came out and it was a huge thing).
Never did end up with the underwear Austin, though, that ignited this whole thing.