Bluey cartoon characters shown with guns, bazooka on patches sold by US military website
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Armed Bluey sparks outrage when the beloved Australian children’s cartoon is hijacked by a rogue website that cashes in on portrayals of the characters with bazookas and machine guns.
- Horrified Dealers Child Characters Show Bluey Depicted With Guns
- The characters have been shown in ‘morale patches’ for use by American soldiers.
- Bandit, the dad in the Australian show, is pictured wearing a bulletproof vest and bazooka
- The other characters also wear bulletproof vests and carry military-style weapons.
Characters from the beloved children’s television show Bluey have been depicted carrying high-caliber weapons, including a bazooka, on merchandise sold by an American military accessories website.
BBC Studios, the global distributor of the hit Australian cartoon, said it is “appalled” by the unauthorized “moral patches” listed on the PatchOps website and will now take legal action.
The company that boasts sells ‘the baddest patches on the planet’ portrays Bluey’s family, all dressed in US military-style body armor and boots brandishing different weapons.
An unshaven bandit, the fun-loving father of the series, is shown with a bazooka, while mother Chili holds a Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifle, Bluey has a submachine gun, and younger sister Bingo wields a Glock automatic pistol.
The set of four patches sells for $40 and have been so popular that the first batch has already sold out.
Bluey, the pup the series focuses on, shows off a machine gun in PatchOps surrounded by other orderlies and military equipment.
Launching on ABC in 2018, Bluey has taken the world by storm, winning international awards.
“We are appalled that Bluey’s images are being distorted in this way,” BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand said. the courier mail.
“We are aware of these inappropriate images being used on unauthorized products and continue to do our best to have them removed from the website.”
PatchOps is led by former US Infantryman Timothy Hickey, who says the ideas for the patches “come from our twisted minds” and are created to improve the morale of “lean, mean, evil sons of bitches.” painted camouflage” that still serve in the military.
Launched in 2018 on ABC in Australia, Bluey was quickly acclaimed for its riffs on modern parenting and refreshing characters, particularly Bandit as a capable and cunning father, as opposed to a bumbling background character common in children’s programming.
The show’s plot centers on a young family of blue heeler dogs living a “typical” Australian suburban lifestyle and premiered on Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney+ in September 2019.
Depicted in the show as a loving and imaginative father, Bandit is shown brandishing a bazooka.
The US website PatchOps is selling unauthorized renderings of the characters from the hit children’s show Bluey wearing bulletproof vests and brandishing military-style weapons.
You can also buy a T-shirt with Bluey’s characters on it that look more like Rambo than the suburban family from the show.
It became hugely popular in the US and won the Kids: Preschool Award at the 2019 International Emmys.
Last year, The New York Times described the show as “the biggest Australian export since The Wiggles”, which also took the United States by storm.
It remains the most downloaded show in ABC history and has pawned a multi-billion dollar merchandise industry through licensing deals with Target, Big W, Target, Kmart, Catch, Peter Alexander and Bonds.