Kiddie pool photo on box compared to photo of actual pool
This was on the Consumerist last month, but I just came across it. On the left, the box for a kiddie pool. On the right, a photo of the actual kiddie pool. A note on the box reads: "Product may not be as appears on image." Banzai Wild Waves Water Park Box Picture Vs Reality
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They shot the "Box" picture with a bunch of happy Indonesian-island "Hobbit" kids.
Bastards.
man, those kids are HUUGE
No wonder we have a trade deficit with Lilliput.
Their disclaimer appears to be about 992 words too short.
The longer I live, the more I'm convinced that ALL commercial advertising is bad and wrong. And the happier I am that I avoid it as much as possible. Yes, before you ask, that means no TV, no commercial radio, and almost no magazines. And Firefox. :-)
Ah, um, friend once ordered a Inflatable Cloud Giant Woman that looked really big in the advertisement in the back of The Dragon but it turned out to be barely bigger than a Hill Giant.
Bastards.
It's not just the size. The designs on the sides aren't even the same. Also, the "basket" is the same size in both pictures. It's an entirely different toy in the picture, probably made one-off for the express purpose of creating the advertising on the box.
Deliberately and blatantly false and misleading advertising. If we had a sane government these people would be behind bars.
That pool clearly did not include all the parts pictured on the box. If I bought I pool and it only had two children, as opposed to the six I had been expecting, I'd head straight back to Wal-Mart (or Post Office if it was Amazon), especially since the two children that did come with the pool are clearly not as 'wild' as listed on the front. I hope they have a receipt.
Antinous 9: Why no. No, actually it isn't.
Send 'em to Gitmo!
Isn't being a kiddie pool manufacturer punishment enough?
i recognize that grass.
that photo was taken in the shire.
I did 20 years upstate for running an undersized kiddy pools scheme. I would have gotten away with it too if that kid hadn't gotten stuck on the slide.....
I think we are clearly looking at a prototype they built and then they got cheap in production and found some cheap pools they could glue their stuff to. Or maybe they just need more pressure in the one on the right.
Weird. Things are posting out of order. I posted my response to Antinous (then #9) after he posted it, obviously. But it's showing before and something else is now #9.
"Product may not be as appears on image."
I just love the 'may not' touch. How about "Product is nowhere near image: Except the colour", like they actually know what they are selling.
I'm picturing these dumbfounded factory workers shrugging to the camera: "Well, we packed about 30% large-sized cool pools, 60% crappy tiny pools and the rest was pirate-shaped dog beds... So we don't really know what you gonna get..."
Xopher: Moderation does funny things, like cause comments to be approved out of chronological sequence.
Anyway, the product actually looks closer to the original image than I expected, despite the obvious scale issue. It's sure a heck of a lot closer than those "cartoon character popsicles" that were featured here last year.
THE REALITY PICTURE IS A SCAM!
THEY USED THE TILT-SHIFT METHOD!!!
Beryllium 16: No, you don't understand. My comment that "No, it isn't" was written after Antinous' "Isn't being a kiddie pool..." comment was POSTED. It wasn't being held; it was already appearing. Yet my comment appears before it.
The appearance of Scothampton's post may be explicable by moderation (though I'm not sure why it would have been held) but it's not the principle issue.
But anyway.
Can we require the words "Product may not be as appears on image" to be superimposed on all political campaign ads?
This is clearly for people who raise banzai children.
Why do we have to think the worst? Couldn't it just be that the one on the right needs more air? Oh, humanity! Oh, inflation!
American Gothic Kids on the right.
we bought the Water Vollyball kit(made by the same manufacturer) and were severely disappointed with how small it actually was compared to the picture on the box.
this picture makes me cry just a little.
I don't think this is a version of the pool made for advertising, but a bad photoshop job.
If you look at the girl on the left, her shadow falls toward the bottom-left. Whereas if you look at the shadow of the basketball hoop, you can see it's falling on the side of the pool to the bottom-right. Also, the boy who's standing behind the pool on the left is missing part of his left thigh (poor kid!)
Better still, if you look at the the real picture, you can see two big nozzles on the front that are used for inflating it. Those are conveniently covered in the package picture, undoubtedly because their being visible would make the fraudulent nature of the picture more obvious.
xopher, don't worry, the spacetime continuum gets pretty choppy just before we start colliding with the LHC, but it evens out shortly after, once the time travelers start appearing
none of my inflatable women ever looked like the picture on the outside of the packaging either. very disappointing.
I'd hate to see this done with the McCain/Palin ticket.
Haha it's not much of a slide if you're feet can touch the bottom from the top. Poor kiddoes. I'm sure it was due to the high petroleum prices back then, causing them to have to cutback on their plastic usage. On the positive side, it's greener for the environment!
gd23 is correct. The temporal anomaly is due to my large hadron.
cereal in box may just be a bunch of leaves and dirt
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@gd23 and @xopher; so true. i just had some particles collide and crash my laptop. don't know why my comments get held for moderation, pr'bly my particle count, or my lag time in the continum. my orbit might swing me out a bit further then expected too, especially this close to the autumnal equinox.
scothampton,
I rooted around in all the dark corners and I couldn't find your missing comment.
The universe is packed by weight, some settling may have occurred.
I recently bought a similar product to cool off this summer, a circular shark-shaped kiddie pool. The box featured 3 children, spaciously sprawled out in the pool. My dog and I barely fit.
aldasin, your comment is hilarious.
What? You mean it doesn't come with four little boys and two little girls?! I want my money back right now!
why are so many people calling this advertising? It's not like it's a TV advert showing this huge kiddie pool. It's the packaging for the product. Gerber baby food has a picture of a baby on it. It doesn't mean there's a baby in there. Also, kudos to them for actually stating that the product inside differs from that pictured.
What's with all the claims about "commercial advertising"?
C'mon... have you never been to a fast food restaurant? Have you never entered a Mc Donalds? Have you never crossed that shop-TV channels that plague cable TV after-hours? Never noticed the differences between the thick succulent hamburger in the advertisement and that poor piece of something that comes inside your sandwich ???
Well, not to mention tobacco & alcohol... But this kind of advertisement has been systematically banished...
Anyways, contemporary men/women have lost a lot of natural discretion capabilities...
Wasnt this already on boing boing?
If you enlarge the image, you will see the boy sitting on the edge of the thing has the top of his head kinda lopped off, and the girl on the slide is missing some hand, so it's clearly a slide for miniature, war-wounded children.
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new rule: no one can say "wasn't this already on Boing Boing" unless it's the third repetition of the exact, same thing.
And this is why I always read the actual dimensions listed. At least that's generally right ;)
I've been in the UK too long. As soon as I saw the words "kiddie", "pool" and "photo" in the same sentence, I assumed this was about paedophilia (or rather, idiots stopping people taking photos because they were paranoid about paedophilia).