Buzz Lightyear With a Huge Erection sippycup

While I'm guessing that there are probably ways of positioning the straw on this Buzz Lightyear sippycup such that it doesn't look like Buzz has an enormous, mutant green bendy-straw boner for your child to wrap her/his lips around, it seems inevitable that a sippycup capable of being configured this would inevitably end up so configured.

Really, Toy Designer? Really?

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retrac13

There’s something about his confident posture that just makes this so much better/worse.
redesigned

what else are you supposed to drink your go-gurt out of?
FreakCitySF

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Fan fanny!

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Anonymous

Looks like it has been removed from Amazon.
- daemonsquire
  
  It pops up on Amazon, as part of a 6 piece mealtime set, but it’ll run you twice what you’d pay for the cup alone at the CartoonFansClub online store.
  
  This about covers my Christmas shopping for a few friends, and it’s not even Black Friday yet!
Tavie

I take that and raise you one disturbing purple penis car.
mappo

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Anonymous

I don’t get it. Looks perfectly functional to me. Where else would you put the straw?
braininavat

… and you can look him in the eyes while you’re doing him!
Anonymous

Wonder what is does if you put ice in the cup?
Anonymous

Guess this cup will be headed for the bone yard.
warreno

Hmm. Buzz/Woody slashfic aside (as suggested above), this really would have been better on the Woody figure.
retrac13

There’s something about his confident posture that just makes this so much better/worse.
Pyros

jesus christ…
Kara

Disney really does great with these, doesn’t it? First the wanking Tarzan toy, now this. Keep it up, kids!
- igpajo
  
  Wait, wanking Tarzan toy? Must post pics or link. Gotta see it.
  - TenInchesTaller
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb2RWYAefuk
    
    Thanks; now when the TSA confiscates my laptop, they’ll see that Wonderful entry into my search history.
    - igpajo
      
      LMAO! Thanks for that! Sorry about any TSA inquiries!
Anonymous

did this really fail to show up on your gift guide? For shame.
ROSSINDETROIT

Nope. That’s gonna look like a big green boner now matter how you bend it.
Anonymous

That boner is so big, it goes to infinity and beyond.
Mitch

Product recall!
Anonymous

Now I know my new catch phrase during climax. To infinity and beyond!
PaulR

I’d buy this cup with Zapp Brannigan instead, fists on the hips, with that self-assured smile.
Alex

All I want for Christmas is one of these that says “To Infinity and Beyond” when you take a sip.
Mitch

It looks like his upper torso can be rotated. On this page here there is an insignia by his waist and the “boner” is where his sacrum would be:
http://cartoonfansclub.com/buzz-drinking-cup58314.html
- Mitch
  
  Yeah, I saw that when I looked at the post again. Thanks for explaining, though!
- Mutation Engine
  
  Well, yes, it’s pretty much stated to be the case in the post itself. The point is the way that it’s designed makes it easy to turn the straw into an ersatz erection.
hassan-i-sabbah

honi soit que mal e ponce…..
- djn
  
  Excellent – I wonder how many people will get that reference. :)
Anonymous

Have a little sympathy to (cheap) product designers; as these things tend to be unavoidable phallic pareidolia.

Design requirements:
(a) movie character tie-in; character featured prominently on product top.
(b) easily orally accessed straw (no choking hazard!).

Now, go ahead, try to design it without a 14-year-old-boy’s super active sexual pattern matching finding ability finding something to giggle about.
headfoo

…and it’s ribbed, for her pleasure!
Fef

Since everyone has else has exercised restraint,
I’ll go ahead and ask:
Is the product named: Buzz with Woody?
(Sorry. Someone had to.)
- Anonymous
  
  No, but there is a “Barbie Loves Woody” doll.
  
  The solution is to put the straw at the top of the skull, or in the chest, or anywhere above the waist.