DISQUS

Ernie · 11 months ago

Toy CEO: Mister Yao, we here at Global Plastics Unlimited have a delightful idea. We will make a toy that is a giant basketball, and it will transform into a robot. But in lieu of a robot head, we will sculpt your face and use that as your face instead.
Yao Ming: Huh.
Toy CEO: We will give you 100,000 dollars.
Yao Ming: Huh.
Toy CEO: We will give you 500,000 dollars if you agree that we make this toy completely out of lead.
Yao Ming: Deal.
Akrypti · 11 months ago

I'm interested to hear how they got Yao Ming on board with this idea. Thanks, Ernie, for your theory. The toy is absurd.

And in a flip of things, Yao doesn't look Chinese because some hypersensitive politically conscious toy designer didn't make his eyes chinky enough. From the photo joz posted, Yao looks southern european.
Ernie · 11 months ago

Akrypti -- actually, in that last photograph, Yao kinda looks like OJ Simpson.
John · 11 months ago

Yao Ming as a Transformer.... now I've seen everything!
Akrypti · 11 months ago

Ernie - ha ha .. now that you mention it, he does.