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Recall! Staten Island Ferry Toy Inaccurate

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Photo via NewYorkology's Twitter

The folks at NewYorkology spotted this Staten Island Ferry toy (what every child wants!) at City Store today. Can you spot the problem? There haven't been cars allowed on the ferry since 9/11/2001, but this toy comes with three cars (and a photo showing them on the ferry). Oversized cars at that—proportionally these are all wrong. There's an elf out there that needs to be fired.

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  • jimmycracks

    you guys should just all shut up an go out and quickly buy this before the recall

    because once they do the recall and put out the fixed version the recalled version will be rare and you will have something you can sell for folds to toy collectors

  • Maeby

    To complete this set, remove the cars and add 100 summer tourists who make sitting outside the ferry on a nice day impossible!!!

  • Papercutninja

    I guess transplants not only have a gosh golly midwest accent, but you also have no sarcasm out there either, huh?

    Clearly this is a hard-hitting investigative piece on the misallocation of research and development funds in the NYC Dept of Souvenirs. These inaccurate "toys" of the venerable Staten Island Ferry could ruin the image that the world has of this magnificent free ferry system. They cannot carry cars, nor can they carry cars that are 2 stories tall. IMPEACH BLOOMBERG!!

    Idiots.

  • xgeyiph772

    Two blacks guys beat up and pushed a white man onto the tracks of the Staten Island Railway this weekend, breaking both his legs. And not one word from Gothamist. Yet a toy store sells Staten Island ferryboats with toy cars, and you guys print this shit as your expose? Nice job, Gothamist.

  • ganghiscon

    Staten Island has a train? GTFO!

  • xgeyiph772

    Yes we do! The Staten Island Railway is the oldest rapid transit line in the city. It's been running since the 1860s and is very similar to the BMT Culver and Brighton lines in Brooklyn. Takes ya right to the ferry terminal too! See what you're missing (well, except for the part about getting your ass kicked by some black dudes...)

  • ides_of_march

    So, it's a toy of pre- sept/2001 ferry, what's the big deal? They probably sell toy steam locomotives too which i'm fairly sure are anachronistic as well.

  • jaycjay

    Come on. Gothamist, Newyorkology, or whatever, maybe 5% of NYC bloggers actually lived here "way back then" when vehicles were allowed on the ferries. Give'em a break; that was almost ten years ago!

  • justthinkin

    What do you want them to do, sign his casts?

  • pissflaps

    behold, the shrink ray has been deployed

  • Jen S

    Breaking news! These must've been sitting in a warehouse for a decade.

  • justthinkin

    Forget the out-of-scale cars. What's with the jumbo light and loudspeaker? Are they expecting to use this thing against the Branch Davidians?

  • synik

    It's a TOY! Get over it!

  • TheKlaus

    And even if they were intended for the ferry, what's the big deal in that? If the ferries previously allowed cars on board, then it wouldn't be inaccurate to have a toy that includes cars.

  • JenChungsBaby

    Jen C. obviously doesn't have kids.

  • OsakaRock

    It would be inaccurate if the Cars fit on the ferry. To me it looks like those cars are representative of NYC. A taxi and a New york parks truck.

  • jaycjay

    "It would be inaccurate if the Cars fit on the ferry."

    As the illustration on the box in the photo show, they do.

  • I'm with you on this one. I think they are purposely trying to tell us these cars are for vroom vroom, not, ferry ferry! Um...LMAO?

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