Birdman's Official Fake 90's Toy Commercial Is Awesome And Hilarious — cinemablend.com

Fox Searchlight dropped this video on their YouTube channel, which embraces the faux 90's aesthetic that the Birdman Returns trailer previously embraced. Thankfully, instead of just a collection of stock toy commercial footage, this spot was filmed in the here and now, only to be retro dirtied up, and they did a pretty good job of keeping with the time period before the dirtying process. So what does the Birdman action figure do? Well, for a fictional toy not much, apparently. As a major superhero tie-in, the figure lacks the two standard features of any toy of its ilk: fully pose-able limbs, and some sort of moving appendage that requires you to press the button in its back repeatedly. What it lacks in action, though, it certainly makes up for with its speech capabilities. That's right, you can listen to Riggan Thomson recite your favorite lines from Birdman! Lines like, "Smells like balls," "Now that's what I'm talking about," and – our favorite, "We should have done that reality show," all come to life with a press of a button. This is starting to look more and more like one of those action figures your older brother would keep on the shelf above his bed... next to those tapes he made you swear not to tell Mom about while she's cleaning.

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