{"id":44024,"date":"2025-01-28T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=44024"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:51:42","slug":"never-buy-from-kapow-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/never-buy-from-kapow-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Never buy from Kapow Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kapow Toys is a UK-based online toystore that sells Transformers, Figuarts, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kapow2.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"135\" alt=\"Kapow Toys\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>And here's the man in charge of the company getting defensive because someone called him out for posting pro-white-supremacy material on LinkedIn:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kapow1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"415\" alt=\"Andrew Rose, of Kapow Toys, in a response to someone saying &quot;Don't post Nazis to my TL.&quot; says:\n\nwhy on earth has Ben and Jerrys posted about white supremacy? It's an ice cream brand, it's ridiculous, politics needs to be kept out of work. \n\nPathetic actions on your part going on the attack because you don't agree with me having an issue with this and rather than connect you go and spread bile on social media. \n\nNo I'm not a fascist, if you knew me you would be aware of that, I'm sick of products that should simply bring people joy in exchange for customers hard earned money lecturing them or attacking them whatever their viewpoint. \n\nClass.\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>That initial \"don't post Nazis to my timeline\" was because Andy <s>reshared<\/s> (correction: \"Liked,\" which then automatedly reshared) <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/hqQYWgO\">this utterly embarrassing post<\/a> by former GI Joe marketer Kirk Bozigian crying like a baby about having to respect people of other races. Once the word spread that he was a dickhead, he even joined Bluesky to try to \"defend\" himself... by which we mean he simply stuck his foot in his mouth and dug himself in further, confirming the accusations against him were true. And got super defensive because an ice cream company said white supremacy is bad.<\/p>\n<p>So, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/andyr84.bsky.social\" target=bsky>go block him<\/a> on there, and then remember: never order from Kapow again. If you have any preorders, feel free to cancel them. If you ever see Kapow listed as a vendor at a convention, contact the organizers and ask them to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>Go fash, no cash.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Heat Freak review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/transformers-botbots-heat-freak-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Heat Freak review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Old Cool review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/transformers-botbots-old-cool-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Old Cool review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Eye-Goon review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/transformers-botbots-eye-goon-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Eye-Goon review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"One variant cover with every Cobra ever\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/one-variant-cover-with-every-cobra-ever\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">One variant cover with every Cobra ever<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Handy Dandy review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/transformers-botbots-handy-dandy-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Handy Dandy review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kapow Toys is a UK-based online toystore that sells Transformers, Figuarts, etc. And here's the man in charge of the company getting defensive because someone called him out for posting pro-white-supremacy material on LinkedIn: That initial \"don't post Nazis to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/never-buy-from-kapow-toys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[22,14],"class_list":["post-44024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-gi-joe","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44024"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45187,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024\/revisions\/45187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}