Singaporean men are really passionate abt their Hello Kitty toys. Lol.
This video of a tense stand-off over Hello Kitty toys at a McDonald's outlet at S'pore Post building has gone viral. Full story behind the video:http://bit.ly/...
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This photograph made available by The Straits Times newspaper shows people waiting in a queue to purchase a Hello Kitty toy in a skeleton outfit at a Mcdonalds restaurant in Singapore.
TEMPERS have flared and police had to be called in as anxious Singaporeans rushed to McDonald's outlets to buy Hello Kitty plush toys being sold by the fastfood chain as a promotion.
Hundreds had begun queuing from Wednesday night to get their hands on a kitten in a skeleton outfit, depicting a character from the German fairy tale The Singing Bone.
Hello Kitty the singing bone
It was the last of a series of six limited-edition Hello Kitty characters dressed in different outfits from popular fairy tales which were being sold by McDonald's this month.
In some outlets, chaos broke out amid rampant queue jumping as supplies of the toys ran out soon after the stores opened for business on Thursday.
One video uploaded on YouTube showed police officers mediating between two customers in front of a McDonald's counter.
Another showed an irate man asking an agitated crowd "Is he Singaporean? Is he educated?", apparently in reference to someone who had gotten a queue ticket ahead of others.
Some customers took to Facebook to register their anger after they went home empty-handed, while others immediately put the toys - sold for $Sg4.60 ($3.92) with set meals - up for sale online at far higher prices.
Some Singaporeans are obsessed with completing the entire collection.
"This is absolutely ruining the Singapore reputation. Poor management and irresponsible," wrote Catherine Ong on McDonald's Singapore's Facebook page.
Others voiced their annoyance at compatriots who had let their Hello Kitty mania run out of control.
Singapore last went into a Hello Kitty frenzy in 2000, when McDonald's sold a series of the toys in wedding outfits to usher in the new millennium.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/companies/singapore-gripped-by-hello-kitty-frenzy/story-fnda1bsz-1226671113231#ixzz2XfYPZ8x8
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