They have a new toy at WM called Homies. One is a bunch of "Mexican?" guy figurines cleaning their early model Chebby and the other is them having a night out on the town with the ladies with their car. Not trying to be racist or anything, but they are apparently running out of toy ideas. It will definitely not be on my Christmas list.

 

They have them at Wal Mart Cool! I know what to get the hubby for Xmas
I think they are cute, too bad its not a Ford

 

bwahhahahahahahaha

i need to get some of those

 

They've been around for a few years now. I like them.
It's probably a Cali thing though. Oh and they're not Mexicans, they're Chicanos.

 

actually I think Latinos is the correct term
and yeah we've had em in CA for a few years now
the toys that is, the Latinos have been here since it was owned by Spain.

 

my bad.

 

You could well be correct. I thought Latino is anyone from the Spanish or Portugese speaking Americas whereas a Chicano is an American of Mexican descent specifically. Labels change of course in vogue as well as "correctness".

 

yeah, labels change, and I'm not sure if I'm even still correct
for years hispanic was the term, then someone decided it was offensive somehow, so it changed to Chicano for a while, then someone decided that was bad, and as far as I can tell its now Latino. I hope someday we can get over all this and call people people

 

you guys are too much.............LOL

 

(Other Bower here)
I've been collecting those Homies for several years now. Not as a full-time thing, I just think they're neat. I get them out of bubble-gum machines. (I have a longstanding addiction to gumball machines, after a while most of the toys go in a container for the kids to play with, but I kept the Homies.)

I tooko them to work last spring when the migrant crews were there, and they got such a kick out of comparing the homie figures to each other. It went past the language barrier, as my Spanish is pretty basic, so that was cool too.