DO NOT BUY!!!
Sep. 7th, 2010 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gozerComicbookMan purchased a lovely Torchwood coffee mug for me last Christmas--it has a full four lines of BBC copyright notices on the bottom and a company logo for "Underground Toys", he bought it from the Diamond catalog, so it's NOT a bootleg. It's a blue/gray toned photo of Captain Jack standing valiantly in front of Torchwood with the Torchwood SUV parked in front, door opened.
What it is, is a piece of cheap crap. It is, essentially, a white china mug with a thin plastic wrap of the illustration vacuum-sealed around the outside instead of screened or printed on it. It looks like it's printed on, but if you wash the mug in hot, soapy water a few times and stick it in the dishwasher a few times (we've done both), it starts to shred right off in cheap plastic-cling-wrap strips. There is NO indication on the mug that this thing isn't dishwasher safe. It originally cost $8. It's not worth buying for a buck in a dollar store unless you plan on using the mug to hold pencils on your desk.
The endless BBC copyright notifications and store info is printed on and won't wash off, but not the photo.
What it is, is a piece of cheap crap. It is, essentially, a white china mug with a thin plastic wrap of the illustration vacuum-sealed around the outside instead of screened or printed on it. It looks like it's printed on, but if you wash the mug in hot, soapy water a few times and stick it in the dishwasher a few times (we've done both), it starts to shred right off in cheap plastic-cling-wrap strips. There is NO indication on the mug that this thing isn't dishwasher safe. It originally cost $8. It's not worth buying for a buck in a dollar store unless you plan on using the mug to hold pencils on your desk.
The endless BBC copyright notifications and store info is printed on and won't wash off, but not the photo.
