From a £1500 gold-plated mobile phone to a committed Beanie Baby,you can now price the passing of the world’s most famous lion in unsuitable style. It’s what he would have wanted
And so we mourn the death of Cecil, the most important lion in the world, or in the only way our fragile and clumsy human emotions can allow us: with cash-in merchandise,the gaudier the better. Goldgenie was the first on the scene with the £1580 HTC One M9 mobile phone emblazoned with Cecil’s once-majestic silhouette, and 90s pension fund alternative Beanie Babies was rapid/fast to issue a memorial Cecil cuddly toy. RIP Cecil. It’s what he would have wanted.
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Source: theguardian.com