You know, I think a talking John Lennon doll is a pretty silly idea, too, but this just seems sort of irrelevant:

A picture of the figurine, patterned after the former peace activist, appears on the association’s Web site next to a bloody figurine and a picture from slasher flick “The Devil’s Rejects,” a movie about serial killers.

So they sell a variety of pop-culture figures. Are we supposed to derive some sort of deeper significance from this? Yes, so soon after the anniversary of Lennon’s death may not be the best time to juxtapose his image with those of murderers or zombies, but it feels a little like Reuters is fishing for controversy where there isn’t any.