Lloyd says he has already heard anecdotes about police in the US searching for the masks in people's houses to be used as evidence of involvement with Anonymous hacker attacks, "which is scary but also ridiculous - you wouldn't prosecute someone for having a t-shirt with Che or CND on it".

BBC: V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?

With this in mind, we recruited a crack team of reviewers (that is, Asiaweek Picture Editor Rob Mountfort's sons Kai, 6, and Niko, 4) to test-drive a few of the latest lower-end offerings: the Che-ez!

CNN: Pint-Sized Pixel Play

The critics unceremoniously deemed the Che-ez a failure and moved on.

CNN: Pint-Sized Pixel Play