By Sean Toomey –
Toymaker Mattel printed the URL to a pornographic website on the packaging for its dolls themed after the movie Wicked.
“These scenes were hardcore, full on nude pornographic images depicting actual intercourse,” says a South Carolina mom who is suing Mattel for exposing her daughter to porn. “Plaintiff’s minor daughter immediately showed her mother the photographs and both were horrified by what they saw. If plaintiff had been aware of such an inappropriate defect in the product, she would not have purchased it.”
Mattel said the placement of the website on their product was an accident. The package of the Wicked dolls links to wickedDOTcom instead of wickedmovie.com. The “accident” caused the porn website to go viral.
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Mattel removed the dolls from shelves at Target, Amazon and Kohl’s, among others. “We deeply regret this unfortunate error,” the maker of Barbie said. The company advised consumers who already have the dolls to “discard the product packaging or obscure the link.”
Holly Ricketson is suing after she connected to the link on the doll’s packaging and saw hardcore pornographic images. She said she and her daughter “experienced emotional distress.”
The “class action” lawsuit seeks $5 million for anyone who bought the doll with the inappropriate URL.
Mattel’s snafu is similar to toymaker Hasbro’s error four years ago. In 2020, the Transformers franchise rolled out a girl troll doll that had a button in her private part between her legs that, when pushed, giggled and gasped “Wee!” It was also in time for Christmas.
Mother Jamie Nelson Cornaby uploaded a video about the Troll’s World Tour doll: “It’s disturbing. There are things being thrown in our kids’ faces to kind of groom them. To me it’s a sexual sound.”
An online petition forced Hasbro to pull its doll from store shelves.
“’Y’all should be ashamed of yourselves man. The trolls ‘poppy doll’ is absolutely disturbing. It’s disgusting. Whoever was all involved y’all are sick…,” according to one comment noted by the Daily Mail.
Another was even more direct: “They’re conditioning our children to think pedophilia is ok. To make them think when someone touches your private it should be fun.”
How do these Christmas “mistakes” keep happening?
Around Christmas time 2022, Balenciaga fashion ran ads with kids holding teddy bears in bondage gear. In a separate photo shoot, they showed a bag that had documents in it about the Supreme Court’s decision on child porn.
The mixing of fashion with pedophilia will always spark outrage. Even Kim Kardashion joined the chorus of those condeming the company for its “mistake.”
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About the writer of this article: Sean Toomey studies at Lighthouse Christian Academy near Hollywood, CA.
