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Hasbro Pulls 'Trolls World Tour' Doll After Parents Took Issue With "Inappropriate" Button Placement
Newsweek via MSN ^ | 6/16/23 | Mark Pygas

Posted on 06/05/2023 11:59:14 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Hasbro has decided to discontinue a Trolls World Tour doll after widespread criticism and false claims were made by some parents online.

The controversy began when a woman posted a video of the DreamWorks Trolls World Tour Giggle & Sing Poppy toy on Instagram. Sold at Walmart and marketed to children four and older, the doll sings and giggles when a button is pressed.

Instagram user redpillbabe took issue with the placement of the button on the doll, alleging that the button was placed near the doll's "private parts" in an attempt to groom children.

"Go I dare you. Tell me I'm crazy. In what morphed dimension of the simulation IS THIS OK? how do you cognitive dissonance this away?" the Instagram user wrote in a caption alongside the video. "They're attacking your children and you just keep calling the people telling you 'crazy' God be with us. Some people really won't see the problem here."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: children; dolls; dreamworks; toys; trolls
I don know what is gayer.... where the button is located or the design on this toy in general.


1 posted on 06/05/2023 11:59:14 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

When is it appropriate for a news outlet to determine truth or falsehood? Should they not offer both sides before explaining why they consider claims to be false?


2 posted on 06/06/2023 12:08:58 AM PDT by webheart
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/videos-elementary-school-turned-lgbtqi-pride-indoctrination-camp/
More trans crap…


4 posted on 06/06/2023 12:13:16 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

The toy makers knew what they were doing.


5 posted on 06/06/2023 1:21:30 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: webheart
When is it appropriate for a news outlet to determine truth or falsehood?

Newsweak and MSN are not news outlets, they are propaganda pumps.

6 posted on 06/06/2023 1:35:00 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
"Hasbro has decided to discontinue a Trolls World Tour doll after widespread criticism and false claims were made by some parents online"

Since when is this author the arbiter of what is true or false?

7 posted on 06/06/2023 2:25:22 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Wow. “Near the private parts”? I’d say that’s right on them and this was fully intentional on the part of the company.


8 posted on 06/06/2023 3:11:41 AM PDT by livius
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Wow. “Near the private parts”? I’d say that’s right on them and this was fully intentional on the part of the company.

Looks more like the Taint to me.

9 posted on 06/06/2023 3:46:29 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

That’s not “near” the private parts.


10 posted on 06/06/2023 3:48:03 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

For any Hasbro product design, there have to be multiple layers of review and approval before the item is mass produced and sold to the public.

It’s disheartening to see this.
Its like catching Johnson and Johnson selling something vulgar and obviously inappropriate to children.


11 posted on 06/06/2023 3:52:45 AM PDT by lee martell ( https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4158644/reply?c=3)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Notice Newsweak automatically terms it “false”.

It may be, but the complaints about placement are real and justified. Whether or not they meant to sexualize it.


12 posted on 06/06/2023 4:12:58 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: lee martell
For any Hasbro product design, there have to be multiple layers of review and approval before the item is mass produced and sold to the public.

Exactly right. Not one person in the review and approval chain said "maybe we need to rethink the placement of the button on this toy?" They knew what they were doing.

13 posted on 06/06/2023 4:20:13 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

What did the instructions say??? Touch the spot on the crotch for fun?


14 posted on 06/06/2023 5:48:01 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good By Ellen)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Stop! Don’t touch me there! This is my no no square!


15 posted on 06/06/2023 5:48:14 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Someone should write a song about this using the melody from this ditty:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HcfYbuJId6I&pp=ygUQdHViZXMgd29ybGQgdG91cg%3D%3D


16 posted on 06/06/2023 6:24:29 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I have noticed recently, some toys kids are playing with in ads for other adult things are in rainbow colors lately. And, I barely watch tv.


17 posted on 06/06/2023 6:51:18 AM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Sick...Soon they will come out Monopoly: Sex Club Edition. The properties will be straight gentlemen's clubs and gay dance clubs. When you buy all the properties instead of houses and hotels, it will be drag queens and hookers and instead of hotels it will be pimps. The tokens will be some sex toys, a pimped up Caddy, a crack pipe and a dance pole!

Oops, I shouldn't give them any ideas!!🤓

18 posted on 06/06/2023 8:07:02 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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