Hasbro to replace penis-shaped Play-Doh toy

[Lite Beer]

Hasbro to replace penis-shaped Play-Doh toy
MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — It was an embarrassing Christmas for Nivea Cabrera after she was accused by her fiance's mother of letting her 5-year-old granddaughter play with a sex toy. A mortified Carbrera asked the child where she got the penis-shaped plastic cylinder.

"It's from my Play-Doh," the girl replied.

Hasbro, the Pawtucket-based toy company, is now doing damage control over the extruder tool in its Play-Doh Cake Mountain toy. The two-piece syringe-like tool, which includes a tube with corkscrew-type ridges around the outside and a dome-shaped top with a hole at the tip, can be used to squeeze Play-Doh to look like decorative cake frosting.

Complaints have been surfacing since at least November, when Tulsa, Oklahoma, TV station KTUL showed the tool to parents and asked them what they thought. The station blurred the image of the tool during the piece, saying it was due to parents' reactions. One woman told the station it was "a pretty phallic cake-decorating piece."

After Christmas, comments started pouring in to Play-Doh's Facebook page, including from Cabrera, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She said Hasbro called her after she posted a photo of the tool and asked about the shape on Christmas Day. She said the company offered to send her a replacement tool in a different shape, which she has not received.

Erin Rivers, a mother of two from Melbourne, Florida, thought it was hilarious when she helped her 6-year-old daughter open the box.

"I pulled out this extruder tool, and I just started cracking up at it, I couldn't help it. Then I immediately put the Play-Doh in it and took a picture of," she said.

Then, she posted it on Facebook.

"My friends have just as dirty minds as I do," she said. "It was hysterical to me. And then I gave it my daughter to play with."

She said her daughter and 4-year-old son don't notice anything strange about the toy.

Hasbro Inc. has received thousands of comments on the Play-Doh Facebook page pointing out the obvious.

"We are in the process of updating all future Play-Doh products with a different tool," it said in a statement posted on the page Tuesday.

It also offered to replace the tool for anyone who has complaints.

Rivers, who works in a pediatric dental office, says she's not upset at all. But she is flabbergasted that the toy slipped past so many layers of people at Hasbro.

"They have to have someone who creates it, someone who makes the plastic mold, someone who plays with it," she said. "I can't imagine that as many people that probably saw the toy, not one person said, 'Does anyone else think this looks like a penis?'"

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-01-02

[Jip99]

Maybe the manufacturers of these Christmas stocking fillers will take note:

[AhFarangJa]

My wife asked me where we can buy one in Hua Hin....

Edited January 2, 2015 by AhFarangJa

[Jai Dee]

[Seastallion]

If you are told it's an extruder tool, then it's and extruder tool.

Try to see it as phallic, and you easily will.

You have to please everybody though, so Hasbro has to replace them when asked.

[harrry]

It ain't a Magic Harry Potter Broomstick./

[slipperylobster]

How is that bugger powered?

[gchurch259]

What about the Phallic Symbol that is a part of every Mosque and the Giant Phallic Symbols in KL. Hell it is the eyes of the beholder what they stand for.

Most kids under 7 or 8 do not think like adults

[gchurch259]

Oh, by the way, we have a very nice Phallic symbol in D.C. it is called the Washington Monument. And then there is the sorry smuck in the oval office !!

Damn, they are everywhere !!

[Searat7]

All new products are tested with children and their parents. Very surprising this was not noticed before.

[Tywais]

Wonder how many mothers took it away from their kid and hid it in her bedroom.

[razer]

Happy Holidays

[sweatalot]

All new products are tested with children and their parents. Very surprising this was not noticed before.

Probably the adults saw it as a good joke (not reckoning with the prudery of some parents)

and the children just didn't notice

[Scott]

Wonder how many mothers took it away from their kid and hid it in her bedroom.

I wonder how many are asking their kids where the batteries go.

[Steely Dan]

Oh, by the way, we have a very nice Phallic symbol in D.C. it is called the Washington Monument. And then there is the sorry smuck in the oval office !!

Damn, they are everywhere !!

Hasbro made a mistake, they would have to repeat it to match the American electorate though.

[Basil B]

Maybe the manufacturers of these Christmas stocking fillers will take note:

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Guy's Now you know what to buy the one you love next Xmas.

[Jip99]

Maybe the manufacturers of these Christmas stocking fillers will take note:

choc.jpg

Guy's Now you know what to buy the one you love next Xmas.

My missus said she would love to get her tongue around something that big.

I think she must be a chocoholic!

[Thaiready]

Maybe the manufacturers of these Christmas stocking fillers will take note:

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Guy's Now you know what to buy the one you love next Xmas.

My missus said she would love to get her tongue around something that big.

I think she must be a chocoholic!

have her give me a call

[JetsetBkk]

Maybe the manufacturers of these Christmas stocking fillers will take note:

choc.jpg

Guy's Now you know what to buy the one you love next Xmas.

My missus said she would love to get her tongue around something that big.

I think she must be a chocoholic!

have her give me a call

Brings a whole new meaning to "chocolate sta... "

[ggt]

This is a serious setback for the gay community who are trying to get "penis-cakes" to be sold to the general public...

Use your imagination...these cakes are now being used at gay weddings...(no I am not kidding)

[JetsetBkk]

^ What's your avatar girl doing behind that leaf?

[Mudcrab]

This is a serious setback for the gay community who are trying to get "penis-cakes" to be sold to the general public...

Use your imagination...these cakes are now being used at gay weddings...(no I am not kidding)

Take your word for it.

[DrTuner]

Nothing wrong with a fine phallos specimen. Dudepower!

[Lokie]

Anything can be what your mind wants it to be no? More PC world BS!!!

Is a Play Doh cake decorating toy, but if the mood takes you shove it up your or your partners crevis - The MIL must have been going short by the sounds of it.

Aldi are doing Cucumbers at 36p as part of their BIG 6 (Fruit & Veg discount here in UK at moment) yep MIL just like your Ol mans Todger, go get sum!

I could understand the Hareems of the Sultans not allowing any phallic shaped objects in (all fruit/vegatables were sliced up to prevent improper use) obviously the Sultan wanted to be the BiG Man!! They reckon half the Eunuchs were sorting the girls out anyway, so the Sultan was on sloppy seconds...

[harrry]

Anything can be what your mind wants it to be no? More PC world BS!!!

Is a Play Doh cake decorating toy, but if the mood takes you shove it up your or your partners crevis - The MIL must have been going short by the sounds of it.

Aldi are doing Cucumbers at 36p as part of their BIG 6 (Fruit & Veg discount here in UK at moment) yep MIL just like your Ol mans Todger, go get sum!

I could understand the Hareems of the Sultans not allowing any phallic shaped objects in (all fruit/vegatables were sliced up to prevent improper use) obviously the Sultan wanted to be the BiG Man!! They reckon half the Eunuchs were sorting the girls out anyway, so the Sultan was on sloppy seconds...

English cucumbers are generally much bigger than thai ones.

[asiaexpat]

Such imagination-the mothers I mean, Get a life folks.

[Choctastic]

Anything can be what your mind wants it to be no? More PC world BS!!!

They pull these stunts more than you know...