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Title: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: Teresa Heilevang on October 17, 2008, 03:26:43 PM: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves

Melissa Bush bought a "Little Mommy Cuddle N' Coo" doll that she is going to return.
The doll is being pulled off store shelves because it supposedly says, "Islam is the light."
Toymaker Mattel says the doll does not say that and is only cooing.

(Video by Jaime Oppenheimer/The Wichita Eagle)

http://videos.kansas.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=2287360#
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: Hazcat on October 17, 2008, 03:50:16 PM: pretty clear to me.
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: DDMac on October 17, 2008, 03:57:10 PM: Cooing sounds like "Mommy loves Hazaritas!" Hear it around here all the time.
Mac.
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: SwoopSJ on October 17, 2008, 10:27:43 PM: I don't know anything about the ownership/management of Mattel, however I find it hard to believe this message was not intentional. You would think that someone in product testing, quality control, etc., would have noticed and reported this if it were supposed to be "cooing". It seems pretty darn clear to me. Although I don't know where to point the finger, I guess you can sign me up for the tin foil hat brigade. :)

Swoop
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: TAB on October 17, 2008, 10:32:10 PM: I would bet that they sub out the doll, or at the very least the board/ hardware that makes it speak.
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: tombogan03884 on October 17, 2008, 10:34:03 PM: Remember the "Ferbies", when the batteries got low it sounded like "kill mommy".
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: Fatman on October 17, 2008, 10:59:02 PM: Quote from: SwoopSJ on October 17, 2008, 10:27:43 PM
I don't know anything about the ownership/management of Mattel, however I find it hard to believe this message was not intentional. You would think that someone in product testing, quality control, etc., would have noticed and reported this if it were supposed to be "cooing". It seems pretty darn clear to me. Although I don't know where to point the finger, I guess you can sign me up for the tin foil hat brigade. :)

Swoop

I'm gonna go out on a limb here. Like everything else 'toy', production of the sound chip was outsourced to Malaysia or some other country with a large Muslim population.
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: SwoopSJ on October 18, 2008, 12:12:01 AM: Quote from: Fatman on October 17, 2008, 10:59:02 PM
I'm gonna go out on a limb here. Like everything else 'toy', production of the sound chip was outsourced to Malaysia or some other country with a large Muslim population.

I never thought of that. Good point and very possible/probable.
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: jaybet on October 19, 2008, 11:54:42 AM: TARGET PRACTICE!!!
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: MikeBjerum on October 19, 2008, 03:07:25 PM: Quote from: jaybethel on October 19, 2008, 11:54:42 AM
TARGET PRACTICE!!!

Sounds like a plan.

Even with my bad hearing it is the clearest thing I've heard out of a toy in a long time.
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: DesertMarine on October 19, 2008, 03:12:50 PM: Same for my hearing. I have a hard time understanding women and children but that was very clear without high volume.
Title: Re: Controversial doll is pulled from shelves
Post by: ellis4538 on October 19, 2008, 06:55:15 PM: Since when does Coo begin with an "I"? I'm 35% + deaf and can understand that without my hearing aids.

Richard