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Want to know if the latest incarnation of Barbie has a figure as impossible as her forebears? You’ll have to check under the burqa.
Barbie has been covered head to toe in bright colors with just a bit of white mesh where her face should be as part of an auction meant to help Sotheby’s raise money for Save the Children. Continue reading »
Back in 1967, Mattel came out with their first so-called African-American Barbie doll. Her name was Colored Francie and other than her hair and skin color, she looked exactly like the white Francie doll. Since that time, the toy company hasn’t done much better in creating a Barbie doll that African-American girls could identify with. But last month, Mattel gave it another shot with the debut of three new black Barbie friends: Grace, Kara and Trichelle. Did they get it right this time? Continue reading »
Well isn’t Mattel just so special. How special you ask? While other toy makers and manufacturers of goods for children must have a third party give their items a seal of approval, good old Mattel doesn’t have too.
Apparently the Consumer Product Safety Commission recently gave permission to Mattel to self regulate and use their own in house labs for testing. Congress passed a law last summer – after oodles of toys were found containing lead – that requires testing on anything intended for the under twelve set. Six of the recalled toys in question were from Mattel, which resulted in $2.3 million dollars in civil penalties fines. Continue reading »
Hard to believe it’s been two years since parents started ripping through toyboxes in search of the toys they were being told would make their kids sick.
But two years after toxic lead levels in toys sent us into a panic, Mattel and its subsidiary, Fisher-Price, have finally settled a lawsuit Continue reading »
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