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oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 6 months ago

Wicked movie: Mattel 'deeply regrets' porn site misprint on dolls

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Wicked movie: Mattel 'deeply regrets' porn site misprint on dolls

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oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 6 months ago
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Recently-released dolls tied to the new Wicked movie inadvertently carry the address of an adult website.
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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    From here:

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/wicked-dolls-mattel-mistakenly-link-to-adult-porn-site-1236058013/

    Appears to be an innocent mistake:

    “The web address listed on the boxed dolls is wicked.com, instead of wickedmovie.com.”

  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world
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    Wait, Texas’ ban on porn doesn’t stop this? I can go to the website and it does not ask me to verify my age with a government ID photo.

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    For some reason this reminds me of the infamous vibrating Nimbus 2000 toy and the resulting (and hilarious) sexual scandal it caused.

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      Quite a read.

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        I remember when I first heard about it at the time. I went out to the Amazon reviews page for that toy, and there were quite a few clueless, naive reviews that had me pretty much crying with laughter. After a few weeks Amazon removed so the best ones. I’m glad some of them got captured for posterity.

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          They have to be playing dumb, surely. Especially the 17-year-old one…

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    Can’t help but notice that they emphasized the smirk on the head sculpt for the Elphaba doll. Does that not deserve a Twitter tirade regarding disrespect from Ms. Erivo?

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