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Hasbro has a new toy... the "Super Soaker Oozinator."

Here's how the toy makers describes it on their Hasbro.com website:

"Sneak up on your opponents with a surprise bio-ooze attack! Just when they think you’re coming at ‘em with water, blast ‘em with a shot of icky bio-ooze! Shoot out globs of gooey bio-ooze and then drench ‘em with water! It’s a double blast attack that’ll keep your opponents on their toes and running during every water fight. With the OOZINATOR blaster you don’t just get soaked, you get drenched!"

Editors Ben Popken and Meghann Marco of the news-blog website Consumerist.com, unashamedly describe themselves as "biased toward the consumer" where "shoppers bite back," describes the toy in not-so-gleeful terms.

They mockingly take their cue from Hasbro's television marketing blitz that it has "the shape and hue of a grotesque alien phallus" and that Hasbro is marketing it "with a television spot in which a pan-ethnic rainbow of small children are the gleeful recipients to load after hot, sticky load shot all over their chests and faces!"

Videos of children playing with Hasbro's sick "toy" may be found on the Internet.

The strangely sick irony is not lost on the American public.
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SL, you must have studied media marketing somewhere down the line. The title to this topic is typical of the sensationalizing the media does to gain interest to a otherwise boring story.

What's next, pogo sticks as masturbation devices? Mr. Microphone used to illegally record your playmates? Or how about an expose on the violent and sexually suggestive sport of dodge ball?
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Originally posted by Kindred_Spirit:
Parents just should not buy them, in fact, boycott the company until they stop making children's toys in this manner.


What manner are you talking about???????

It's an overgrown squirt gun....a water pistol on steroids....until the PC police showed up, there was NO sexual connotation associated with it.
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Originally posted by alacharger:
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Originally posted by Kindred_Spirit:
Parents just should not buy them, in fact, boycott the company until they stop making children's toys in this manner.


What manner are you talking about???????

It's an overgrown squirt gun....a water pistol on steroids....until the PC police showed up, there was NO sexual connotation associated with it.


I shall do research of my own on this toy, and get back to the answers here.

You are correct though, if I hadn't of read this, and had seen it in the store, I probably wouldn't have even noticed.
Questionable Super Soaker... Oozinator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc

The Oozinator Delights Children
http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/oozinator/the-oozin...-children-170588.php

See and listen... and then decide if their remarks are "delightful." (They are not, and include, "Oooh!," "Arrrgh" and "Yuck!")

It is Hasbro's own video, by the way.

And, the gooey, sticky biological ooze emerging from pubescent boys whom spew their goo in one another's faces and chests after pumping...

In fact, the commercial announcer says, "major pumping required."

Is THAT innocent entertainment?

Please, please... !!
Every super soaker ever marketed on TV has had the tagline "major pumping required" attached to it.

As far as "delightful", nope, not what I'd call "delightful. But then again, kids this age like candy so sour that it turns your mouth inside out.

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And, the gooey, sticky biological ooze emerging from pubescent boys whom spew their goo in one another's faces and chests after pumping...


Ya know, I've watched that commercial about 20 times....I have yet to see anything emerge from any of the boys...of which all but one are obviously pre-pubescent, and the other (the one with the gun) is suspect.

I restate my position....until the PC police and sensational story mongers showed up, there was NO sexual connotation associated with it. Show me a story where two kids were found playing with one and making statements about masturbation, ejaculation, semen and "alien phalluses", and I'll shut up.

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