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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