Hasbro, maker of the classic childhood toy Play-Doh, has said on its Facebook page that it will replace a piece in its “Cake Mountain” play set after receiving complaints from parents.
The icing maker in the play set, which allows children to decorate a plastic cake with the popular modeling clay, resembled a part of the male anatomy according to social media reports and parental complaints.
Reports on the product have been around for several weeks, and Play-Doh said it was planning to replace the offending piece. However, the change was not made in time for Christmas and the Play-Doh Facebook page was flooded with complaints shortly after Dec. 25.
Here’s a question: how did these even get to the point of being for sale without anyone at Play-Doh stopping and saying, “hey, wait a minute, this toy looks a lot like a dildo?” If ever there was an epic fail by a children’s company, this was it, but I’m not buying that there wasn’t at least one person who didn’t see the similarities.
