Hasbro Play-Doh Replace - A Pawtucket-based toy company has come under serious criticisms from angry parents over a penis-shaped children's toy.
Toy maker Hasbro Inc. has been under fire since November after parents, who bought the Sweet Shoppe Cake Mountain Playset for their children, opened the pack up and discovered a phallic-looking extruder tool.
The tool, which has caused so much controversy on social media, is a 2-piece extruder, which acts as a frosting applicator.
AP describes the extruder as a " syringe-like tool, which includes a tube with corkscrew-type ridges around the outside and a dome-shaped top with a hole at the tip, [It] can be used to squeeze Play-Doh to look like a decorative cake frosting."
"It is so obviously inappropriate, that I have a hard time believing that no-one in your company stopped this from being approved and distributed in the first place," Diane Goss Lamb wrote to the toy maker.
"As a customer as well as being a mom I'm very disappointed in you guys......my kids loves your product...shame I have to start to re look at u guys before I buy!!!! Plz change," said Mari Ramirez, a concerned mother.
"I pulled out this extruder tool, and I just started cracking up at it, I couldn't help it," said Erin Rivers, a Melbourne, Fl. mom who helped her 6-year-old open the toy box.
Reports indicate that the complaints have reached the Hasbro Inc. and the toy maker has announced that the extruder tool would be replaced. The company has reportedly also offered the replacement to customers who want it.
"We have heard some consumer feedback about the extruder tool in the Play-Doh Cake Mountain Playset and are in the process of updating all future Play-Doh products with a different tool," a statement posted on Play-Doh's Facebook page said.
Meanwhile, some parents have sided with Hasbro. These parents say that adults with dirty minds are the only ones who found faults with the product.
"I'm not getting a replacement. I think it's crazy that people have to turn everything into something sexual," said Emilie Sara Haas.
"I showed the picture to my 6 year old and asked her what she thought it was...' A spaceship. Am I right? It looks like a spaceship," Treasure Leigh Davis posted on the company's Facebook page.
