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[Article] Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls mistakenly link to porn website on packaging (www.theguardian.com)

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Toy company advises parents to ‘discard the product packaging or obscure the link’ on Glinda and Elphaba dolls

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[-] dumbass@leminal.space 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hahahahhahaha ahhh, how do you fuck that up?

[-] horrorslice@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I wonder that myself. Someone didn't double check the QR code before sending it into production... but you'd think a huge company like Mattel would have some SOPs for this kind thing.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 9 points 3 days ago

I wonder what site

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago

https://www.wicked.com/

[-] teletext@reddthat.com 15 points 3 days ago

If I were them porn guys, I'd fully embrace the mistake and release a bunch of videos with actresses in green faces!

[-] Drusenija@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Or get Mattel to pay up for them to have a SFW landing page for a set period of time that redirects to the correct website. If a kid is going to blindly enter a website into their computer they'll probably click the colourful Wicked picture on the home page and not scroll any further to the less SFW content.

Probably could make more money from that than any Wicked themed porn.

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

When little Timmy saved it as bookmark and comes back to it later. Oh.

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