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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Can't help but notice that they emphasized the smirk on the head sculpt for the Elphaba doll. Does that not deserve a Twitter tirade regarding disrespect from Ms. Erivo?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Wait, Texas' ban on porn doesn't stop this? I can go to the website and it does not ask me to verify my age with a government ID photo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For some reason this reminds me of the infamous vibrating Nimbus 2000 toy and the resulting (and hilarious) sexual scandal it caused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I remember when I first heard about it at the time. I went out to the Amazon reviews page for that toy, and there were quite a few clueless, naive reviews that had me pretty much crying with laughter. After a few weeks Amazon removed so the best ones. I'm glad some of them got captured for posterity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They have to be playing dumb, surely. Especially the 17-year-old one…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

From here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/wicked-dolls-mattel-mistakenly-link-to-adult-porn-site-1236058013/

Appears to be an innocent mistake:

"The web address listed on the boxed dolls is wicked.com, instead of wickedmovie.com."