Chewing Doll Nearly Consumes Girl's Hair

[DingDang]

Chewing Doll Nearly Consumes Girl's Hair (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506EED71530F93BA15751C1A9609582 60)

Published: December 28, 1996


GRIFFITH, Ind., Dec. 27— A battery-operated Cabbage Patch doll that can chew had to be taken apart piece by piece this week when it munched a 7-year-old girl's hair up to her scalp and would not let go.


The Cabbage Patch Snack Time Kids Doll is designed to chew automatically when plastic french fries or other items are placed in its mouth. It has no on-off switch.

Yikes!

[TwiztidAngel]

the doll was possessed...

[TheMorningStar]

m__CJdolrhY

[KiKi]

Any doll that isn't just a doll freaks me out. Like the "Baby Alive" dolls that actually poop! No thanks! I like just plain, regular dolls that just lay there are the ones I like.

[Pene784]

My daughter has a pooping, peeing, crying baby alive doll. I hate that thing and it is a bit creepy. Not as creepy as the doll that cries and it's head turns toward your voice. THAT thing gives me the heebie jeebies! I often take the batteries out of it so it will stop looking at me.

[Nell]

This article is 14 years old. I actually saw one of the dolls up close, and whoever thought it was a good idea to put moving teeth in a doll was a moron. And it is creepy looking.

Anyway, Mattel voluntarily recalled these dolls the next year, in 1997, offering a full refund for the doll. To this day though you can buy one on Amazon or Ebay, if you want to chance it springing to life and biting your throat out.

Amazon.com: Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kid Doll Mattel 15321: Toys & Games: Reviews, Prices & more (http://www.amazon.com/Cabbage-Patch-Snacktime-Mattel-15321/dp/B0029DDIIC)


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to concerns related to its Cabbage Patch Kids® Snacktime Kids dolls, Mattel, Inc., with the cooperation of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), voluntarily announced today a refund program for all dolls purchased since the toy's introduction in the fall of 1996. Mattel will offer consumers a full cash refund of $40. At the same time, the company announced a withdrawal of the product from all retail shelves across the U.S., and will discontinue the distribution of the Snacktime Kids dolls.

Mattel is taking this action following reports of people getting their hair and fingers caught in the mouths of the dolls. Neither Mattel's nor CPSC's testing of the product has identified a serious safety hazard associated with the dolls.

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml97/97055.html

[Mare]

This freakish doll does NOT bite
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff95/mare2769/1854d679.jpg

[knightsmom]

My girls have the baby alive dolls, they once left it in my room and I guess my cat set it off in the middle of the night, damn near shot the thing. I scared me to death! Something is just not right with a doll that moves and talks and poops itself!!

[Robynne]

Can someone say "Cucky"?

[misssmartypants]

Yeah those dolls are a little creepy,but in my little girl heart I wanted one sooo bad. We have that pony thing that moves its head twards your voice, munches on fake food, and you can sit on it and it gives fakey trotting noises, and bounces. so cool. But, my dog literally starts screaming when we (ok, just me) bring it out to play with. So, I put it where I dont want the dog to be..poor poor doggie.

[Tits McGee]

My kids had a Barney doll that would sing and play stupid games with you. When he first started up he would say "Hello, boys and girls." One day I walked into the room and he started saying "Hel...hel...hel..." and it sounded like he was yelling for help. I pulled the batteries, but he still kept doing it! I flipped out and kicked him into a closet and called my hubby at work to make him take it out of the house.

[TwiztidAngel]

My kids had a Barney doll that would sing and play stupid games with you. When he first started up he would say "Hello, boys and girls." One day I walked into the room and he started saying "Hel...hel...hel..." and it sounded like he was yelling for help. I pulled the batteries, but he still kept doing it! I flipped out and kicked him into a closet and called my hubby at work to make him take it out of the house.

ok, not a doll story but...when my son was a year old he had this big firetruck that had a button that make a LOUD siren sound...well i kinda got sick of hearing it so one day i put it on the top shelf of my closet...i forgot about it being up there till one late night we had a bad thunderstorm and during one large lightening flash it knocked out the electricity AND somehow activated the siren on that damn truck in the closet...and the bitch KEPT the siren going so long i really got freaked out and made the old man throw that damn thing outside...my son never did get to play with it inside again lol

[Jerri Blank]

I have always been terrified of dolls.

My crazy mother used to fill her kids heads full of crap and also let us sit up all night and watch horror movies with her and tell us they were real.

When I was, gee, I'll say 5 years old, my mom let me watch a movie called Trilogy Of Terror with her. there were 3 parts (of coarse) but I only remember one and it ruined dolls for me for ever!

This lady gets a crazy ass doll that comes to life and non-stops attacks her till she throws it in the oven then the damned thing possesses her.

the Chuckie movies had to have stolen this stuff from this movie, it's from the 70's.

I asked my mom if that could happen and she said "oh yes!" and told me some bs story about it happening to a friend of hers. from that day on I was scared to be alone with dolls.

(a side note, she also had me believe Earwigs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwig) would crawl in your head at night and eat your brains to lay eggs in your head, from a Ep of night gallery, For years I slept with my hands on my ears and piles of pillows on my head, augh!
My mom=EVIL)

I just googled it..heres the Wikipedia synopsis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror)

http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/filmimages/trilogyterror-zuni.jpg
photo of Zuni fetish doll