Hasbro to yank penis-shaped toy after parents blow tops

Hasbro, the world-famous toy company, is doing damage control over the extruder tool in its Play-Doh Cake Mountain toy, which has been criticised for looking like a penis. The two-piece 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, can be used to squeeze Play-Doh to look like decorative cake frosting. Complaints have been surfacing since at least November, when Tulsa, Oklahoma, TV station KTUL showed the tool to parents and asked them what they thought. The station blurred the image of the tool during the piece, saying it was due to parents’ reactions. One woman told the station it was “a pretty phallic cake-decorating piece.”

I can’t imagine that as many people that probably saw the toy, not one person said, ‘Does anyone else think this looks like a penis?

Erin Rivers, a mother of two from Florida

After Christmas, comments started pouring in to Play-Doh’s Facebook page. Nivea Cabrera, who was accused by her fiance’s mother of letting her 5-year-old granddaughter play with a sex toy, said Hasbro called her after she posted a photo of the tool and asked about the shape on Christmas Day. She said the company offered to send her a replacement tool in a different shape, which she has not received. “We are in the process of updating all future Play-Doh products with a different tool,” it said in a statement posted on the page Tuesday. It also offered to replace the tool for anyone with complaints.

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