Ty Inc., the creator of Beanie Babies, has unveiled a new pair of dolls in its TyGirlz line. Because the names are beautiful, and for no other reason, Ty has named the dolls "Malia" and "Sasha." Right. I have a bridge to sell you.After all, the dolls, which sell for $9.99, are named "Marvelous Malia" and "Sweet Sasha," totally different, right?
Tania Lundeen, Ty senior vice president of sales told AP:
"There's nothing on the dolls that refers to the Obama girls. It would not be fair to say they are exact replications of these girls. They are not."Of course not. And the fact that the TyGirlz collection also includes dolls named Hannah, Serena, Lindsay, Britney, Paris, and Hillary is strictly a coincidence.
Now, celebrities have a right to control how their images are used, but it's frequently a tough fight.
Unlike the other celebrities who seem to be implied as models for other TyGirlz dolls, Malia (10) and Sasha (7) are very young, however, and one expert, Christina Vercelletto, senior editor of Parenting magazine, said it would be inappropriate to use them as models for the dolls:
"We need to remember they are still children themselves. To kind of mass-market them as stars and turn them into dolls who are a little more mature than they are? The message: Girls should look older than they do."
5 comments:
Those are pretty adorbs, I must say!
Though I'd much rather have a Barack Obama action figure. Oh yes, it DOES exist: http://squareeyes.blinkx.com/?p=277
These dolls are cute and look nothing at all like Malia and Sasha Obama.
The Obama's should have thought about these type things before they made the decision to run for president. I'm sure this won't hurt the girls and if the truth be known the girls probably like this kind of thing. I would never ruin my kids life for all the prestige in the world.
(To mrl in particular...)
"The Obama's [sic] should have thought about these type things before they made the decision to run for president."
I am 63 years old, and for as long as I can remember, beginning with the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the children of the president have always -- ALWAYS! -- been held to be off-limits to the press, et cetera, out of a basic human decency that protects children whose parent happens to be, through no choice of their own, the President of the United States of America. Until now. Not a huge surprise, I might add, in a nation that now tolerates and deems worthy of serious debate the question of the citizenship of the man who has already been elected and inducted into office!
I feel such embarrassment and disappointment about our nation!
I'm sure this won't hurt the girls and if the truth be known the girls probably like this kind of thing.
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