Mattel's "Vibrating" Harry Potter broomstick big hit among girls. Mattel pulls toy off the shelves

Well, if you go back in time to September, 2002 you might be able to pick one up new because this story is FIVE YEARS OLD. Oh, and it was a hoax back then. Guess what? Still a hoax now.

Apparently you were as bad in grasping news in 2002 as you are today. Old news, yes. Hoax? Only in your head. Here's a google cache of the amazon page

It's a google cache...of someone's pseudo-Amazon site. You probably have entered your account name and password into that email you got from "First Bank of Iowa" thinking, "Gee, I really do need to update my information for security reasons...I didn't even know I had an account there."

Ookee... we have a retard here. So let me try to explain this s-l-o-w-l-y

Goto www.google.com

Type in harry potter mattel

Click on the big button called search

You will get atleast 60 pages referring to this. Since you are a retard and unable to grasp so much info, here's a reliable link for you from CNN Look at point 19. And, BTW, yes please update your information for security reasons. A moron like you might not have much in the bank anyway.

I didn't say it wasn't reliable information. I was just pointing out that the link didn't prove anything, being a cache of a copy or a mimic of an amazon site. Don't see how that's difficult to understand.

Sure, I don't mind being pointed out if I'm wrong. You could've stopped with that but you had to add: 'You probably have entered your account name and password into that email you got from "First Bank of Iowa" thinking, "Gee, I really do need to update my information for security reasons...I didn't even know I had an account there."'

I only returned the favor. I try to be civil to people who are civil.

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"Apparently you were as bad in grasping news in 2002 as you are today. Old news, yes. Hoax? Only in your head."

I figured considering you gave someone I bad time for calling it a hoax...and then gave them poor information countering the claim, there was no shame in giving you a ribbing for it.

fking moron. everything's a hoax, every picture photoshopped. contact mattel, and they'll tell you this is real. what world are you living in?

"You probably have entered your account name and password into that email you got from "First Bank of Iowa" thinking, "Gee, I really do need to update my information for security reasons...I didn't even know I had an account there."

Is that what you did? (:

You can get one of the original vibrating brooms on Ebay. Heh. Just do a search on "Harry Potter Nimbus 2000" on Ebay right now.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/92993/kate_bhaga.html

Sure, it was a real toy, but no one seems to be giving credit to the geniuses who wrote the fake reviews on Amazon (there were quite a few more before Amazon figured out people were having a lark and pulled them all, long before the toy itself went off the market). One sensible parent noticed that, gee, the thing's an accidental sex toy, and then the other writers started having fun.

"I was surprised at how long they can just sit in her room and play with this magic broomstick!"--c'mon, that's not parental stupidity, it's comedic brilliance.

That knowing smile takes on a whole new meaning here...

Oh yes, the prospect of females pleasuring themselves and the invention of things to help this along is horrible.

/sarcasm

You sound like a super feminist. The prospect of young people learning to masturbate isn't what offends people, it's the fact that it's supposed to be a toy, that's used in PUBLIC. See if you approve of little Johnny wanking in the middle of town square. It's the same thing.

Sure, everybody has the option and right to play with themselves, but this was marketed as a childrens TOY, not a sexual device. Market it as such, and everybody who wants can buy their daughters their own vibrators.

I'm not a feminist. Just someone who thinks what's good for the goose is good for the gander, and vice versa.

Any toy is marketed to be used by children. Whether they be in public or at home is up to the parent. If parents can't keep hold on what their children do in public is not the problem of these companies.

There are plenty of other toys that vibrate. A lot of video game controllers now come with that option. As well as "personal massagers" which are marketed to be used for sore muscles. I have never heard of anyone using those for such, have you?

sooo... ur oppinion is that parents should supervise what their kids
get into their possesion and how they use it?...

well, so you are assuming that these children actually listen to
their parents and that even if they do, that they do not cave to
peer pressure....
k...
Well... by that token, the cigarette industry should be allowed to
market their products to children shouldnt they?..

Granted the parents should bear some responsibility, but the
society is supposed to help too!!! You can't have a society where
everyone is a murderer and not expect the kids to grow up as such.

look, your argument is as old as the start of the industrial age
and is as wrong now as it was when it started. Your argument shifts
the responsibility of being good citizens or visitors from local and
foreign corporations directly to the parents undeservedly. It is the
responsibility of the manufacturer that their product is safe, reasonably,
performs its intended functions and is safe from misuse. It seems to
me that this product FAILED at the latter point.

There are going to be three people writing in this so prepare yourself.

#1 ok so what are parents thinking getting this toy for their kids, then finding the funtion of the toy, and then finding out that their 17 year-old daughter is spending a whole lot of time in her room with this particular toy and yet not doing anything about it is just wrong. I mean if you know that this toy vibrates what do you think your daughter is doing to herself in her room all alone. I see it as this the parents that buy this toy and then find their 17 year-old spending a lot of time with it alone in their rooms, well they want their kids to be good rapers or sexual people when their older. Or maybe the parents think its ok because they like it too.

#2 The whole idea of a toy that was meant to feed and enhance the imagination of a child who would dream of going on adventures with the famous Harry Potter being warped into a sex toy...aka a vibrator is horrible. The sick fantasies of perverted young gentlemen and older men are the cause of such a thought. It's apparently still a mystery (said with sardonic sarcasm hehe) of who had planted the horrific thought that parents were buying this toy for their younger daughters not realizing that said toy was being used...in inappropriate ways. Hey, I'm not saying that it's wrong for girls to please themselves...Hell! It's your secret what you young ladies out there do with your spare time alone in your bedrooms. But think about it...young women pleasing themselves has always been a fantasy of men around the world (cough cough...America!)It's just another way for men to get off and cause a chaos about a simple vibrating toy...when millions of toys out there vibrate! "What we believe shapes what we see..." A very famous statement made by a very famous someone. That last quote is really something to say about the vibrator vs. a simple Harry Potter broomstick.

#3 So originally, when I saw this article, I wasn't sure if it was about a toy or a vibrator. So I decided to search yahoo and see if I could figure that out. I found this site, and I think I have figured it out. It is a toy that some people end up using to pleasure themselves? I think its crazy that people would get this for their 12 year old daughters. And mothers find out about what their children are using it for and let them keep it? I don't have a problem with one pleasuring themself, but at the age of 12? I think thats a little crazy, they shouldn't feel the need to do that at such a young age.

This concludes the three..hopefully valued opinions of 3 young teenagers who happened to stumble upon a veerrrrry interesting article about Harry Potter.

"shouldn't feel the need to do that at such a young age."

I find it hard to judge whether someone else feels a "need" to do something. People, especially young people, learn about themselves primarily through self-exploration. Having been a little boy myself, I know that at least some little boys tend to play with themselves, trying to figure out what things do and how they work. It would not surprise me much to hear that girls do some of that too. I might guess genital exploration to be less obvious an idea to little girls as their parts do not stick out in front of them where they can easily see them, but people almost ALWAYS learn that it feels good to stimulate their genitals by the time they reach puberty. If self-stimulation of one's nether regions feels good to a 17-year-old, why would it not do the same for a 12-year-old? Puberty does cause the genitals to further grow and develop, but it does not increase their sensitivity so much as all that.

I have indeed heard a girl tell me herself that she has used a device marketed as a "personal massager" (that was included in a gift basket of bath and beauty products) for sexual stimulation. I have heard of others using cell phones for the same purpose. No surprise there.