Sep. 5th, 2006

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Barbie takes on a variety of jobs these days. I've seen Dog Trainer Barbie in the toy stores, but I didn't think anything of it till someone over on MWD linked to a detailed review of the set. Containing Barbie and her dog Tanner, the Dog Trainer set also features the splendiferous and innovative Eat 'N' Crap mechanism! The set comes with brown, bean-like pellets that you can stick in Tanner's mouth. When you push down on Tanner's tail, the pellet comes out the rear end. It can then be picked up with the magnetic poop scoop.

I don't object to crapping toys on principle, although I don't like them, but this one just grosses me out, though. Tanner's food looks exactly the same, no matter what end it comes out, so the dog is either eating shit or shitting chocolate. Furthermore, the pellets look like some sort of human candy, which gives their cycle through the plastic dog digestive tract an extra stomach-turning aspect.

Ya know, if kids really want to make their toys barf, piss, shit, sneeze, etc., they'll find ways to do so. My sister and I used to make our hollow plastic My Little Ponies pee by squirting water out of their tail holes. No magnetic gimmicks needed!

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