Apparently, this is a big enough story to make the front page of the Washington Post. Forget Tickle Me Elmo and Webkinz, the hottest toy this year is a baby doll that actually poops. Baby Alive comes with food you feed it, and then it pretends to poop. Just like the real thing.
I don’t know, maybe I don’t get it because I only have boys, but do people really pay $59.99 for this? I don’t see why someone would get this for their kid.
On the other hand, maybe I could see buying it for someone else’s kid. Kind of like the toys with 6,000 tiny little pieces we would never buy for our kids, but other parents always give us as birthday presents.
4 responses so far ↓
1 shani // Dec 22, 2008 at 12:42 pm
umm, I am a new reader to your blog-
I never have bought one of these for my daughters, who are now teens and over the ‘ baby doll’ stage.
However, I am a bit embarrassed to say, I actually ASKED for a baby alive when I was a child, she was little more than a doll with a tube inside, no electronics. But it was so real to me, and I wanted her.
Little did I know it would all be ‘too real’ for me a mear 4-5 years later with real babies.
ha ha, but now, as I am much older and wiser…
I see your point.
2 Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah // Dec 26, 2008 at 7:44 am
Claudia asked for one of these and there is no way I am paying $60 for something else that poops. We already have her, her brother and two cats.
She is welcome to clean the litter box any times she wants.
3 Aunt Crazy // Dec 30, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Poop is funny.
4 ladybughugs // Dec 31, 2008 at 12:10 am
Not in my house. A gift of something like this would need to be reciprocated with something in kind. Something with many pieces or paints and glue and glitter. The messier the better.
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