Talking Austin Powers Doll Angers Mother

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia woman said on Tuesday she had filed an obscenity complaint against the Toys „R“ Us retail chain after her 11-year-old son picked up an Austin Powers doll that asked, „Do I make you horny, baby, do I?“ Tamatha Brannon of ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia woman said on Tuesday she had filed an obscenity complaint against the Toys „R“ Us retail chain after her 11-year-old son picked up an Austin Powers doll that asked, „Do I make you horny, baby, do I?“ Tamatha Brannon of the Atlanta suburb of East Point said she had to explain the meaning of the word „horny“ to her son, Marvin, after he picked up the talking doll at a Toys „R“ Us store in nearby Morrow, Georgia. „He said, ‘What does „horny“ mean?‘“ Brannon said. Brannon said she was so offended that she bought both of the toys on the shelf and turned one over to Morrow police. Police could not immediately be reached for comment. The sentence „Do I make you horny baby, do I?“ is written on the package of the „Ultra ‘Cool‘ Action Figure,“ which has a voice chip that repeats the line from the spy spoof movie „Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,“ starring Mike Myers. The Morrow store has agreed to discontinue carrying the dolls. Brannon said she called other area stores and asked them to remove the figures, which are scantily dressed in red Union Jack underwear and gray socks and sport bushy chest hair. Brannon said she had complained to police that the toy was obscene and directed sexual innuendoes at children. She said her son „is in no way ready for any sex conversations.“ „I feel this toy had basically pushed us into a vocabulary word that he would never have known to ask,“ Brannon said. A spokesman for manufacturer McFarlane Toys of Phoenix said there had apparently been a mix-up between two available versions of the doll. The one Brannon objected to is normally shipped to speciality stores such as Virgin Mega Stores, public relations manager Ken Reinstein said. He said mass market retailers like Toys „R“ Us, Kmart and Wal-Mart were supposed to get a version in which the box and voice chip ask, „Would you fancy a shag?“ „I am not making apologies that my product exists,“ said Todd McFarlane, the company‘s president and chief executive. „I apologise that the wrong product ended up in a Toys ‘R‘ Us. We are investigating whether there was a wrong shipment. … Perfection does not exist in the toy industry.“

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