Bad day? At least you aren’t the Mattel employee who accidentally put an x-rated web address on the Wicked dolls packaging
Mattel is one of the best-known toy companies in the world, with a product list that includes Barbie, Hot Wheels and UNO, so you’d have thought they’d have the slickest of operations and a set of stringent checks in place to ensure that everything about the toy on the shelf would be perfect.
Apparently not.
Mattel's 'Wicked' Movie Dolls Mistakenly List Porn Site on Packaging https://t.co/IEiNRtnNZ6
— Variety (@Variety) November 10, 2024
Oh! Oh no!
The error was in printing wicked.com instead of WickedMovie.com, so we can only hope the little musical theatre fans who get the dolls are less concerned with the packaging than with throwing Elphaba down the stairs to see whether she can defy gravity.
The cock-up went down a lot better online than we suspect it will with parents. Here are some favourite responses.
1.
I'm melting! https://t.co/5NKJmCwQmQ
— David Lazarus (@Davidlaz) November 10, 2024
2.
A spokesman said “this is the one thing we didn’t want to happen.” https://t.co/rqeNNCc18N
— Ali Arikan (@aliarikan) November 10, 2024
3.
Universal Orlando not taking ANY chances with the Wicked doll packaging LOL pic.twitter.com/BMEcdZ0cUY
— Brad (@braddrinks) November 10, 2024
4.
The official Mattel Wicked dolls link to a porn site on the box pic.twitter.com/iW4mNVAlPE
— just2good (Sarah Genao) (@just2goodYT) November 9, 2024
5.
Thats an insane oversight, someone getting fired lol
— Spann (@SpannDaMan) November 10, 2024
6.
i smell a lawsuit from an angry mother coming
— ☀️ (@AG7Source) November 10, 2024
7.
Somebody royally screwed up. https://t.co/SgLcrSmknP pic.twitter.com/hShNMCSn1p
— @M3Writer.bsky.social (@M3Writer) November 10, 2024
8.
Legal didn’t catch that but likely argued for weeks on how large the Wicked logo could be on the front of the box. https://t.co/CzDC2mQdFz
— LB (@schLEEpington) November 10, 2024
9.
I’m about go get me one right now before they pull them
— Angelface (@AngelFaceTV) November 10, 2024
10.
whoever owns that site is about to get offered an insane amount of money from Disney https://t.co/g5vN5aAhgf
— Leem (@leemfisto) November 10, 2024
11.
One time I misspelled a word on a playset instruction manual and thought I’d be hunted down. This is the toy equivalent of accidentally dropping an atomic bomb. https://t.co/WG8oHlkNu0
— Aaron Margolin (@Aaron_Margolin) November 9, 2024
12.
Oh boy this is going to get republicans spiraling and creating conspiracies about the movie delete this tweet and email Mattel pic.twitter.com/oHd1vqKCeN
— mizge (@mihailo____) November 10, 2024
13.
This movie deserves to come out during Christmas because it’s just the gift that keeps on giving https://t.co/vAfsIH49VC
— Swagamemnon (@Brendangriffin) November 10, 2024
14.
imagine being a kid, getting the book and the dolls for your birthday and ending up with a double dose of trauma https://t.co/WIsMqNOhd8
— (@dameronsmoon) November 10, 2024
15.
Special Wicked toys for all the family… https://t.co/RdgtYEusCN
— Robbie (@robbiemarka) November 10, 2024
16.
When people insist they don’t need a copy editor to review everything because they “know how to spell” https://t.co/CEUWQPFTvB
— Brittany Brown (@brittabrow) November 10, 2024
For the rest of us, it’s the new benchmark for terrible errors.
Bookmarking this for the next time I freak out over a minor mistake https://t.co/m0ylhwVQRS
— Emily Cyr Miller (@PanCyred) November 10, 2024
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