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- srchgrrl, on 03/23/2009, -1/+38I'm not the type of parent to ban these things from everyone else, but there's no way I'm letting my daughter play with little 'ho dolls. Looks like this guy's lapse in ethics is coming back to get him, and I'm glad for it.
- pingpants, on 03/23/2009, -0/+35poor Dora the Explorer just got the tart upgrade, too
- yesbeegee, on 03/23/2009, -3/+25I'm no pysch major but I agree; good parenting is all about keeping the suggestive toy guns and Bratz away from the shelves.
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 03/23/2009, -1/+18Good riddance to those mini-whore dolls. Let's all teach our kids to be airheaded superficial little skanks before they even hit puberty!
- raustin, on 03/23/2009, -2/+18bratz dolls are trash, and hopefully they go down. we've banned them in our house, but there are plenty of parents out there that don't know any better.
- mrfuzz, on 03/23/2009, -1/+16I predict a Bratz comeback, those things are fierce
- BeShirtHappy, on 03/23/2009, -0/+12I saw the pics of the new Dora... it isn't too bad, but they do need to dress her more like an "Explorer", imho. The Bratz dolls scare me.
- doctechnical, on 03/23/2009, -0/+11A man walks into a toystore and is looking at all the Barbie dolls with some confusion. A sales lady comes over and asks if she can help. The man says "I'm buying a birthday present for my niece, she loves Barbie but I don't know much about it. Does Barbie come with Ken?"
The sales lady says "No, Barbie comes with GI-Joe. She fakes it with Ken." - crawfishsoul, on 03/23/2009, -0/+8That and the fact that guns _are_ cool.
- wjlaw100, on 03/23/2009, -1/+9Hmmm You're saying the "Bratz Pole-dancing Expansion pack" or the "Batz Office" the message parlor play set is a bad idea???
- whuddafugger, on 03/23/2009, -2/+10Barbie was too high maintenance with her Malibu beach house and pink corvette. Ken caved and went for the hotter Latina, Asian, and black Bratz babes.
Sour grapes. - gaqua, on 03/23/2009, -0/+7If they outlaw Bratz then only Outlaws will own Bratz.
Well, besides those people who buy the knockoff Latina Bratz at the flea market on Saturdays. The ones with teardrops tattooed on their cheeks and hair that's like 5x the size of the doll itself. - doctechnical, on 03/23/2009, -0/+7Because everyone who played with toy guns as a kid grew up to be a serial killer.
- Toshibi, on 03/23/2009, -0/+7Maybe because guns are cool. I had a toy arsenal growing up and I've yet to go on a shooting spree. Stupid people do stupid things. Irrational people do irrational things. Crazy people...well you know.
- usafdave, on 03/23/2009, -1/+7They've got to learn sometime.
- scoreloot, on 03/23/2009, -0/+6Bratz dolls are banned in my house, I even bought my daughter the competitor from Barbie (think it was called My Scenes) they were a little more made up, but no where close to HO levels these Bratz are. Bad judgement IMHO to let your daughter buy these, but since consumer power dictates commercial purchases, I guess many parents around the world don't do the right thing, and try to make a friend of their child versus teaching them better. If Mattel takes em off the shelves good riddance!
- doctechnical, on 03/23/2009, -0/+6Perhaps exploring her sexuality?
- ethos101, on 03/23/2009, -0/+6She's not much of an "explorer" anymore.
- inajeep, on 03/23/2009, -2/+7I happened to catch 5 minutes of a braz movie or tv show by accident. The toys and videos should be removed from circulation and the writers, producers and company execs should all be put on trial for abominations against humanity.
- doctechnical, on 03/23/2009, -1/+6@danwallace: As has already been stated, guns ARE cool. It's shooting people without a damned good reason that's not cool.
You need to go to a range and cycle some brass. It's great fun. - MothBoy, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4Mattel did invent them first. That was kind of the whole point of this lawsuit. The designer was under contract with Mattel.
- oxdeltaxo, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4I never needed toy guns as a kid. My uncle always used to take me shooting. I'm a crack shot with a rifle....and yes guns are kinda cool.
- digitalArtform, on 03/23/2009, -1/+5Mattel was stupid not to have invented them first. Just like they were stupid to have spurned 'Toy Story 1'
- JFitzpatrick, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4"Bratz are just cooler, with their eyes and makeup done up more like how real women do it,"
What? I'll grant you that I don't have a tweenage daughter or even any tweener nieces... but every bratz doll I've seen has makeup done like a tranny Latina hooker. I'm pretty disheartened that the "real women" in this lady's life look like that. - IAmTheGuy, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4http://www.theonion.com/content/video/bratz_dolls_ ...
- cfuse, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3Whora.
- Spacejack, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3This is a business law case that has nothing to do with parenting.
I don't like Bratz dolls and I don't particularly like MGA because of their general copycattery (e.g. the boardgame "laser battle" clearly a market interception of "Khet"), but that doesn't necessarily mean that Mattel is right to squish them. Exclusivity contracts in creative fields (however mechanical) such as toy design are pretty draconian--although of course the time to debate that is before signing them... - maanwi, on 03/23/2009, -1/+4The article doesn't go into enough detail about the jury decision on the exclusivity contract. "You can't work in your own field of expertise if you work for us" is anticompetitive BS. As long as he wasn't stealing company secrets, I think such contracts are overreaching and should be illegal.
- phufufoo, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Mattel turned down his idea. He sold that idea to someone else. Kinda sucks for him haha. At first he must have been like AHA I showed you! And then the army of lawyers came out and hes paying the price for not knowing how contracts work and being savvy enough to counter it at the beginning.
- Bamboolemur, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Easily, my favorite article title this week.
- GordonClass, on 03/23/2009, -1/+4My daughter played with them when she was younger, 12 now and I'll tell ya right now that the parents look at them like tramps not the kids. She played with Bratz the same way she did with Barbie and she dresses conservative now. If your kid turns out to be a pole dancer it's because of the values you as a parent taught them not because of a doll.
- ceemeister, on 03/23/2009, -2/+5where does it say anything about melons in the linked article?
- edwarddouglas, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Must be sour grapes because Barbie won't let them over her Malibu beach house. Go back to Compton... Sluts.
- 3tcp, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3hmm, if these things are on their way out maybe I ought to buy a few for the collector value.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -2/+5Yet another example of the bad joke we call copyright.
- StankInTheBank, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3Dora is the most mind-numbingly dumb show on TV. Put your toddler in front of that and they learn nothing.
- NoamChimpsky, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3One of the main issues here is creative control. Who owns IP?
On some level I feel for the designer--even if he did create a whorish abomination--he was smart enough to come up with a multimillion dollar idea, but because of the legalities of monolithic corporations it wasn't really his.
I wish there was a little more detail in this article. Why didn't Mattel produce these things? Was his idea stymied and he had to go elsewhere, or did he realize that he had a huge property and wanted to get a better deal than the "whatever you think of while we pay you we own, no matter how big it becomes""?
This is part of why creativity sucks in this country: those who have the talent to create [even whorish abominations] are 99% of the time beholden to our corporate overlords who have no creative talent whatsoever.
It's just a shame that the most brilliant among us are so bad with a checkbook. - MothBoy, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Barbie, on the other hand, has appeared in a surprisingly good series of movies for little girls. Good stories, good music, appropriate messages and surprisingly well done.
- MothBoy, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Yep. Mattel didn't decide to make them (thank you, Mattel), but they still owned the rights to them.
The funny thing is that Mattel made some dolls with Bratz features (like the big eyes) and Bratz tried to sue them back in 2005 for infringement. That apparently was before Mattel realized they employed the designer of Bratz. - inajeep, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3I'll take your word for it. Maybe Barbie is more subtle but Bratz never impressed me when I had to buy one for my niece for xmas. I questioned my wife that her sister was OK with this for her daughter. The 5 minutes of slutty materialistic garbage I watched sealed the first impression in Lucite for me. I hope Bratz and all they represent end up recycled.
- sirber, on 03/23/2009, -2/+550% article 50% ads
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3No thats what parents like JonBenet ramsey family who put this kids in beauty pageants are for the pedo's just love them for that
- bodycounter, on 03/23/2009, -1/+3This is from December. Old news.
- doctechnical, on 03/23/2009, -0/+2The designer was under an exclusivity contract - anything he designed, whether they made it or not, belonged to Mattel. And evidently the jury agreed.
- Garay002, on 03/23/2009, -2/+4buried for title that fails
- wentwhere, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2No way, there's a fine line between trash and fierce and Bratz are on the wrong side of that line
- digitalArtform, on 03/23/2009, -0/+2If Mattel didn't see the value of it until Adam Smith's Invisible Hand took them by the scruff of the neck and rubbed their faces in it, then however you want to slice it -- Mattel was stupid.
- MothBoy, on 03/23/2009, -0/+2If your niece is still young, look at the Barbie videos. They have done a bunch of classic stories (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, 12 Dancing Princesses, A Christmas Carol, Princess and the Pauper) and some fairy tales and other stories that all have really good music (mostly from the London Philharmonic, if I remember correctly) with good positive messages for girls.
I'm not sure who makes these, but they are nothing like the Bratz garbage, and are a lot more wholesome and worthwhile than I expected from the Barbie brand. I was very pleasantly surprised, and my daughters love them. Check out somewhere like Netflix for reviews and opinions.
For reference, my daughters have been known to walk into a store and say (loudly) "Look, there are those bad girls that mommy won't let us play with" when they see the Bratz display! - jshhmr, on 03/23/2009, -1/+3As a father of a 6 year old girl, I can't stand Bratz. Girls shouldn't look like sluts.
- doctechnical, on 03/23/2009, -0/+1The Chickenranch playset is a collectible.
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