Baby Dolls Raise a Stink In More Ways Than One

[bijou]

So long, Betsy Wetsy. Baby dolls just got a whole lot more real.

Put her on her little pink plastic toilet. Press the purple bracelet on Baby Alive Learns to Potty. "Sniff sniff," she chirps in a singsong voice. "I made a stinky!"

This season's animatronic Baby Alive -- which retails for $59.99 -- comes with special "green beans" and "bananas" that, once fed to the doll, actually, well, come out the other end. "Be careful," reads the doll's promotional literature, "just like real life, sometimes she can hold it until she gets to the 'potty' and sometimes she can't!" (A warning on the back of the box reads: "May stain some surfaces.")

The mess made by the $39.95 Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Gotta Go Doll, ("Over 60 phrases and fun sounds!") is more hypothetical. Once she is placed on her little toilet, a magnet triggers a presto, change-o in the plastic bowl: "The 'water' in the toilet disappears, with the expected 'potty waste' appearing in its place," says manufacturer Mattel. "Your child can then flush the toilet. The 'water' will reappear, while the toilet makes a very realistic flushing sound!" And then comes the applause.  ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/21/AR2008122102397.html?hpid=topnews

Thankfully there won't be one of these in my house this Christmas. 

[Eupher]

Whatever happened to old fashioned potty training? Without the training aids?

Jeezus.   

[Miss Mia]

Baby Dolls is the name of a strip joint here.

The title of this thread scared me terribly.

There's a chain of strip clubs in the DFW area called Baby Dolls.  LOL