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Hasbro rebrands Mr Potato Head

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Nameitychangity · 25/02/2021 20:12

Mr Potato Head is no more. He has been given a gender neutral name, he's now just plain old Potato Head.
Presumably Mrs Potato Head has been given the chop too.

I wonder what accessories they will come with now.
And I wonder what toys will be next.
Any ideas?

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peak2021 · 01/03/2021 11:00

Concern over, actually makes sense in a way, given they do Mrs Potato Head and Mr Potato Head.

StealthPolarBear · 01/03/2021 10:47

Excellent point about guess who. How do those who insist being a man or a woman is all about the feelings play that do we think?

BlueBrush · 01/03/2021 10:39

I've just spotted a good blog post from Debbie Cameron on this.

Main points (hastily summarised by me):

  1. This is mostly about how companies are trying to score points by appearing to be on trend progressive, without that actually meaning anything in material terms.
  2. The pieces provided with the Potato Head toys are still stereotypically gendered e.g. black bowler hat, pink handbag, and the change of language won't change how children play with the toys because they still inhabit a world in which gender differentiation and androcentrism are the norm.
lunar1 · 26/02/2021 14:31

Can you imagine the story line for toy story 5 FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️

yourhairiswinterfire · 26/02/2021 14:24

@AfternoonToffee

And Toy Story isn't real

But it is, toys really come to life. I am always guilt ridden about the toys in the loft.

Grin

I had a Woody toy as a kid that I left out in the garden on accident. Of course it rained that night, and it ruined his talk box thingy so he started talking on his own (without us pulling his string) in a distorted, robotic manner.

I was terrified of him in the films after that and made my dad check my room before bedtime every night to make sure Woody wasn't hiding in there 😱

iklboo · 26/02/2021 14:24

They could go with ''Mx Po-they-to head'', to really be on the safe side.

Genius.

PotholeParadies · 26/02/2021 14:19

Now that is the way to do social media. Absolutely fastastic tweet!

I'll be sniggering for whole minutes over that for the rest of the day.

PurpleHoodie · 26/02/2021 14:15

"I yam proud to confirm..."

Frickin' genius Grin

Liquorishtoffee · 26/02/2021 14:09

reverse ferret?

Riggsisadino · 26/02/2021 13:59

They are just dropping the Mr from the company title. They are selling a Mr and Mrs potato head still.

Hasbro rebrands Mr Potato Head
HoppingPavlova · 26/02/2021 13:54

I don’t get it. My kids had this over 20 years ago. We bought a big bucket of ‘Mr Potato Head’, and it had several heads and heaps of accessories including things such as feminine eyes with eyelashes, lips with obvious lipstick, female handbags, feminine hats, flowers where the hat hole is etc. Branded Mr Potato Head but you could have made full on female potato heads if you wanted. No idea why they would need to rebrand......

TinselAngel · 26/02/2021 13:40

Will nobody think of Mrs Potato Head and the other potato widows?

RagzReturnsRebooted · 26/02/2021 13:26

When I heard this on the radio this morning my first thought was God forbid we misgender a potato...

AfternoonToffee · 26/02/2021 08:54

And Toy Story isn't real

But it is, toys really come to life. I am always guilt ridden about the toys in the loft.

Twinkie01 · 26/02/2021 08:16

You could just put those big old red lips on sideways and use the moustachioed nose for a penis.

Off to drill a genital hole on Mr Potato head. (Mrs Potato head can't be bothered but Mr Potato head is very militant that he should be able to try all the accoutrements that come with being Mrs Potato Head!!)

lightlypoached · 26/02/2021 07:59

@Twinkie01 I want to see those little plastic willies Grin

WarOnWomen · 26/02/2021 07:52

@Twinkie01

Maybe genitals can be added in the new set so children can chop and change as to whether they feel like a girl or boy on any given day?

Don't give them ideas.

Twinkie01 · 26/02/2021 07:49

Maybe genitals can be added in the new set so children can chop and change as to whether they feel like a girl or boy on any given day?

Ricebubbles2 · 26/02/2021 07:40

@WarOnWomen

* I am obviously overcome about it all as my spelling and grammar confirms.
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Ricebubbles2 · 26/02/2021 07:39

@HermitsLife

Its funny because whenever I hear the term 'assigned at birth' I imagine the midwife sticking genitals on babies like a Mr Potato Head toy. Grin
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Ilovemaisie · 26/02/2021 07:39

It's a restyle of the name of the brand - 'Potato Head' and you will be able to buy Mr or Mrs or the other gazillion variations they come up with. It's like the 'Barbie' dolls. A dozen or so 'Barbie Fashionista' dolls are released each year.. Despite it saying 'Barbie' on the box all the dolls are different characters - friends of Barbie but not Barbie herself.

CrayonInThreeBits · 26/02/2021 07:31

Exactly WashingMachine — both male as norm from which female is a deviation, and male as representative of all.

CupoTeap · 26/02/2021 07:07

Will Disney carry on with mr @mrs?

WashingMachineCrisis · 26/02/2021 07:05

As Crayon says above. I think this is actually a good move to challenge NORMAL = MALE. It’s the overarching brand that’s changing, not the original potatoes themselves (did I really just write that?!).

WarOnWomen · 26/02/2021 07:03

@WhoWh0

I read this story in my local news. The best comments were about whether Hasbro was also going to change its name to “Hasnon” (Has Non Gender)....

I heard they was going to change their name to Hasbeardybro.

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