Hasbro rebrands Mr Potato Head

This has been reported in the press as if it's some kind of gender-ideologist non-binarising woke-pandering, when actually it's a pretty good change — instead of it being the Mr Potato Head toy range, incorporating Mr Potato Head, Mrs Potato Head and whatever other potatoid and other tuberous characters may be available, it's the Potato Head toy range. Both more logical and less sexist.

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)....

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This should be a potato emoji! ->🥔

Some would say I am childishly excited about that and to them I say, "yes, you are entirely right, I am. Now help me find more vegetable emojis!"

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

To be fair, most babies look like potatoes at birth

vegetable related effigy representation

Po-they-to

and menstrutater

God I love Mn sometimes!

Titania is on the case and her phone has a potato emoji. Do I have a potato emoji? Muat investigate this.

This is not a story worth getting exercised over!

Yeah, but it gave us Mx Po-they-to-head, so...

Guess Who? would take a bit longer. “Is it a man?”. “Umm, I’m actually not sure how they identify.”

And Toy Story isn't real, y'know. Mr Potato Head won't be sneaking anywhere

@PotholeParadies

Oh that is sad. my daughter, who is nearly 11, has never got into that type of doll, so I didn't know. She still plays with my husband's aunt's Sindys which are the original 1960s ones. No idea where mine (1970s/80s) are. Somewhere in my mum's loft, or possibly long gone.

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.

No.

She got gradually driven out of the catalogues and out the shops by Barbie, until Hasbro pulled her entirely.

Another company tried to relaunch her five years ago, but as a little girl doll, not an 11 inch fashion doll. But that didn't get off the ground, either.

metro.co.uk/2016/09/13/tesco-is-bringing-sindy-back-from-the-dead-but-shes-changed-a-lot-6125875/

So, Mrs Potato Head to be rebranded as ‘Menstrutater’ ...

@PotholeParadies

This thread has made me upset about the demise of Sindy. She was cooler than Barbie. I will go to the mats on this one.

What do you mean demise? Is Sindy no more?

Of COURSE she was cooler than Barbie. I had Sindys and they spoke like me (London). My sisters had Barbies who had hideous faux-American accents.

Jesus Christ youre getting your knickers in a twist over the gender of potatoes? 😂 Yeah it’s probably a big conspiracy so mr potato head can sneak into women’s toilets undetected 🙄

I think my response to anyone who states they are gender neutral from now on will simply be...
"potato ".

• I am obviously overcome about it all as my spelling and grammar confirms.

I would have thought Mr Potato Head would have been left alone butan outcry about Mrs Potato Head and she have bern silenced (no lips for her).

Sadly OP this is rubbish. Mr Potato Head still exists. Mrs Potato Head still exists. The overarching brand, which used to be "Mr Potato Head" is now simply "Potato Head". This is not a story worth getting exercised over!

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Perhaps they want to avoid a rerun of the great Teletubbies debacle. Somewhere in America someone decided that one of the Teletubbies was a) male and b) gay. Some parties then wished to ban Teletubbies.I
marvelled at the sort of mind that could ascribe not just a gender identity but a sexual orientation to a large blob of brightly coloured plastic and admit to laughing long and hard. Then it occurred to me that the owners of these minds possibly had access to children.

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. I know someone whose baby was assigned female at birth but it involved chopping bits off not sticking them on.

You've been able to get a gazillion variations of 'Mr' Potato Head for years. I had a whole bunch of Star Wars character ones almost 20 years ago including Leia. They all start life as a plain potato and you can use the accessories to create whatever you want and whether that's a 'male' or 'female' character or an alien character or whatever. You have been able to do that for decades.

Po-they-to-head 🤣

And I nearly didn’t open this thread cause I thought “meh, who cares”?

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Excellent!

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