Opportunists are wanting to money in on an unlucky error befalling the Depraved toy line.
Ebay has been flooded with choices of Elphaba and Glinda character dolls from Common‘s movie adaptation of the blockbuster musical after news broke that the packaging contained a link to an adult entertainment site — wicked.com — and not the film’s official web site, wickedmovie.com
Listings touting the Mattel dolls’ “Porn MISPRINT!” and “RARE URL PORN ERROR” have been looking for $140 to $200 for the objects, which retail for $25 to $40.
And collectors are paying these costs within the hopes that the dolls — which Mattel and Common have scrambled to pull from retailer cabinets — will solely enhance in worth with the passage of time.
There have already been dozens of gross sales of the toys on eBay, with one going for as excessive as $250.
Mattel issued an announcement of apology over the gaffe, saying the corporate “deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this. Parents are advised that the misprinted, incorrect website is not appropriate for children.”
This might not be the primary time an unlucky misprint on a youngsters’s product resulted in controversy.
Earlier this 12 months, Goal — the principle retail associate for the Depraved toy line — had to recall a Black Historical past Month instructional equipment after a TikTok person identified its magnetic figures misidentified key historic figures Carter G. Woodson, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.
And a 1998 challenge of Wolverine comics by accident printed an antisemitic slur rather than the phrase “killer.” Regardless of an try to recall and destroy all copies, many survived and are nonetheless accessible on the market on-line.
