Tue 6 Nov 2007
It’s a Land of Sweets and Joy… And Joyness…
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Bizarre, In The News
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In late-breaking Antipodean news, an Australian children’s toy called Bindeez has been withdrawn from the market because it contains a chemical that can be metabolized into the ‘party’ drug Fantasy if swallowed.
I’m particularly enamored of the hippy-trippy unicorn picture that the Melbourne Age has used to illustrate the story. A body is forced to contemplate the notion that the manufacturers of Bindeez might’ve been sucking their own product.
Come with us to Candy Mountain, Charlieeeee…
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Addendum: boingboing reader jimh kicks in a lolcat response to the story here.
They’re tiny, pill-sized plastic beads in a variety of bright, fruity colors- what’r the chances of kids popping them into their mouths?
I particuarly like the description of them on the website as “Magic Beads”. Well, I guess so! And the ATA has named them “2007 Toy of the Year” -I’ll just bet they did. “Miss French, call Moose World and tell them we need another 15 sets for “evaluation” purposes.”
The recall is “voluntary”. Like any parent is now going to return them after they whisk them away from the kiddies.
When I was a kid we had to make do with chewing Play-Doh.
“Bindeez” / “Bindi’s” Coincidence?
Same nauseating effect after exposure.
They market this toy in the U.S. under the name “Aquadots” – FYI.
aquadots.tv
I honestly thought it was a Bindy Irwin cash-grab that went wrong. Damn!
Shun the non believers in those drug-addled toys… Shunnnnnn…
Does sucking the toy ensure that a magical liopleurodon will show me the way?
Jane: Was that because, maybe, that Microdotsâ„¢ was already taken?
Andrew: Oh man, you are so cynical! Next you’ll be telling us that Bindi is, like, just trying to cash in on the success of her late father or something.
MJD: Oh yes. A coupla
tabsbeads of this stuff and you too could wind up in a dark room minus some vital organs.Yeah they got these in the US too, under a different name
I thought the same thing as Andrew, that it was a Bindi Irwin merchandising tie in. I liked the thought that Bindi somehow became involved with a sinister cartel….. and I don’t mean her family.
One of my recent jobs was retouching Bindi’s photo to remove her “wrinkles” and “bags under her eyes” and to even out her skin tone, as requested by her management.
She’s only 8!
Poor Bindi. She needs some Bindeez.
Yeah, I was thinking she’s looking like a bit of a hag lately. There goes the Lancôme contract.
I think my head is going to explode.
Stop sucking the Bindeez then, Phoebe Fay!