A word of warning before you go toy shopping this Christmas: beware the rapping cactus.
The toy, marketed as educational, may teach your children more than you want them to know, as a woman in Brampton, Ontario, discovered the hard way. The miniature, bright-green dancing cactus Ania Tanner bought sings in English, Spanish and Polish while squirming to the beat. After buying it for her granddaughter, Tanner discovered that one of the songs in its repertoire was an explicit tune about cocaine and hopelessness.
“It just so happens that I am Polish, and when I started to listen to the songs and I heard the words … I was in shock,” she told CTV News. “I thought: what is this, some kind of joke?”
OK, so the production line exists, the factory, the templates, the molds.
Changing what it says is just a matter of programming the chip. So, create a chip that is nothing but swearing. Real, total, blue. You’ll end up selling at least one to bro’s everywhere. Got to be really and totally blue though, to shock a CPO blue.