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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Happy Hour Playset (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

An alleged advertisement causes controversy in 2016.

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0:59.4

Bottles up. I'm Jason Horton I I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. In December of 2016, in the wake of another busy Christmas for consumers an ad for a Fisher-price toy titled the Fisher-price Happy Hour Playset hit the internet.

1:31.0

As you might imagine the plastic toy ad caused quite the internet. As you might imagine, the plastic toy ad caused quite the stir.

1:35.5

Outlets like the Chicago Tribune, CBS News, and BuzzFeed all picked up the story.

1:40.4

A suspicious toy featuring two children patronizing a bar and one child

1:45.6

acting as if they were a bartender. This supposed item for ages three and up says

1:52.4

that it includes a pretend bar, bar stools, and beer

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