NEWS: Pussycat Dolls Not So Doll-Like After All

CELEB: Pussycat Dolls Not So Doll-Like After All

No longer can throngs of teenage boys hope to get their mitts on a Pussycat Doll, which had been scheduled for release just in time for Christmas shopping. Toymaker Hasbro has scrapped their plans to produce a six-piece line of dolls featuring the group on the grounds that they are "inappropriate" for children after receiving complaints from angered and concerned parents.

The pop group's image stemmed from an original Los Angeles-based burlesque act, which is obviously not geared towards children. The radio friendly version of Pussycat Dolls are very popular with teens, grammar butchers, and those who exercise their mute button rights. They are not, however, popular with conservative parents. Multiple family groups had launched campaigns targeting the toymaker's pursuit of the project.

Sadly, this means no snarky tagline submissions like "Skankmobile Sold Separately."



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"Don'cha wish your toy campany was RAW like me?"

pussy cat dolls are bust downs!

Why are there six of them?

As far as I can tell that dark looking one gets to be the 'star' in the videos while the other five just dance about.

Why is this on SG anyway?

meh

"...grammar butchers..."

Ah hahahahahaha!!!

[Edited on May 26, 2006 2:47AM]

because they've been a dance/burlesque troupe for years before making their crappy songs.

apparantly it's rather hard to be a dance group all by your lonesome.

Yeah they used to be a burlesque troupe and were fantastic! They did a show with Gwen Stefani once and the clips I've seen were amazing!!! Now they are just rubbish and blah!

I only know them from how they are now. I can't even imageine them as a burleque troupe.

Imagine. I know how to spell. I swear!

someone should just run with the marketing they've got now and make pussycat blow up dolls.

at the very least, i think it would be more honest.

They made a Jenna Jameson action figure... Did anyone complain about that? I'm betting no.

I actually thought they were talking about life-size-do-what-you-want-to dolls anyway.

I swear I really am getting too old and jaded.

They were a fantastic burlesque troupe and did acts with a few different celebrities. The Gwen Stefani show was great. Why oh why did they do this!!! URGH!

A Burlesque troupe huh? (New found respect brewing) anybody happen to have any links of videos etc to capture the moment...?

Exotic Dancing toys for children. I can smell a winner from a mile away. Why would parents complain? Did they have pulsating body parts or something? Children wouldn't be buying them anyway. Dudes in their forties who where the same pair of underwear for a month would be collecting them.

as a matter of fact, lots of people complained about it. probably less so because it wasn't made by a toy company that gears its products towards grade-school kids.

so where is the outrage over those terrible bratz dolls? my friend has a five year old daughter that loves them and it is so hard to explain to her how bad they really are.

Ooh!! Million dollar idea...
SUICIDE GIRL DOLLS!!! YEAH!!!

(I probably should have patented the idea before I blabbed it to the rest of the world huh?)

I will admit complete ignorance of the Pussycat Dolls before reading this, but there are a few points here which really disturbed me:

1. As RockabillyRev pointed out, many parents allow their young girls to dress provocatively long before they've even hit puberty. If you're going to campaign against a product having a slut-ifying influence on your daughter, why not make it against the manufacturers responsible for prostityke apparel?

2. These "grandfathers and fathers" at Hasbro - why is it ok to whore out other people's daughters, but not your own? (re: the argument made by the parents' group)

3. Am I the only one who gets the feeling these same fathers (of Dads and Daughters) might be patrons of the sex trade themselves? Not to stretch the argument too much, but wouldn't that perpetuate point number two?

Sorry this was so long...

There is a site with some videos and pictures from back in The Viper Room onwards here!

i don't really consider them a group. it's just one hot chick surrounded by 5 other hot chicks. i'm always too busy gawking to notice anyone singing anyway.

oh dear god...ahahaha

what is the differencce between them and those BRAT dolls?

They were headlined by Carmen Electra? Eek...That explains the glossy boringness...i want a suicide girl toy...imagine the possibilities for accessorising...god i'm such a big girl pants...