Ty Dolls Malia And Sasha

Ty Makes Sasha And Malia Dolls

Posted by: Catherine Strawn Filed in: news
4:30PM, Thursday January 22nd 2009

Ty, the toy company that makes Beanie Babies, recently released dolls named “Sweet Sasha” (left) and “Marvelous Malia” (right) as part of their TyGirlz Collection. The company, based outside of Chicago in Oak Brook, IL, said they chose those names because “they are beautiful names,” rather than because they’re the names of the First Daughters. “There’s nothing on the dolls that refers to the Obama girls,” said spokesperson Tania Lundeen. “It would not be fair to say they are exact replications of these girls. They are not.” Clearly— the real Obama girls are way cuter. [AP]

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Ninaka
wrote on January 22 2009 @ 04:59 pm: [report]

This company has an obligation to maximize shareholders profits. Is this creepy and distasteful? Perhaps but this is the economic system we have. I still don’t understand how the hell they have the nerve to say that it’s just a coincidence and there is no connection with the first daughters. I wonder how long it took them to come up with all that alliteration. ::rolls eyes::

kushka53
wrote on January 24 2009 @ 02:26 pm: [report]

Historically, lots of dolls have been based on real people. Bottom line is, lighten up Michelle. These girls are adored by the Nation and dolls can be good role models for children, who are after all innocents. They don’t hold their beloved doll and say, “hey, this is exploitation!” Besides, we are a capitalist nation, free to make money as we wish…I’m sure there will be lots of memorabilia that pays homage to this unique first family while making a buck.

Perceptible
wrote on January 27 2009 @ 09:24 am: [report]

Well put kushka53!