down syndrome dolls and benny the anatomical teddy

so. 

this site was started so that children with down syndrome could hold a doll in their hand that looked like them.  maybe not the worst idea in the world.  but when you mispell the condition (down symdrome friends) right on the main page of the website (probably too much work to redo the wordart on that fabulous graphic) and offer the dolls in both open and closed mouth versions, i start to wonder if maybe this product is a little misguided.  maybe it’s the creepy grandma’s house way they have the dolls displayed, the half-assed attempts to describe each doll’s personality, or the fact that when browsing the dolls the top of the screen says “let’s see what we have here”. 

benny the anatomical teddy

benny the anatomical teddy is also offered on the site, and appears to have nothing anatomically correct about him.  the description states he is stuffed with polyester and is apparently able to explain digestive, urinary, respiratory, and skeletal procedures to children.  the site then lists a bunch of organs.  the site does not explicitly say if the organs are in the bear or not.  i think the bitch is just listing organs.  as far as i can tell he just comes with half a pair of scrubs.  (bears don’t need pants)  the site promises to expand with a “chemo friend” apparently coming soon.  chemo friend is simply a doll with no hair.  *shudders with offense*

    • betholomew
    • February 2nd, 2010

    Are those flowers for sale? Those flowers should be for sale.

    • bratz
    • February 2nd, 2010

    so your telling me you sell a doll with no hair and it costs more? you think i could sell a doll with no eyes to a blind kid for a fare share. i think i got some laying around the basement. how bout a doll with a knife in it to a stab victim or a melted up doll to a burn victim. i got a few of those too.

    • admin
    • February 3rd, 2010

    i just wanted to say, that since the description of benny does mention not to put him in the spin cycle and he does cost $199.00 – he probs does have organs in him. but it seemed funnier to leave those parts out. i’m sorry for kind of lying.

    p.s. lol@bratz

    • mina
    • February 8th, 2010

    Well, I was drinking some delicious raspberry emergen-c and then I was laughing hard about “Benny” because most unecessary quotation marks are funny, and then the emergen-c came up and out my nose. Crystal is fuhny.

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