Disney recalls Forky toy due to choking hazard, elegantly setting up the plot of Toy Story 5
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The Toy Story movies have covered pretty much every aspect of a toy’s life, from getting replaced by a superior spaceman toy, getting stolen by a creepy toy collector, getting terrorized by an evil bear and nearly incinerated, and then passing on your toy knowledge to the next generation of toys made out of garbage, but one thing they’ve never had to deal with is the terror of getting recalled. Just imagine it: Sentient toys getting tossed into a bin with thousands of identical toys, none of which know where they are or why they’re there, and before they can plot some thrilling escape they’re all destroyed—or shipped off to a less discriminating toy market. Well, you no longer have to imagine it, because that dark fate is exactly what a real-life Forky toy is going to suffer through now.
As reported by Screen Crush, the Disney Parks Twitter account announced this week that the company is “voluntarily recalling” a plush Forky toy due to a “manufacturing defect” that could apparently result in a choking hazard for young children (like Bonnie!). It’s good that these are being recalled, then, but hopefully the kids who own these aren’t being told why their beloved plush Forky has to go away. Nobody needs to be told that their toy is being sent to death. On the other hand, if these kids are Pixar fans, they’re probably pretty familiar with tragedy as it is, so maybe they’ll appreciate the irony of Forky—a character who kept trying to get thrown away—getting thrown away.
Anyone who has purchased a product like this that may present danger to children can use the instructions on ConsumerSafety.org’s website for more information.
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I remember toys in the 70’s.Today’s kids would not have survived.
Many kids from our generation didn’t survive, but they’re not here to crack wise. To the winner go the rose-colored glasses.
Never again….
I remember having and using those heavy-ass metal lawn darts on my grandparent’s lawn. The average Generation Z kid today would not only murder themselves with it, but probably twenty people in the immediate vicinity.Please don’t judge young Mason for all those lawn dart murders. He’s young and troubled. A lone wolf.
Yes, yes, we all had concrete and steel jungle gyms and 4-story tall slides and blah blah blah.
A game that consisted of sharp, heavy objects that you were meant to throw for distance. These things literally killed and maimed people. Blah blah on that.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned
Nah, I didn’t have those things but mainly because I lived only 25 minutes from Action Park.
Today’s kids wouldn’t understand toys that you’re supposed to take outside.
Imagine what a toy who a killed chocked on must feel like? Does that break them mentally? Maybe they actually find they enjoyed it?Toy Story 5 can be about a serial killer toy!!On a side note, after seeing the movie my family proceeded to whip out the craft supplies and just make our own little forks family. My four year old wanted to sleep with his 🙂
Some Disney executive just read your last paragraph and is now cursing himself for not cornering the spork and pipe cleaner markets before the movie opened.
In the comic book series Fables, Bill Willingham reimagines the Island of Misfit Toys (from the Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special) as exactly that. All the toys on Discardia are there because they accidentally caused the death of their child. It’s absolutely heartbreaking and it’s one of the most amazing things I’ve seen done in a comic book.
Been a while since I read all of Fables, forgot about that part
Andy, long since tired of playing with his old toys, runs into his room to put his shoes on. He feels something wiggle around his foot, then a sharp stabbing pain. He tries to take his shoe off, but his foot has already swollen up too much. His heart is pounding, his head is light, and now he must be hallucinating, because he sees his old Woody toy walking towards him, a blank smile on its face.“There’s a snake in your boot,” says Woody, as Andy’s vision goes dark.
Hope he didn’t choke on it.
Ironically, the original plot of either Toy Story 2 or 3 was supposed to deal with Buzz getting recalled and sent to China and the other toys having to save him.
Turns out, Forky WAS trash!
“Well sweetie, just like Forky in the movie, his life was unbearable, he couldn’t stand being your toy, and we had to send him to the sweet relief of oblivion.”
Wasn’t the unproduced early script for Toy Story 2 actually about a toy recall? (of Buzz, I believe…)
It was actually Toy Story 3. It would have had them going to Taiwan for the recall, and oddly enough, Hanks wasn’t going to voice Woody again. There was also another version that was apparently a murder mystery set in Andy’s grandparents’ attic. I’d love to see that.Then after Eisner stepped down, Bob Iger came in, bought Pixar, and the rest is history. Lee Unkrich didn’t even look at the old scripts before making his version.
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a28194580/toy-story-cancelled-movie-circle-7/
“Lee Unkrich didn’t even look at the old scripts before making his version.”He claims, but there’s Circle 7 concept art that shows a version of Mr. Pricklepants.
Why do they need to make toys out of a character who’s a craft project? Just give your kids the crafts. Teach them how to do something. Stop participating in the consumerist machine. Christ.
Because sometimes kids just want a stuffed toy and not a goddamn fork with eyes on it. Christ.
“Stop participating in the consumerist machine.”Says someone using an electronic device to post on an advertisement financed website.
Says someone using an electronic device a computer I don’t own to post on an advertisement financed website. while using an ad blocker.
So then you are a mooch.
And you’re kind of an asshole. What can you do?
You’re really, really stupid.
They allow ad blockers at the library computer lab now?
I’m posting from beyond the grave, friendo.
There are ad blockers in hell, you old lech?
You criticize society and yet you participate in it. How odd.
Thank you Disney for reviving this long lost tradition…
1- Wham-O seemed to be on a multi-generational mission to flat out maim and kill little children.2- That Finger Gun is an awesome James Bond/David Cronenberg mash-up. Wasn’t there one in eXistenz?3- Holy f*ck, that Johnny Seven gun! 3 firing modes, plus a break-away pistol?!? Hell yes put that much firepower in the hands of a 9 yr old.
So Forky is trash?
Buzz was going to be recalled to Taiwan in the non-Pixar Disney made Ts3 before they acquired Pixar fully.
It’s funny because it’s literally based on a toy that a child made in the movie.Bonnie is not so stupid that she would attempt to swallow him after having made him. Maybe this should be a wake-up call to return to the days in which Darwinism prevailed. Bring back Forky, and while we’re at it, let’s bring back Jarts, too. Not the foam rubber ones of today, I mean the giant metal spiked Jarts. If kids are stupid enough to misuse things, than maybe it will help thin out the gene pool a bit.I mean for god’s sake. Forky is just a spork, essentially. You might as well recall sporks and pipe cleaners and googly eye stickers. Teach your young child not to eat things that are not supposed to be eaten. Or just teach your child to be like Bonnie. You know…. from the movie.