Well i guess the inflation fetish is one of the more "harmless" ones ive seen some weird and fricked up stuff in my years on the internet ^^

I stopped trying to figure out fetishes years ago.

I just let them be. They aren't doing any harm.

Yeah, well...creating a game for young children that is also a very high-profile Internet fetish seems somewhat naive or irresponsible, not sure which.

They used to have the commercial for that pig on TV. The shirt pops open, not the belly.

Okay--cuz the marketing makes it sound like the pig itself pops.

Here's the commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E_DKJREnp8

I've never "gotten" the fat/inflation/etc. fetish either.

That kind of stuff is a bit disturbing to me, so its on my "will not draw" list.

Never heard of the toy though.
In my admittedly limited experience, most of the new toy ideas from companies like Hasbro or Parker brothers come from the echo chamber of the board room, with little outside influence.

Theres some really interesting videos on youtube about the toy market, and its history of truly weird toy ideas.

-Badger-

My husband and I were watching some old cartoons the other day--from the 1930's and 1940's--and there was one where a pilgrim with the voice of Droopy Dog was trying to shoot a turkey with the voice of Jimmy Durante. Every so often, a bear would stroll through the scene, wearing a sandwich-board that read "Eat At Joe's."

At the end of the story, the turkey and the pilgrim called a truce, and went into the diner.

The bear--whose name was Joe--ate them both.

And as he walked away picking his teeth, his distended stomach revealed in cut-away the annoyed-looking pilgrim and turkey, who advised the audience, "DON'T EAT AT JOE'S!"

So the cut-away vore stuff goes back a ways... :P

Yes, but the children who grow up viewing that kind of absurdity (and overriding Mommy's age-appropriate blocking) are going to have issues when they mature. After all, the real world won't match their fetishized outlook. Kinda gotta wonder about people who enjoy that sort of stuff.

I think the Catch the Fox game would be more impressionable for young would-be furries. you press the fox's head until hispants falldown and he drops all his chickens.


Now Pimple Pete, that is a disturbing concept fora game.

I also forgot about the Pooping Unicorn and the plushie of a turd that Walmart insists is "chocolate ice cream."