Toy Manufacturer To Sell Caylee Anthony Doll
Now you too can be a part of the Caylee Anthony saga unfolding on cable news networks! What's that? This is a grotesque commercialization of what should be a private tragedy? Don't be such a downer! "We want it to be a tribute," Showbiz Promotions prez Jaime Salcedo told the Orlando Sentinel. Heck, he's even thinking of donating $3 per purchase to some good cause or another.
The doll plays "You Are My Sunshine" when you push her belly, so luckily you don't have to be sad when you look at your new Caylee doll. You do have to be one sick, creepy fool, however.
Asked about whether it's appropriate for his company profit on Caylee's death, Salcedo said he is anticipating critics.
"I think that that is going to come up," he said.
Salcedo said the public does not understand what it costs to make the doll, ship it, import it, and his company's expenses.
Yes, it's definitely expensive to make and sell toys these days. Here's an idea: just cancel it altogether. Problem solved, and you might even repair a little fragment of your shredded, soot-stained soul, Jaime.
Seriously, don't sell dolls of murdered children. It's effed up.
"The Caylee Marie Anthony tribute doll" [Orlando Sentinel] (Thanks to Craig!)
Showbiz Promotions storefront
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Is this by the same people that brought you the OJ Simpson junior slasher kit?
Did they test the public's interest before deciding manufacturing would be worth it? If so, that means they received some healthy level of positive feedback. Gross.
This is so upsetting..... It looks nothing like her.
Wait, didn't caylee have brown hair and.. uh... not bright blue eyes?
That's amazingly tasteless. Basically they're taking some doll, throwing a name on it and hoping they can buy the charity crowd. No thank you, I think I'll just send my money to the center for missing and exploited children, and skip the tacky "tribute."
Oh for fuck sake!
Yeah, well, look - you know, the average kid, he picks up, you know, broken glass anywhere, you know? The beach, the street, garbage cans, parking lots, all over the place in any big city. We're just packaging what the kids want! I mean, it's a creative toy, you know? If you hold this up, you know, you see colors, every color of the rainbow! I mean, it teaches him about light refraction, you know? Prisms, and that stuff! You know what I mean?
Look, we put a label on every bag that says, "Kid! Be careful - broken glass!" I mean, we sell a lot of products in the "Bag O'" line.. like Bag O' Glass, Bag O' Nails, Bag O' Bugs, Bag O' Vipers, Bag O' Sulfuric Acid. They're decent toys, you know what I mean?
Mucho creepy. How about just donating money to "some good cause". Super double creepy to the person who buys this doll.
Bleh why would someone buy this, let alone make it? I'd rather get a Snuggie than this atrocity.
@bobcatred: Yea, the fact that they made Caylee into a blue eyed blonde really pushes this over the top. Maybe they should have called it the Natalee Halloway doll, instead.
That is the sickest thing I have ever heard. This guy should just be flogged.
I think they'll do much better with the forthcoming life-sized Natalee Holloway doll.
@bobcatred: They actually claimed to make it not look like her so people won't be creeped out. Silly me, I thought it was because they found a 1/2 off sale on blonde hair. The whole thing is disgusting, specially where he tries to talk as if the company is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, and will make no money off of it.
Would it be "Bad Taste" to buy one and bury it a few hundred yards from my home? This is pretty sick.
Well this entrepreneur has the balls to say the doll is based on Caylee, unlike the Beanie Babies company claiming that their new African-American girl doll pair is not based on the Obama daughters.
That's ashame. I've already exhausted my spending money this month donating to the "Get Nancy Grace Off the Air and Have An Angry Mob Chase her with Pitchforks Off a Cliff" fund.
This is horrible. Our society has really hit bottom. We are the sickos of the world now because of someone doing things like this. Is Jose Baez part of this? I hope her loses everything because of trying to profit off of a nurder. BAD KARMA, VERY BAD KARMA
What kind of sick exec came up with this and who are the sick people who would buy it.
PLEASE....
let me know the name of the idiot toy/discount chain that is plannning on carrying this product.
Oh PLEASE.
I got some free time on my hands with nothing better to do than picket a toy store.
These are the same guys who came out with the Michael Vick dog chew toy. And they've got plenty of complaints from customers too:
Ahh, surely you don't have to actually watch CNN to want Nancy Grace taken off the air and chased off a cliff by an angry mob with pitchforks, do you? Just knowing of her existence is enough for me to want to donate to the above-mentioned fund. rpm773, where do I sign up?
You do realize that this action raises our cumulative karma?
I mean, no matter what despicable act I have thus far conceived and/or committed, I have not gone... there... yet. So good news for those of us grading on a sliding scale!
I'm trying to come up with a coherent response to this one, but all I can think is "what the fuck?"
What the fuck were these people thinking, and how did this loathesomely sick idea ever get so far as putting the doll in production?! I can only assume "Showbiz Promotions" has a staff of one (Jaime Salcedo), because otherwise I can't figure how the idea didn't get shot down at its inception on the grounds of being so utterly fucked up.
@Vanessa Martinez: I can almost guarantee they did NOT market test this. If they did, it was amongst dilerious drunks who cry and consider everything a tribute.
I am NOT amused by this! This cannot bring joy to anyone.
Sick and really freaking twisted and inappropriate. I'm having a hard time coming up with enough words to express how inappropriate this is.
Hmmm....I don't remember them making a Jon Benet Ramsey doll...
This is disgusting. It looks like some toymaker got stuck with an overstock of blonde toddler dolls and decided to slap an "in the news" name on the. ewwww.
I wouldn't be surprised if the low-life grandparents have something to do with it. I heard they are looking into TV movies and book deals now. That whole family is shameful and disgusting trash, pimping themselves out on TV, shoving their faces in cameras "find our grandbaby" with tacky T-shirts and billboard trucks, when they knew DAMN WELL she was dead, and their daughter killed her. They were enjoying the media spotlight and sympathy. They are just as mentally deranged as the daughter. What kind of relatives ask for "compensation" for media interviews when they're trying to find a missing child?
The grandmother may still be charged with obstruction of justice for purposefully giving detectives a hairbrush NOT belonging to the missing toddler, to throw them off on the DNA, and not cooperating on searches for evidence. And the brother is seeking immunity from prosecution in order to testify against his sister, he may have disposed of evidence for her? What a "family."
I never thought I could feel so harshly about people, but I can't help it. One is a murderer, and the rest of the family is accused of obstruction of justice and tampering with an investigation. NONE of them seem to want to help the police.
When did it become okay for the company to decide to capitalize on the death of an innocent 3 year old? Her grandfather almost committed suicide last week because he was so distraught, and this company wants to make a few bucks off of her while her story is still sensational. This is disgusting. If they had any sense, they wouldn't make this doll.
@nicemarmot617: Oh no, something else for that bitch Nancy Grace to complain about for 6 more months.
profiteer. I don't believe a penny of that doll ever makes it to charity either.
@dancing_bear: That's almost as much fun as General Tron's
Secret Police Confession Kit or Teddy Chainsaw Bear.
@rpm773: While I didn't donate to the fund, Headline News after 6pm has become the Caylee Anthony network.
@K-Bo: And people won't be creeped out by a doll that's still named after a dead three-year-old. Gotcha. (rolls eyes at the manufacturer, if that's their logic)
Revolting. I hope Showbiz Productions loses their ass and Jaime Salcedo's golden parachute has a big old rip in it.
This is so sick. Making money off a murdered child! I will be protesting in front of toy stores here in az. I would rather send money to help find missing children then buy this so called doll.This sick man who came up with this idea is just as sick as caylee's so called mom!And if you do buy this doll, think about where your money is really going to go..... to casey anthony and her family ! so the company gives three bucks to the missing kids site and how much goes to the anthonys? hmmmm
Bugs Bunny had the right idea about Florida:
At long last I don't have to just watch the news. Now I can play at home too. "Little Betty, Little Bobby eat your veggies or this is what daddy will do to you. I think they talk about this happening somewhere in the back of the bible.
There should be a whole new level of hell just for the people involved with this exploitation.
@nicemarmot617: On the bright side, it's not an inflatable Caylee Anthony doll. Since that would be in poor taste.
Lawyers, please threaten this scumbag with appropriation of the kid's likeness and rights of publicity, as well as infringing on the various copyright holders of the music...
Somebody's gonna say it, might as well be me: so does the doll come with duct tape and sparkly stickers?