Just weeks after the hack of electronic toy maker VTech exposed the personal information for more than five million children and adults, another child-focused enterprise has suffered a similar breach. The interactive online community for Hello Kitty was recently breached, potentially compromising 3.3 million accounts. [More]
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McDonald’s Recalls Happy Meal Toy For Choking Hazard After Two Children Cough Up Pieces
By 11.10.14
Usually toys that come in kids meals bring joy and happiness to children, right? Apparently that wasn’t the case for 2.3 million whistle toys recently featured in McDonald’s Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals that pose a possible choking hazard. [More]
Everyone Is Freaking Out Because Hello Kitty Isn’t A Cat
By 8.28.14
You know those days when you learn something about the world and suddenly everything shifts to one side and it feels like all your thoughts are just spilling out of your brain like so many useless, wrong facts? That’s how many people are apparently feeling upon learning this week that Hello Kitty, that ubiquitous face that launched a bajillion cute products, is not, in fact, a cat. [More]
Fair Worker Charged With Fraud After Giving Players Hello Kitty Dolls They Didn’t Actually Win
By 10.1.13
You’ve just shelled out a ridiculous amount of money to fling darts at a wall of balloons and hope you can somehow pop enough of them to win the giant stuffed prize that’s hanging there, taunting you in the face of your failure every time. Who hasn’t wanted to just slip a couple of extra bills to a fair worker to get the big Hello Kitty and win the day? Doing just that ended with a state fair worker in handcuffs for accepting bribes. [More]
Flying In A Plane Decked Out With Hello Kitty Stuff Is Either A Terrifying Or An Amazing Idea
By 8.29.13
Depending on where you fall on the Hello Kitty spectrum — “All those unblinking eyes terrify me” to “Yay yay yay Hello Kitty I love you, yay!” — this news will either be overwhelmingly scary or an unprecedented bit of magical, wonderful luck: The Taiwanese airline that already flies five-kitty themed planes around Asia is sending a flight from Taipei to Los Angeles three times a week starting Sept. 18, chock full of Hello Kittyness. [More]
Hello Kitty Engine Oil
By 6.22.10
Sometimes you can take branding too far. Apparently this Hello Kitty engine oil is a real product designed for compact cars, and it sells for $2980 Yen, 33 American dollars. Perfect for outrunning bad penguins. [Newlaunches via BoingBoing] [More]
