Our son is crazy about Curious George (and also Thomas the Train Engine). We went shopping and I know there was a recall for Curious George, so I assumed they pulled them from the shelves and the ones that were there were safe.

WRONG!

My wife had the list of the UPCs which were recalled, and of course, the one we chose was on the list. I wanted to say something to the manager but I couldn't find one... put it back on the shelf and walked out. perhaps the store should be called Recalls-R-Us

Hmm. That is interesting. My son is also big on "George." Which doll were you looking at?

(side rant: I plan to buy nothing made in China for him this x-mas, so I will *probably* not buy him that doll, unless it is something very cool).

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Hurts like a bastid...

I thought the same thing the week after Toshiba was shown to be stealing US / DOD secrets, and AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange) still had Toshiba stuff in their stores on bases.

I called someone at aafes or dod to complain, too.

[I THINK it was toshiba...so very long ago now]

yeah Toshiba

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mrbigstuff,

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we were looking at the "Tool Time" (90251-1).

EDIT: quote from the web site: "Sold at: Toy and discount department stores nationwide from December 2005 through August 2007 for about $15."

Now it could be that they pulled from the shelves the older batched of these toys and the one sold now are OK, but why didn't they change the UPS? who tells me this toy was not sitting on the shelf since August?

when a US vendor hires several Chinese manufacturers to make the same item, don't they use different UPCs, or at least some serial numbers?



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I thought the same thing the week after Toshiba was shown to be stealing US / DOD secrets, and AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange) still had Toshiba stuff in their stores on bases.

I did not buy Toshiba products for about 10 years because of the milling machine incident. I never thought about armed forces stores pulling their products because of it but it makes some sense.

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I thought the same thing the week after Toshiba was shown to be stealing US / DOD secrets, and AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange) still had Toshiba stuff in their stores on bases.

I called someone at aafes or dod to complain, too.

[I THINK it was toshiba...so very long ago now]

I can't get over all the clothes in the PX/BX from Vietnam.

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If you can't buy Curious George, maybe you'll have to settle for bi-Curious George.

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I thought the same thing the week after Toshiba was shown to be stealing US / DOD secrets, and AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange) still had Toshiba stuff in their stores on bases.

I did not buy Toshiba products for about 10 years because of the milling machine incident. I never thought about armed forces stores pulling their products because of it but it makes some sense.

Yeah, I went to my nearest AAFES that next day or week, and was SHOCKED to see them selling Toshiba items. Again, I called someone up the chain, can't remember who(m).

Then again, didn't Hitachi do something similar?