The infamous Trolls Toy: a rant

You've heard about the Hasbro Singing and Giggling Trolls World Tour toy that has enraged morons, Karens, a tiny group of parents, claiming the dumbass theory that Hasbro purposely made the doll to groom kids.


No. Hasbro isn't going to risk their company by doing that. This is nothing more that an unfortunate design choice that fell through the cracls as the company raced to have licensed movie tie-in product ready for a deadline.

Yes, the figure has an unfortunate button on her crotch, but it's not a  sinister thing. It's nothing more than an action feature not fully thought out. These things happen constantly: Mattel's Nimbus 2000 from their Harry Potter line in the early 2000s.

There's the Oozinator... let's see what else?

Me Tarzan... Me fap!

Nants igonyama bagithi Baba
ibhubesi lengonyama lidlwengulwa imfene
(Father, is that a Lion? The lion cub is bwing raped by a baboon)
As you can see both Tarzan and Simba where victims of not well thought-out action features. That's the case with this Trolls doll people might argue that they could have put the bottom somewhere else and it would have worked.
They are not taking into consideration many things regarding toy design.  I'm not an expert bought since I've been most of my life tinkering with toys I have a bit more experience than the average mom and dad who don't deal with toys constantly.

People have suggested that the button could've been  on the back of her legs. No they couldn't. The legs are articulated and because of this articulation they couldn't put the button there. The figure already has the soundboard near her belly because there is another button on the belly. Having the button on the legs means having to pass the wire through the leg all the way to the belly... the leg articulation when abused will eventually break the wires. Putting the button and the soundboard on the leg would probably have added some stability issues for the doll. Have they moved the bottom a little bit to the back it would be closer to the doll's butt  and that would bring a couple of additional problems. The complaints on the bottom being in a No-No place would still remain. Then there's the possibility that the button would interfere with the leg articulation. Also it could create a weird somewhat heart-shaped button and that would cause people to freak out. No; putting the button on the back wouldn't work either.

To me, this seems, like as I mentioned earlier, a rushed toy that wasn't fully thought out and rush to meet the tie-in deadline. This is the one overreaction by people who see pedophiles everywhere.

While, yeah, misusing the doll can be very awkward, but it is NOT part of a pedophile ring that is using toys to groom kids. The button's unfortunate placement was based on cost-cutting measures.