8. Plane Wrong
There are some toys that make you wonder what was going through the heads of the people who designed them. Like the ones above that celebrate the death of over 3000 people on 9/11. Who did they think their target audience would be? Especially as they were being shipped to the United States, where they caused an understandable uproar. They were given away in bags of sweets and parents were horrified when they found them. The distributor quickly recalled them and said that they had been imported without checking them. Labelled on the invoice as Plastic Swing Sets, one toy depicts a plane flying between two towers and the other has Osama Bin Laden, swinging between the towers with his fists raised. And to make sure that there can be no mistake about which terrorist attack the toys were commemorating, the product number for each toy was 9011. One parent who inadvertently bought the offending toy said:
It makes me angry