How does this even happen? And can’t they just put a sticker over it instead of pulling all of them?https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/wicked-toys-mistakenly-links-to-porn-website-1235064198/
>>11229207Although tbf this shit would’ve ended up al Ollie’s anyway
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>>11229207You guys should buy lots of these before they're taken down because they're rare valuable collector's items now :)
>>11229214The movie will be a flop so nobody will want them anyway
>>11229207Probably the packaging was made quickly and not double checked. I rarely ever the back of packages, so I don't know how this mistake was even caught in th first place honestly. All the toys I've bought in the past 10 years could have a link to a RickRoll and I'd be none the wiser.
>>11229207>just2noose broke the newsSad how that works, anyways nobody cares
They'll be worthless just as if it didn't happen. Some rep will have to send out stickers to cover over the address and that's it. Only a moron would invest in this shit like someone will care
>>11229214Right, just like the misprinted Black Series Yavin Luke 'Skywalkwer' ended up being.
>>11229210Did no one check that they don't own the url?
>>11229207guarantee someone did that on purpose. someone improperly gruntled.
>>11229208I want one to do a repaint/reroot since the green skin is unique, I was waiting for them to go on deep discount after xmas since they obviously made way too many. Hopefully they will just do stickers.
>>11229214No a good collector item would've been the what was it interactive troll doll with the button right on its crotch.>put em out and said $10 says these get recalled>within a day they were in the backroom getting shipped back>only 1 person bought 1 before thebshit caught on
>>11229207The answer is AI anon. Mattel switched to AI design for some of their packaging this year.
Yeah, Mattel apologized for the error, and asked parents who had bought products with the incorrect website to destroy the packaging.
>>11229839AI could have instantly told them it was a porn site.
>where have I seen that logo?
>>11229210>>11229207>mistakenly-links>written URLs are now linksi hate zoomies and females so much >>11229223does girl shit bomb like that?im sure theres pent up demand for a long running play like that that the toys could sell well
>>11229907But did anyone ASK ai if it was. That is the question.
>>11230100My point is that if you told the AI "write the text for the back of the box" it would not write www.wicked.com because it would know the correct website.
>>11229214I've seen alot of normies/scalpers licking their collective lips over the 'potential' value of these things, but they were on sale long enough so people bought them in good amounts. Too many have gotten out for this to be an actual valuable item. eBay has thousands of result already and the 'misprint' isn't even that major of a flaw (especially if they eventually secure the domain rights, which they said they plan on). I say it's all just nonsense and dumb asses are gonna have closets full of these things trying to offload them while the interest is around, but failing miserably to recoup any costs. A fool and his money are soon parted I suppose.
>>11230142I was joking btw
>>11230140What makes you think AI would know the proper website? AI just makes up what it thinks you want to hear from its training data and the prompt. There is no guarantee it was trained on what the proper website for the movie would be as the training is based on scraping the existing internet, not the internet after the movie comes out.
>>11230151>What makes you think AI would know the proper website?The first link is the correct website (wickedmovie.com).
>>11230159Depends on which AI Mattel used
>>11230181>>11230151Companies using AI for package design deserve to fail and have millions in losses from products being pulled
>>11230197>looks nothing like KKK hoods>if anything, looks vaguely like african tribal masksMaking business decisions based on twitter bots is so retarded lmao
>>11230140AI is kind of retarded. I've noticed that Google has started giving me AI answers as my top result, and over half the time they are completely wrong.>>11230159Your results will be skewed now that the information about the wrong website debacle is prominent in the algorithmic search.
>>11230144you didn't have to say that, you could have just kept that to yourself dick
>>11229207Is that proper colon use?
>>11229207It was just a prank bro
>>11229958Hex was my favourite witch
I was SO close in getting the basic Elphaba (Wicked Witch of the West) doll from this film earlier this afternoon. I got stopped at Target and Barnes and Noble by the ladies at the registers that it and the deluxe $39.99 Elphaba and Glinda couldn't be purchased. Damn Mattel for this silly recall!! If more people tossed away the packaging, we wouldn't be in this mess.
>>11229207As if anyone reads the package.
its called the 'competency crisis' and its only going to get worse
>>11229207The copy editor was fired and replaced by an AI, duh.
>>11234029Someone did or there wouldn't be articles like this.
>>11235028Boring people get mad about porn.
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>>11235073Thanks for ruining the holidays, just2goodYT and Mattel.
Does anyone else have the tinfoil hat theory this is a marketing trick? How many of you remember hearing about these dolls being to sale until this was revealed? On the good side, probably whoever came with this idea is planning on exploiting scalpers who believe this will be collectors item.
>>11235767Companies are stupid so no
>>11235767>let's make a plan that causes us to recall 95% of our stock and pay to have it destroyedThere are cheaper ways to market a movie. Seems likely it's just the regular competency crisis.
>>11232903Probably a diversity hire
>>11230197what a buncha special snowflakescarlos.jpg
>>11229907Most AI bots don't run a website search unless you tell them too. Heck CGPT still invents fake websites and citations.
>>11229207From peg warming to warm pegging.
>>11229391Just don't post the results on social media or she might accuse you of racism.
>>11230058>complains about zoomers>doesn't know "links" isn't a word specific to the internet
>>11229223its tracking for a 200m opening, movies gonna be big.
>>11239268Who would want to go see an anorexic and an ugly black singing woke shit? I don’t see who this movie is aimed at
>>11239363Gays and women
>>11233923Bro just steal it, if it can't be purchased than it's free, you're just helping them get it to the landfill
>>11233923Why would you even want that? It'll be at Ross before January.
>>11239363>its not made more me therefore its not made for anyone holy shit calm down chud
>>11242529You really think that ai cgi trash looks good? Two ugly women singing for 2 hours while the background has cgi explosions. Woooowzers! Just consoom
>>11243016Well what exactly is it that you want anon? Does it not exist?
>>11243025It will be a maleficent knockoff
i bought one today and they covered the url with a sharpie
>>11235767I doubt it because the marketing budget is already higher than the us military, so at this point a controversy like this would not work as “all publicity is good publicity.” That tactic is better used when you have to stretch a marketing campaign on a low budget
>>11230203On one hand it barely looks like KKK hoods. On the other hand, it's an awful design period. There's no reason for it to be a paper snowflake, and it's not even a good paper snowflake with those holes neatly cut into it. At a glance it looks nothing like a snowflake and looks far more like a bunch of critters/masks or some sort of array of weapons.
