As I was perusing the sale adds in today’s paper, I came across an ad for a “Hello, Kitty” toaster. What five-year old ever puts a toaster on their Christmas Wish List? Does anyone else think this is totally whacked - or am I just missing the point of a new trend in kitchen appliances? :dubious:
I know one adult accountant at my job who is extremely into Hello Kitty. She’d want that toaster.
It will sell. It will sell by the boatload.
I was staying in Singapore a couple of years ago. In the lobby of the hotel was a MacDonalds. 2 weeks after I left, the place was destroyed by an angry mob because they ran out of Hello Kitty toys for the happy meals.
My aunt told me the other day that she’s getting my 6-year-old a SpongeBob SquarePants cookie jar for Christmas. Yeah, he likes SpongeBob, but a cookie jar as a gift for a little kid???
Ah well, I guess it’s the thought that counts.
I know one adult who has that Hello Kitty toaster.
Oooh, is that the one that burns the kitty face on the toast? I would sooo have that if Dr.J wouldn’t make barfy noises every time I offered him a piece of Kitty toast.
I’m not a five year old, but I often act like one. And I’m not the only one.
I never cease to be amazed about how many bizarre gadgets magically appear just in time to be purchased and given as gifts during the holiday season.
I mean, the Presto Hot Dogger wasn’t a bad thing, back before everyone had microwaves. I can perhaps see the George Foreman Grill thingy as being sort of handy, if you’re routinely preparing grilled meats.
But… the Salad Shooter? And just today, while watching the Mythbusters marathon on Discovery Channel, I’ve been amazed and appalled by such thingies as Mixer Guns, Power Graters, and handheld electric can openers.
Someone just wake me up when they begin selling 1920s style Death Rays, okay?
Well, I have seen a Hello Kitty vibrator…
And I remember in the navy xchange catalog of about 7 years ago a potatochip maker - place to put peeled potatoes, it sliced them then ran them through the frywell built in, and out of the oil onto a small chute out into a basket of paper towels…I really wanted one but it was like $150US=\
I did have the ezbake oven, a snoopy snocone maker and a ezbake variant pretzel machine, and a cotton candy machine when I was very young [back in the late 60s] 
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Well, I have seen a Hello Kitty vibrator…
We all have Hello Kitty vibrators. That doesn’t count.
We do all have Hello Kitty vibrators, right? Don’t we?
(awkward pause)
I have to learn how to use these screens. I thought I was shrinking the text - not making banners. Argh. :smack:
It works better with the larger font.
Well, I was buying a water heater and I happened to spy with my little eye a teeny little sewing machine across the sales floor. It was PINK! So I had to go over and investigate this PINK sewing machine. Turns out it was a Barbie sewing machine for kids. OK, I thought, whatever. Salesguy approached and I asked him if he was selling any PINK sewing machines. He said, “Yeah, I’ve sold two, both to grandmas who were buying them for granddaughters. But I’ve yet to sell one of these.” And he held up a PINK Barbie vacuum cleaner. Not a toy vacuum, but a real, actual carpet-cleaning vacuum. In PINK. With Barbie all over it.
“Who would BUY that?” I asked.
“F*ck if I know,” said the salesguy.
I have a Hello Kitty vibrator!!! It doesn’t work very well, tho. Too many points…Hmm, TMI? My friend might get me the toaster for Christmas. I’m getting myself a Hello Kitty tattoo for Christmas. Hello Kitty rocks!!! Yah, I’m a dork!
The Hello Kitty folks and others like them must thank God every single day for the Baby Boomers and the mindset we brought to adulthood.
It puts a little kitty face on every piece of toast? Hmm…where’s my Christmas list?
You couldn’t pay me to own a Beanie Baby, but anything with Hello Kitty is OK with me. I simply love her. I know it’s stupid, childish, and a complete waste of a large chunk of the world’s wealth, but there would be a hole in my heart if Hello Kitty ceased to exist. I ignore those members of the planet who don’t get it. You don’t NEED to get it. I get it…and that’s all that matters. (wishing there was a Hello Kitty smiley)
Add me to the list of people who know someone with a Hello Kitty toaster. And a Hello Kitty mini water-cooler, and even a Badtz Maru stapler and a Chococat purse. I’ve never seen the vibrator, but if it works, who cares what it looks like? 
Personally, I’m not into Hello Kitty, but if anyone ever found a toaster that burned the Superman logo into each piece of toast, I’d be so there.
I bought my wife a Mickey Mouse toaster last night.
I have the Hello Kitty watercooler!!! I mean, my daughter does…
I do, however, have a Hello Kitty checkbook cover and cell phone. There’s no way to pin those on her. Is there?
My first computer was a Barbie computer. It was grey but it had pastel flowers all over it and “Barbie” written in script in a couple places.
I was 19 and mostly heterosexual at the time. It worked though and that’s all I cared about.
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No way, man.
They are almost impossible to get a hold of.