It’s a children’s toy that is very, very popular. A ‘Hatchimal’ is an egg that hatches into an interactive, fluffy bird-like creature.
Theoretically, the toy is meant to peck it’s way out of its shell after 30 minutes play time. Then, more gradually, it goes through three stages of “development”, from baby to toddler and finally to “child Hatchimal”.
But the small bird – that’s available in five “species” and designed for children five years and older – has presented a number of difficulties to parents since the present-buying rush began this Christmas.
First, they were sold out by mid-November.
Then, Christmas arrived and the fluffy birds weren’t hatching, according to thousands of complaints on the Facebook page of Spin Master – the company behind the toy.
Now, the owners of Hatchimals that have “hatched” are saying the toy is swearing at them.
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Reports that the toy is saying phrases that sound like “F**k you” or “F**k me” can be seen on the Spin Master Facebook page; through videos on YouTube; and from parents speaking to different media outlets.
One mother, Sarah Galego, told CTV News in Vancouver that she heard her six-year-old son’s Hatchimal swear. “If he was a little bit older we might be more offended about it,” she told the news network.
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I hear fluffy or help me. Its just jibber jabber and you can hear what you want