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HeroBuilders.com, a Connecticut toy maker, says it expects to sell thousands of miniature Weiners by week's end.
Posted 6/ 14 11 at 6:00 PM | News, Online Business, Consumer Products & Services, Retail, Inventions & Innovations
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Well, it's come to this. As the Weinergate saga continues, a Connecticut toy maker is now marketing an Anthony Weiner action figure -- and interest in it has been high enough to crash the company's website.HeroBuilders.com is selling two versions of the doll -- the standard, available for $39.95, is clad in skivvies with a large blue sticker reading "Tweet This," while the adults-only version (use your imagination) costs $49.95. A toy BlackBerry accessory is available for an additional $18.
HeroBuilders.com put the dolls on sale Sunday, the same day the beleaguered New York congressman announced he was seeking professional treatment for a "sexting" scandal that has gripped the political world and provided seemingly limitless fodder for late-night comedians. The Oxford, Conn.-based toy company has made its mark producing action figures based on public figures in the news: It began with a George W. Bush doll in 2002, which it has followed with plastic parodies of Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and Jimmy McMillian, a former New York mayoral and gubernatorial candidate and founder of "The Rent Is 2 Damn High Party."
"It went from idea, to molding, to production, to getting the word out" in 50 hours, company president Emil Vicale told CBS New York.
Dolls can be purchased online, and expect to be shipped on June 20. Vicale revealed that "99 percent of all the orders are for the more expensive version" -- the adult version -- and predicted that sales would reach a few thousand by the end of the week.
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His wife will probably order one so that she can stick pins in it! JC
Are you sure it will be to stick pins in it? Think about it, this whole deal has been blown out of wack.. Get real and get JOBS doen, leave this type stuff up to Jerry Springer.
haha, thats funny.... selling miniature weiners.... now can i hear a 'resign'
The face is all wrong. The Doll's face is too handsome. They should have put judge judy's face on the doll. That's what Weiner looks like Judge Judy with a bigger penis.
Why there is so much NOISE around that WNNIE?
.....and the royalties from sales will go to pay off lawsuits instituted by Nathan's and Hebrew National on the grounds that he is not Kosher.
I'd say one less Weiner in Congress would be a good thing...Still many more left to stick it to the public!
I heard that Anthony "the weenie" Weiner will become spokesman for Enzite the erectile dysfunction drug, replacing current spokesman "smiling Bob".
Hebrew National already sells teeny weenies
You can bet your reputation on that ! ! !
I bet Nancy Pelosi has bigger b---- that Weiner does
Weiner is helping the unemployment situation... somebody will have a job making those dolls. Now if only somebody would make an Obama doll
who in the world told this "man" that he was good looking and had what every women wanted???????? He needs to take a real good look in the mirror and see what the rest of us see, NOTHING , surely not much of a man!!!!!!
Take away his title and there's nothing there.
One more Dick to get rid of though.
While I certainly do NOT approve of what the Congressman did, leave him along because he's a sick puppy very much in need of treatment. This will go away just like Clinton's antics, John Edwards, New Gingrich, etc.
No! had it been Nancy Polosi e-mailing pics of herself nude, all of the good ol Boys in congress would have been High Fiveing each other and telling dirty jokes and let it go at that. JC
No, they would be barfing their guts out!
God, I love this country!
The doll looks absolutely nothing like him!!!! Who designed the thing?
Am I the only one who can see the guy is a pencil-necked geek?