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We've seen our share of crappy designs, but store shelves are so abundant with them, there's always more to poke fun at. For example, toys. They're usually designed and made by adults, so you'd expect a considerable amount of consideration before manufacturing them, right? Well, not so much. Bored Panda has collected some of the most questionable toy design fails to prove that some designers have no clue what they're doing.
From a doll head, used as an actual tail for a pony to a psychotic Elmo, it seems ridiculous someone actually greenlighted these horrible ideas. We're pretty sure, however, that the employees who did have a 'long talk' with their bosses after the fact. Scroll down to check out what we mean and vote for the funniest toy design fails that made you cringe the most.
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#1
My Dog Destroyed Her Toy Cactus, And There Was Another Sad Cactus Inside
Sancha Fung 7 years ago
Maybe it is just to show that while they may show happiness, they are sad inside.
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#2
Chinese Toy
Hari Onago 7 years ago
Or was the horse going to give birth to the little girl? Too many questions. I don't want to now the answer.
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Sandra Martin 7 years ago
I think the company was trying to cut corners by using what they already had in stock. Like the company might of had an extra number of dolls they didn't sell.
M O'Connell 7 years ago
I think quite a few companies do this. Surplus rarely seems to go to waste in China.
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Bert Kranenburg 7 years ago
actually: these dolls heads, are ones that are not to be sold because of flaws, iso totally trashing them, there being reused like this.. .. been in a factory where they the did this kinda stuff
Madeleine Flowers 3 years ago
I think they just mean that it was made by a Chinese company.
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Hannah Hinckley 7 years ago
I also read a caption with this picture elsewhere that said “my little sister dismembers her dolls and put their parts in other toys”. 😒
Maddox Cox 7 years ago
i need to save money, so i will have the pony's tail be an unsold doll from a line of girls discontinued 5 years ago's ponytail to be the pony's tail
Janet Davies 7 years ago
They had made too many heads and thought , What can we do with a pony tail?
Debbie Slater 7 years ago
It's good to see that some surrealists managed to find work in the toy factory!
Sharon Voorhees 7 years ago
Those aren't air holes but connectors for the other side of the horse!
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Mitchell Olson 7 years ago
OK, this is just cool especially if you have a surplus of doll heads with ponytails. It's not going to be pulled out easily and what monster breaks a child's toy pony???
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
How? why? who came up with this "solution"? I have so many questions....
Berit-Bärbel Rebane 7 years ago
When you already have a PONYTAIL, why should you invent new one?
Sandra Bartsch 7 years ago
It‘s a different angle and the head may have moved slightly, when they opened the toy - might still be the same hair
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This Unfortunately Designed Kid's Balloon
Why Do These Toy Design Fails Happen?
Sure, it’s all fun and games to look at these funny toy design fails, but have you ever wondered how come they’re actually there for you to buy in the first place? Surely, you have to be some evil mastermind to create these atrocities, right? While that might very well be the truth, we figured more realistic causes that might allow some of these worst toy design fails to happen:
First things first—to create engaging toys, the manufacturers have to do thorough market research. If they skip this step and imagine kids being these little monsters, chances are they’re headed for a toy design fail.
Furthermore, even if the designers did market research but failed to actually test the products with real children, toy fails might be inevitable.
Lastly, the quality of production (like stamping completely wrong eyes on a doll) and even an overly complex design can be a straight pathway to some epic toy design fails.
All in all, it requires a great deal of creativity and thought to create really good toys. If some parts in the process are missing, it might lead to some toy fails of massive proportions. But hey, at least we have these funniest toy fails to laugh at!
#4
My Little Sister's Toy Looks Like It Just Smoked Itself Into A New Era
#5
When Designer Is Tired Of Drawing
#6
My Four-Legged Duck
#7
Cinderella's Nose Job Didn't Go As Planned
#8
Austria. Home Of Kangaroos And Deserts
#9
Why ??
Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
Though looks like very much intentionally done thing. But still I will drink from it.
#11
Hmmm
Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
Why would you try and undress him in the first place?! Don't do that! :D
#12
Go Home, Belle, You're Drunk
#13
This Fantastic Toy
nanashi 7 years ago
true story: I had something like this as a kid (4/5yo) and I really thought that's what the male genitalia does (I can't ask then, culture thing). fast forward a year or so I had a dental emergency and my dad taking me to the dentist and decided to use his motorcycle so we can get there faster. I was so shocked I really thought he'd really would do the thing but I was even more shocked when he didn't bc I thought he didn't do it bc of my sake. what if the police stopped him for not putting the thing in the thing?? anyway, I learned the real thing soon after. I felt so stupid.
#14
Shhh... It'll Be Over Soon
#15
I Am A Sweet Baby. Let's Have Fun Together
#16
Prevent Your Kid From Being Afraid Of The Dark
#17
I Don't Remember That Part Of Sleeping Beauty
#19
If Santa's Late, You'll Know Why
#20
My Nephew Has A Toy Dinosaur Which We Call "Sneaky Dinosaur" Because He Looks Rather F****** Sneaky
#21
Winnie The Pooh
#22
You Had One Job
#23
In The Disney Villains Deck Of Playing Cards, The Queen Of Hearts Is The Three Of Clubs
#25
Children's Toys Are Getting More And More Realistic
Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
Nothing wrong with this one. At least they were sane enough to keep the lengths in 'check'!
#26
This Toy
#27
What
#28
The Description On This Toy's Packaging Is Brutally Honest
#29
This Toy Is Having An Identity Crisis
#30
Hey, Should We Paint The Bottle White? Nah, Leave It Flesh Coloured
#31
'Real Life' Expression On A Doll
#32
How Many Noses Does This Guy Really Need?
#33
Classic Batman Squirt Gun... Really?!
#34
Harry, You Look So Real!
#35
This Is Why I Like To Go To My Local Dollar Shop And To The Toys Section
#36
So My Mother Had A Doll Made Based Off Of A Picture Of Me As A Baby
#37
My Wife Bought These Baby Toys... Little Worried About Them
#38
I Imagine The Designer Giggling The Whole Time
#39
Who Is Responsible For This Monstrosity?
#40
I Do Not Claim To Be As Smart As Animal Planet Zoologists But I Do Believe This Package Contains False Information
#41
Wolverine Inflatable Toy
Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
I think someone is doing this deliberately. 4th such balloon, can't be co-incidence.
#42
So A Friend Of Mine Works At A Toy Store, And This Is What He Came Across
#43
Children's Or Adult Toy?
#44
This Creepy Teddy Bear
#45
Water Bottle Designed For Young Girls
#46
Uhh... Spongebob?
#47
Great Find At Target Tonight
Sancha Fung 7 years ago
Could also go in the misleading packaging post https://www.boredpanda.com/misleading-packaging-design/
#48
The New Star War Movie Toys Are Starting To Get Out Of Hand
#49
Who Greenlighted This Toy?
Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
This toy is for very small kids, for them there's nothing wrong with this. Also, if not for this post, and I had seen this toy somewhere, honestly I would have not thought anything negative otherwise.
#50
This Squishy Toy's Eyes Fell Off But He Came With Back Ups
#51
New Pokemon Found
#52
They Couldn't Have Just Used The Tan Color For The Inside Lining?
#53
The Printing On This Ball
#54
Saw This Delightful Toy In The Santa's Elf Workshop Display At My Local Shopping Centre
#55
Does This Count For Crappy Design?
#56
This Is One Of The Toys You Can Win In The Skill Tester Out The Front Of My Work
spirit wolf 7 years ago
Well that's from the episode where he draws elephant ears around his peepee..
#57
You Guys Should Get More Sleep. The Bags Under Your Eyes Totally Give You Away
#58
A Rather Oddly Spelt "Simpsonsns" Family In Which Bart Resembles A Crack Addict
#59
What The F*ck
#60
These Are Toys For Blowing Bubbles With, That My Best Bud Bought For His Two Children... Uh You Guys See What I See For The Girl Sword Right?
#61
I Saw This In A Soft Toy Shop In Singapore. Hitler Bunny... Or Should I Say - Hare Hitler
Unwelcomed Guest 7 years ago
Well it is white and doesn't look too happy about being next to the brown bunny
#62
I Work At A Game/Toy Store. We Got These New Inflatable Horses Kids Can Ride. This Is How You Inflate Them
#63
Penis-Looking Toy On Clearance Sale
#64
His Baby Bear Doesn't Have A Body
#65
This Spiderman Children's Ride Has A Visible Panty Line
#66
The Official Emma Watson 'Beauty And The Beast' Doll
#67
This Looks More Like Lion King Than Frozen
#68
Who Let This Happen?
#69
Someone Needs To Read More Comics
#70
Daddy? What Is Happening In There?
#71
How Did They Miss It?
JillVille Child Care 7 years ago
The count on the number of toys? I only count 15 and that's guessing the rock parts are doubled... The fact that a giraffe technically doesn't live in the jungle? Or that cow and zebra making cowbras?
#72
I Don’t Know What Marvel Are Up To, But This Will Not Be In The Christmas Stocking This Year
#73
Teenage Mutant, Mutant Ninja Turtle
#74
Not The Best Place To Put It
#75
You Had One Job
#76
My Wolverine Statue
#77
I Still Don't Know What To Think Of This... I Mean It's Cute But I Think I'd Feel Like I Was Eating
#78
I Can't Be The Only One Who Finds This Wrong, Can I?
Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
If I was a kid I will not see anything wrong with this, but yes as an adult, I might indulge myself in few naughty thoughts!
#79
Really, Toy Manufacturers? Do You Really Think That Was The Best Way To Sew The Banana Onto This Toy Monkey?
#80
The Return Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Dreps
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Willie D'Kay 7 years ago
I actually thought #1 with the sad cactus inside was brilliant. It helps you feel better knowing your dog gets a second chance with a toy they rip apart... and having to reflect on their actions every time they see that sad face, lol.
Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
I must admit most of them are very funny. Some fails, like the soccer ball printing or paw concentration camp are brilliant XD But I also have to say, that we - adults - are perverts :P A kid won't see anything wrong in a doll figurine with a hole where you attach the wooden branch or the pupming hole in a baloon between its legs. It's our filthy minds making most of these toys embarassing :P
Daria B 7 years ago
Yeah, but it's mostly adults who design these toys, so.. ...
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Ana T. 7 years ago
#51 crayon chin chan yes controversial tv series in the 90's japanese mothers wrote to the tv station saying that the children were "mimicking " shin chan bad manners (i sure the sexual connotations in some episodes, didn't please the moms either) . and the creators of the series made a episode to laugh off the complains . in the episode chin chan watch a new tv series called "shin chan" and he imitates the boy from the series saying bad words showing his butt and other things that made his mom crazy so she imitates the bad behavior and she thinks it work because shin chan stops saying bad words when the mom ask why he is not talking like the tv shin chan he said " because he is boring and i dont want to do it anymore". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD-AtaY8pUs
Willie D'Kay 7 years ago
#51 is actually exactly what it's supposed to be. If anyone has watched the Shin-chan anime, he does an elephant dance with his penis.
Zori the degu 7 years ago
I would've wondered what's so funny a few years back... But now I'm starting to turn into a "boring" adult, as my friend and I used to call them. And it turns out I simply couldn't appreciate adults' humour. Well, now I do, at least most of it... However, it doesn't have a lot of variety in all those jokes and fails.Every second fail features a d*ck fail.
Mark Smallman 7 years ago
I think most people seem to forget that the vast majority of these are more than likely just cheap fakes/copies Hence why they don't intentionally resemble the character they are supposed to be, just enough resemblance to make a child want it even if it is a bizarre Spongebob something or mis-spelt Simpsons.
Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
I think it's mostly to mislead the parents who don't know the shows well enough to know it's wrong. Like bootleg versions of kids movies. A kid can definitely tell if it's not their favorite character, but mom probably can't tell that Pikachu isn't supposed to look like that.
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Basia Smith 7 years ago
#52 is from Shin-chan....you should look up his famous butt dance. I love that cartoon, but I imagine some prudish parents would be offended at that
Jenn Biscetti 7 years ago
#46 Who greenlighted? It's greenlit. @Bored Panda you need new editors.
Black Dahlia 7 years ago
Sad to see you missed the actually real Harry Potter Vibrating Broomstick.
Johanna-Nicollette Kidd 7 years ago
Bwhahahahahaha...(0.0)? Whoops, I just fell off my chair (probably because I didnt have the correct hole for the chair attachment) ;))
Alan Words 7 years ago
Made in China and they don't give a damn. Their manufacturing philosophy is "at least it looks like the real thing" and I am not kidding. I worked there for a few years and as long as somewhere along the line it looked like the finished product it was okay for them. That is how they ended up with toxic powdered milk that killed babies, toxic toothpaste that was exported, drywall exported to the west that was banned in Europe because it was toxic, cardboard filled humbao(dumpling rolls) to eat. They are the worst when it comes to consumer safety and especially childrens products.
Willie D'Kay 7 years ago
I actually thought #1 with the sad cactus inside was brilliant. It helps you feel better knowing your dog gets a second chance with a toy they rip apart... and having to reflect on their actions every time they see that sad face, lol.
Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
I must admit most of them are very funny. Some fails, like the soccer ball printing or paw concentration camp are brilliant XD But I also have to say, that we - adults - are perverts :P A kid won't see anything wrong in a doll figurine with a hole where you attach the wooden branch or the pupming hole in a baloon between its legs. It's our filthy minds making most of these toys embarassing :P
Daria B 7 years ago
Yeah, but it's mostly adults who design these toys, so.. ...
Load More Replies... Ana T. 7 years ago
#51 crayon chin chan yes controversial tv series in the 90's japanese mothers wrote to the tv station saying that the children were "mimicking " shin chan bad manners (i sure the sexual connotations in some episodes, didn't please the moms either) . and the creators of the series made a episode to laugh off the complains . in the episode chin chan watch a new tv series called "shin chan" and he imitates the boy from the series saying bad words showing his butt and other things that made his mom crazy so she imitates the bad behavior and she thinks it work because shin chan stops saying bad words when the mom ask why he is not talking like the tv shin chan he said " because he is boring and i dont want to do it anymore". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD-AtaY8pUs
Willie D'Kay 7 years ago
#51 is actually exactly what it's supposed to be. If anyone has watched the Shin-chan anime, he does an elephant dance with his penis.
Zori the degu 7 years ago
I would've wondered what's so funny a few years back... But now I'm starting to turn into a "boring" adult, as my friend and I used to call them. And it turns out I simply couldn't appreciate adults' humour. Well, now I do, at least most of it... However, it doesn't have a lot of variety in all those jokes and fails.Every second fail features a d*ck fail.
Mark Smallman 7 years ago
I think most people seem to forget that the vast majority of these are more than likely just cheap fakes/copies Hence why they don't intentionally resemble the character they are supposed to be, just enough resemblance to make a child want it even if it is a bizarre Spongebob something or mis-spelt Simpsons.
Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
I think it's mostly to mislead the parents who don't know the shows well enough to know it's wrong. Like bootleg versions of kids movies. A kid can definitely tell if it's not their favorite character, but mom probably can't tell that Pikachu isn't supposed to look like that.
Load More Replies... Basia Smith 7 years ago
#52 is from Shin-chan....you should look up his famous butt dance. I love that cartoon, but I imagine some prudish parents would be offended at that
Jenn Biscetti 7 years ago
#46 Who greenlighted? It's greenlit. @Bored Panda you need new editors.
Black Dahlia 7 years ago
Sad to see you missed the actually real Harry Potter Vibrating Broomstick.
Johanna-Nicollette Kidd 7 years ago
Bwhahahahahaha...(0.0)? Whoops, I just fell off my chair (probably because I didnt have the correct hole for the chair attachment) ;))
Alan Words 7 years ago
Made in China and they don't give a damn. Their manufacturing philosophy is "at least it looks like the real thing" and I am not kidding. I worked there for a few years and as long as somewhere along the line it looked like the finished product it was okay for them. That is how they ended up with toxic powdered milk that killed babies, toxic toothpaste that was exported, drywall exported to the west that was banned in Europe because it was toxic, cardboard filled humbao(dumpling rolls) to eat. They are the worst when it comes to consumer safety and especially childrens products.
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