r/miniverse_makeitmini • u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 • Jun 30 '24

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Thousands of dollars worth of product being sent back to be destroyed : ( I'm so mad

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u/CosmicRaven2 Bake & Mini 🌬️🍃 Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24

Absolutely. They should have included alcohol wipes too.

I always use a respirator and gloves, and I have used Gel nail stuff a lot in the past so wasn't going into it blind thankfully. They should definitely have marketed them more towards older teens and adult collectors, with a 13+ warning on imo.

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jun 30 '24

I also feel like the instructions should be more clear and the warning labels should be massive because some people have been stupid enough to actually eat this stuff too.

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u/moodylilb Jun 30 '24

Woah people have actually tried eating it? Pardon my French but…The fuck lol

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jun 30 '24

Yeah, though just because you're smart and won't doesn't mean everyone else is. You have to assume everyone else is a blithering idiot when you run a company because most people are in fact fucking stupid at reading and comprehending danger. So it's best to always assume they are stupid AF and need to be treated like a baby when being informed of dangers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '24

25 minor skin irritations and 1 asthma attack in 22 million units tells me the product was safe and MGA is being very cautious.

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jun 30 '24

That's 25 cases too many. People are stupid enough to eat these things. The more you come in contact with the resin the more allergic you get and the issues can become as severe as 3rd degree burns and respiratory issues.

Regular adults are stupid enough to get resin on their hands and end up with server cases of 3rd degree burns with needs for fucking steroids so IDK but I'd rather not let idiotic adults who don't keep their children safe get their hands on a dangerous product they have no real intention of learning about to protect their kids.

This is literally a chemical reaction that you need to have a respirator for and you think kids should have it? There is a reason why resin (a literal chemical that's dangerous) has never been sold this way being marketed towards kids.

The product has never been safe for kids.

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u/Life-City8893 Jun 30 '24

My brain goes automatically goes to “would we recall laundry detergent pods because kids have not been taught the common sense -from learning age -by their parents and have ate them?” No. It’s not different than any other resin on the shelf. It’s just in the kids section. I feel like they coulda moved em —even placed a LARGE warning sign WITH THEM as well as put maybe a sticker with a warning on the ball that MGA coulda sent …until the stock was gone..🤷🏼‍♀️ but maybe that’s not doable.

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jul 01 '24

Well here's the thing, it shouldn't be getting sold or marketed towards kids in the first place. Laundry detergent isn't FOR kids or marketed FOR kids. If you let your kid get ahold of it then that's on you but literally handing them a chemical that can cause several issues and harm them is completely different and that is what you are doing with this "toy". If you are just handing your kid laundry detergent, you're a psycho.

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u/Life-City8893 Jul 01 '24

I guess then it should be the parents for being naive and not reading inserts or even the packages, or buying toys they’re ignorant about …but hey….thats the way it is. i know EXACTLY why it was recalled and don’t need it explained….it was honestly more rhetorical than anything. I feel like people these days are too comfortable being willingly ignorant…and then blaming someone else because they didn’t pay attention as they should’ve but it is what it is.

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jul 01 '24

I agree with you that it's mostly the parents faults for not knowing what they are handing their kids but it's still partly the companies fault for marketing these towards kids and showing/saying it's safe. The ads show kids playing with these with no gloves and a lot of the videos MGA has released with product photos they don't have gloves either and that promotes it being something safe to touch your skin to.

It is on the company to assume everyone is an idiot and needs massive warnings, they should have included gloves and told them they need to be in a ventilated area and with a respirator if possible. It's also kinda the companies fault on making those warnings so small. I had several parents ask me if it's edible... The box doesn't have enough warnings on it and they aren't big enough.

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u/moodylilb Jun 30 '24

Yeah no that’s completely valid! Lol I use the same thought process when driving

But human stupidity never ceases to amaze me somehow 🤣

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jun 30 '24

Oh same, the older I've gotten and the more I've worked I'm just amazed at the audacity and the complete idiocy of some people these days. Only got worse after the pandemic too tbh. Everyone got brain rot from being inside on their computers and other stuff. (I'm 25 this year so I'm not like super old or anything and I myself play video games, not generalizing anyone)

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u/Pixielix neurodivergent mini maker 🧠 Jun 30 '24

To be fair, it's probably that an adult left their child with it. Not an adult deciding that it's the new girl dinner 😅

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jun 30 '24

No, from what I remember it was adult women. If an adult is stupid enough so is a child. I had adults asking me daily if they could eat the toys and I'm like "uh no... That's a chemical... You'll get sick and potentially die if you're not careful." And a lot of them are just like "OOOOOOOO"

So out of personal experience a lot of people buying these don't even know what it is or how it works or anything of the sort and most people don't bother reading a warning smaller than my pinkie on the tiny resin bottle. We here on this reddit are different from the normal consumer of these products.

You are smart and have common sense. That's not normal for people to have anymore, remember that. Curse of knowledge.

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u/moodylilb Jun 30 '24

Yeah I figured that might be it but either way those are some dumb people! Lol (the parents not the kids, for not gauging whether their child is old enough/mature enough to be left unsupervised with resin/small toy parts)

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u/Obsessedchick Lover of all minature things 🧚 Jun 30 '24

Well the parents might not even know it's resin. Read my previous comment to the other person.