Kids toy with wild warning as tots advised to keep away from taking part in close to almost-impossible space
As far as the Daily Star is aware, no child on earth has developed the ability to fly, but that hasn’t stopped the good folks at Lego and Amazon slapping a weird warning on a popular product
A kid’s toy with a bizarre warning has gone on sale on Amazon. LEGO’s Bluey playground fun set is currently price at £17.97. And while the toy itself is a pretty bog-standard LEGO set featuring the much-loved kid’s cartoon dog character, it’s when you read the small print where you notice something is a bit off.
The set is described as “Playground Fun with Bluey and Chloe is a fun building toy for 4+ year old girls and boys, featuring characters and activities from the Bluey TV show in a fun LEGO construction set”.
On Amazon’s fine print, it states three warnings – the first two of which are pretty normal, and state that it is “not suitable for children under 36 months” and that “adult supervision (is) recommended”.
But it’s the third warning that left the Daily Star baffled, as it states: “Do not use near overhead power lines”.
Now, the toy itself is basically a very small lego slide, around 1ft tall, while the average height of a National Grid power line is around 118ft – or 36 metres, to be exact.
The toy has no flying parts, nor parts that extend to the height of a small sky scraper. And while it also warns that it is a “choking hazard” and “not suitable for children under three years old,” the chances of there being anyone aged between around the ages of three and eight who have the superhuman ability to fly is also pretty slim.
However, between the Daily Star spotting the weird notice and providing the public service of writing about it, the notice was seemingly quietly removed.
Despite this, it does seem as if nobody has yet flung the toy into an overhead pylon, with the set getting an average of 4.7 stars out of five. . . which is lovely to see.
The Daily Star has reached out to Lego for a comment.
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