Official: Mattel fined $2.3 million for toy hazard

Mattel knew those toys were toxic. The 2007 incidents were the second time Mattel had a mass recall of Chinese goods. The most recent occurrence, with Barbie accessories, occurred in spite of the previous two. Mattel, and it's management, care more for easy profits than they care for the health of America's children. Mattel managers need to have a day in court. Include the CEO in that, too. After every incident Mattel has said that they would take steps to assure it never happens again. Until the next time, that is. How long until the next time?

I am very sorry for all you people and your poor children who have suffered at the hands of Mattel and their blatant incompetence and sheer neglect of the wellfare and wellbeing of people who put the food in their mouths and pay for their lavish lifestyles. But then, I'm not surprised. In 1999, while at college, my husband and I invented a board game which we named, 'MOVIEMASTERS'. It consisted of naming films, actors/actresses and what films famous one liners came from and who said them. It was pretty damn good if I say so myself. Anyway, our Tutor David Collins offered to put in on a CD for us so we could 'get it out there'. Unfortunately for us, Mr Collins was offered a job in local Government which he obviously took and bang went his offer. I decided to send it to Mattel here in England but a short while later I received a letter from them telling me they weren't interested. I was so upset that I screwed the letter up and threw it away. I think you can guess what's coming next?????? One day, out of the blue, Mr Collins phoned me and excitedly congratulated us on having our game on sale. He said he'd seen the advert on TV. I was so shocked I burst into tears straight away and sobbed down the phone that it wasn't our game because Mattel had turned us down. Quite simply Mattel had stolen our idea, cleverly leaving it long enough so as not to arouse suspicion hoping we would forget and then bought the game out in their name which they called, 'SCENE-IT'. I immediately contacted Mattel who denied catergorically that they knew anything about my sending our game to them. They also denied sending a letter and said they had nothing in their records that such a letter had ever been sent to us. I was so angry. I then contacted a lawyer who told me that Mattel is a huge organisation with untold resources at their disposal and to take them on would be madness. I explained that we still had all the ORIGINAL documents showing how we put our game together plus that Mr Collins had expressed he would be more than willing to give evidence that it was OUR game and that we had invented it in 1999 so it was obvious Mattel had stolen our idea AFTER receiving my letter and details of our game, and then sat on it until they thought it was safe to market it.

What pisses me of is, my husband and I are disabled, myself more severely and the money generated from the sales of our game would have made our lives so much easier. Apparently, it's been distributed all around the world so we've REALLY lost out.

MATTEL ARE MONEY GRABBING BACK-STABBING @!$%#S AND I'M REALLY GLAD THEIR DISREGARD OF CHILDRENS SAFETY HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE MEDIA. LET'S HOPE THIS TIME THEY TAKE HEED TO WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO AN INNOCENT CHILD. $2.4 MILLION IS JUST A DROP IN THE OCEAN FOR THEM. I SAY, CLOSE THEM DOWN BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE BEEN BROUGHT TO TASK OVER THEIR INCOMPETENCE.