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Pissed off? Smash your doll.

What’s up with the current trend of doll-bashing? First, Mexico is encouraged to practice voodoo on US soccer team lookalikes. Now at Toy Fair 2009, you can smash the likeness of your investor.

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NYC toy fair vendor offers Madoff doll – to smash
16 february 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Mad at disgraced investor Bernard Madoff? There’s a toy just for you. One of the vendors at this week’s Toy Fair is offering the “Smash-Me Bernie,” a $99.95 Madoff lookalike doll that wears a devil-red suit and carries a pitchfork. It comes with its own hammer — so you can pulverize it.

Phoenix, Ariz.-based ModelWorks is behind the caricature Mini-Me figures, which can be customized to look like celebrities or whomever a buyer chooses.

Madoff was arrested in December after investigators said he confessed to his sons that he had swindled investors of $50 billion in a Ponzi scheme.

The toy fair is open only to the industry and runs through Wednesday.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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