Bob, a 32-year-old father from southern California, was watching his 2-year-old daughter play with a set of plastic animals she got for Christmas when he decided to pick one up. He chose this horse:
He found the toy’s detail especially odd for one particular reason.
“It looks like a human dick though, and not a horse dick,” Bob, who would like his last name to remain anonymous (Velcoro is a pseudonym), told the Huffington Post.
He also noted that other toys in the set lacked genitals.
“The gorilla, lion, zebra, giraffe, pig and sheep do not have dicks,” he said. “Only the horse.”
Finding the whole thing bizarre, and funny, he decided to take a few pictures of the horse and post them to Twitter.
The toy, according to the description printed on the horse’s belly, is made by the company Battat.
But Battat is not be the only company that’s appears to be adding this NSFW detail to animal figurines.
Chris McGonigal, a photo editor at The Huffington Post, recently noticed that some of his son’s plastic animal toys, made by a company called Terra, have this feature as well. And Terra has expanded beyond horses:
A giraffe with genitals.
Chris McGonigal/The Huffington Post
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A lovin' lion.
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Why these companies add detailed genitalia to their toys remains a mystery. Neither immediately replied to a request for comment from HuffPost.
Regardless, the whole thing is pretty wild.
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