Re:Mattel to Pay $12 Million to End States Lead Probe

[Guest guest]

Mattel (Barbie), who bought Kenner (Hot Wheels), who bought Matchbox, has been

shipping toy cars which are made of either lead or a lead amalgam metal for

years. When my boy tested high for lead back in '99, one of the things we got

tested was a flake of paint from the black " prison " bus, a favorite toy of my

son. It came back positive for lead, at 2% (parts per hundred) This is tens of

thousands of times higher than the legal threshhold for paint that was in effect

at the time.

I do not believe that the paint was actually that high in lead, because I do not

believe it would behave as paint if it was. I believe that when I flaked the

paint off the roof of the bus a thin skin of metal from the body of the diecast

went with the paint sample.

Hot Wheels has consistantly been the second highest selling toy in the US

(behind only Barnie) in terms of dollar sales. If you count individual units,

it has been number 1 for the last 40 years. There are a whole lot of these cars

in US households and the threat to small children has never been addressed in

regards to the metalurgy.

[Guest guest]

Can you post the article? Is this a matter of Mattel bribing the

state? Not clear what this means.

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> Mattel (Barbie), who bought Kenner (Hot Wheels), who bought

Matchbox, has been shipping toy cars which are made of either lead or

a lead amalgam metal for years. When my boy tested high for lead

back in '99, one of the things we got tested was a flake of paint

from the black " prison " bus, a favorite toy of my son. It came back

positive for lead, at 2% (parts per hundred) This is tens of

thousands of times higher than the legal threshhold for paint that

was in effect at the time.

>

> I do not believe that the paint was actually that high in lead,

because I do not believe it would behave as paint if it was. I

believe that when I flaked the paint off the roof of the bus a thin

skin of metal from the body of the diecast went with the paint sample.

>

> Hot Wheels has consistantly been the second highest selling toy in

the US (behind only Barnie) in terms of dollar sales. If you count

individual units, it has been number 1 for the last 40 years. There

are a whole lot of these cars in US households and the threat to

small children has never been addressed in regards to the metalurgy.

>

[Guest guest]

Well, I think we are screwed here too, I mean, we probably have 2.6

million of the cars in our house, I think they multiply like Gremlins!

I guess its a 'cheap' obsession for Ethan, not like my son ,

which one of his favorite 'things' that he collects is

trains....sadly, another lead risk...argh!

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> Mattel (Barbie), who bought Kenner (Hot Wheels), who bought

Matchbox, has been shipping toy cars which are made of either lead or

a lead amalgam metal for years. When my boy tested high for lead

back in '99, one of the things we got tested was a flake of paint

from the black " prison " bus, a favorite toy of my son. It came back

positive for lead, at 2% (parts per hundred) This is tens of

thousands of times higher than the legal threshhold for paint that

was in effect at the time.

>

> I do not believe that the paint was actually that high in lead,

because I do not believe it would behave as paint if it was. I

believe that when I flaked the paint off the roof of the bus a thin

skin of metal from the body of the diecast went with the paint sample.

>

> Hot Wheels has consistantly been the second highest selling toy in

the US (behind only Barnie) in terms of dollar sales. If you count

individual units, it has been number 1 for the last 40 years. There

are a whole lot of these cars in US households and the threat to

small children has never been addressed in regards to the metalurgy.

>

[Guest guest]

Where's the class action suit for this?

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> > Mattel (Barbie), who bought Kenner (Hot Wheels), who bought

> Matchbox, has been shipping toy cars which are made of either lead

or

> a lead amalgam metal for years. When my boy tested high for lead

> back in '99, one of the things we got tested was a flake of paint

> from the black " prison " bus, a favorite toy of my son. It came

back

> positive for lead, at 2% (parts per hundred) This is tens of

> thousands of times higher than the legal threshhold for paint that

> was in effect at the time.

> >

> > I do not believe that the paint was actually that high in lead,

> because I do not believe it would behave as paint if it was. I

> believe that when I flaked the paint off the roof of the bus a thin

> skin of metal from the body of the diecast went with the paint

sample.

> >

> > Hot Wheels has consistantly been the second highest selling toy

in

> the US (behind only Barnie) in terms of dollar sales. If you count

> individual units, it has been number 1 for the last 40 years.

There

> are a whole lot of these cars in US households and the threat to

> small children has never been addressed in regards to the metalurgy.

> >

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