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Strawberry Shortcake is getting stale - the "it" doll of the 1980s just wasn't connecting with modern girls, so her corporate owner American Greeting Properties, is having pulling an extreme makeover - and they're not alone:
Strawberry Shortcake, part of a line of scented dolls, now prefers fresh fruit to gumdrops, appears to wear just a dab of lipstick (but no rouge), and spends her time chatting on a cellphone instead of brushing her calico cat, Custard. Her new look was unveiled Tuesday, along with plans for a new line of toys from Hasbro.
She is not the only aging fictional star to get a facelift. An unusually large number of classic characters for children are being freshened up and reintroduced — on store shelves, on the Internet and on television screens — as their corporate owners try to cater to parents’ nostalgia and children’s YouTube-era sensibilities. Adding momentum is a retail sector hoping to find refuge from a rough economy in the tried and true.
Brooks Barnes of the New York Times has the story: Link
(Alert: Disney is thinking of "updating" Mickey Mouse! The travesty!)
Comments (125)
I think "chic" is the word some of you are looking for.
Carter
Minneapolis, MN
he wsa surely eating the insects around the body, but no way he "tore off larger pieces of flesh"
I'm from germany, and I did not hear that in our news so I searched the web for a german speaking version... and there seames to be none.
I tracked this info down to a british website of the questionable newspaper "The Sun":
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html
You can google the story in almost any language - except for german.
And everything you find bases on stories from UK.
is this a hoax made up by ALLAN HALL from The Sun? Or are german newspapers not interested in people eaten by spiders?
And: geckos don't feast on rotten bodies.
Sounds like those animals were kept in different tanks and that the heating elements exploded all at the same time? Doesn't sound logically.
It was reported on february 27th, 2004. You'll have to do a search on the archives for this one.