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** Said negative influence concerns has also led to some countries especially in the Middle East to [[Banned in China|ban]] Barbie in favour of [[The Moral Substitute|Islam-friendly]] substitutes such as the "Fulla" line of Barbie-compatible dolls, though the "[[Once-Acceptable Targets|Jewish]]" Barbie brand is still available in other Muslim-majority countries including Egypt and Indonesia and is arguably more popular, not to mention that the ban on Barbie dolls in Saudi Arabia was lifted shortly after.
** Safety concerns were also levelled against the line, such as in the plastics used on vintage Barbies alleged to have detrimental effects on children, and [[Paedo Hunt|child pornography]] as well as privacy risks with the Barbie Video Girl and Hello Barbie dolls.
* The Entertech line of water guns boasted "The look! The feel! The sound, so real!" on their commercials in reference to its close resemblance to actual firearms, on top of them being far more powerful than the cheap hand-powered squirt guns played by children. While not the first toy guns to closely replicate their real-life counterparts, this selling point unfortunately led to its scandalous downfall, no thanks to highly publicised incidents of children getting shot and killed by police officers who mistook the Entertech toys for actual guns, as well as real criminals utilising Entertech guns in bank robberies. This led legislators to impose stricter rules on the manufacture and sale of toy weapons, specifically the Federal Toy Gun Law requiring them to be visually distinct from real guns by giving them a blaze orange colour. This controversy spilled over (pun not intended) to the NES Zapper, which while made to more closely resemble a ''[[Star Wars]]''-esque futuristic blaster gun than an actual pistol to begin with when it was first released to coincide with the NES's North American debut in 1985, was re-released in 1989 with an orange colour scheme to comply with federal gun safety laws.
== Video Games ==
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