Child's IPA: Despite social media outrage, the "Fisher Price Happy Hour Playset" is not real. · 11:30am Dec 11th, 2016
- K. LaCapria - (Snopes.com)
Claim: Fisher Price sells a "happy hour playset" including a bar, bar stools, and beer bottles.
FALSE
Example: [Collected via e-mail and Facebook, December 2016]
I'm sure this is a photo-shopped picture, but can you please confirm that it's not an actual toy?
Thank you
Origin: On 6 December 2016, a Facebook user shared an image of a "Fisher Price Happy Hour Playset":
Although most social media users interpreted the image as an obvious joke, others expressed outrage such a thing was being marketed to toddlers or their parents:
Predictably, a number of outraged Facebook users visited the wall of Fisher Price to express their distaste for the Happy Hour playset. Fisher Price representatives addressed each query with a brief response:
Please know that this product is not endorsed, produced or approved by Fisher-Price.
Neither a a standard word-based nor reverse image search revealed the origins of the "Fisher Price Happy Hour" playset. However, the controversial image did not depict a genuine Fisher Price product.
