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Toy Maker Equips Toy Train with Condom
reuters ^ | 12-22-04

Posted on 12/22/2004 9:12:35 AM PST by Dan from Michigan

Toy Maker Equips Toy Train with Condom

1 hour, 39 minutes ago Oddly Enough - Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 145-year-old German maker of toy trains is giving its adult customers a chance to have a one-track mind.

The miniature train company Marklin is packing a condom alongside a blue freight car emblazoned with the name of Blausiegel, a German condom maker.

Marklin, a Goppingen, Germany-based company that was the first to introduce toy track with its train sets in 1891, produces trains that often carry the names of real companies to emulate actual rail cars. Collectors' editions with less Freudian implications have been sold along with liquor advertised on the cars.

The toy freight car, which comes packaged with a "Billy Boy" condom is available in HO scale, or 1/87th of the actual size of a freight train, just under 4 inches long, and Z scale, which is 1/220th of the size of a real train.

Ralph Israel, partner of Manhattan Train & Hobby store in New York, said he sold two of the models, both to men, the first day they were put in the glass cases in his hobby shop. They are not being marketed to appear under the Christmas tree as gifts for children.

The toy train and the condom, which retail for $35, are packaged in a sleek brushed-metal container the size of a cigar box. The packaging offers no instructions on running the miniature train but does have illustrated instructions on using the condom.


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KEYWORDS: condom; condoms; prophylactic; prophylactics; rubbers; toys; toytrains; trains; trainsets
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1 posted on 12/22/2004 9:12:35 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
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2 posted on 12/22/2004 9:15:05 AM PST by BrooklynGOP (www.logicandsanity.com)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Does it unwrap when the train goes through the tunnel?


3 posted on 12/22/2004 9:16:10 AM PST by thefactor
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To: Dan from Michigan

Somebody, somewhere in the Marketing department actually had to think that this was a good idea.


4 posted on 12/22/2004 9:16:10 AM PST by cyclotic (Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
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To: Dan from Michigan
Is it ribbed and lubricated?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

5 posted on 12/22/2004 9:16:37 AM PST by expatguy ("Fallujah Delenda Est!")
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To: expatguy
Finally, a toy train for HER pleasure.

I got a million of 'em. None of 'em are good, but I got a million.

6 posted on 12/22/2004 9:18:23 AM PST by thefactor
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To: thefactor

Yes, and immediately after leaving the tunnel, it's followed by the cigarette car...


7 posted on 12/22/2004 9:19:07 AM PST by general_re ("What's plausible to you is unimportant." - D'man)
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To: Dan from Michigan
What's the big deal? Who among us hasn't driven the train to Tunatown before?

Ha-cha-cha!

8 posted on 12/22/2004 9:20:28 AM PST by Alien Gunfighter (Draw!)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Sheeesh! There are nuts the world over (no pun intended)


9 posted on 12/22/2004 9:20:43 AM PST by TexasTaysor
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To: Dan from Michigan

Some people are just plain sick. No class. No manners. No taste. No respect.


10 posted on 12/22/2004 9:21:38 AM PST by cubreporter
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To: cyclotic

Toy trains are for kids or has everything changed since the end of my Lionel railroading days? I guess the message here is, "Look, kid, here's a condom - if you're Daddy had gotten this years ago, you wouldn't be here!"


11 posted on 12/22/2004 9:22:22 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: BrooklynGOP
"Plug and Play!!"

...heh, heh, heh...

12 posted on 12/22/2004 9:24:27 AM PST by RichInOC (...specially textured for her pleasure.)
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To: BrooklynGOP
"The toy freight car, which comes packaged with a "Billy Boy" condom is available in HO scale, or 1/87th of the actual size of a freight train, just under 4 inches long, and Z scale, which is 1/220th of the size of a real train. " I hope the condom is not to scale. Could be very painfull to use if so.
13 posted on 12/22/2004 9:25:09 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: thefactor
It's all about gauge and scale my friend.

Im sure you still play with "Z Scale" don't you? Try moving up to "G Scale" and you will notice the difference.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

14 posted on 12/22/2004 9:25:42 AM PST by expatguy ("Fallujah Delenda Est!")
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To: Dan from Michigan

Adults make whoopee, responsible males put on raincoats. The toymaker obviously thinks that this is a cute idea and will make some sales from it. I don't see any problem with this, but it probably offends the prudish and squeamish who, tacitly, question the Almighty's motives to give us humans free will.


15 posted on 12/22/2004 9:25:55 AM PST by Archangelsk (Plain, simple soldier. Nothing more, nothing less.)
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To: general_re
Yes, and immediately after leaving the tunnel, it's followed by the cigarette car...

Can't say that line didn't put a smile on my face...

Of course, the dinner car should come before the other two.

16 posted on 12/22/2004 9:26:34 AM PST by Alien Gunfighter (Draw!)
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To: RichInOC

Plug and play on the "TROJAN" Express.


17 posted on 12/22/2004 9:26:50 AM PST by Uncle George
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To: Dan from Michigan; cyborg; martin_fierro; fortunecookie; arasina
A condom 'in ho scale.' [snicker]
18 posted on 12/22/2004 9:28:36 AM PST by Petronski (A suitable case for treatment.)
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To: cubreporter
Some people are just plain sick. No class. No manners. No taste. No respect.

I resemble that remark.

19 posted on 12/22/2004 9:30:12 AM PST by dware (Go then. There are other worlds than these.)
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To: expatguy
Sorry to dissapoint, my friend, but I would need the 1/1 scale. So I could show her my "OH!" face.

Quick, what moive is that from?

20 posted on 12/22/2004 9:30:52 AM PST by thefactor
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