Posted on 07/02/2026 10:09:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The recall involves the Chinese-made Gigglescape Under the Sea Popping Toy, which features a clear plastic dome on a blue, whale-shaped base. When children push a plunger on top, colored balls pop up inside the dome.
According to federal safety regulators, the dome can detach from the base, allowing children access to the small balls inside. Target has received nine reports of the dome detaching, including one incident in which a child began to choke on the loose pieces.
The recalled toys were sold exclusively at Target stores nationwide and online from August 2025 through January 2026 for about $10. The brand name Gigglescape appears on the front of the packaging and is imprinted on the bottom of the toy’s blue base.
Parents and caregivers are urged to take the toy away from children immediately. Target is offering full refunds to customers who return the product to any Target store.
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“Chinese-made”
Ten bucks says that toy isn’t available in china
“Johnny Switchblade? An adventure punk doll. Ken and Barbie learn about real life,see?”
When asked about other dangerous toys in his line, he casually noted other offerings like “Bag O’ Nails,” “Bag of Vipers,” and “Bag O’ Sulfuric Acid”.
“They’re decent toys, know what I mean?”
I was thinking of that very same skit!
“The recall involves the Chinese-made Gigglescape Under the Sea Popping Toy”. Pity the poor person who just bought 10,000 of them.
Kids today need to toughen up. When I was a kid, we had toys that could double as weapons or torture devices.
Teach your small children not to stick everything in their mouth?
And it proved to me there was a Santa Claus because mom and dad never would have bought it for me.
I only set two or four things on fire. Nothing major. And we never had problems with ants in the garage again.
That’s what I came here for.
Made in Chyna...
It was great. About three feet high and four feet long with hard plastic cannon balls and a ramrod.
I loaded it up on Christmas morning in the house and broke one of dinning room windows.
Dad took the ammunition and left the cannon. :-(
Vac-U-Form and the original Creepy Crawlers.
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