Potty With Built-in iPad Makes List of the Year's Most 'Oppressive' Toys

Play-Doh app, others also get flushed

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The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has chosen this year's five nominees for its annual Toady Award (dis)honoring "Toys Oppressive and Destructive to Young Children."

There's a Monopoly game plastered with the names and logos of real advertisers (because the classic version isn't capitalistic enough); a Play-Doh mobile app that basically kills any actual creativity; a truly bizarre fashion-doll site that lets kids throw sparkly makeover parties for tooth fairies; a dinosaur that shoots missiles (just like the real ones did); and iPotty, a workstation that lets toddlers poop and cruise the Internet simultaneously.

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