As simple as they might seem in concept, the truth is that making a good toy is harder than it seems. Many toys that represent human figures tend to invoke the uncanny valley, but some are so creepy that it’s unclear what parent’s would look at it and think “my child needs one of these.” At the same time, parents are also forced to search through the veritable ocean of bootlegs.
We’ve gathered some spectacular examples of bizarre, creepy or just downright weird toy design fails from across the internet. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments below.
#1 I Don't Even Know What To Call This
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#2 Bort Sampson
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#3 Geocentric Solar System At A Public School's Playground
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#4 Playground In Germany
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#5 The Not So Fantastic Four
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#6 Homer On Steroids
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#7 My Favorite Show Is Called The Americans
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#8 Jamaicachu: "Jamaica No Problem"
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#9 You Had One Job
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#10 Spooderman
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#11 The Quality Check Was Clearly Passed
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#12 From What Level Of Hell Was This Retrieved?
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#13 SpongeBob Devourer Of Children
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#14 This "Hagrid" Doll I Bought 15 Years Ago In A Dollar Store Is Just A Repainted Lion From The Wizard Of Oz. Rocking His Mane, Ears, And Medal Of Courage
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#15 Strange Dinosaur
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#16 I Think Wario Ingested A New Kind Of Mushroom. I Wonder What Mario Party He Went To
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#17 Spotted This Chimera At The Mall
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#18 Tele... Babies
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#19 Off-Brand Toy With An Interesting Name
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#20 “Luigi, I Think Something Is Not Right”
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#21 Batman’s Face Is Priceless
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#22 What Am I Supposed To Call This? Lario?
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#23 I'm A Benign Girl, In A Benign World
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#24 This Bootleg Captain America Toy
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#25 This Toy Parking Deck Has A Battery Compartment Without A Battery Compartment
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#26 Panda-Themed Children’s Ride
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#27 "Quality" Toy I Found In A Claw Machine
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#28 Oh No
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#29 Some Toy Company Made A Plush Of Meilin Lee From Turning Red, However They Forgot To Give It A Nose
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#30 They Blocked The Middle Slide At The Playground
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#31 She Looks Like She's Had A Hard Life
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#32 This "Cartoon Plush" On Temu. Honestly, I'm Not Gonna Sleep After Seeing This
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#33 A Transforming Dinosaur Robot Toy My Son Got
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#34 This Pikachu Off-Brand Found At Goodwill
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#35 Blursed Avengers
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#36 Mario Grew A Mustache Above His Nose
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#37 Found This Toy At A Random Store. Nothing Makes Sense In This Toy
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#38 My Favorite Game, Mong Us
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#39 This Lamb I Won Out Of A Claw Machine. I Love It
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#40 The Terrible Physical Bootleg
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#41 This Burger King's Patrick Star Toy Is Actually Mr. Crab
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#42 I Found Some New Avengers Infinity War Figures. "Derp" Black Widow And "Calm But Clearly Not Amused Steve" Captain America
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#43 They Should Have Thought About This Kinder Egg Toy A Little Longer
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#44 My Sad Christmas
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#45 Any Idea Why My Kid Refused To Ride This?
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#46 Dora Did Not Like What She Explored
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#47 I Have No Words
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#48 I Was Finally Able To See It
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#49 Here Comes The Yellow Cat That Hates Saturdays: Barfyard
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#50 Did I Stutter?
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#51 Found This At A Local Chinese Store
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#52 Spiderman With His Famous Spider-Rifle
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#53 Pikachu Isn’t Looking Too Good
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#54 I’m A Bearby Girl, In A Bearby World
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#55 Found This At The Mall
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#56 Poor Woody And Buzz, What Have They Done To You?
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#57 Adolescence-Deformed Karate Frogs
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#58 Kids' Boat At The Playground. Water Has Nowhere To Go
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#59 This Is A Toy That I Got Today. My Kid Removed It's Head To Reveal This. I Should Have Read The Text Properly, "Security And Non-Taxic". The Head Comes Off Very Easily, And It's Very Pointy
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#60 Today's Playground Counting Lesson With My Toddler Became Disappointing. Look At Numbers Six And Nine
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#61 These Burger King Toys
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#62 My Daughter's Toy Tablet Has No Word For The Letter "C". Clown? Cowboy? I Mean It's In German But Still A Lot Of Words With C
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#63 Herp Derp
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#64 Found This Giraffe With Five Legs In A Search-And-Find Book
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#65 Hexagon, Star, Oval, Heart, Triangle, And… Round?
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#66 Some You! Bunny Loves
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#67 Muigi And Lario
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#68 Kobe Bryant
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#69 Deformed Eggs
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#70 Iron Deficiency Man
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#71 Does Nintendo Know About It?
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#72 Why Do They Keep On Torturing Him?
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#73 Found This At My Local Dollar Store Yesterday
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#74 They Are Going Through Something
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#75 I Found These Pikachus
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#76 Avengers 2 - My Favorite Superman Movie
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#77 This Kid's Octopus Toy Only Has Seven Legs
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#78 My Friend's Daughter Got A Veterinarian Kit For Her 4th Birthday, He Sent Me This
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#79 This Puzzle In My Kid's Playground Which Can Never Be Right
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#80 The Folks Installing The Playground Weren't Looking Too Closely
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#81 Apparently My Daughter's Baby Doll Is Not Much Alive And Frozen
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#82 My Favorite Transformer Is Coca-Col
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#83 Found These Bootleg Pokémon Cards At The Bootleg Anime Store In The Mall
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#84 Jason
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#85 Walt Diary Presents
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#86 Pokémon? Nah, I've Got Petbaby
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#87 My Favorite
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#88 SpongeBob Is My Favorite Avenger
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#89 Mater, Is That You?
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#90 Deformers
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#91 Superman, You Look A Little Off Today
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#92 My Daughter's Toy Piano Key Labeling
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#93 Whoever Thought "Let's Make A Peppa Pig Toy Phone With No Off Switch"... It Malfunctions And Randomly Goes Off All The Time
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#94 Minion Toy With Broken Eyes
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#95 Super Heroes Avengers, Featuring A Swollen Captain America
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#96 Darth Goblin: "You Know, I'm Something Of A Sith Lord Myself"
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#97 Aye Of Course, Sense Of Right Alliance On The Way
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#98 Thanos
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#99 I’m Afraid
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#100 Found These Extremely Derpy Eeveelutions At Our Town Festival
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#101 Umm What? Toy Fail
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#102 I Got This A While Back. The Only Reason I Got It Was Because Rapunzel Is In The Cinderella Box
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#103 Make Friends With Us
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#104 My Son's New Toy
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#105 Found This Gem In A 2-Dollar Shop. Had To Take A Picture
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#106 Care To Explain?
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#107 Average 2
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#108 Go Go Power Hero
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#109 From Bentendo: The Acqua Brink With 1 Included Title: Ocean Funny Game. Only $12
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#110 This Toy Car Has Two Different Numbers On It
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