Toy store stops selling drug-dealer dolls

Toys R Us has stopped selling a drug-dealer doll from the popular American TV series 'Breaking Bad'. One of the figures had bags full of drug money and blue crystal drugs. A mother, Susan Myers, started an online petition to get Toys R Us to stop selling the toys. More than 3,000 people signed it. Ms Myers wrote on the petition: "Toys R Us is well known around the world….However their decision to sell a Breaking Bad doll…with a…sack of cash and a bag of [drugs], alongside children's toys is a dangerous [move away] from their family-friendly values."

Ms Myers said Breaking Bad was popular with adults, but the dolls from the show should not be on a toy store shelf next to Disney characters. She said: "Parents and grandparents around the world shop at Toys R Us, online and in stores, with their children. They should not [have to] explain why a certain toy comes with a bag of highly dangerous and illegal drugs, or why someone who sells those drugs deserves to be made into an action figure." Toys R Us said the packaging clearly said that the dolls are for ages 15 and up. The toys were in the adult action figure area of the stores.