By offering a toy that exists outside of the binary of male and female, Hasbro is helping kids to simply see toys as toys, which encourages them to be their authentic selves outside of the pressures of traditional gender norms,” said Rich Ferraro, a spokesperson for the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD. MAT)’s Barbie, which became a hit as an impossibly proportioned female figurine, has become more body-inclusive and racially diverse. Mattel Starting in the 2000s, Mr. and Mrs Potato Head also starred in commercials for other brands. An example is an ad for Lay's Potato Chips where Mr. Potato Head comes home to see Mrs. Potato Head eating them despite being a potato herself. At the end Mr. Potato Head joins in and tells her to keep it their "little secret". [28] In 1987, Mr. Potato Head became "Spokespud" for the annual Great American Smokeout and surrendered his pipe to Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in Washington, D.C. [1]

He also appeared in the Halloween special Toy Story of Terror! (2013), where he disappears and Bonnie's other toys must find him. SHIMMERY COLLECTIBLE MINI FIGURES: Each little Mr. Potato Head character includes unique, shimmery accessories. Which one will you get?

In Toy Story 3 (2010), Mr. Potato Head is one of Andy's remaining toys, alongside his wife, the Aliens, and others. The toys are donated to a daycare center and are later almost killed in a landfill incinerator. When the Aliens rescue the toys with a giant crane, Mr. Potato Head finally accepts them as his sons. Eventually, Mr. Potato Head and his friends are donated to a new owner named Bonnie ( Emily Hahn). Hasbro updated the brand in 2021, dropping the honorific in the name and marketing the toy simply as Potato Head, while retaining the individual characters of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. [8] History [ edit ] MAT) said a year ago it wanted to bring “a multi-dimensional view of beauty and fashion” when it launched a series of dolls with disabilities, hair loss and vitigilio. In 2015, Melanie Martinez released the song " Mrs. Potato Head" on her debut album Cry Baby. [29] Toy Story franchise [ edit ] Production information [ edit ] Movies [ edit ] The toy helped inspire the classic Macintosh software toy Tuberling by John Calhoun of Soft Dorothy Software, [26] which was later reimplemented for the K Desktop Environment as KTuberling. [27]

a b c Walsh, Tim (2005). Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Made Them. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 0-7407-5571-4. Gagné, Marcel (2008-05-01). "Cooking with Linux - Learning...Disguised". Linux Journal . Retrieved 2023-03-02. About Mr. Potato Head". Archived from the original on September 25, 2008 . Retrieved August 28, 2008. News of the name change emerged at an investors meeting on Thursday. Hasbro later tweeted about it, assuring fans that although the brand name is changing, the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head “aren’t going anywhere.” Those character names will still appear on the boxes under the new brand name. Optimash Prime Mr. Potato Head Transformer". Uncrate. Archived from the original on April 29, 2012 . Retrieved February 10, 2013.

Is Mr Potato Head to blame for 'pester power' ads?". BBC News. April 30, 2012 . Retrieved May 1, 2012. In its original form, Mr. Potato Head was offered as separate plastic parts with pushpins to be attached into a real potato or other vegetable. Due to complaints regarding rotting vegetables and new government safety regulations, Hasbro began including a plastic potato body with the toy set in 1964. [4] The original toy was subsequently joined by Mrs. Potato Head and supplemented with accessories including a car and boat trailer. Taters of the Lost Ark". Uncrate. Archived from the original on December 6, 2012 . Retrieved February 10, 2013. In 2019, Toy Story 4-themed Mr. and Mrs. Potato Heads were released. These versions feature the "Jason" model of the spuds with a mix of various parts, including the classic versions of the arms and shoes, (near) film-accurate facial features and the newer designs of the parts. [ citation needed]