THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE TOY TRAIN RECALL

[Bonobo]

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/225134

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml91/91078.html

Source: Post Chronicle

Thomas The Tank Engine Train Recall - RC2 Corp has recalled various Thomas The Tank Engine Train toys due to a possible lead poisoning hazard.

In cooperation with the CPSC, RC2 issued a voluntary recall on June 13th, 2007, of various Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway vehicles and wooden train set components sold at toy stores and other retailers nationwide from January 2005 through June 2007.

The recall involves specific wooden vehicles, buildings and other train set components listed in the chart below. Surface paints on the recalled products have been reportedly determined to contain lead. Lead is toxic if ingested and is known to cause severe health problems.

Toys listed below marked with codes containing "WJ" or "AZ" are not included in this recall.

Recalled Product Names Red James Engine & Red James' # 5 Coal Tender
Red Lights & Sounds James Engine & Red James' #5
Lights & Sounds Coal Tender
James with Team Colors Engine & James with Team Colors #5 Coal Tender
Red Skarloey Engine
Brown & Yellow Old Slow Coach
Red Hook & Ladder Truck & Red Water Tanker Truck
Red Musical Caboose
Red Sodor Line Caboose
Red Coal Car labeled "2006 Day Out With Thomas" on the Side
Red Baggage Car
Red Holiday Caboose
Red "Sodor Mail" Car
Red Fire Brigade Truck
Red Fire Brigade Train
Deluxe Sodor Fire Station
Red Coal Car
Yellow Box Car
Red Stop Sign
Yellow Railroad Crossing Sign
Yellow "Sodor Cargo Company" Cargo Piece
Smelting Yard
Ice Cream Factory

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Bastards! This involves 1.5 million toys that toddlers chew on and rub like genie bottles.

My child loves James and Skarloey and is crying like crazy like now cause we literally had to take away his favorite toys.

Now we have to wonder if he has lead poisoning! Fuckers! What is our government doing!?

[symbolman]

1. You might want to check out those units at COSTCO

as well folks.. I was in there a few weeks ago, and they've got DVDS that have little trains included in the package.

Dunno if they have the same problem, but don't let that one slip by if you get the DVD set.

Thanks for the Info, my 2 year old isn't into the train scene (other than the classic wood set), but I could have just as easily forced a set on him and not known..

Bastards don't CARE if these kids eat BOWLS of Arsenic either.

MONSTERS.

[SteelPenguin]

3. That's a little harsh

This is probably a nightmare for them too. If they didn't care, they wouldn't issue a recall. Calling them Monsters is just way too harsh. Someone along the way, probably at the paint manufacturing, fucked up, and now everyone is scrambling.

[symbolman]

9. Yeah, RIGHT..

Ooops! Somehow I SPILLED LEAD into paint for a CHILD'S TOY..

Bullshit.

I have a two year old, and these MONSTERS In Washington, ESP BUSH, and his "Who CARES if there's ARSENIC in the water?" are KILLING people.

HARSH?

Man, what planet are you from? POOR CORPORATIONS.. sniff.. :)

[SteelPenguin]

10. Right. You've never made a mistake.

My bad. All the people who work there were cackling when they added lead to the paint. The people up in the board room were laughing about all the children that might die just so they could save a buck on the lead paint. None of them have kids. None of them took these toys home for their own kids.

Right.

You don't think it's more likely that there was an incorrect shipment from a paint supplier to the manufacturer, and only now years down the line have they figured it out? Shit happens.

Want to call Bush a monster becuase he removed the Arsenic laws? I'll stand behind you. Calling a children's toy manufacturer a monster because of this is a knee jerk reaction with no basis in reality. :)

[symbolman]

12. Yeah

You'll make a LOT of friends here sticking up for Corporations, gee an HONEST mistake, ALL that Paint looks alike and all..

There is NO SUCH THING as a Knee Jerk reaction when it comes to MY KID.

NONE.

They fuck up, they go down, no SECONDS on this.

I'm still amazed you would think so little of the kids on this board to even suggest that a "simple mistake" was made.

Guess all those Hundreds of Pets that were POISONED is an INCONVENIENCE for someone like you too, eh?

[SteelPenguin]

16. I'm not here to make friends

I just find your position irrational.

I'm not sticking up for corporations, i'm using Occam's razor. I should note however, that there are plenty of corporations who receive plenty of support on this board, and the Democratic Party is not anti-business.

You're the one calling them Monsters, which could be the result of a single worker's mistake for all we know. I don't know whose fault it is, but by issuing this recall the company is taking responsibility, not just by informing their customers, but by opening themselves to litigation based on it.

Also, i'm sorry, of course there are knee jerk reactions when it comes to your children. There are knee jerk reactions to everything. For all we know, this recall itself is a knee jerk reaction on the companies part because there COULD be lead, and they'd rather be safe than sorry. Everyone is capable of knee jerk reactions about anything, particularly regarding our children.

"They fuck up, they go down..." Quite possibly. That sound you hear in the background is every parent in america taking away all the thomas wooden railway toys and throwing them out, vowing not to buy any more.

I don't see how saying it could be a simple mistake necessarily doesn't mean it's a significant one. It just means that the most likely explanation is not one that involves people necessarily being "MONSTERS". I also don't see how if I don't think that the people at this company are "MONSTERS" I therefore must think little of children. That argument makes no sense. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

The pet food recall didn't affect me personally, but for someone whose pet died, i'm sure that I would label it more than an inconvenience.

The aspect of my argument that I feel you're missing, is that there is an aspect of culpability and intent to calling people monsters. Responsible? Surely. Terrible? Certainly. Yet taking that next step is the difference between manslaughter and first degree murder. There is a difference between someone who accidentally kills someone who walks in front of their car because they were fiddling with a CD player, and someone who goes on a rampage in a office killing twenty people with an automatic weapon. Are they both Monsters? That seems extreme and irrational to me to call them both monsters.

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[gollygee]

2. Ack we bought ours in December 2004

so I guess they're OK? *sigh* I hate this. Our daughter is too old for us to worry about her putting them in her mouth, but we're talking about having another kid and that kid would use the trains at some point too.

[LuckyTheDog]

4. Oh shit!

Now I have to go through my kid's Thomas stuff!

[MorningGlow]

5. Dammit! We've got some of those

James, and the stop sign and railroad crossing sign. MG Jr. LOVES his wooden train set. Damn damn damn. How dangerous is it if kid's HAVEN'T chewed on the pieces? Jr. never does--he's never been one of those "stuff everything in the mouth" kind of kids...Still, I'll have to spirit those away. How do you explain to a 3-year-old that his toys can hurt him? :(

[Bonobo]

6. It was hard to explain to him that James and Skarloey were poisonous, yes.

He cried and cried and cried...

[SteelPenguin]

8. Explain? Heh

We only had the baggage car and the yellow railroad crossing sign of that group. So they're gone.

Where'd they go? Lets look for them! Hmm are they over here? Nope. How bout over there? Hmm. We can't find them. Where'd they go? Are they hiding? Lets find them later. Look! A Balloon!

That's just my parenting style though. If they're too young to explain, then I prefer to use mystery and redirection. ;)

[Bonobo]

13. Too late. It was early and my honesty peaked out before I could cover it...

But you are right ;)

[SteelPenguin]

17. Ack

yeah, yanking a toy from a child is a sure way to get them to cry.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. The Recall Is Only For Those Specifically. Here's A Picture Of Them:

If yours or others don't match these exactly, then there really is no worry.

[Bonobo]

14. I had 3 matches and some of them got some heavy, heavy use.

James and Skarloey are of my boy's favorites.

Forunately, lead poisoning requires long-term exposure of heavy levels I believe.

[catmandu57]

11. Are they made in china like everything else?

That's my guess anyway, when I heard about this on the news last night I thought either it was some real sleazeball company, or they were painted in china where they don't have the enviormental laws that we do.

[sampsonblk]

15. Why is this CPSC notice from 1991?

Like everyone else, I have to dig out all the Thomas toys from my son's collection! GRRRRRRRRRRRR


Well there also goes a chunk out of my pocket! After all this work creating an online Thomas store.
http://thomasthetankengine.delmarvatrains.com/

Well maybe kids will still like to look at the pictures...