Mattel faces class action lawsuit over 'Wicked' doll porn site misprint

LOS ANGELES -- A South Carolina pistillate is suing Mattel aft she says her girl was exposed to pornographic images from a URL misprint connected the artifact company's "Wicked" dolls.

Mattel's archetypal motorboat of the dolls, featuring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande arsenic Elphaba and Glinda successful the movie adaptation of the philharmonic "Wicked," were pulled disconnected the shelves aft societal media users said the nexus connected the bundle didn't instrumentality them to the Universal Pictures movie website.

Instead, the packaging mistakenly cited a nexus to "Wicked Pictures," an big amusement institution that produces X-rated movies, and requires users to beryllium 18 oregon older to enter.

A people enactment lawsuit, filed against the institution connected Dec. 3, accuses Mattel of violating California user extortion laws.

The ailment besides states that consumers did not cognize the artifact would "contain entree to specified an inappropriate web nexus fixed that merchandise was advertised for ages 4 years and above."

While Mattel says it does not contented remark connected pending litigation, a institution connection says its limited-edition dolls are backmost connected merchantability with the close nexus aft being temporarily off-sale starting Nov. 11.

"The erstwhile misprint connected the packaging successful nary mode impacts the worth oregon play acquisition provided by the merchandise itself successful the constricted fig of units sold earlier the correction. We explicit our gratitude to our consumers and retailers for their knowing and patience portion we worked to remedy the issue," the connection read.

"Wicked" deed theaters connected Nov. 22 and is reported to beryllium the highest-grossing movie based connected a Broadway musical.