Two days later, the Consumer Product Safety Commission asked Burger King to recall the containers, which Burger King refused to do. This was the first time a Burger King toy was blamed for a death. Following her death, the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department issued a warning about the containers. On December 11, 1999, a 13-month-old girl in Sonora, California, suffocated on the container, and was found deceased in her playpen with half of the ball covering her nose and mouth. Ten days into the promotion, Burger King North America President Paul Clayton ran full-page newspaper ads apologizing for shortages. The container could be opened by pulling the two halves of it apart. The containers were made by Equity Marketing, Inc.
The containers ranged in color from red and white to hot pink. Burger King distributed the Poké balls inside big kids meals and regular kids meals, and it was to last for eight weeks from early November through December 1999. These containers were determined to present a suffocation hazard and as such were recalled.ĭuring 19, Burger King and the Consumer Product Safety Commission held an effort to recall plastic containers resembling Poké Balls in the United States after it was determined they presented a suffocation hazard.īurger King released a set of 57 Pokémon toys in a $22 million Pokémon: The First Movie promotion, which were contained within round Poké Ball containers measuring from 2.75 and 3 inches in diameter.
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