New York – N.Y.C Toy Fair Vendor Offers Madoff Doll To Smash

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    The Limited Edition Bernie Made Off With My Money Madoff Action Figure by ModelWorks on display during the opening day of the 2009 Toy Fair at the Jacob Javits Center in New York February 15, 2009. The Toy Fair is the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere. More than 1,500 manufacturers, distributors, importers and sales agents from 30 countries showcase their toy and entertainment products. [Timony A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images]New York – Mad at disgraced investor Bernard Madoff? There’s a toy just for you.

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    One of the vendors at this week’s Toy Fair is offering the “Smash-Me Bernie,” a $99.95 Madoff lookalike doll that wears a devil-red suit and carries a pitchfork. It comes with its own hammer — so you can pulverize it.

    Phoenix, Ariz.-based ModelWorks is behind the caricature Mini-Me figures, which can be customized to look like celebrities or whomever a buyer chooses.

    Madoff was arrested in December after investigators said he confessed to his sons that he had swindled investors of $50 billion in a Ponzi scheme.

    The toy fair is open only to the industry and runs through Wednesday.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I don’t think the people who most want to use it can afford it

    ha
    ha
    15 years ago

    its another rip-auf

    Babishka
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    Babishka
    15 years ago

    $100 for a bobblehead tchotchka?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    How cute! where can you buy it

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I hope nobody killes them self with it

    New York
    New York
    15 years ago

    Proceeds benefit the Madoff Defense Team

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    there still making a big deal about this ganof? How much attention will he still get?

    anonymous
    anonymous
    15 years ago

    they should give the money to madoff victims.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I think you could burn an effigy of him for less than half of that. $100 for a stupid toy. Unbelievable.

    mottel
    mottel
    15 years ago

    you just stick your paycheck into the doll’s shirt pocket and watch it grow

    amyisroelchai
    amyisroelchai
    15 years ago

    Investors who lost big bucks with Madoff can now “avenge” their losses against
    Bernie with the new “Smash Bernie” doll *guaranteed* to ameliorate anxiety, pain,
    feelings of revenge or double your money back.