NO KUNG-FU GRIP?The Rep. Weiner doll comes with or without a certain anatomical detail. Guess which model is selling faster. (PacificCoastNews.com)
NO KUNG-FU GRIP? The Rep. Weiner doll comes with or without a certain anatomical detail. Guess which model is selling faster. (WENN.com)
It’s nothing we haven’t seen already.
A G-rated action figure of cybersex addict Anthony Weiner went on sale yesterday for $39.95 — but buyers are ponying up an extra $10 for a more anatomically explicit version.
HeroBuilders.com, an Oxford, Conn.-based doll maker, is peddling figurines of the lewd lawmaker clad in a gym shirt and a pair of shorts that read “Tweet This.”
The cheaper model sports a smooth “stealth body,” for those who have already seen enough of Weiner’s privates.
But there’s also a Weiner Weiner Doll that is billed “for adults only” for $49.95 — and it includes a representation of the now-infamous manhood.
Since the dolls went on sale online yesterday morning, some 250 were sold — all of them the “enhanced” edition, company officials said.
“Everyone wants a Weiner,” said HeroBuilder President and “Chief Dollmaker” Emil Vicale. “No one wants the regular one.”
Vicale said one out of every 100 customers who browsed the firm’s Web site yesterday ended up buying the anatomically correct one.
The company offers other controversial dolls, including President Obama as a machine-gun-toting Navy SEAL, Hillary Rodham Clinton as a “HillBilly Politician,” Dick Cheney wearing a “You Don’t Know Dick” shirt, and various incarnations of Sarah Palin and President George W. Bush as well as Russian spy Anna Chapman and Jimmy “The Rent is Too Damn High” McMillan.
Weinergate has spawned a small cottage industry of paraphernalia related to the Brooklyn-Queens congressman and the racy photos he sent to women.
Another online firm is selling Weiner T-shirts that say “Junk Mail” and “Don’t be a Weiner.” Also, “replica” Weiner underwear is being offered on eBay.