If your kids are anything like my three boys, at some point in their life, they will admittedly fall under the spell of a small wooden tank machine by the name of Thomas. For those parents who are in the know, Thomas & Friends needs no introduction. Endless lengths of overpriced wooden train track and a painted wooden table designed to replicate the "countryside" is a staple in any respectable child-rearer's home.
For the uninitiated, Thomas the Tank machine is a blue smiling train machine who is endowed with a set of stunningly anthromorphic features, including rosy cheeks, a big smile, and (oddly enough) eyebrows. Thomas and his many friends, who comprise a litany of other tank engines, train cars, and a center devotee named Sir Topem Hat) spend their days curious in a range of adventures. Either a child follows the video productions of Thomas & Friends, or just follows his/her own imagination, Thomas commonly finds himself studying a good chapter or two by the end of the day.
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Although the world of Thomas & Friends is commonly an idyllic one, there has recently been a negative side effect of its huge popularity. The fact of the matter is that Thomas appeals mainly to very young children. Unfortunately, children of that age also tend to put small items in their mouth on a quarterly basis. It is for this fancy that the modern recall of Thomas & Friends was necessary.
In June, 2007, Illinios based Rc2 Corporation recalled 1.5 million units of the beloved Thomas & Friends railway toys. These Thomas & Friends toys were allegedly covered with lead paint.
This month, July, 2007, Rc2 Corporation was hit with a federal class-action lawsuit in Chicago on Tuesday that is seeking an injunction against the sale of its metal train toys.
The lawsuit is seeking a court order requiring Rc2 to "cease production and distribution of all metal toys" reported to the buyer goods security Commission or reported in the media "to have perhaps been contaminated with lead paint."
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of consumers who have purchased the toys or received them as gifts, also is seeking a court order to apprise all sellers and distributors of metal toys "to remove such toys from their shelves and to cease sale and distribution ... Until their security can be established."
A spokeswoman for Rc2 issued a statement in response to the lawsuit saying, "The only items branch to our previously announced voluntary recall are the 26 wooden products listed and pictured on our Web site. They characterize about four percent of total wooden railway units sold by the company domestically during recall period."
"Though some products in our metal train toy line are similar in appearance to products in the wooden line, they are smaller in scale. None of the metal products is branch to recall. They were produced using dissimilar manufacturing and painting processes in dissimilar compact manufacturing facilities."
The firm said in expanding to replacing all recalled products returned by consumers and reimbursing them for return postage, "we are providing them with a bonus train car as a thank you for returning the recalled items."
The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the seventh federal class-action case brought against Rc2, according to a search of the federal electronic filing database. The suit also named as defendants Hit Entertainment, the London-based children's entertainment company that licenses the Thomas & Friends railway toys; Apax Partners, the private-equity group that owns Hit; and studying Curve Brands, Inc., the subsidiary of Rc2 that markets the railway toys.
Thomas & Friends Train Cars Recalled
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