
COLLECTORS are scrambling to buy a limited edition original Heath Ledger "Joker" which toy maker Mattel has dumped because it's too scary for children.
Collider.com's Ryan Brookhart reports today that Mattel won't release the original version of The Joker figurine, based on Heath Ledger's incarnation for Batman: Dark Knight because it is too scary for children.
Instead Mattel have "hastily thrown together" a "friendlier" version they can sell to children.
What Mattel will sell is a "strange hybrid animated style Joker roughly an inch smaller and in standard blister-style packaging alongside the movie actuate Batman figure," Mr Brookhart says.
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