Bunchems: The trendy new toy that’s wrecking children's hair and driving parents crazy
A popular new toy called Bunchems has turned out to be a huge pain for parents and their kids.
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Bunchems are brightly colored balls the size of a quarter covered with soft, squishy spikes that interlock with each other to build any shape possible, like LEGOS.
The toy might sound fun, but parents throughout the country have taken to the web to warn the spongy little spheres are straight from the devil.
"Horrible, horrible, horrible toy for kids," Etan Benoit wrote in an Amazon review.
"I just spent the last TWO AND A HALF hours (absolutely(sic), 100 percent not an exaggeration) attempting to remove 14 of these bastard balls out of my daughter's hair."
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The company posted a YouTube video in August instructing how to remove the hellish little balls from a person's hair.
It had been viewed more than 27,000 times as of Saturday.
Spin Master recommends coating the hair surrounding Bunchems with conditioner or vegetable oil, then combing below the toy until the knots are untangled.
Arlene Biran, vice president of marketing at Spin Master, told the Journal the company was looking for ways to better warn parents about Bunchens’ tangly risks.http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bunchems-wrecking-kids-hair-driving-parents-crazy-article-1.2442711
Eight people worked for four hours to extract more than five dozen Bunchem balls from Brooke Kaufman's hair last week. PHOTO: PAULA KAUFMAN
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Bonnie Brushwood didn’t think twice when she overheard “Let’s play snowball fight” at her 8-year-old daughter’s birthday slumber party.
Her daughter Josie and several friends had just retreated to a bedroom in their Austin, Texas, home with a freshly unwrapped pack of 370 Bunchems, a hot new building toy. Each marble-sized Bunchem has dozens of soft springy hooks that give the multicolored spheres a Velcro-like grip. They are easy to stick together. But hard to unstick from hair.
The harmonious giggling quickly evolved into what Ms. Brushwood described as “guttural groaning.” Upstairs she found a Bunchems disaster. There were 30 tangled in one girl’s hair and a couple dozen in the wavy mane of her oldest daughter, Penelope. The other girls were also contending with rainbow clumps of Bunchem balls snarled in their hair.
Getting them untangled took until midnight. Josie’s father, a veteran magician who teaches tricks on his YouTube channel, toiled for 20 minutes and couldn’t get any out. “We’ve taught everything from how to eat fire and pick locks,” said Brian Brushwood. “It turns out all those skills are defeated by this one mass of pure evil.”
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A Republican, me, a bag of Bunchems, and a dark parking lot. Muhahahahahahahaha!
...I'm pretty sure I could outrun most of them around here, even at 40+. 
Not only absolutely unneeded and useless but annoying and mildly dangerous/destructive to boot.
