Nice try, but no thanks

I just went to www.fisherprice.com, and after waiting for the insanely annoying (not-obviously-skippable) flash animation with noise, it brings me to the front page... and then immediately routes me to another page where it tells me:

It appears you have a pop-up blocker installed. To fully experience all the features of our web site, you'll need to disable this blocker when visiting www.fisher-price.com .

Brilliant. I wonder how many people go for it.

I do have to say, however, that fisherprice does use flash for good and not just evil... For example, I can now show my sisters the demo of my son's favorite new toy, so they can judge for themselves exactly how annoying the music is.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 05, 2004
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• Anonymous
  March 05, 2004
  I'm using IE6 with the Google toolbar/popup blocker, got the same result on two machines.
• Anonymous
  March 05, 2004
  Got the same thing with Google. Funny thing is, they give you the nice 'click here to see what you're missing' and it opens just fine.