In anticipation of a family-friendly box office smash, Mattel and others have produced a lot of merchandise for the film. The porn-linking toys were singing Glinda and Elphaba dolls. Retailers such as Target and Walmart have already delisted the toy from their online databases, but pictures of them still exist on eBay.

In response to the viral posts, Mattel released a statement acknowledging the "unfortunate error" and pledged to take swift corrective action

Toy giant Mattel is now grappling with just that kind of jaw-dropping misstep, after packaging for new dolls inspired by the film version of Wicked directed customers to a porn site instead of the movie’s landing page.