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  • We're just happy to see Irwin Mainway, the controversial toy manufacturer, is back on his feet and working at Kellogg's.

    Kellogg's Lego Fun Snacks Sends Mixed Messages To Your Child - The Consumerist 2008

  • No one benefits -- except maybe some "Mainway" - like businesses -- when we make our police officers work even harder to distinguish real guns from toy guns.

    Paul Helmke: Colorized Guns: Painting Our Police Into A Corner 2008

  • Aykroyd played Mainway like a con-man, complete with pencil-thin mustache, slicked-back hair, pinky ring, and tacky polyester sport jacket, whose "toys" and "rides" were some of the worst ever marketed to children.

    Paul Helmke: Colorized Guns: Painting Our Police Into A Corner 2008

  • Then there was "Johnny Human Torch," a package of oily rags and a lighter, where the child was supposed to pin the rags on his body ( "like a hobo," Mainway said) and light himself on fire.

    Paul Helmke: Colorized Guns: Painting Our Police Into A Corner 2008

  • In the Irving spots, the calls were to people who had won an item in a Mainway contest.

    The age of persuasion Ed Hollett 2007

  • The sketches also included Mainway Hallowe'en costumes, such as a military uniform replete with a working rifle; the Invisible Pedestrian costume, ideal for trick or treating that was all non-reflective black; and, a Johnny Space Commander Mask, which was an air-tight plastic bag that attached to the head with a rubber band.

    SNL Skit Morphs Into Real Life Tragedy 2007

  • Played to the hilt by Akyroyd, Mainway, with a straight face and utmost sincerity, touted his dangerous toys insisting that no child could live without them.

    SNL Skit Morphs Into Real Life Tragedy 2007

  • Where Mainway was up front and honest about his manically dangerous products, the things that are being imported from China are stealth toys.

    SNL Skit Morphs Into Real Life Tragedy 2007

  • The man suffered a single gunshot wound on March 12 at Walkers Line near Mainway after being pulled over for running a red light and driving erratically around 7:30 p.m., said the SIU.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Liem Vu 2011

  • The press release that punctured our inbox this morning attempts to trade on the stabby outlaw allure of original-dangerousness-level lawn darts by mentioning their 20-year absence from the marketplace, but a cursory Google search reveals that you can still buy the genuine article, unassembled, from the Mainway Toys-like death-merchants at lawndartparts. com.

    Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles 2010

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