WB Tweety Birds Plush Backpack

This "backpack" is not a backpack at all. It is a stuffed toy that can be carried by backpack straps (or a hand loop).

The zipper's max opening is about 4 1/4 inches -less than the width of a small index card.

Open the zipper and you find a piece of thin but very strong fabric sewn firmly into both sides of the zipper, sealing off the inside irrevocably.

So, I thought, am I missing something? Is there a realistic opening somewhere?

NO.

Cut open the fabric that seals off the inside of the object and you find not the expected support of crumpled paper or the like, but tightly packed dense, springy, synthetic stuffing. Lots of it.

Take out the stuffing and the flimsy "plush" collapses flatter than a plastic grocery bag. The piece that keeps you from getting into the pack is far firmer and stronger than the toy's covering (a lightly napped very thin fabric).

I could barely get my not very large hand through the opening. My 3 year old granddaughter could, or could drop a Lego block into it, but if she did she probably couldn't reach to the bottom of the sack to get it out.

I got this for my husband (a retired college professor and Tweety enthusiast) for a sort of whimsical birthday present, as I have two real backpacks about this size and find them very useful. I can't imagine that this thing would be good for anything, for anyone of any age.

I see nothing in the description that says that this is a stuffed toy that can be carried on the back, that there is no functional opening, or that the object is not intended for use as a backpack in the sense of something to carry things in, as it clearly was not. I can only take this to be deliberate deception. Anyone lives in the West has heard the story of the local "haystack rock" -the huge rock covered thinly with hay and sold to the naive Easterner as a haystack.

Buy this and you can have your very own haystack rock, or should I say Tweety haystack.

Thankful as I am for Amazon's return policies, I'm not sure I'll be able to return this, as I had to mutilate it to find that it was a stuffed toy, not a backpack.

I hope Amazon's description checking people will put this company and this brand on a Red List and check any other objects they may be trying to foist off on trusting Amazon customers against the descriptions.

My daughter loves this but the pocket in the head is rather small and hardly fits any of her stuff she tries to put in it. Great otherwise.

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