A worried mum is warning other parents of unsafe children's toys after her son's squishy cat blew up in his face on a Thomas Cook flight.
Mother-of-two Stephanie Harding, 32, bought her son, Max, seven, a pink toy from Paperchase inside Manchester Airport's duty free.
Three hours into the flight to Lanzarote, the toy exploded and left Max covered in a foam that quickly set to rubber-like texture, Stephanie told Liverpool Echo .
She said: "I don't think they've ever taken a toy like this on a flight abroad.
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"When it burst it was clear like a liquid foam so it looked a lot like bubble bath."
Stephanie said the foam covered both of them but most of it burst in Max's face, covering his eyes and nose.
She alerted Thomas Cook flight attendants and helped cleaning up her son and wiping a scoop of the foam out of his mouth.
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Stephanie was confused seeing how the gooey material inside the toy quickly turned to rubber-like once it was exposed to the air.
Stephanie added: "It was suggested to me that it may have been the air pressure."
When they landed the island, Stephanie threw away her eldest son Zack's toy and called Paperchase to find out the contents of the toy and see if he required medical assistance.
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She said Paperchase removed the toy from sale and from the website and gave Max a £20 voucher.
"They said they always treat complaints like this very seriously. For me the saving grace in it all is Max is fine, he’s not got any medical problems from it," she said.
The stationery chain has since presented a toxicology report assuring the contents of the £4 toy are not dangerous.
But Stephanie is still concerned as similar toys are sold everywhere.
Paperchase declined to comment when approached by the Echo.
