Target Recalls Water Absorbing Toys Due to Serious Ingestion Hazard
Kids’ product recall 17-133. Announced by CPSC on Apr 13, 2017.
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The short answer
Announced by CPSC on Apr 13, 2017. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.
Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
If the small toy is ingested, it can expand inside a child’s body and cause intestinal obstructions, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration and could be life threatening. Surgery is required to remove the toy from the body, if ingested. Medical professionals and parents should be aware that there is a possibility that the toys might not show up on an x-ray.
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What should you do?
Consumers should immediately take this recalled toy away from children and return it to any Target store for a full refund.
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- What the company offers to fix a recalled product or vehicle: a repair, a replacement or a refund, as the recall notice says. For a vehicle, dealers make the safety repair free. Follow the notice’s own steps, or contact the company it names. Source: CPSC; NHTSA (49 U.S.C. 30120).: refund.
- How to reach the firm: Target at 800- 440-0680 between 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. CT Monday through Sunday, online at www.target.com and click on “Recalls” at the bottom of the page, then on “School/Stationery/Seasonal” for more information, or the “Product Recalls” tab on Target’s Facebook page.
Which ones are recalled?
This recall involves Hatch & Grow Easter Eggs, Easter Grow Toys and Hatch Your Own Dino. Hatch & Grow Easter Eggs and Easter Grow Toys have model number 234-25-1200 on the back of the product’s packaging. Hatch Your Own Dino Egg has model number 234-09-0016 on the label inserted in the product’s packaging. The pink, blue, or purple Hatch & Grow Easter Eggs include a white bunny, brown bunny, or butterfly. The Easter Grow Toys include a yellow chick, brown bunny, or white bunny. The Hatch Your Own Dino Eggs are purple or yellow/green and contains one of eleven dinosaurs.
About 560,000 units, as CPSC gives them.
Water-absorbing Easter and Dino toys.
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CPSC’s photos
CPSC shows 11 photos on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.
- Hatch & Grow—Pink Easter Egg
- Hatch & Grow—Blue Easter Egg
- Hatch & Grow—Purple Easter Egg
- Easter Grow Toy—Chick
- Easter Grow Toy—Brown Bunny
- Easter Grow Toy—White Bunny
- The model number of the Hatch & Grow Easter Egg is located on the back
- The model number of the Easter Grow Toy is located on the back
- Hatch Your Own Dino Egg—Purple Egg
- Hatch Your Own Dino Egg Yellow/Green Egg
- The model number of the Hatch Your Own Dino Egg is located on the label
Who made and sold it?
- Imported by Target Corp., Minneapolis, Minn.
- Target stores nationwide from February 2017 through March 2017 for about $1.
- Made in China, as the notice gives it.
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Was anyone hurt?
None reported.
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What the record doesn’t say
- The notice lists no UPCs, so check the model, the description and the photos.
- The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
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Sources
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.
Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.
Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.