I Snoped this to see if it was a gag but there's apparently no Snopery on it yet. My default position on net weirdness is that it's fakery, but so far... nothing.
Politically correct toy design committe where nobody wanted to admit the toy looked like a sex toy, for fear of being acccused of harrassment.
That's probably true. Either that or the committee is composed of experts on toys --those "experts" being actual kids too young to "get it." Possibly all girls since it's a kitcheney-bakey-home-economicsey sort of thing.
Ah well. time will tell, I guess.