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A MUM yesterday told how her four-year-old daughter is scared of her toy Furby – claiming it has an alter ego that sounds like someone from TV drug drama Breaking Bad.

Zoe Mennie was given the cute toy for Christmas but her mum Lisa says it has started talking like a character from the smash-hit show, starring Bryan Cranston as chemistry teacher turned crystal meth kingpin Walter White.

Lisa, of Partick, Glasgow, said: “I don’t really think it’s appropriate for a child. It has two personalities.

“One is a sweet, baby Furby and then, without warning, it suddenly turns into what Zoe calls ‘that big fat man’ which talks in a gruff American male voice and burps and farts.

“It says things like, ‘oh baby’ and ‘oh sugar’ in this seedy man’s voice and it told Zoe it didn’t like her, which upset her.

“Zoe is quite perturbed – it sounds like something out of an American TV show like Breaking Bad or Prison Break.”

Numerous parents have raised concerns about Furbys, which cost £60 and were one of last year’s most popular Christmas presents.

(Image: Ben Leuner/AMC Network)

The interactive electronic toys – which kids nurture by talking to, stroking and putting them to sleep – were big in the 1990s and relaunched by makers Hasbro last year.

Lisa said: “The crazy man’s voice came on again last night. And it does a lot of belching and farting. One of Zoe’s friends was round and I was concerned she would go back home copying what she’d heard.”

Lisa discovered how to reset the toy by turning it upside down, pushing in its tongue and pulling its tail.

It worked for a while but soon switched back to its unpleasant character.

Lisa said: “I have to keep resetting it but now Zoe is wary of it. She doesn’t know when it will suddenly become the evil Furby.”

A spokeswoman for Hasbro said the toy was designed to have more than one personality, switching to a less friendly version if the child does not show it enough attention.

Parents have hit back online, saying the toy changes to the nastier version despite being lavished with attention.

One mum said: “Our daughter was doting on the thing. What more could it want?”