MacBook Pro 13" Retina overheating when playing flash

I've recently purchased a new macbook pro 13" Retina but whenever I play any flash content, the cpu usage for the flash player would jump over 50% and within 5minutes, the macbook would get quite hot. I've tried safari, chrome, firefox and on windows 7 under parallels all with the same results.
My macbook would boot up at around 40C. Once I play something with flash, i.e. YouTube, it would shoot up to 85-90C before the fans start to kick in (from 2000rpm to 4500rpm). I'm measuring temperatures using Temperature Guage 4.0 and smcFanControl 2.4. I could manually adjust the RPM using smcFanControl, but I'd rather solve the problem of flash causing high cpu usage and overheating the macbook.
Is this normal or should I take it back to where I bought it from and get a replacement/repair? Only a week old as well.

Flash content will put stress on the GPU/CPU and thus raise the internal temperatures. The temperatures you are reporting are not lethal to the MBP but may be higher than one might expect. Not knowing exactly what you are doing I cannot say with certainty but I would at the very least have it checked at the Apple store and recreate the conditions for the technicians. That way it can be determined if there is a malfunction or you are just stressing the MBP with your flash video selections.
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