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Are your children uninterested in GI Joe toys?
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10-20-2008, 06:35 PM
Shortfuse
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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The whole no cartoon is the big reason here. In the 1980's kids (most of us here) were barraged from all sides with merch, toy commercials and 30 min commercials which were the cartoons. Today thats not enough even. With a media onslaught with internet and video games and Lord knows what else, kids don't really get a chance to fall in love with toys. Once they open the package the next big thing is out, they lose interest in what they have, and they gotta get the new thing now because all their friends have to have it too!
I did see one cool kid at a Target a few weeks ago when I was buying my Rattler. He was about 4 years old. He walked up to the Rattler and stared at it with wide-eyed wonder and asked me "WHAT IS THAT?!" I smiled at him and said "Thats gonna be mine." He smiled back at me and said "That is cool!" He then went over to his mom and proceeded to ask her if he could get one. I don't know if he convinced her or not but just to see his excitement for something he probably knew nothing about was great. If I hadn't been broke after buying that Rattler, I would have probably gotten him one if his mom was okay with it.
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