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01-22-2016, 04:32 PM | #11 |
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Nicely wrote article Kickback. It is nice to see the newer toylines having more girl figures given we had barely any the last few years.
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01-22-2016, 05:25 PM | #12 |
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i have this argument constantly at work. its not that boys don't want girl figures. its that they don't want just the girls.
Also it's rarely kids that buy the toys. Parents are the real problem. they don't want little johnny playing with a girl action figure. |
01-22-2016, 05:34 PM | #13 |
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My nephew, when he was a kid, wanted the girl toys. He was drawn to the girl characters because they were "nice" and "the boys need the girls to win". He even got a roleplay kitchen because he liked to pretend and it was one of the only things you can get that allows you to roleplay pretend things.
My sister, bless her heart, never discouraged it. She didn't encourage it, but if he wanted it then she would get it for him because who is she to tell him what he can and cannot like? You'd be surprised how many kids don't get the toys they want as a kid because "No that's a girl toy" or "No that's a boy toy". I remember when I was 5 years old I would be next door playing with the girls (because there was like one fellow boy on my street) so yup - I played My Little Pony and it was fun. They had all the ponies and the playsets. Why should toys have to be gender-geared? Why can't toys just be toys?
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My nephew, when he was a kid, wanted the girl toys. He was drawn to the girl characters because they were "nice" and "the boys need the girls to win". He even got a roleplay kitchen because he liked to pretend and it was one of the only things you can get that allows you to roleplay pretend things.
My sister, bless her heart, never discouraged it. She didn't encourage it, but if he wanted it then she would get it for him because who is she to tell him what he can and cannot like? You'd be surprised how many kids don't get the toys they want as a kid because "No that's a girl toy" or "No that's a boy toy". I remember when I was 5 years old I would be next door playing with the girls (because there was like one fellow boy on my street) so yup - I played My Little Pony and it was fun. They had all the ponies and the playsets. Why should toys have to be gender-geared? Why can't toys just be toys? Wasnt there something in mid-late 2015 about target trying to get rid of the Boy/Girl toy aisle setup for their stores? |
01-22-2016, 05:38 PM | #15 |
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No, just their clothing section.
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01-22-2016, 05:43 PM | #16 |
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I understand the mentality. Some female characters deserve toys. Others shelfwarm. You run a risk, either way. Amedala toys stagnated back in the prequel days of Star Wars...but GIJoe Baroness toys usually would eventually sell. As a toy company, you don't get to pick which girls to do...the mentality is generally do them all or policy them out.
It's easy to say "let the customer decide". But if that means product starts to collect dust, it's not the customer's job on the line back at corporate. |
01-22-2016, 05:47 PM | #17 |
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Toy Kitchens shouldn't be a "girl" thing anyway. Does this look like a girl to you?
Obviously a boy who likes cooking probably wouldn't want a pastel purple kitchen set but he wouldn't NOT want a kitchen set at all! Hell, I had one. And I mostly pretended the toy toaster was the one from The Brave Little Toaster but still! |
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01-22-2016, 05:50 PM | #18 |
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It's always just a case knowing what you're selling. Padme was an action girl for, like, 2 scenes out of the prequel trilogy. She wasn't going to sell because she wasn't interesting to the adult or the child audiences. Characters like GI Joe's Baroness or Scarlett were more popular because they got the quips, the fights, and screen time of them doing more than sitting around acting important.
Also, concerning cooking and toy kitchens, hasn't it been proven that men cook as often, if not more, than their female partners in recent years? The kitchen has stopped being the "Girl zone" for like, 50 years now...Cooking is fun~ I've always found it odd how many male professional chefs you see, but they never market the cooking "Toys" (For lack of a better term, since you can actually cook with them) to girls. [Also, Kickback played with ponies? Oh, thank you for giving me that nugget of information~]
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01-22-2016, 07:47 PM | #19 |
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Bandai, please stop giving Feminists fuel.
Sincerely, Everyone who's tired of Gender Politics being inserted into EVERYFUCKINGTHING. |
01-22-2016, 08:03 PM | #20 |
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I remember when feminists targeted ponies briefly.
I'll never forget it.
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