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TokuKnight89
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In a funk cause I remembered something and I don't know if that's a good thing or not!
When Toys-R-Us reached its endgame around 2017-2018, it seemed inevitable cause of online shopping and disreputable business practices. However, there was a time when those of us from the '80s and '90s and '00s viewed Toys-R-Us as the place to go if you had access to one. Many of us, myself included, got a lot of Power Rangers and Transformers from them.
In the years since, the brand has tried to revive itself through various means. Cultural relevancy still remains just high enough to have someone wearing a Geoffrey Giraffe costume during the recent Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It's no great surprise that nostalgia is fueling a lot of this so-called "relevancy".
However, I re-remembered the feeling I got from an old 2018 op-ed which offered a dissenting take on the demise of the brand (which kind of echoes the themes of the original Child's Play about marketing and capitalism):
"Teaching children that happiness comes from shopping was never the best lesson anyway. In fact, researchers*have found*that the commercialization of childhood causes problems including obesity, violence, family stress, sexualization, and early use of drugs and alcohol."
Yeah, it's a pretty heavy take! I do think that it's a bit of a broad-brush cause such effects aren't necessarily universal. However, it does give me a lot of pause! I hate the idea that getting a bunch of those aforementioned Power Rangers and Transformers could produce this kind of thing!
What do you think?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/opini...ion/index.html
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