Friday, April 14, 2006
Toys Or Bust
The kids and I went to Toys R Us after the Easter Egg Hunt at Moran Funeral Home (A Newberry tradition to which I have attributed the slogan "Moran Funeral Home: Your Children are Our Future). A few observations:
- The 80's are back. The girls section consisted of My Little Ponys, Strawberry Shortcake, Barbie and Pound Puppies...save for that oh-so-wrong Bratz line (babies with thongs?!). Unfortunately, the Bratz had the largest shelf space area, so that just tells you whats selling these days.
- Legos are growing more and more wild and inventive. From Dino Attack to Giant Japanese Robots (and pilots with spiky purple hair) to the new Batman line, there is a real creative upswing with Lego, matched only by its sudden increase in militarism (could the T-1 Typhoon have any more missiles?). Maybe the Daily Show is right...Denmark is pushing its militaristic might on the world.
- G.I. Joe has finally added cannon fodder to the mix. Both Cobra and G.I. Joe now have generic soldier packs, so you can have red shirts aplenty. Even smarter, Hasbro has used different molds for the Joes, so they have a variety of skin colors and hair colors, as well as blank dossier cards, so kids can have their own personal Joe character.
- Check out the cool Maestro figure above. He just radiates the malevolent power you'd expect a radiation mad, nigh-invulnerable future version of the Hulk to possess. I think he'd look perfect in my figure collection. Possibly next to some Herculoids. By the way, did I mention my birthday is in two months?
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