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Re: The Grinch toys
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Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:22:57 GMT
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I noticed that too. I thought it'd be neat that there would be Grinch
merchandice, because the original really is a classic. I really wasn't
looking for it, but when I saw the grinch from a distance, I had to check it
out. But they really are hideously ugly!
It's very similar to the merchandise that came out with the Flintstone
movies a couple years ago. It kind of inspired a mini Flintstone mania for
me and I thought it would be neat to have some Bedrock toys. The film was
really wonderful in that it portrayed the houses and cars and all those
things so well, regardless of the mediocre plot. But the character toys
were patterned after the actors, not after the actual Flintstones, and that
pretty much ruined it for me.
My surmise? Do the same with the toys as you tried to do with the movie.
Copy the original. Don't copy the copy. We all know what happens after
multiple generations.
Markus
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jonathan Lill writes:
> A few caveats:
> I am only posting this here because this is the only forum I find
> worthwhile, I know that this post is extremely irrelevant to Lego.
>
> I admit to a certain supercilious attitude regarding other toys because of
> my view of the natural superiority of Lego.
>
> I had to tell someone and I figured that people here actually care about the
> quality of toys.
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> That said, has anyone noticed how truly awful, I mean how absolutely
> heinous, how bizarre and beyond bizarre the toy selection for the Grinch
> movie is? I only was forced to notice because TRU has them at the front of
> the store and already marked down more than 50%, a sure sign that the
> populace feels the same way I do. But strange in the light of the dollar
> amount the film has grossed.
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> I have not seen the movie and my opinions about the toys in no way reflect
> the quality of the film. But the quality of the toys is below the level
> expected from 3rd generation brand name ripoffs imported from 3rd world
> nations and sold at corner stores.
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> Its not even that the concepts behind the toys, what they do or how they are
> packaged is abnormal, its simply that they are the ugliest toys I have seen
> in a looooooong time.
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> And that is my rant for today, boys and girls. Thanks for listening. That
> is, if you were.
>
> Jonathan
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| Markus Wolf wrote in message ... (...) Same with Pooh. All the Pooh toys out there are based on Disney's rendition of Pooh, not the original Pooh drawn by E. H. Sheperd. And the Thomas the Tank toys are based on the TV series, not the original (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| A few caveats: I am only posting this here because this is the only forum I find worthwhile, I know that this post is extremely irrelevant to Lego. I admit to a certain supercilious attitude regarding other toys because of my view of the natural (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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