Dear God, we need lives…
Esprix
Dear God, we need lives…
Esprix
Little People? Feh.
All the cool kids in MY school played with Weebles! Because…(all together now) Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down!
Bah! I had a socially engineered multi-cultural integrated Weebles/Little People society. We were shape-blind in Jimland.
And there was even tolerance for monochromatic Play-Doh people.
My last post was in a light vein, but I had a thought as I was sending it off to the board. Back when I was playing with Little People and Weebles and such, Fisher-Price never found it necessary to give its LPs names and backgrounds. It was left as an exercise to the child playing with the toy to come up with names and relationships and stories about these “people”.
Is this whole video background thing (which seems to carry over to the actual product as well, as the names are used for the individual toys (“Little People School Bus with Eddie and Michael”) on the website catalog) another symptom of the dumbing down of American children? “Don’t worry your cute little head about imagining your own stories, little boy/girl. We’ll tell you what to play!”
Or am I just getting more paranoid and contemptuous of mass marketing and manufacturing as I get older?
It may not be my place to answer you since this isn’t my thread, but…
A) Yes.
B) Welcome to the club.
By the way, before I found the video from Fisher Price, I asked Pampers about it, and they said yes, even though the offer is expired, you can still order it for $1 and two UPC codes. While supplies last! 
FYI.
Esprix
Esprix buys his first two packs of diapers.
Scylla, don’t you dare try to “revisionist” the OP. I thought it was 100% on target. Don’t know how many times I’ve sat there and watched a video a hundred times in a row with a kid on my lap and deconstructed it for my own amusement, and when my kids were old enough to understand, I explained it to them, too. “See, only He-Man is allowed to–but She-Ra has to…blah blah blah…”
I especially enjoy deconstructing Disney full-length cartoon features like 101 Dalmatians. Their “better do what your mother says” Victorian let’s-put-women-on-a-pedestal-but-really-ignore-them message just grinds my guts for some reason.
I think you are missing the most glaring problem with this video… The God forsaken Music that goes along with it by Aaron Neville. BTW - the claymation was done in scandanavia somewhere. and most of the voices are straight out of the movie “Fargo”.
I probably haven’t watched that video in a year, but the moment you mentioned it I was catapulted into some sort of feedback loop of the sound track
“Little people going every where, little people…”
Please for the love of god(s) Make the VOICES STOP!!!
Wow. I thought I was the only one to this sort of thing. Does that mean there might actually be an audience out there for my essay “A Marxist Critical Analysis of Drop Dead Fred”? A lot of the movie relates to the industrial revolution, I swear! For my next critical theory trick I shall compare and contrast The Adventures Huck Fin and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer…
An English degree is a terrible thing to waste 
I don’t know about Fisher Price, but why did Lego stop selling their basic set. Instead they sell these “kits” that show what can be made with the pieces in the box.
[Puma Pete voice] “I have no imagination. I wonder what I can make with these small colored blocks”
Do they think kids are really that stupid?
I don’t know if they are called basic kits, but you can buy big buckets of basic lego pieces. I have bought 5 or 6 of them for my kids. The specialized boxes are add-on kits, or the bigger boxes are entire scenarios, like the space station kits. The big buckets are only about half full, IIRC, but that does leave enough room to put in all the add-on pieces you buy, and the buckets are stackable.
/lego hijack
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I heard somewhere that the mother in the farmhouse play set won’t fit into the tractor.
It’s probably an unfounded rumor, and I gleefully pass this on.
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Not entirely unfounded, at least. Back in the late 60’s the grandmother in the farm set was an entirely different creature than the rest of the little people. Her bottom was at least twice the diameter of the others. She fit nowhere. I don’t know if this has changed.