JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Xithys wrote:The two-packs look good, though I doubt I'll be getting either of them. I have yet to understand how hasbro can continue to make toys with these hideous arms.
'Cause kids seem to like them.
THANK YOU XITHYS!
This what I have been saying all along. I have been using the word "Patronizing" alot, which alot of people have not understood where I'm coming from.
"JelZe GoldRabbit" response helps prove my point. I beleive "JelZe GoldRabbit" is making that assumption due to Hasbro churning more of the like out. And yes maybe some kids do, maybe you have kids and they like them. My point is that I beleive that some people have totaly forgot their childhood. A grea example is Ja Ja Binx. A comitte of grown ups I hope it wasn't George Lucas on his own, sat down and thought I know a crazy whacky character, the kids will love him. No No No. That is an adult who is Patronizing kids.
When we wre kids Transformers was in it's absolute Prime [no pun intended], now look at all the cars, they were realistic cars that adults drove, they were in everyday adult colours. Even the cartoons were darker back in the day. The point is when you were a kid, the main thing you wanted to be was grown up. As a kid we also thought we knew best, and our ideas were not as developed as they are as an adult. When G2 cme along I was appauled, it looked like a child had been let loose.
The problem is, if you ask a kid what they want for dinner, they will ask for everything they like mixed together, put it in front of them and they won't want it. When I was a kid I used to make all these sandwiches with loads of my favourite things in, once I'd taken one bite I threw it in the bin. Kids are learning, they want what they can't imagine, it's up to adults to design something that they would never of thought of, that makes them think. Stop asking kids to think of ideas for you Hasbro, that's your job. You only have to look at most shelf warmers to see that the more mature designs fly off the shelves. And it's the more mature designs that are what the forums are really filled out with.
The other thing is, kids to day are even more mature than we were when we were younger, so give them some credit. I can blatently predict what will and won't be a shelf warmer, that's one thing I have always been right on, I'm not gonna say what I think unless someone specifically asks and I'll pm them, I am not gonna be sucked into an argument and offend people, by saying that I think they have poor taste. And if you like these designs thats kool, but it's the reasoning and concept behind these designs that annoiys me. There's a few transformers with a one eye , spectacle thing going on, and they look like some of the designs I used to do as a kid. I hated my designs I wanted to be able to design like adults..
Hasbro has the Go-Bots range for toddlers, Hasbro need to design for kids not like kids.