I don't like the whole "blob" toy thing that's popular at the moment. I don't like Tsum Tsums, and toys like it. It works fine with animal characters I suppose, but if you're going to try to incorporate human/humanoid characters, you're gonna have awkward results. This looks terrible!
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You have endless varieties of the same concept right now, blobs with faces that you stack... yay... what fun...?
These blob toys overlap with the blind box trend that I don't like either.
I don't like the whole "blob" toy thing that's popular at the moment. I don't like Tsum Tsums, and toys like it. It works fine with animal characters I suppose, but if you're going to try to incorporate human/humanoid characters, you're gonna have awkward results. This looks terrible!
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You have endless varieties of the same concept right now, blobs with faces that you stack... yay... what fun...?
These blob toys overlap with the blind box trend that I don't like either.
Squishy toys bug me; they may be popular right now but I'm wary because of whatever may be inside them. If it's foam or something, then that's fine, but if it's a kind of glodge like you'd get in a stress ball, then that's just gross.
I hate the big head/forehead/eyes thing. Like the Bratz dolls, G2 LPS, and yes G4 MLP! I think it might be finally starting to phase out but like above, seems to have gone the opposite direction :huh:
I am not a big fan of teddy bears. I love stuffed animals, but bears are so...boring! They'd have to be very particularly cute or unique for me to want it.
Also, this is probably not an unpopular opinion, but I don't really like electronic features in toys. Like, voice boxes, movement, etc. I just like simple toys without tech...I've also got to agree on almost all of the above, too! Not a fan of the blob fad, was not into dolls until Monster High. I was always more interested in animal toys than people.
I am not a big fan of teddy bears. I love stuffed animals, but bears are so...boring! They'd have to be very particularly cute or unique for me to want it.
I don't understand why everything is food these days.
I don't understand why everything is food these days.
I don't understand why everything is food these days.
Shopkins, Num Noms etc. What is all that about?! There are some foods that really should not have eyes!
Blind bag toys like MLPs were fun at first but there's so many now and I don't understand the fun in having to "work" to get your toy like Lost Kitties. I can't bring myself to buy a large blind bag/box item either like the Hairdorables.
Blind bag toys like MLPs were fun at first but there's so many now and I don't understand the fun in having to "work" to get your toy like Lost Kitties. I can't bring myself to buy a large blind bag/box item either like the Hairdorables.
Honestly, all the junk they included with Lost Kitties completely put me off the toyline. I don't want to have to dig through a lump of Playdoh to get my kitty! :drunk:
I can't get into dolls or toys that are people. Sorry, animal toys only for me.Same. I'll make an exception for the cast of Kingdom Hearts, though :P
Reboots in general (including mlp - hey, this is unpopular opinions, after all!), and pretty much almost every doll/figurine/animal/food available on toy shelves nowadays. Big eyes, dot eyes, significantly disproportionate heads/bodies, blobs... you name it. The majority of new toys just don't have the charm or whimsicality of the 80's/early 90's. There's so much mass produced crap out there.
I hate funko pops. They're creepy and ugly and I don't get why they're so popular.
I HATE that unicorns are EVERYWHERE. They were fun at first. But now they're inescapable. They're plastered on every surface. "How do we market this towards millenials? Unicorns? Glitter? Poop emoji? ... Glittery unicorn poop? Got it! Millenials like corgis and pugs right? Cacti? Cats? Starbucks Coffee? Cosmetics? We'll put unicorn horns on them too!! They'll eat it up!"
Don't worry, we're only an Alibaba order away from a rainbow-sequined Baby Shark with a unicorn horn that also poops glitter!
Well this insanity exists at Universal Studios:That's a very sad amount of glitter? At least on camera.
https://people.com/travel/universal-orlando-new-troll-farts-glitter/
You forgot the Unicorn Cats that poop glittery poop after they drink Starbucks Ragamuffin! :P
I have been seeing those pop up. They're weird. I'm happy with unicorns as long as they're unicorns and not unicorn horns on everything. Or glittery unicorn poop. Or unicorns that poop.
Dreamer, Breyer has stablemates bb unicorns right now. They're relatively inexpensive...for breyers.
I don't like Breyer Decos and I think Glossies are awful.
I hate that "pink and purple is for girls" mentality is still at large. Studies show that all small kids regardless of their sex enjoy primary colors. Secondary colors come next and pastels come way later in life, like teens to young adult.
The pink/purple/pastel trend is nothing but a brainwash to me. A few decades ago stuff for girls was primary colors and now it's this. Nobody can tell me girls devolved to only liking two colors. We've been trained to do so so we go for the same colors later on when we have to buy the smaller but more expensive "lady versions" of things.
But honestly, bright pink or magenta is just an ugly color to me, too. Like I loathe the Barbie pink. Probably as a result of the pink onslaught in the 90s.
I hate that "pink and purple is for girls" mentality is still at large. Studies show that all small kids regardless of their sex enjoy primary colors. Secondary colors come next and pastels come way later in life, like teens to young adult.
The pink/purple/pastel trend is nothing but a brainwash to me. A few decades ago stuff for girls was primary colors and now it's this. Nobody can tell me girls devolved to only liking two colors. We've been trained to do so so we go for the same colors later on when we have to buy the smaller but more expensive "lady versions" of things.
But honestly, bright pink or magenta is just an ugly color to me, too. Like I loathe the Barbie pink. Probably as a result of the pink onslaught in the 90s.
I couldn't agree more! I remember when I was a child, I always thought it was such a bummer that items like shopping carts, tables, cupboards, stoves etc. always HAD to be pink or purple with ponies and barbies. I mean, I liked my ponies in unnatural colours, but I wanted them to live in realistic houses. A table should be brown, a shopping cart should be steel-coloured. This is also what I admire in the Sylvanian line; just the other day I said to my husband that it is so lovely that they are not afraid to use colours like brown, yellow, red and green. Everything looks so real, it's perfect!
Wow, that must be gorgeous! But they are extremely pricey indeed... I can't afford stuff like that either. I can work the figures and smaller playsets/accessory sets into my budget (though not easily), but the buildings? No way! It's super pretty to look at though. ^.^
I hate that "pink and purple is for girls" mentality is still at large. Studies show that all small kids regardless of their sex enjoy primary colors. Secondary colors come next and pastels come way later in life, like teens to young adult.
The pink/purple/pastel trend is nothing but a brainwash to me. A few decades ago stuff for girls was primary colors and now it's this. Nobody can tell me girls devolved to only liking two colors. We've been trained to do so so we go for the same colors later on when we have to buy the smaller but more expensive "lady versions" of things.
But honestly, bright pink or magenta is just an ugly color to me, too. Like I loathe the Barbie pink. Probably as a result of the pink onslaught in the 90s.
I couldn't agree more! I remember when I was a child, I always thought it was such a bummer that items like shopping carts, tables, cupboards, stoves etc. always HAD to be pink or purple with ponies and barbies. I mean, I liked my ponies in unnatural colours, but I wanted them to live in realistic houses. A table should be brown, a shopping cart should be steel-coloured. This is also what I admire in the Sylvanian line; just the other day I said to my husband that it is so lovely that they are not afraid to use colours like brown, yellow, red and green. Everything looks so real, it's perfect!
Realism is kind of Sylvanian Families thing and while they are too expensive to me, I can respect that. They play more into the collector sector, too, so you know they take their child audience a bit more seriously.
I was lucky to be at Nuremberg Toy Convention this year and what I saw of the upcoming Sylvanian stuff left me speechless. You get to build an entire city of large 18th century houses and shops. Which is just awesome to me. But each house is like, 100 bucks.
Well, I guess the one redeeming quality is that you get something of value. Each house is a mini dollhouse, not just a plastic front.
I think with Sylvania you generally get what you pay for, but sometimes you have to pay a lot for it.
Alpacas and Llamas have been all over the place for a long while. At least, they have been in Japanese stuff for a long while, and that seems to have bled over here for the last three or four years. But I think it is still all about the unicorn. It was the owl. Now we end up with monstrous hybrids like the owlicorn posted above...
I was in Entertainer today and I looked at the toy shelves and went...what? So much random stuff you'd play with maybe once but never again? Fast fix toys?
Also, and this creeps me out a bit, but forget just slime. What about furry neon slime? I mean, I would call that radioactive mould, honestly, but that's just me...
When did slime evolve to have fur? Surely the point of slime is to be, well, slimy?
I think with Sylvania you generally get what you pay for, but sometimes you have to pay a lot for it.
Alpacas and Llamas have been all over the place for a long while. At least, they have been in Japanese stuff for a long while, and that seems to have bled over here for the last three or four years. But I think it is still all about the unicorn. It was the owl. Now we end up with monstrous hybrids like the owlicorn posted above...
I was in Entertainer today and I looked at the toy shelves and went...what? So much random stuff you'd play with maybe once but never again? Fast fix toys?
Alpacas and Llamas have been all over the place for a long while. At least, they have been in Japanese stuff for a long while, and that seems to have bled over here for the last three or four years. But I think it is still all about the unicorn. It was the owl. Now we end up with monstrous hybrids like the owlicorn posted above...
And how many llamas can one person possibly need?
Llamas, unicorns, owls... these are all things that I've always liked. But perhaps not in multi-color, glitter form. And how many llamas can one person possibly need?
And how many llamas can one person possibly need?
I am kind of glad it's llamas because they weren't overly popular or over-represented before. Japan had their alpacas but a llama is superior (yes, fight me!) :lol:
And how many llamas can one person possibly need?
I am kind of glad it's llamas because they weren't overly popular or over-represented before. Japan had their alpacas but a llama is superior (yes, fight me!) :lol:
Oh dear, I can already sense the carnage that debate is going to rile up in some sectors of the internet...
Back on topic, I do think it is an unpopular opinion elsewhere:
I think boy characters in toylines geared towards girls are often so lame looking. Like the Barbie Fashionistas get all those Forever 21 Instagramchic colorful cuts but the Kens are repeating the same old shirt and pants pattern. Why would I want a male doll like that as a kid? Why would I want more than one?
When characters are fantasy, I abhor how the males always look more grounded/earthy. I have been going on and on about how I dislike how G4 ponies are mostly three colors and brown with short, ugly manes and tails. But you can see than stuff elsewhere, too.
It's like toy companies are constantly afraid of Tinky Winky syndrome, the teletubby who had a handbag and had parents in shambles because they thought he was gay.
Back on topic, I do think it is an unpopular opinion elsewhere:
I think boy characters in toylines geared towards girls are often so lame looking. Like the Barbie Fashionistas get all those Forever 21 Instagramchic colorful cuts but the Kens are repeating the same old shirt and pants pattern. Why would I want a male doll like that as a kid? Why would I want more than one?
When characters are fantasy, I abhor how the males always look more grounded/earthy. I have been going on and on about how I dislike how G4 ponies are mostly three colors and brown with short, ugly manes and tails. But you can see than stuff elsewhere, too.
It's like toy companies are constantly afraid of Tinky Winky syndrome, the teletubby who had a handbag and had parents in shambles because they thought he was gay.
I agree, male characters in girl toy-lines are often disappointing. Even the Monster High guys (who were better designed than the usual 'token boys') didn't have such exciting and detailed clothing as the ghouls. And other doll lines are just hopeless. I have always found it frustrating when the girls all have nylon hair and most of the boys have plastic hair.
One of the reasons I like the Mountain Boys and Big Brothers so much is because they are brightly coloured boy ponies with lovely long hair. I wish G4 had gone down that root instead of sludgy colours and troll hair.
My apologies if we already have one.
I'm not a doll and human figure type of person. They have to be really interesting looking or a character I really like. Even as a little girl I felt the same way. I have a few now though.
I love Rainbowbrite, and I understand that yarn hair is a key feature, but I hate it. I wish they'd make a line with regular hair alongside it.
I like weird or wildly colored dinos.
I hate chibified toys.
I'm sick and tired of toytoons/game toys with a traditionally big cast being pared down to a few ad nasuem. Perennial favorites are fine, but variety is appreciated and wanted.
Barbie and Ken get fashion outfits, but Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea don’t. Why can’t Mattel make fashion packs for them so that I don’t have to keep buying multiple dolls just for the outfits.
Barbie and Ken get fashion outfits, but Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea don’t. Why can’t Mattel make fashion packs for them so that I don’t have to keep buying multiple dolls just for the outfits.
I think you answered your own question. They want to sell more of the individual dolls that's why they don't have fashions.
Barbie and Ken get fashion outfits, but Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea don’t. Why can’t Mattel make fashion packs for them so that I don’t have to keep buying multiple dolls just for the outfits.
Plus Funko still hasn’t done a funko of Mike from Attack on Titan.
Plus Disney Store hasn’t done a doll of the shadow man, or Vanessa, they’ve done Ursula, Jafar (already got), and Gaston (already got).
Barbie and Ken get fashion outfits, but Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea don’t. Why can’t Mattel make fashion packs for them so that I don’t have to keep buying multiple dolls just for the outfits.
Plus Funko still hasn’t done a funko of Mike from Attack on Titan.
Plus Disney Store hasn’t done a doll of the shadow man, or Vanessa, they’ve done Ursula, Jafar (already got), and Gaston (already got).
There are actually 3 packs out now for Chelsea at least.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GLNMGFL/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GLH8ZZL/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GLNPP24/
I have a Vanessa doll, but she came in a deluxe Disney set a few years ago, I have seen her being sold as a single doll for lots of money, though. Demand is high, I think Disney should re-release her!The one problem with Disney's marketing team is that they almost always ignore the sequels later down the line. Twenty years later and I'm still waiting for a proper Zira plushie, as are many Lion King fans :(
I have a Vanessa doll, but she came in a deluxe Disney set a few years ago, I have seen her being sold as a single doll for lots of money, though. Demand is high, I think Disney should re-release her!The one problem with Disney's marketing team is that they almost always ignore the sequels later down the line. Twenty years later and I'm still waiting for a proper Zira plushie, as are many Lion King fans :(