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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: Natalia Evans on December 27, 2008, 03:24:45 PM
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The toys seem to be getting lamer and lamer as the years go by. I hate the new Littlest Pet Shop looks, I miss the Polly Pockets and I remember back when there used to be a lot of Barbie stuff, now there is very little on shelves. There used to be a whole section of them but not anymore. I also miss the Lite Brites, and the old Play Doh accessories but there seems to be less and all they make are the play mats for it and the cutters and the molds.
I was on youtube watching old toy commercials from the 1960's and I saw how much fun board games were back then and now they seem boring, lame. They don't make any great ones anymore except they still have some classic ones like Mouse Trap, Candyland, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Monopoly, etc. and some classic toys like Etch and Sketch. I told my boyfriend how great toys used to be, even when I was little and he had an interesting theory. Kids would rather play video games. I also read more and more kids are watching more TV than they did years ago so kids would rather be parked in front of the TV set watching it or playing games on it and they neglect their toys, so why make them if kids won't play with them? That's my theory why toys are lame.
I also read parents these days are having their TVs raise their kids for them by having them watch shows and having them learn from them but those are just peoples opinions.
I watch more TV now than I did as a kid and computer. As a kid, I came home, played with my barbie dolls or Polly Pockets, Knex, Bio train set and Lincoln Logs, action figures and match box cars, Mighty Max, rode my bike, played in the sand box, swung on my swing set, played in my play house, played house or school, read, wrote, played with blocks, jumped on the trampoline, roller bladed, went roller skating when I was six, played board games. These were things I did over the years. I still watched TV and did computer games and video games but not as much. Whenever my brothers and I did watch too much TV or have been playing too much video games, my mother would make them off limits and make us do something else. We had to be parked in front of the TV all day for her to do that.
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The toys are getting cowardly too, oy vey! :(
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Did yours have lead in em? :P
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I had brave toys. 8)
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I've noticed that toys have been getting more superficial and less functional. The emphasis is on immediate flash, not replayability or creativity.
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You don't need creativity in the New World Order. :grrr:
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Most toys kind of suck when compared to computers. Super Mario World beats a barbie or action man any day of the week.
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What is so super about a fat bastard plumber? :laugh:
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Mood has something do with how tired you are of things.
I find I can rekindle some of my lost intrest with visual imagery. It makes me want to do so many other things, like workout 3x a day, being so god damn humanly perfect, practically nonstop.
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The littler kids still play with toys for the 5 year old this year we got her Bratz dolls, littlest pet shop, tini puppini, baby dolls, baby carriage, and some electronic stuff. I do miss Barbie though, seems she's been replaced with these slutty Bratz dolls though! I can remember when parents were outraged about the tellitubbie with the purse (Tinky Winky) because he might be gay. Where are these parents now when the new barbie is bearing her midriff and wearing micro minis? I have to say their bodies and outfits make me jealous.
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Bratz are going to be banned after the holidays. I hate the new looks of Littlest Pet Shop. All the toys don't seem to be as great as they were back in the 90's. I also don't like the new look of Barbie and her sisters except Kelly seem to be missing.
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As a kid, I came home, played with my barbie dolls or Polly Pockets
i love polly pockets!
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I love My Little Nazi Pony. I wonder if I can get one for real. :heart:
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Bratz are going to be banned after the holidays. I hate the new looks of Littlest Pet Shop. All the toys don't seem to be as great as they were back in the 90's. I also don't like the new look of Barbie and her sisters except Kelly seem to be missing.
banned? bratz? have the people of earth finally reached that level of awareness?
i had two hamster in a hamsterium. they were cute.
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I think it's only in the USA.
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I'm going to buy up on BRATZ before they go out of production.
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I miss my old toys, back then they have wonderful Lego sets and other crap like that - now it's full of crap like "Bionicle".
Thank fuck for bratz being banned, worst fucking pile of shite my eyes have witnessed.
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Lego is BRAVE! :arrr:
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Don't tempt me... I still have some in the attic.
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Legos, Hot Wheels (with the 1970s era cars and the cool orange track), Erector Sets, Tonka trucks.
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K'nex was alright too, although mechano is one of the best construction toys out there.
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My parents still have the original Knex. They belonged to my brothers and I when we were little. We got them for Christmas in December 1994. I think it came from one of our relatives. It was a whole set of them and it came with the Orange container to store the pieces in. It came with wheels too.
But my brother struggled with building and my parents kept telling him to just look at the picture in the instructions but he still couldn't do it so they had to help him. In kindergarten, they found out what the problem was, he was color blind. He could not look at the picture and match the pieces. But wouldn't the color of the pieces look the same color as the real pieces? ???
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What is so super about a fat bastard plumber? :laugh:
I always thought so too. Sonic can kick Mario's ass any day.
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But wouldn't the color of the pieces look the same color as the real pieces? ???
Yeah but if you can see less colors altogether then it's easier for some of them to be similar and confusing because there's not as much contrast. Instruction books are often printed carelessly, where the red on the page, for example, doesn't match the red of the actual piece in saturation or lightness. That is more confusing to somebody who doesn't have the "red-ness" to help them. Imagine doing a black and white photocopy of the instruction book and of all the pieces and trying to match them that way.
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But wouldn't the color of the pieces look the same color as the real pieces? ???
Yeah but if you can see less colors altogether then it's easier for some of them to be similar and confusing because there's not as much contrast. Instruction books are often printed carelessly, where the red on the page, for example, doesn't match the red of the actual piece in saturation or lightness. That is more confusing to somebody who doesn't have the "red-ness" to help them. Imagine doing a black and white photocopy of the instruction book and of all the pieces and trying to match them that way.
There could also be quite a difference in the way his brain interprets the ink on a page as opposed to something in three dimensions.
I think there is more to color blindness than we know.
My father was colorblind in the blue/green region. If he saw a blue something, for instance, he could not tell if it was blue or green and he was wrong half the time. Pretty much the same ratio as not seeing it at all. However, if he saw a blue and a green together, there was enough contrast to tell them apart consistently, even confusing aqua-blue-green colors on a page.
One of the people I used to work with could not see any difference in over half of a Pantone chart, but he was excellent at correcting for skin tones.
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Yeah, my answer was a bit of a simplification. I was trying to think of accessible everyday examples.
I don't know knex, but I think toys like that should be made so that there are clues other than color to distinguish the pieces, like length, thickness or texture.
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Yeah, my answer was a bit of a simplification. I was trying to think of accessible everyday examples.
I don't know knex, but I think toys like that should be made so that there are clues other than color to distinguish the pieces, like length, thickness or texture.
As was most likely necessary, but I was not making a criticism.
I was merely adding to the confusion.
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The littler kids still play with toys for the 5 year old this year we got her Bratz dolls, littlest pet shop, tini puppini, baby dolls, baby carriage, and some electronic stuff. I do miss Barbie though, seems she's been replaced with these slutty Bratz dolls though! I can remember when parents were outraged about the tellitubbie with the purse (Tinky Winky) because he might be gay. Where are these parents now when the new barbie is bearing her midriff and wearing micro minis? I have to say their bodies and outfits make me jealous.
Those Bratz and Barbie dolls are so deformed - I don't know why they can't have some dolls that actually have figures like real people.
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The littler kids still play with toys for the 5 year old this year we got her Bratz dolls, littlest pet shop, tini puppini, baby dolls, baby carriage, and some electronic stuff. I do miss Barbie though, seems she's been replaced with these slutty Bratz dolls though! I can remember when parents were outraged about the tellitubbie with the purse (Tinky Winky) because he might be gay. Where are these parents now when the new barbie is bearing her midriff and wearing micro minis? I have to say their bodies and outfits make me jealous.
Those Bratz and Barbie dolls are so deformed - I don't know why they can't have some dolls that actually have figures like real people.
The toy stores could sell the anatomically correct dolls that are used with sexually abused kids.
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they're not anatomically correct, they just have pussy and boobs.
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They must have asses. :zoinks:
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The littler kids still play with toys for the 5 year old this year we got her Bratz dolls, littlest pet shop, tini puppini, baby dolls, baby carriage, and some electronic stuff. I do miss Barbie though, seems she's been replaced with these slutty Bratz dolls though! I can remember when parents were outraged about the tellitubbie with the purse (Tinky Winky) because he might be gay. Where are these parents now when the new barbie is bearing her midriff and wearing micro minis? I have to say their bodies and outfits make me jealous.
Those Bratz and Barbie dolls are so deformed - I don't know why they can't have some dolls that actually have figures like real people.
There's a series of dolls called "Only Hearts Club" There great because they look like real young girls not planting seeds in little girls heads telling them their ugly unless their fully developed and super skinny and cladded in make-up.
Obviously you can only buy these dolls in alternative toy stores.
Anyways I want a BRAVE toy not this girly garbage I want a BB gun!
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They should make B&J dolls. I would love to bring home Sam and Joon and the others and have them beat up Mike. They should make the accessories too and the clothes. I would love to have them.
Hey maybe they can make JD dolls and have him be every character he has played in the movies. I would get Sam.
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They took all the good stuff out of chemistry sets for safety
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They took all the good stuff out of chemistry sets for safety
Yay. I don't even think they sell chemistry sets here anymore.
But you can buy chemicals as an adults. BRAVE! :P
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They took all the good stuff out of chemistry sets for safety
Yay. I don't even think they sell chemistry sets here anymore.
But you can buy chemicals as an adults. BRAVE! :P
They sell 'chemistry' sets, but it's 'chemistry' in the sense of table salt, balloons and washing up liquid.
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Johnny Ball is crying in heaven. :thumbdn:
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they're baby-proofing the entire planet. :(
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Baby-proofing is cowardly. :(
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Baby-proofing is cowardly. :(
Baby-proofing your house is sanity-saving if you have an inquisitive baby, but you shouldn't baby-proof the entire planet.
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Baby-proofing is cowardly. :(
Baby-proofing your house is sanity-saving if you have an inquisitive baby, but you shouldn't baby-proof the entire planet.
In Sweden we are all treated like babies. Cowardly semi-Soviet state. >:(
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My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.
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My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.
That's a really good start.
What about power outlets?
Do you have any stairs or houseplants?
Do you have any blind or curtain cords that would be within a baby's reach?
Are cleaning materials stored under the kitchen or bathrom sinks where a baby could get to them? If so, do you have cabinet locks for these doors?
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That sounds cow-herdly and dull. :(
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Baby-proofing is cowardly. :(
Baby-proofing your house is sanity-saving if you have an inquisitive baby, but you shouldn't baby-proof the entire planet.
Puppy-proofing a house is also sanity-saving, especially when they're teething and would love to have a good chew on any loose electrical cables. I also removed all the foxgloves from the garden when Waggy was teething, since she was chewing any plant that found itself in front of her nose.
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Baby-proofing is cowardly. :(
Baby-proofing your house is sanity-saving if you have an inquisitive baby, but you shouldn't baby-proof the entire planet.
Puppy-proofing a house is also sanity-saving, especially when they're teething and would love to have a good chew on any loose electrical cables. I also removed all the foxgloves from the garden when Waggy was teething, since she was chewing any plant that found itself in front of her nose.
Lord kittens are even worse, because they can climb and get into things you didn't think were possible. Plus if it smells good, they'll lick. One of my cats almost cut the tip of their tongue off doing that. And my scottish kilt cat likes to hide shiny stuff. To save an explanation, a scottish kilt is a munchkin/scottish folt mix.
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My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.
That's a really good start.
What about power outlets?
Do you have any stairs or houseplants?
Do you have any blind or curtain cords that would be within a baby's reach?
Are cleaning materials stored under the kitchen or bathrom sinks where a baby could get to them? If so, do you have cabinet locks for these doors?
No to them all but I have a green bean plant but it's on the table. The pot is plastic and the curtains are pretty high up but a toddler could reach them.
My mother didn't have locks on the cabinets, she just watched us. She probably had them put up in a high place. I heard some people put a poison sticker on items so their child knows it isn't food but you have to teach them what the sticker means. I don't remember getting into the stuff under the sink or anywhere else but I helped myself to the fridge and to the pantry where my my mother kept the food.
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My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.
That's a really good start.
What about power outlets?
Do you have any stairs or houseplants?
Do you have any blind or curtain cords that would be within a baby's reach?
Are cleaning materials stored under the kitchen or bathrom sinks where a baby could get to them? If so, do you have cabinet locks for these doors?
No to them all but I have a green bean plant but it's on the table. The pot is plastic and the curtains are pretty high up but a toddler could reach them.
My mother didn't have locks on the cabinets, she just watched us. She probably had them put up in a high place. I heard some people put a poison sticker on items so their child knows it isn't food but you have to teach them what the sticker means. I don't remember getting into the stuff under the sink or anywhere else but I helped myself to the fridge and to the pantry where my my mother kept the food.
My mom didn't have cabinet locks either, but I did. You're right that it's no substitute for watching the baby, though.
It would just slow them down a little from danger for those moments when you are distracted by the phone ringing or something.
I ate nearly a whole bottle of baby aspirins, which I got from the highest shelf in the upper cabinet when I was little. I was a climber.
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I was a climber too. It's brave to be a climber. 8)
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I was a climber too. It's brave to be a climber. 8)
What kind? Just rock climbing or did you tackle something serious?
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I was a climber too. It's brave to be a climber. 8)
What kind? Just rock climbing or did you tackle something serious?
I climbed indoors when I was a baby. ;)
We don't have mountains high enough for serious climbing where I live.
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Oh lol. I took my crib apart. Like disassembled it.
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They are, but I come up with knew ones as the days goes on. >:D
Its my mind, its turning out to the one of the bigger toys.
I would drop playing with it for a few just to get sex.
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My mother told me I took my things apart when I was a baby.
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I put one of those plastic safety 1st gates in my son's doorway of his bedroom and he climbed it in no time when he was a little older than 1. I had to put another gate on top of that to keep him in. His bedroom was at the top of a long staircase so climbing the gate and escaping was totally unsafe! He looked like a little prisoner hanging on the lower gate screaming to get out when he figured out he couldn't scale the double gate door I made for him. In hindsight it's pretty funny so see a little guy in his fuzzy romper clinging to the gate and screaming "me out!". Wish I could do that now, but a ten year old just wouldn't be funny!... or would it??? ;)
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We just gated off the hallways leading to our stairs. In the place we had when our daughter learned to walk, the stairs going upstairs had no risers and they were directly over the stairs going to the basement, which would have been a significant fall had she gone through the gaps and fallen.
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My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.
Are you having babies or just bringing them home?
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I want to have a baby but never got pregnant yet. I decided to wait till marriage to try again. I have a wedding dress picked out and I don't want it to get small.
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I put one of those plastic safety 1st gates in my son's doorway of his bedroom and he climbed it in no time when he was a little older than 1. I had to put another gate on top of that to keep him in. His bedroom was at the top of a long staircase so climbing the gate and escaping was totally unsafe! He looked like a little prisoner hanging on the lower gate screaming to get out when he figured out he couldn't scale the double gate door I made for him. In hindsight it's pretty funny so see a little guy in his fuzzy romper clinging to the gate and screaming "me out!". Wish I could do that now, but a ten year old just wouldn't be funny!... or would it??? ;)
I remember my parents having a toddler gate in my doorway of my bedroom. It was to keep me from leaving my room and falling down the stairs. I have fallen down them a few times so my parents always kept a gate in my doorway so I wouldn't leave my room if I woke up.
But I started to kick it out one day. I lied down and kept kicking it till it fell over. One day it fell on me and my dad woke up and I cried. I don't think my brother was born yet when it happened.
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If you get a couple of kittens instead of having your own babies like me, trying to keep them in an area is useless. They'll get out, no exceptions. You just have to watch them all the time.
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I live on the countryside. I'm allergic to kittens but I have brave little birds, squirrels, mooses, foxes etc just outside the house. :P
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I live on the countryside. I'm allergic to kittens but I have brave little birds, squirrels, mooses, foxes etc just outside the house. :P
Almost all the things you just listed sound like food to me man.
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Moose meat is good food though deer meat is better in my opinion. I wouldn't eat my little bird and squirrel friends though.
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Moose meat is good food though deer meat is better in my opinion. I wouldn't eat my little bird and squirrel friends though.
I eat birds and squirrels. I don't really eat the songbirds though, or crows. They're just full shit. I never tried fox but if I got the chance I would.
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I live on the countryside. I'm allergic to kittens
But kittens are brave. They really are.
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I live on the countryside. I'm allergic to kittens
But kittens are brave. They really are.
You better believe it guys. :clap:
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Hey TheoK, you can be brave when playing Rock band. Look what I made cause I was bored.
My little ponies didn't have character customization.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W3RX-97fY&feature=channel_page
I'm no neonazi or a racist but I get a thrill from offending strangers online.
If this ever got to the press Rock Band would be taken off the shelves.
People are so fearful these days.
It's ridiculous.
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It's brave to offend strangers. :agreed:
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The littler kids still play with toys for the 5 year old this year we got her Bratz dolls, littlest pet shop, tini puppini, baby dolls, baby carriage, and some electronic stuff. I do miss Barbie though, seems she's been replaced with these slutty Bratz dolls though! I can remember when parents were outraged about the tellitubbie with the purse (Tinky Winky) because he might be gay. Where are these parents now when the new barbie is bearing her midriff and wearing micro minis? I have to say their bodies and outfits make me jealous.
Those Bratz and Barbie dolls are so deformed - I don't know why they can't have some dolls that actually have figures like real people.
There's a series of dolls called "Only Hearts Club" There great because they look like real young girls not planting seeds in little girls heads telling them their ugly unless their fully developed and super skinny and cladded in make-up.
Obviously you can only buy these dolls in alternative toy stores.
Anyways I want a BRAVE toy not this girly garbage I want a BB gun!
You'll put your eye out. :P
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Than I can have a brave eye patch. ARRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Me and my BB gun! Figh'n against the RIAA and Viacom.
I invented my own gun called the DeeDee gun. It shoots used heroin needles and hideously awesome solo rap careers.
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Brave! :agreed:
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Some BRAVE kids blowing up a BRAVE Cobra 6 on a Dutch road. :green:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zyNmurMiC8
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That's my kinda toy >:D
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I think it's thermite on top of KClO4/Al flash. You can see all the sparks coming up before the explosion. They are available in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and maybe France, though they're just legal in Italy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW_jYth2mDg
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This looks like an interesting toy too don't think they had toys like this fifty years ago :zoinks:
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At first I thought those were lollies inside the one on the left.
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Yeah it looked like a bizarrely shaped gumball machine to me too.
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I am curious about the need for four control buttons on such a gumball machine.
Being mostly male(-ish), I wonder why anyone would need anything besides ON or OFF.
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Rotation? Intensity?
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Rotation? Intensity?
*points ears forward, widens eyes, sniffs the air*
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This looks like an interesting toy too don't think they had toys like this fifty years ago :zoinks:
They had toys like the one to the right, though they weren't bought that openly and you actually had to plug them in the wall, because they didn't have batteries in them...
They have found dildos of polished wood and ivory in what was once brothels in the Roman Empire. Nothing new under the sun etc... :-\
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I love My Little Nazi Pony. I wonder if I can get one for real. :heart:
That thing should be put down :flame:
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No, my little worse-than-defenseless horse! :'(
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This looks like an interesting toy too don't think they had toys like this fifty years ago :zoinks:
They had toys like the one to the right, though they weren't bought that openly and you actually had to plug them in the wall, because they didn't have batteries in them...
They have found dildos of polished wood and ivory in what was once brothels in the Roman Empire. Nothing new under the sun etc... :-\
Yes the had them but they didn't look like gumball machines :laugh: Plugging into the wall well better make sure the cord is good first :o
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They should make one that has USB ports for a keyboard and mouse, for better control.