I was stuck in an airport for over 24 hours this week. I wasn’t really confined to the terminal, I took the opportunity to visit a large mall. I have the good fortune of living in an isolated area that doesn’t have huge malls and I was surprised at how alien the mall seemed to me after having avoided them for just a few years. The biggest shock I had was walking into the toy store. It is hard to find anything there that is NOT plastic.
One of my main impressions of the toys in this store chain is that the primary goal in their design is to sell. The post sale use is a distant second. I think the trendiness and lack of real function inherent in the toy industry results in the inevitable disposable quality of these products.
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March 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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Not only do they try to rip you off, they send your email out and you get a ton of junk mail.
December 20th, 2009 at 3:21 am
Hey, thanks for that link to get the free gift card for toys from Kmart, I tried to use it but its only open to those in U.S.A. which sucks because my mom got hers in 3 days in the mail, but she lives in Denver.