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Amazon wants to do a Christmas toy catalog
- Thread starter Slayven
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90s kids too. Christmas catalogs not just for toys but for EVERYTHING was my jam during childhood.
Paper comes from tree farms. It would be like getting sad over harvesting corn crops.
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Doesn't mean there isn't a better use for that paper. Especially since you'll just have to look up everything on the site anyway, or maybe scan a qr code.
Will forgive them if it's in the style of a 90s sears catalogue.
God... getting ahold of a toy catalog was the highlight of the Christmas season.
Obviously all generations say this, but being a kid in the late 80s and 90s was a special time, perfect mix of toys and video games and ignorant hype, the internet and instant access to information really changed that.
Could see stuff in a catalogue you never knew existed, even game releases and be floored.
Obviously all generations say this, but being a kid in the late 80s and 90s was a special time, perfect mix of toys and video games and ignorant hype, the internet and instant access to information really changed that.
Could see stuff in a catalogue you never knew existed, even game releases and be floored.
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I would flip through those things until they fell apart, then get another one from my aunts
Yeah I loved looking at those giant jc penny's catalogs when I was a kid
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I actually still have number 16 in my attic somewhere. Forgot all about these.
It's a huge void, I'm not surprised at all that amazon will try to fill it (at least for one year).
Frankly, it's a really easy way for little kids (think under kindergarten age) to pick out toys without you having to sit and watch TV commercials with them
Frankly, it's a really easy way for little kids (think under kindergarten age) to pick out toys without you having to sit and watch TV commercials with them
Getting these were really neat growing up.
I'm totally okay with Amazon doing it again as a throwback.
I'm totally okay with Amazon doing it again as a throwback.
Oh man, I loved these when I was a kid.
Every year there was always one ridiculously expensive thing in there that I was DESPERATE to have
I'll never forget the robot dino pets that I soooooo desperately wanted but mum and dad couldn't get for me. The only robot toy I ever got was one of those Poo-Chi robotic dogs with the button on top of its head.
Every year there was always one ridiculously expensive thing in there that I was DESPERATE to have
I'll never forget the robot dino pets that I soooooo desperately wanted but mum and dad couldn't get for me. The only robot toy I ever got was one of those Poo-Chi robotic dogs with the button on top of its head.
Funny thing is that Amazon is generally a shitty place to buy toys. Pricing and availability is all over the place, and often changes throughout the day. I grudgingly ended up ordering many of my holiday toy purchases from Walmart online.
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Maaaaan. I had #19 and #15, and they were so fucking hard to transform with my little 6yo hands. Kinda hated them tbh.
Go-bots were the shit. Also enjoyed the bra section of the catalog, so hopefully that is included too.
My kids do, mainly because they don't access to tablets except on car journeys
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Yeah, Hasbro bought Tonka so every once in a while they use the Gobots name for Transformers products to keep the trademark. https://tfwiki.net/wiki/GoBots#GoBots_in_the_.22modern_era.22
Not only is it a waste of paper, but it's a waste of time. Instead, just build out a web app specifically for this, complete with gesture controls on touch devices (to turn pages).
A paper catalog for this demographic makes absolutely no sense in 2018. Novel, but not a good marketing decision.
A paper catalog for this demographic makes absolutely no sense in 2018. Novel, but not a good marketing decision.
the death of Toys R Us still stings, that Christmas catalog was a cherished tradition for so long. Mom would hand us that catalog and a pen and go "here, circle all the crap you want, but there's no guarantee you'll get any of it." Was great to dream about owning all the cool shit inside, and hoping that some of the more sensible stuff would wind up underneath the tree.
if only we would phase out using hard plastics for toys so we could stop killing the planet/wildlife as excessively as we have
