Cobotron wrote:I'm really looking forward to reclaiming my MOTU collection now!
Hopefully they're in one piece.
When I grabbed mine last year, a couple of them had the bands split that connected the legs to the waist.
Cobotron wrote:I'm really looking forward to reclaiming my MOTU collection now!
You focus on the history of a different toy for each of the eight episodes. What did the process look like for picking which toys to focus on?
In picking the toys, we sort of created four categories that we would pay attention to when we were asking whether or not a toy belonged.
Category one: Are the toys still being made today? We didn’t want to look at a toy that was great for three years or even ten years and then went away. We wanted to be covering toys that were relevant 30, or, in some cases, even 50 years ago and are still relevant today.
Category two: If there was a Mount Rushmore of toys, would this toy be selected? Could Optimus Prime be up there? Yeah, so that makes the cut. It means there needs to be a personality or a face.
Category three: Does the toy have a fanatical following? I wanted to find out the history of toys that had conventions where people were dressing up.
Category four: Is there a good story to tell? If there was a toy that became a hit and that was that, we didn’t want to cover it.
Why do you think toys can play such a strong role in shaping us even as adults?
Everyone has an imagination and toys allow you to utilize your imagination more than watching TV or reading books ever could. When I was a kid, there were no toy versions of the ships in Star Trek so I would make my own out of LEGOs. And eventually, I started designing my own Star Trek ships with LEGOs. When I started drawing Star Trek ships in eighth grade, I’m drawing the ones I designed as well as the ships from the show. I wouldn’t have done that without LEGO. Toys allow us to manifest our imagination in a physical way.
What if you were born in the 70's?Emerje wrote:This series is actually very good. Highly recommended if you were born in the 80s or are curious about how these companies were run back in the day. Looking forward to the next round of episodes. The G.I. Joe and He-man episodes are my favorites so far, but even the Barbie episode was pretty fascinating.
Emerje
It was cool to find out just how half assed the origins to all these "iconic" toys were. Seemed like they were just tossing ideas at walls to see what would stick.shajaki wrote: so far: the origin of Battlecat
best line ever!If a guy rides up to a bar on a 12-foot tiger, you aren't going to mess with him..
carytheone wrote:I hope they do a second season.
Burn wrote:carytheone wrote:I hope they do a second season.
Same, though I really want these last four episodes NOW.
I wouldn't mind seeing them delve into the likes of TMNT, Power Rangers, and of course Voltron and Robotech.
Burn wrote:I guess it depends on how they really define what they deem worthy to cover.
Burn wrote:Does Netflix ever release their viewing figures? Or do they keep that to themselves to help justify **** like saying how awesome Bright was?
Hopefully the show has proven popular enough for a second season.
o.supreme wrote:Burn wrote:Does Netflix ever release their viewing figures? Or do they keep that to themselves to help justify **** like saying how awesome Bright was?
Hopefully the show has proven popular enough for a second season.
The numbers are mostly kept private. I heard a radio show on the way to work a couple of months ago talking about how Nielsen ratings was somehow able to *hack* Netflix and release some viewing numbers, but I don't know if there is any truth to that or not. ...
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