All your webkiz are belong to me

[Gurndigarn]

"Collector Item" fads=Proof that big corporations are Evil, Sadistic, Bastards which sit back in their ivory towers, raking in the mega bucks, while laughing at the pain they are inflicting on their hardworking, underpaid frontline employees.

I have a problem with "creating" collector's items. Whether something becomes a collector's item should be on it's own merits, such as nostalgia value and such. Not by huge corporation essentially telling people what the latest collector's item is.

Well, they don't always work the way the marketing boffos want. One company paid ours to push "Bonz" for them. Not a bad idea-- nucklebones with various shaped plastic bones, with different colors. Some more rare than others, and with planned obsolescense (they planned to retire various colors and designs). In short, it was knucklebones with the M:TG marketing strategy on steroids.

Flopped, big time.

And I'm sure if I paid more attention to kids stuff, I could probably dig up a bunch of ideas that sounded great in the board room, had good marketing campaigns, and still ended up on closeout five months later.

[Tigress]

About the Cabbage Patch Kid craze, my grandma made one for each of my female cousins and me. I still have mine and her name is Sheila. I didn't really understand the impact at the time, but she spent the better part of the year getting these made. I wish she was still around so I could tell her how much I still love Sheila.

Dammit, I miss my grandma now.

[JustaCashier]

"Collector Item" fads=Proof that big corporations are Evil, Sadistic, Bastards which sit back in their ivory towers, raking in the mega bucks, while laughing at the pain they are inflicting on their hardworking, underpaid frontline employees.

I have a problem with "creating" collector's items. Whether something becomes a collector's item should be on it's own merits, such as nostalgia value and such. Not by huge corporation essentially telling people what the latest collector's item is.

I mean no offense to anyone here that may be into collecting such items, just my

I wish everyone here that has to deal with the SC's inheritantly involved with these fads, my best in survivng this latest one, and am thankful my store doesn't carry them.

Mike

[Gurndigarn]

.... whats a google???

Uh... it's a web search engine.

[Gurndigarn]

Heehee, two years ago my mamie found the birth certificate of my cabbage patch doll...

I heard the story once of a kid who's cabbage patch doll got chewed up by the family dog. They sent it to the factory (I assume to see if it could be fixed). The factory sent back a death certificate.

[Gurndigarn]

Oh, that explains the stuffed animal in the $$$ game kit!

OK, a few weeks ago, I get a prize kit for one of our high-value-prize games. In the same kit there were digital cameras, mp3 players, Playstation 3 games, and the like. I was trying to figure out why anyone would put a stuffed animal-- typical wholesale cost about 1/15th the cost of each item in the kit.

Cabbage Patch, Tamagoochi, Beanie Babies... don't people learn?

[BookstoreEscapee]

The first I ever heard of Webkinz was a sign in a store window that I pass on my way to work. It's a handmade sign that says "We have Webkinz!" and I thought, "What the hell are Webkinz?"

Oh, yeah, the store? It's Rick's Saddle Shop...




Ooh, there's a chihuahua?!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Argh! Remembering the woman who returned a cabbage patch doll because it had no birth certificate!

Heehee, two years ago my mamie found the birth certificate of my cabbage patch doll...

[Sliceanddice]

.... whats a google???
And i want a pug!!! and a unicorn!!! and a plar bear!! and i should mention i have a stuffed animal problem...

[ArenaBoy]

Oh great, another pointless toy fad where parents come to blows over these things.

*Makes mental note to do grocery shopping at Mejier's in the morning or at night.

[cinema guy]

Rapscallion (remembering cabbage patch dolls with horror)

Argh! Remembering the woman who returned a cabbage patch doll because it had no birth certificate!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Oh Fuck...

Found out today we are going to be carrying those dumb-ass things.

Should make for an interesting holiday shopping season, assuming Webkinz are still the hot fad at that time.

Note to self: Stay the hell out of the toy section for the forseeable future.

[Thud-n-Blunder]

Fads bring out all the crazies.

Remember the height of the beanie baby craze when grown adults were actually coming to blows over these things?

There was worse - there were people who got sent to jail for counterfeiting Beanie Babies. I mean, imagine this:

CONVICT 1: I'm in here for killing 2 cops!

CONVICT 2: I'm in here for taking a hammer to someone who wouldn't give me any money!

CONVICT 3: I'm in here for counterfeiting Beanie Babies...

CONVICTS 1 & 2: UP AGAINST THE WALL!!!

That would have to suck, wouldn't it?

[MystyGlyttyr]

It looks like Neopets in reverse to me.

They are cute stuffed animals. But not THAT cute.

Now, if they had a little stuffed Rey Mysterio...

[Tigress]

Our entire display of Charms (when we finally got them) was emptied in under an hour. The poor girl who had to setup the display got swamped as we was carrying it to the floor. She just set it down where she was standing and then took it away when it was cleaned out.

Screw procreation. I don't want kids anymore.

You could have done what I made players do at the Regionals tournament I judged. At the end of the night, the prize winners (all 80 of them) freaking swarmed the organizer handing out product. I got on the mic and told them to form a line. I promised they would get prizes, but for the love of Gord, do what you learned in kindergarten and form a freaking queue so our beloved organizer doesn't accidentally give your prize to someone else!

Or make everyone stand back and give her a chance to put the display up before mobbing the place.