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myLot reputation of 88/100. megs85 (1269) 6 years ago

Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Wiggles, Hi-5, Cars... you name it they've done it. And merchndised it and commercialised it until kids are numb to it.
Why do you think kids go through crazes? Do the media and toy companies influence children's interests or do childrens interests influence both the media and companies that make toys, television shows and s forth?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 95/100. Tynnac (3002)   6 years ago

My kids were into Pokemon and at the moment they are into Teen Titans but they have too see it on youtube and its my 19 year old daughter thats really mad about them lol and my 8 year old is starting too like it too.. :)


myLot reputation of 88/100. megs85 (1269)  6 years ago

LOL, kids are hilarious...
My son is too young to be really into it all yet.
But my brother drove us crazy growing up- power rangers, pokemon, yu-gi-oh... he changed his all time favourite each week lol.
One of our nephews is nine (just the other week) and he loves yu-gi-oh, hulk and simpsons...for the moment.


myLot reputation of 95/100. Tynnac (3002)  6 years ago

lol mine are also into Brats,eapecially the ps2 game and my daughter downloaded all there songs and they are not that bad,lol

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2. myLot reputation of 98/100. re08dz (1328)   6 years ago

LOL hearing those names makes me cringe :-) thankfully my kids are out of the Pokemon, Blues Clues etc.

Of course as they get older the crazes tend to get more expensive: Tamagochis (sp) those scanner things (sorry I can't think of what they're called at the moment etc.

The thing is that a lot of them just keep coming back - or never really die.
Take the humble yo-you for example, it was a big thing when I was a kid (and boy was I good at it ;-) - then a few years ago, my son was constantly spinning one. Then forgot about it for awhile, now he's right back into it again - of course they're pretty fancy nowadays - back in my day they were plain ole red coca-cola ones - now they have flashing lights and special coloured string.

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