Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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Cute sentiment:
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What the company does with that sentiment:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mvZ7BIs7stI
Some of my fave Pokémon are the lesser loved ones and thanks to the push to make a plushie of every one, I got me my hands on my fave.

A normal company doing something like what Pokémon is doing would put them out of business very fast but with Pokémon, there will always be someone buying a Shellos plushie whether it's fan of the Mon or consumers flexing their hoard dex.

Speaking of which, has anyone ever tried to do a Pokédex of some sort of collection?
 
“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.” -Lenin

Is what i think of whenever i see these western brands pandering this hard to ching chongs. I can only laugh when they all inevitably get all their industry patents and trade secrets stolen by the CCP.

What pisses me off about Pokémon especially is that if any other franchise has stagnated as much as Pokémon, it would be rightfully criticized and the developers would be held accountable for blantantly lying to people about the animation quality being responsible for the dex cut. But because it's Pokèmon, it gets a free pass for everything and the hivemind will take whatever garbage Game Freak flings at them.

I've also noticed this trend with the Pokémon designs themselves, as they've been noticably decreasing in quality.
Even when it gets criticized , Pokefags be like "Worst game ever, will only buy it 3 more times"
 
Why would it be a truck? I'd assume it would be a monorail or some other sort of "on rails" system like the monorails between parks or the rides Disney has had for decades. That is, I'd assume if I didn't already know how much Disney cheaps out on everything Star Wars, including the notoriously bad theme park. So in that case, yes, the truck fits perfectly alongside everything else bad about that theme park and hotel.
My assumption is capacity. The Star Wars hotel has what, a capacity of MAYBE a few hundred, and IIRC only operates on weekends. I believe it also runs on a schedule, so unlike a normal hotel where you’ll have people trickling out to the parks throughout the day, you’d basically just be making two trips per day - to and from the park.

The engineers likely looked at the available options, looked at the actual operational requirements, and decided that the cost of building and maintaining a monorail that’ll be used double-digit times per week wasn’t worth it.
 
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Is the quality control bad or are they just sure that enough people will buy it regardless that it will be worth the cost of manufacturing them?
I'm pretty sure it's the latter, you also have to remember that all that shit's made in the same exact Vietnamese and Bangladeshi sweatshops as shitty clothes for poor people these days anyways and so this kind of quality is probably the best you're going to get without paying actual craftsmen to do it.
 
Why are they shaped like toddlers but dressed like prostitutes?

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Every single person who's bought one of these things need to be on a list.
I actually mentioned in one of my posts on this thread that young girls in primary school are obsessed with those stupid "lol dolls" based off of what my 8-year old brother told me.

They're like what Bratz dolls were like to many little girls in the 2000s. Slutty "fashion dolls" but this time they're made with little surprises, their designs are even more sexual then their predecessor (BDSM level shit/Anatomical correctness) and the amount of plastic waste has tripled. Apparently if you put lol dolls into into ice water, bondage and lingerie shows up on the bodies of the dolls.

Here's an article about it:
 
They're like what Bratz dolls were like to many little girls in the 2000s. Slutty "fashion dolls" but this time they're made with little surprises, their designs are even more sexual then their predecessor (BDSM level shit/Anatomical correctness) and the amount of plastic waste has tripled.

Shockingly brave in today's world, case in point.

Apparently if you put lol dolls into into ice water, bondage and lingerie shows up on the bodies of the dolls.
Here's an article about it:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/lol-dolls-video-reveals-xrated-outfits-when-submerged-in-ice-water/news-story/f01a317cfdae1b10e803ca588763b9a0 said:
One of the dolls she submerged in ice water was revealed to have bandage-like bra and undies which read ‘caution’.

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked! It's just another piece of evidence of what they're teaching our kids nowadays. I also saw this brand new film yesterday on the telly, The Fifth Element, or as I like to call it The Filth Element. It has a lady dressed in nothing but bandages, a classic BDSM outfit!
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Look at how sexual this film is! They are teaching this to our girls this is okay! Oh yes, it's rated PG-13! Would you let your 13 year old daughter watch this? Didn't think so...
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Shockingly brave in today's world, case in point.



I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked! It's just another piece of evidence of what they're teaching our kids nowadays. I also saw this brand new film yesterday on the telly, The Fifth Element, or as I like to call it The Filth Element. It has a lady dressed in nothing but bandages, a classic BDSM outfit!
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Look at how sexual this film is! They are teaching this to our girls this is okay! Oh yes, it's rated PG-13! Would you let your 13 year old daughter watch this? Didn't think so...
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Are you suggesting that the target demographic for LOL dollz is nerdy men in their 20s-30s?
 
I actually mentioned in one of my posts on this thread that young girls in primary school are obsessed with those stupid "lol dolls" based off of what my 8-year old brother told me.

They're like what Bratz dolls were like to many little girls in the 2000s. Slutty "fashion dolls" but this time they're made with little surprises, their designs are even more sexual then their predecessor (BDSM level shit/Anatomical correctness) and the amount of plastic waste has tripled. Apparently if you put lol dolls into into ice water, bondage and lingerie shows up on the bodies of the dolls.

Here's an article about it:

The blind box phenomenon is kind of interesting. Essentially it's gambling for kids. Kinda like the advanced version of the quarter machines at the exits of grocery stores, except instead of a quarter you're paying $5-$15 for the privilege. The "surprise" bigger dolls are also kind of weird because you already know exactly what you're getting, but they're smart marketers I guess.
 
Luxury brands are big in Asia especially China so now all the fashion houses shill gaudy tacky shit like this for nouveau riche Chinese to buy.
Did someone say... MORE ASIAN CONSUMERISM?!
(NGL I do actually want that egg steamer at 2:45)
Oh! Oh! How about some knockoffs?
The blind box phenomenon is kind of interesting. Essentially it's gambling for kids. Kinda like the advanced version of the quarter machines at the exits of grocery stores, except instead of a quarter you're paying $5-$15 for the privilege. The "surprise" bigger dolls are also kind of weird because you already know exactly what you're getting, but they're smart marketers I guess.
 
Did someone say... MORE ASIAN CONSUMERISM?!
:story: Goddammit, how do you always find the most horrifying videos. The fact that every plastic chinese gadget saves maybe half a second off what you're doing is the most hilarious part. The sunflower cracker really killed me when like, bitch just use your teeth. And wear a T-shirt when you do dishes. This isn't rocket science.
 
Toy youtubers are just ~like that~ despite insisting their channel isn't for children so they can monetize.
The voice that Toy Caboodle chick puts on makes me want to give her one of those dainty little victorian slaps and tell her to stop that.
 
The blind box phenomenon is kind of interesting. Essentially it's gambling for kids. Kinda like the advanced version of the quarter machines at the exits of grocery stores, except instead of a quarter you're paying $5-$15 for the privilege. The "surprise" bigger dolls are also kind of weird because you already know exactly what you're getting, but they're smart marketers I guess.
Even Lego started doing the mini figure mystery packs like 5-7 years ago.
 
Good philosophy. I held onto way too many music CDs back in the day, hoping they would eventually "click" with me. Then I realized I was basically trying to brainwash myself into liking subpar music through repetition. Of course, back then you also couldn't just download everything you wanted all frilly willy.
The jump to digital music has me not listening to music anymore. I just sort of find it to be a pain in the ass to make sure my phone is properly linked to things and then fumble with it to try and find an album to listen to...it was always easier to handle CDs while driving. Maybe I could set it up to use voice? I don't know, the voice activation on my phone seems wonky and also a pain in the ass to learn. So I just don't listen to music, ever.
 
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