Pages from The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
by Box Brown
It's a weird world after all.
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I am home sick with Captain Trips, so I took the opportunity to finally read this oddity I came across recently: a funny-animal detective...
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It's Christmas in July, Mouseketeers, because the highly anticipated new issue of Dummy Zine is out, and it's all about The Mouse...
I'm sure toy collectors really appreciate that book....
ReplyDeleteI'm a pretty halfassed collector (don't care about condition or complete toylines, just hoard figures I like) and I thought it was pretty eye-opening. The gist is that we have been conditioned since birth to have a positive emotional response to corporate IP and there's nothing we can do about it, lol.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I'm sure toy collectors will love it............
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