If the toystore were real nobody would shop there, all there toys there were like jack in the boxes, trains, toy soldiers, wooden things. The man had no electronic toys or cool stuff in his store! If you give a real kid nowadays a jack-in-the-box he'd be like "wtf?!?" and hate you forever.
shareAmazingly true...
"I'm a vindictive bitch, truth be told..."
Amazingly misses the point...Children believe in Magic! Children don't shop there,they play and have fun there.
If only I could be young again...I would gladly go back to the womb and have a go once more...
Well kids now would have a lot more fun playing with a Wii or a little dog than playing with a ball that can bounce by itself.
shareAmen to that...children believe in magic...actually it reminds me of something from the Mary Martin version of Peter Pan, when she said "children know such a lot now...and soon they don't believe". Of course she was talking about fairies, but they and magic are often associated.
sharethank god someone has a brain on this thread.
Can he/she honestly sit there and tell me that if you knew there was a toy store that came to life. A place that had a room that could change it's content as quickly as you change moods. A place that had a mobile with fresh fish, and a book that poofed exactly what you wanted. If you knew this magical toy store existed, they wouldn't shop there? Because I know I would and I can't live without my electronics. But the fact that this place could essentially bring to life the fantasies of a child is a remarkable concept. And the children that were there at that store were young, young to the point where they still play with dolls, and build things with lincoln logs, and cuddle up to stuffed animals.
I think the poster is a little out of touch with reality.
Sadly true... :/
shareThat's just goes to show that kids are getting more spoilt these days...
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I'd shop there...hell, I'd live there if I could...and indeed, I think this movie was done with a message that there's a magic to the simpler toys in life, it's what you do with them, it's the magic within you and the magic you make with them. You don't need bateries or digital for it to be fun.
And for the record, to those who said kids have more fun with a digital pet or a wii than a jack-in-the-box...I was a child of the 90s, I grew up in a time when the hand held video games, and Nintendo, and Sega Genesis were VERY BIG things and VERY popular among children. We had none, I had a jack-in-the-box that I loved to play with, and I had more fun with that, and with my train set, than I probably would've had with those dumb video games. So put that in your smoke and pipe it.
Are you serious??????? I'm 16 and I'd still go there!!!! One of my favourite stores in the Australian Geographic stores because you get to play with all the stuff!
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Right... no one would go to a shop that has jacks-in-the-box and freaking magical stuff all over... yeah... that's the strange thing about the film...
t'ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
People would shop there...it's just that more people would probably want to live in it.
shareThere were quite a few toys in there that were sold in the store I used to work in (Discovery Channel Store). Trust me, We had plenty of business.
shareas for all the electric toys ....
what are you doing if there is a power outage or you ran out of batteries ? Stuff like a "Jack in the Box" or a ball still works, even if you have no batteries, or if it is freezing cold outside or something like that.
There are also some things that I want to point out
1. Wasn't there a room with a toy train ? Through this strange, magical door that also led to Magoriums flat and to the ball room, depending on how you turned the magical doorknob ? In the past, toy trains needed to be wind up (correct grammar ?) but nowadays, usually the need electricity.
2. In the store, there was this big signpost, pointing to different parts of the store. So maybe there was another part of the store with all the electric toys.
3. When I was a young kid, I had some toy balls and stuff like a hula hoop. They are still laying around in the garage of my parents. From time to time, my nephew and nice (and maybe some day my own kids) take them out and play with them, even though this balls and the hula hoop are like 25 years old.
When I was young (in a time called "the late 80s") I had a C64 homecomputer and some handheld LCD Games (that was way before Nintendos Gameboy). Nowadays both of them are outdated. Give a modern kid a C64 (who could show up to 16 different colours) or a portable device like a Gameboy (with monochrome display) (or even worse, one of the old LCD games) and tell them that was your version of a Playstation (respectively Nintendo DS) and they will call you crazy.
So you can say: some toys are never outdated.
And to put it short: I would shop there everyday, if ther was a shop like that near my home
Depends on how well and how rounded you raise your child. A spoiled, unimaginative child that just wants everyone else to use their creativity for them would deserve a good swift kick in the pants but a better adjusted, imaginative child would enjoy such simple toys.
I do see what you’re saying and unfortunately more and more people are raising the first child.
"...So rip off our halos & pull out our pitchforks..."
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Amen to that. It's not like kids had nothing to do for 5,900 some years until video games were invented.
shareOne only has to type in the four letters, L-E-G-O to prove what the OP said is just ridiculous. Children like to build and use their imagination. Also what about play-doo and just something as basic as coloring? Not everything that children like has to be an electronic video games or some such. I've seen them play with a single ball and a cardboard box for hours, imagine what they can do in Magorium's store!!
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