[HN Gopher] How do you make an enduring toy?
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       How do you make an enduring toy?
        
       Author : herbertl
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-09-27 12:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | atoav wrote:
       | Without having read the article: There is no such thing.
       | 
       |  _how to make a good toy_ , sure. But "perfect"? For whom? In
       | which context?
        
         | dang wrote:
         | " _Please don 't pick the most provocative thing in an article
         | or post to complain about in the thread. Find something
         | interesting to respond to instead._"
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
           | atoav wrote:
           | Thanks for the hint, I will follow it next time.
        
             | dang wrote:
             | Appreciated!
        
         | monknomo wrote:
         | having read the article, you could sub 'enduring' for 'perfect'
         | and maybe have a more accurate title
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Nice. We'll adopt your word above. Thanks!
        
       | bashmelek wrote:
       | As interesting as the article was, bringing up such things as the
       | enduring appeal of Rubik's cubes and he-man, I was somewhat
       | disappointed with its focus on the corporate aspect and
       | trademarked toys, with barely a mention of stuffed animals, teddy
       | bears, certainly not traditional toys; it does briefly mention
       | dolls. Many of us have or remember a special toy from our
       | childhood, and I can't help but wonder about people of the deeper
       | past. Toy dolls have apparently existed since time immemorial,
       | but my brief internet search isn't giving many details. Dolls and
       | pull toys go way back around the world. Otherwise many sources
       | claim the first stuffed animal was produced by Margarete Steiff
       | c. 1880, yet I have some skepticism around that.
        
       | UnpossibleJim wrote:
       | I find it strange she chose to bring in the He-Man revamp. It
       | wasn't, to my knowledge, a particularly long lasting success (one
       | of her criteria of successful toys) or having cross cultural
       | appeal despite its update (another factor to the successfulness
       | criteria of a toy). The toy lines doing worse than both of the
       | series - though having a somewhat simultaneous launch of a more
       | mature cartoon and a children's cartoon with accompanying toy
       | lines did muddy the waters. The more mature cartoon's controversy
       | eclipsing it's praises and the entirety of the children's
       | programming and their toy lines was poor planning on the media
       | campaign's part entirely, with Smith doing himself no favors by
       | leaning into it. It was an OK cartoon and didn't need the
       | apparent controversy to stir up ratings. People of a certain age
       | would have taken the nostalgia bait they were promised in the
       | commercials and been happy.
        
       | irrational wrote:
       | Lego has already been invented. Why bother trying to improve on
       | perfection?
        
         | bradmcgo wrote:
         | But did you play with K'nex as a child?
        
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