When Did The Fun Die?
When I was a kid we played with trucks. We rode big wheels around the neighborhood pretending to be Ponch and Jon . We collected comics, Micronauts and Star Wars Cards. The toys back then had heart, substance and encouraged children to be creative. WE INVENTED PONG GOD DAMMIT!!! Back then, less was more. OK so we also had those ridiculous, demonic, Smurf figurines . That was some bad shit. Every generation has it's regrets. But fuck me til I'm bald, I don't understand the collective brain trust running the toy industry today. I'm not talking about the people who market them or the stores that sell them. I'm talking about the hard core thinkers. The ones that sit in a room and eat cold Chinese food and don't come out until there's an idea worth dying for. You know, the next great thing . The thing that kids will go nuts for at Christmas time. The thing that will inevitably turn unsuspecting parents into savages come Black Friday. I would think if you'...