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Offline Bolingbroke

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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2011, 15:55:08 »
Quote from: PrimusPilus on March 21, 2011, 15:51:22
Over on his topic about the take-a-long pick-up, Ras said something about the driver's ugly T-shirt that started me thinking. Why does Geobra usually go for the tacky look? Look at that driver's T-shirt - it screams "I'm a hick that can drive over anything with my big bad truck!". The same goes with the chopper that I bought, with a klicky that looks like a perfect Sunday-Peter-Fonda-wannabe. Or the big blue cruiser, with "Saint Louis" written on the bike and on the biker's back. And both riders come with the Prince Valiant hairdo. I understand that Geobra tries to imitate real life, but do they have to usually imitate the weirdos ::)?

Sometimes I think they take the caricaturization overboard. Yeah, these are toys aimed at children, but why go overboard and tacky? A 5yo does not know who peter Fonda is, so why use that particular look :hmm:?

I agree. Must've something to do with Germany and fashion sense. The worst culprits, fashion-wise, are the klickies in the recent Xmas market set: they're wearing some knit-wear straight out of a Burda catalogue circa 1982. And then there's - in that thread about the multi-etnic families - one of the dads who's dressed like a total berk, in (if I remember correctly) a tie/shirt/baseball cap horror combo.

Having said that, an actual Easy Rider/Peter Fonda set would have been so cool.
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2011, 16:00:21 »
Quote from: Bolingbroke on March 22, 2011, 15:55:08
And then there's - in that thread about the multi-etnic families - one of the dads who's dressed like a total berk, in (if I remember correctly) a tie/shirt/baseball cap horror combo.

What you do not have a pair of those high fashion yellow pants in you wardrobe ? and the print of the tie just goes with any color seeing as it has every color in the rainbow on it  :P
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #32 on: March 22, 2011, 16:23:37 »
Quote from: Rasputin on March 22, 2011, 16:00:21
What you do not have a pair of those high fashion yellow pants in you wardrobe ? and the print of the tie just goes with any color seeing as it has every color in the rainbow on it  :P

Actually we could have national fashion stereotypes. For example Spanish men of a certain age are quite partial to mustard-coloured trousers. Italian men, on the other hand, can always be seen with a cardigan casually draped over the shoulders. And so on.
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #33 on: March 22, 2011, 17:30:47 »
Quote from: bonniebeth on March 22, 2011, 14:47:46
I prefer the more detaled klickys myself, rather than the old classic itnerchangeable ones.

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Quote from: Rasputin on March 22, 2011, 15:26:15
Yes l like the new klickies more too but a print of pockets or buttons would have been so much more useful than some lame truck or FIT image on the shirt

It could be done, just as easily as the FIT logo. And that's the whole issue: why does Geobra have to go the tacky route ?
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #34 on: March 23, 2011, 15:08:20 »
I don't think children, actually care how Klicky's are dressed. Tacky is not a concern for a play figure, just if they can use it for other purposes, like throwing at a sibling! We're probably the only ones that actually give a flip of how out of date, or noncurrent they are attired! :lol:
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #35 on: March 23, 2011, 15:09:33 »
But don't we count?  :(
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #36 on: March 23, 2011, 15:20:57 »
Quote from: Bill Blackhurst on March 23, 2011, 15:08:20
I don't think children, actually care how Klicky's are dressed. Tacky is not a concern for a play figure, just if they can use it for other purposes, like throwing at a sibling! We're probably the only ones that actually give a flip of how out of date, or noncurrent they are attired! :lol:

I do not quite agree with this. Having watched three boys play with most everything they seldom fight over these tacky klickies. My wife has to teach them how to pick out clothes that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye. From this they are becoming aware of style and what not to combine, such as a plaid shirt with corduroy pants. Also why would Geobra go to such lengths to make good looking prints & color combinations if it did not matter.
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #37 on: March 23, 2011, 15:30:52 »
I have had the same experience as Ras. My 4yo seldomly asks to "be" a few particular klickies, like the one with beards or the ones with screaming colors (these he say that are dressed in woman's clothes).
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #38 on: March 24, 2011, 00:01:43 »
Because the mistook San Francisco as part of Planet Earth, and Portland as part of the US.
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Re: Geobra's "taste"
« Reply #39 on: March 24, 2011, 00:19:54 »
Quote from: Rasputin on March 23, 2011, 15:20:57
I do not quite agree with this. Having watched three boys play with most everything they seldom fight over these tacky klickies. My wife has to teach them how to pick out clothes that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye. From this they are becoming aware of style and what not to combine, such as a plaid shirt with corduroy pants. Also why would Geobra go to such lengths to make good looking prints & color combinations if it did not matter.


If it such a concern of children, then why do they do such bad creations like we're discussing? :hmm:
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