Toy safety

“Hah, I won once again,” my sister, Linda, yelled out. I couldn’t put anything into words, my sister kept winning over and over again. I was so devastated, I wanted to win but I couldn’t. “Elvis, wake up and get ready,” my dad yelled at me. My head was spinning from waking up, I didn’t know why we were waking up so early. It was 7:30 AM, it was July 23, 2009. It was a sunny morning. I got out of my bed and started getting ready. “Hurry up, we are going to be late for the trip,” my dad told me. I…

For the toy store evaluation I picked the local Muncie Target. Target is a superstore that is separated into different department areas ranging from clothing, electronics, baby items children’s items, home décor, toys, seasonal items, a small grocery section, and everyday essentials. When you first walk into Target the first thing you see is the dollar section. The toys section is located directly behind the home décor aisle. The toy department is made up of 9 aisles and each aisle is made up…

was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. She later died in 2002 from complications from colon surgery. Ruth Handler has changed the way companies have been functioning and adding her own contributions to Mattel Inc. such as Barbie, to make it the largest toy company in the world as of 2014. Mattel Inc. began as a furniture shop in a garage ran by Elliot Handler. Mattel Inc. stated "Handler started out designing light fixtures but soon began making furniture to sell out of his garage." Elliot wanted…

With the popularity of The Force awakens period, it is good to see that not forgetting the original Lego Star Wars Trilogy, which gives us some great new sets to recreate classic scenes. Case in point, the freezing carbon Bedroom set, which is one of the most iconic moments of The Empire Strikes Back. This set includes a relatively small room, three men - Han Solo, Boba Fett and Ugnaught - and Han Solo in Carbonite pieces. Complexity: This is a relatively small series of 231 pieces, but many…

is no middle ground. Toys for boys exude masculinity and subtly teach boys to be tough and not show weakness. Toys for girls are covered in pink and purple, helping fuel the stereotype that girls are “frilly” and want to be princesses that wear makeup. The toys and clothing companies create gender specific things that if a boy wanted to wear girl’s clothing, he would be seen as an outcast or troubled. Children are taught how to be a boy or a girl through the marketing of toys and clothing, which…

From baby boomers to millennials, we have grown up on Legos. Whether it was a five-hundred-piece space ship or 10,002-piece model empire state building, there are childhood memories of the Lego brand nestled in our brain. Way back, not so long ago, in 2008 I was nine years old. Christmas was right around the corner and I had only one item on my list, the Batcave Lego set complete with the bat mobile and batwing. Obviously once Christmas morning came, I viscously tore into that gigantic red…

Every single time I clean my room a little Lego piece shows up somewhere: under my bed, in my drawers, in my closet, and probably several have been sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. Even for the past five years I have had a Lego Star Wars ARC-170 bomber laying on my dresser. Legos are a way for me to express my imagination: they enable me to build what I want when I want. I have spent countless hours just tinkering with these plastic pieces and setting up storylines to go along with them. Slowly,…

If you had a daughter, would you let her play with Barbie? Lots of people say that Barbie is bad and that you should not let your children play with her. Other say different that she is the very definition of imagination that children need. With that being we ask ourselves, does Barbie give young girls negative thoughts about their body image? How many kids play with Barbie? Barbie is an old doll that has been around for a long time, since 1959 to be exact. How many kids play with…

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From the time that I was a toddler, I was always cheerfully asking my mother for “boy toys” because they allowed creativity to flow. Specifically I wanted the huge Star Wars Lego set of the Death Star because it contained millions of tiny and intricate pieces. Although I was never gifted the Death Star, in replacement my mother would buy me colorful sets that contained instructions for building Lego houses, or making a dog park. Over time, I gradually took all of these figurines that I had…