I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” 🙁
hnn I WANT IT SO BAD
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
now we enter the testing phase
yup. looks good.
Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?
OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement
*roar sound effect*
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)
There’s more!
My hubby sent this to me and said “this is you… but… somehow not you?”
because, you know, I definitely have a t-rex from Target on my desk at work for very similar reasons. Mine is just a Bite ‘n Fight t-Rex, whom I adore. She keeps me company.
The collar is SUCH a good idea… I may have to do the same!
Yuuri gets the warm welcome he deserves… :’)
Bonus:
Yuuri gets the warm welcome he deserves… :’)
Bonus:
Doodlebug July #1 – Hootbot
Did any of you guys have one of these growing up? I did. Mine was missing its tail but holy crap I loved that little guy.
Doodlebug July #1 – Hootbot
Did any of you guys have one of these growing up? I did. Mine was missing its tail but holy crap I loved that little guy.
Swedish Toys”R”Us Christmas Catalog Challenges Gender Stereotypes
“Christmastime is (almost) here — and with it, Christmas catalogs. This year, a Swedish toy catalog is making headlines for using photographs that challenge traditional gender roles (in contrast to some images used by U.S. retailers).
The catalog in question was created by TOP-TOY, which runs nearly 50 Toys”R”Us retail stores in Northern Europe. It shows “gender neutral” photos, including images of a girl shooting a Nerf gun and a boy playing with a baby doll — as well as pictures of boys and girls using a play kitchen, a mock changing table and a pink Barbie Dreamhouse.
This isn’t the first effort Swedes have made to bash gender stereotyping in toys. Earlier this year, Leklust published a catalog featuring pictures of a girl riding a tractor and a child dressed as Spider-Man pushing a pram.
This time around, the catalog has been well-received. “Santa has already given me what I want,” Sarah Ditum writes in the Guardian, arguing that the catalog is “good news for Swedish kids” in part because “you can’t resist the gender sorting hat for ever, but you can give children a start that shows them the gender sorting hat isn’t a natural and inevitable part of being human.’ “
