Any more like this? "He-Kid: Working for Mattel"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddjc15vc9ICame up while I was bottom feeding 'Recently Uploaded' for MOTU / Mattel stuff, thought it was a cute story; do toy companies even go so far as to do focus groups with kids these days or are they just running off the data from back when they did? Anyway! Low-view deep cuts or big industry insider documentaries welcome! I'm especially interested in stories about shitty/freaky toys but mainstream stuff is okay too.
Not a documentary but there's a book I loved as a kid called "Let's Visit a Toy Factory" where they went to the Hasbro headquarters and there's pictures of them assembling Jem cars and Inhumanoids figures. It was interesting to see as a kid how they put the figures together but it's interesting to see now because American production like this is nearly dead and it's a great window into what we lost. It's avalible on Archive but you have to log in and borrow it to view: https://archive.org/details/letsvisittoyfact00bour/mode/1up
This book is all about The Rev. W. Awdry's Ffarquhar layout. It's impossible to find a physical copy now because this book was only available in very limited quantities in a small window of time for Thomas's 80th anniversary. Luckily I have a copy.
>>11807470That's pretty interesting. It's almost an uncanny sensation seeing white people in an assembly line these days. lol
>>11807485Very cool, honestly looks a bit like my uncle's basement (except a lot more well lit)
>>11807546Oh the background? That's the Awdry Study Exhibit in the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Tywyn, Wales. The museum made a replica of Rev. W. Awdry's study room and filled it all with his real furniture, books, typewriter and model trains. I don't live there.
>>11807441Not the most deep, but Toys That Made Us was a good watch.
>>11807709The TMNT episode ending aged like a dropped egg, because it hopes Rise is a success. THe rest of the series is fine though
