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
What the hell is this, anyway?>>11807709I haven't seen it myself, consider me interested-anywhere to watch it other than Netflix?
>>11807712Think Rise have done better if the writers dropped their apparent obsession with making April a black teenage girl instead of a hot adult redhead?
>>11810276It would have helped but the writing would have still sucked hard. Ever since the buyout Viacom insists on depicting the turtles as juvenile spastics. It's only gotten worse with every reimagining.
>>11807709None of these are deep cuts.The people who make serious documentaries won't treat a subject like toys seriously. To get the cooperation of the company, you give up something. I can't point to one specific thing in the LEGO doc or the Funko doc (well, that Funko doc certainly didn't really investigate shit) and they don't necessarily reek of PR, but most of these are entertainment videos not informational, much less educational.
>>11810206I had access to my friends NF sub for years but that ended about five years ago when they banned it. Even before that, it was easier for me to find NF crap on pirate streams and watch it, then signing it to their shitty app. tl;dr google is your friend
>>11807709>Not the most deep, but Toys That Made Us was a good watch.agreed, with the exception of the Transformers episode which is weirdly sloppy and downright misleading in parts
Anyone see "the movie" yet? I know it's not necessarily the board for it but I'll post about it anyway, lol. For me it was a solid 9/10 but I understand some of the criticism of it being too unserious as well and I can sympathize with that perspective. At any rate, I liked how it showed Adam using art to stay focused on his purpose on Earth, I know that things like He-Man and GI Joe and eastern stuff like Dragon Ball Z were all huge motivating factors for young artists back in the day. It kind of ties in to the documentary in the op with how Mattel was genuinely invested in talking to kids and getting their perspective on their product.
