Osler's Razor

Teddy Ruxbin was the worst. Especially when his batteries wound down and he started slurring his words.
 

Apparrently, Ruxbin is Ruxpin's evil twin.

(sigh)
 

We had intended to keep Bratz away from my little girl, but my clueless sister-in-law sent her one for Christmas. Teddy Ruxpin may be creepy, but Slutz dolls are downright offensive. Big heads, big boobs, big eyes, big pouting lips, make-up, make-up and more make-up, skimpy clothes. They really do look like your stereotypical hooker.

Celeste's Slutz doll mysteriously disappeared one day...

I tolerate Barbie, because I do know one preadolescent Barbie fan who grew up to be a well-adjusted Roller-Derby girl.
 

What is creepy about GI Joe? Real American heroes, fighting the terrorist Cobra organization, I fail to see how that is anything other than awesome. I refuse to allow you to taint my childhood memories by calling GI Joe creepy.

Strawberry Shortcake on the other hand, I totally agree.
 

I'm old enough to remember when GI Joe fought Japanese and German action figures. We had many battle with them.

I never understood the success of Cabbage Patch Kids.

And from my own childhood, what was the deal with those hideous troll dolls? ... They even made a comeback a few years ago!
 

I had both a Teddy Ruxpin doll and a Grubby doll--Teddy's friend, who was apparently some type of worm. They were cool, til my brother got curious about how they worked, and ripped Teddy's mouth off. That was creepy.
 

Creepiest toys ever: Gumby and Pokey (Gumby's possessed, bug-eyed, horse-doppleganger side-kick). They can viewed (though not recommended) here: http://mag.awn.com/issue10.07/10.07images/raiti01_Gumby_Pokey.jpg

for all who disagree on the creepiness.


Love,
Matt
 

http://www.wacotrib.com/search/content/news/stories/2009/01/24/01242009wacoslerQandA.html

(not creepy)
 

Um... to the contrary I think that the "My Buddy" dolls are extremely scary and freak me out....
 

http://grainoflight.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/my-buddy.gif

here is the link
 

Puppy Surprise, a stuffed dog with a Velcro closure and hollow stomach chamber, filled with up to five puppies for the child to extract.
 

They all sound creepy to me . . . I think the recent Obama bobble-heads are pretty creepy, too.
 

Creepiest toy I have encountered?

Dress Me Elmo..
He says stuff like

"PLEASE Unzip my jacket."

"is it hot in here? Or is it just Elmo?"

"Hee hee That tickles."

It kinda freaks me out.

A close second was this ride on toy with a Lion King theme that would start playing that theme - in a sort of a sloooooow backwards Beatles "Paul is dead" kind of way - when it had not been touched or turned on or anything.. It just played by itself.. it was very very weird... We left it on the porch in the winter and the cold or wind or something WOULD TRIGGER IT... AND it would start playing: "ccccaaaaannnnn yyyyoooouuu ffffeeeellll ttthhhee looooovvveee toooonnniiighht.."

Later on, my house exploded. Coincidence? I think not.
 

I can relate to the Bratz Doll "disappearance".... Spencer's hard Hat Harry DVD had a similar fate... "Hmmm Must have gotten lost int he move I guess... hmmmm"

yesterday this kid named Cole who is mildly autistic came over to play with Spencer. He is seven and Spencer is almost 5 but they get along really well, and they have a lot of play dates. He came over wearing a belt that held two giant fake pistols. Just likt in the old west.. I just about had a heart attack.

I hate to say this to a bunch of Texas soon to be prosecutors, but I do not let my kid play with war toys. So I let them play for a few min and then got them into soemthing else. Then I had to explain to Spencer that you know.. "All families are different. Some families let their kids play with guns and that is okay for them but we do not...."

I felt like the biggest dork having this conversation with my kid, but I cannot deal with like Weapon toys, and I am also not going to let him do the whole Nintendo HALO II type shooting things either.
 

I'm not sure we have to worry about the Bratz dolls much longer. Mattel, the maker of Barbie, recently won an IP suit that enjoins any more production of the dolls.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1269648/bratz_dolls_banned_from_being_sold.html?cat=3
 

Thank you IP Law community!
 

Strawberry Shortcake has been updated, because we couldn't have little girls thinking chubby cheeks were OK. If you don't start dieting before you're 10, no boys will ever like you!

I forever swore off GI Joe's when I saw an environmentalist GI Joe as a kid. Not that I thought environmentalism was bad, but c'mon -- Joe comes with a net launcher so he can catch and tag a tiger to be released back in the wild? What the hell? They're just giving it away to Cobra Commander at that point.

Although, I do have to say, I am still disappointed by the fact that my car will not change into an alien robot, and consider this to be the greatest failure of modern science.
 

I HATE transformers. I find them alll over the house They are always in parts and I can never get them back together again no matter what they are supposed to become. Then even if you DO have all the parts and you DO get them all back together again whatever it turns into is usually not recognizable as any being OR form of transportation. They are Stupid.
 

While we are on the subject, I am surprised no one has asked my opinion on:
what I think the WORST kids character ever is (Barney)

or if I have ever sat around late at night wondering which cartoon characters are gay (yes)

and if so which ones are definitely gay (Dora, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Peppermint Patty)

and if I have ever wondered if anyone ELSE sits around thinking about these types of things (yes).
 

Pat Robertson worries if children's television characters are gay.

That aside, make sure that your son has lots of Transformers. If my experience is any indication, playing with Transformers as a kid means you'll grow up to be an egghead philosophy student/lawyer with a blog. I am currently convinced this is the highest echelon of human existence.
 

Transformers are the best toys in the world! Plus, if you can ever engage in a Transformers v. He-man v. Star Wars characters battle for global supremacy, I suggest you do so. This is a truly awesome playtime event.
 

Its weird and maybe I have made a few mistakes here but my kid is sort of he hates SCARY movies To him a scary movie is like lady and the Tramp. What have I done? He also does not watch regular TV OR see a lot of popular movies for kids because I think a lot of them are just CRAP.

However, He sure does love this idiotic series of DVDs called Mighty Machines. He watches them all like hundreds of times a day.

In case you have never seen MIGHTY MACHINES? Here is a link. It is heinous. I hear this song in MY SLEEP!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4nRAs-h3IQ



AND he can count to ten in SPANISH but in English? Not so much. This is because he loves Dora and Go Diego Go so much. But because of this I really am thinking of enrolling him in the Dual language Immersion program next fall, Which means, on the first day of Kindergarten? 90% of the day will be spoken in Spanish. I figure we can try it and if it totally sucks well then we will just have to sell the house to pay for Sylvan Learning Centers. The kid is really into it so whatever.
 

The Obama girls dolls have to be right up there. I can understand Mrs. Obama's anger.
 

I'd like to meet the people who came up with Popples. My best guess? Pooples are the product of a medicinally aided, Funion fueled visit to the marsupial enclosure of a local zoo.
 

Tyd-

I have actually seen some of the Hard Hat Harry videos. They look like they were made just to scare kids out of doing drugs/being construction workers later in life.

I still don't get the purpose of the Troll dolls. I've always thought that they could make a good premise for a horror movie.
 

The pregnant Barbie with the screw-off belly. Definitely.