Not much new in the way of Phidal for a while now, but TKMaxx gets regular updates, usually of sets we've seen before, or stuff which I don't need or want here, but this was just about within the wider reach of the Blog, so I grabbed one.
There's a certain irony, that a set of films in which the various movie-kids have quite eclectic collections of toys, unlike our thematic boxes/tubs of wooden bricks, Action Man / Lego / Meccano / Airfix / chemistry set or model railway stuff, has given rise to a range of toys which now means millions of real kids have models of those self same eclectic mixes! All very Warhol's pop, eating itself.
I haven't seen Toy Story 4, nor any of the others, for that matter, but I've seen enough clips, and read enough to know that '4 is a slightly darker work, with the toys meeting new toys, falling out, getting back together, saying goodbye to each-other and generally, reflecting more on the fragmented life of an adult?
There's supposed to be a Toy Story 5 in the works, and it's said to be darker still - Toys meet Tech; will TS10 have the toys suffering sun-fading and plastic disease, while their human owners, all grown-up, lose their homes to unemployment, or die of cancer in childbirth?
Cover.
Contents - the play-mat looks naff.
2 comments:
I fell asleep during Toy Story 1 as the imagery was so intense it tired my eyes with all the detail.
None of the subtlety of hand painted early Disney animation. I've avoided computer generated animation ever since.
It's fast as well, you don't get time to relax, before the next set -piece, at least with things like Shrek and Puss' there are quiet, contemplative bits! I've never watched the Harry Potter stuff either, nor felt the need to, but I did enjoy Steven Fry's reading of it one Easter bank-holiday on Radio4 . . . god, that must have been 20-odd years ago!
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