Here is a great toy for those parents who regret having had children too late to have to explain the Village People. As the packaging indicates, this is a toy for children ages 4 and up. (It can’t be marketed to children under four, because it has small parts — an issue I won’t address at this juncture.) Imagine the hours of fun explaining this toy to your four-year-old. Is it a policeman and a bloodied demonstrator, or something else entirely? Is this just your usual globalization action-figure toy set? Or is there something more going on? And if this is not just a toy depicting the travails of late capitalism, what are we tell our four-year-olds?
Tags: Late capitalism, Toys