This is not a frozen turkey: there were four horses in there and fortunately/miraculously none of them appear to have been damaged in any significant way.
But still, yikes. This is not a good way to start out the week.
In other news that was not news because last week was last week, the 2020 inductees to the Toy Hall of Fame were Baby Nancy, Jenga, and Sidewalk Chalk.
I understand Baby Nancy: the original write up was a little too detailed and well-written for me to not think it was a foregone conclusion. History, and all that.
As far as games go, I thought Yahtzee or Risk had a better chance than Jenga, but Jenga does have an appealing (yet deceptive) simplicity to it. It takes two minutes to explain, if that, and there are no notepads to tally or rulebooks to follow.
But Sidewalk Chalk? We got beat by craft supplies? Sigh.
Okay, I’ll admit that I kind of got my hopes up just slightly, based solely only the fact that one of the hosts of the morning radio show I usually listen to very briefly mentioned the hobby in passing when discussing the Toy Hall of Fame story a few weeks back, during the voting phase of it.
Then again, that guy is/was a toy train nerd, has a daughter that is the right age, and the two primary independent toy stores in this area both have extensive selections of both Breyers and Trains.
In other words, it was probably just an exceptional circumstance.
But still, it’s an optimistic sign that we’re not as peripheral to the public consciousness as some hobbyists believe, and that this campaign was not as quixotic as it originally seemed. Heck, Lisa was outed as a model horse collector on The Simpsons last year:
There was a shot of an extensive (20+) model horse collection in her room, and she gave one of horsey friends “a toy horse, with a hat ” for her birthday! (Any model horse hobbyist who watched that episode immediately whispered Old Timer.)
I’m kind of curious just how far Reeves is willing to go to continue pursuing it, though, since they obviously saw it as part of their 70th Anniversary marketing strategy.
Off to bed now; I have a sinus headache that’s not going to get any better staring at a computer screen.
2 comments:
I heard the Toy Hall of Fame inductees announced on the radio, but I missed that one was sidewalk chalk! I guess so. But wouldn't you think that would have been inducted early on, like marbles and jump-ropes? Hm. Well, at least Breyer is on the radar.
On second thought, no, chalk is not a toy!
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