Saturday, June 02, 2007

Stardate 61417.18 - Little People

Toys have changed since I was a kid. For example, I remember the old, yellow-roof house with the play people from Fisher Price. Do you remember it? It had a doorbell consisting of a metal bell and a plastic lever on a spring that would strike it to make it ring. There were small, nicely chokeable-sized people and furniture. All the furniture could be removed and moved from room to room. There was even a tub and toilet and a pet dog and a small car that fit in the garage.

Now the Fisher Price Little People line has been designed as to not pose a choking hazard, which means that no item can be small enough to fit through a cardboard toilet paper tube. And most of the furniture is now permanently mounted in the house. And the noise makers are all controlled by a battery and a chip. And the old house certainly didn't have a computer room inside!






Loren really likes playing with the house and the barn and the animals, but they make me a little nostalgic for the old, dangerous version.

NYC

2 comments:

JamesF said...

We have so many of those little people things it's unreal.

We've got the barn (which looks slightly different than the picture you posted, I suspect they change the model on a yearly basis). We've got Noah's Ark. The zoo, the garage truck, the ice cream truck, the mini van, the firetruck, etc, etc. We've even got a video of the Little people (the frog's name is Freddy) and a CD of them. Luckily they don't play with them that much anymore, because I thought all those things were going to drive me insane (further insane?).

JamesF said...

I forgot about the house, the airport, the train, the road (you get the idea).