{"id":986,"date":"2011-09-10T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=986"},"modified":"2011-09-10T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T14:52:01","slug":"my-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"My Little . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"My-Little-Pony\"<\/a> you were thinking \u201cPony\u201d weren’t you?\u00a0 The popular child’s toy has been around a long time.\u00a0 But the cute little asexual animals in pastel colors don\u2019t cast the same spell over the preschool set like they used to.\u00a0 Also, it\u2019s been discovered that 37% of all \u201ckids toys\u201d are bought by adults for their own use.\u00a0 Sometimes these end up as cutesie workplace displays, or in collections and sometimes they are hidden away and played with secretly when nobody is home.<\/p>\n

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Taking this all into consideration there is an effort to expand the My Little Pony line, reinvigorate the internet savvy toddler market\u00a0and tap into latent private playtime demand.\u00a0 One of the early efforts was My Little Princess Leia<\/a>.\u00a0 Not surprisingly this appealed to both boys<\/span> men and girls in focus groups.\u00a0 Keying on the Sci-Fi theme they considered My Little Spock <\/a>which didn\u2019t work out as well because it was \u201cillogical\u201d.\u00a0 Next, My Little Batman<\/a>, it scored well in every demographic except \u201cteenage girls\u201d.\u00a0 This demographic can not be ignored in the US alone girls between the ages of 13 and 17 control spending (their own and their parents) roughly equal to the Pentagon.\u00a0 To address this market \u2013 My Little Lady Gaga<\/a>!\u00a0 Next the superhero pony My Little Iron Man<\/a>.\u00a0 Like all trends things got a little out of control, the alternate pony universe was dealt a serious blow after the release of My Little Edward Scissor Hands<\/a>.\u00a0 This was the fist use of squatting pony models and the real blades were concerns of parents of preschoolers.\u00a0 Where will the Pony go from here?\u00a0 We will all just have to hold on to our combs and brushes and wait and see.\u00a0 When I say My Little . . . . now<\/em> what do you think?<\/p>\n

These are works of Mari Kasurinen see all of her creative and twisted Ponys here\u00a0<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My little lady gaga, my little princess leia, my little edward sissor hands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}