Any good sources for toyetic shows?

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tatiana g

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I've tried several Google searches and had little luck. Does anyone know any sites which are good for finding info on particularly toyetic cartoons/anime?
 
I think he means stuff made to sell toys, not make fun of them.

If you want stuff based off toys, I really can't help you there. However, if you want stuff where you're like "OMG I need the action figures now!", most good mecha shows can do it for you.
 
You must never have seen Freakazoid! ;)

Toyetic is a term invented by marketing people. It's something seen in a cartoon that could easily become a marketable toy.
 
And it's a real word too.


Man, I can't think of any show that isn't toyetic. Any action show would produce action figures (obvious as heck), and any cartoon with cute characters always winds up with collectible plushes.

I'm surprised I haven't heard anything on LOSH toys outside the happy meal promotion yet. Super Hero shows and action figures usually go hand in hand (unfortunately not Freakazoid...)
 
4kids shows... they seem toyetic, they try to come out with products... nothing comes out of them. See any Viva Pinata toys lately? How about that great Kirby King DeeDeeDee playset?

They actually got to sell the Shaman King (impossible to find) One Piece (not as hard to find, but still over priced) and Ultimate Muscle (was available everywhere.... just series 1. the second and third minifigure assortments were dumped in Canadian discount stores, and the second action figure assortment is the holy grail to us collectors). other than the TMNT line, they ain't got together a decent toy line at all. They had plans for Kirby and Pinata, but since they weren't instant successes, they didn't even make the merchandise.
 
Serious? WOW! A reason to go. I'm not a big fan of the show, but I like the character designs.

But they had all this big mass market stuff they planned to make, and nothing came out of it.
 
To this day, I'm sorry that TMS' Mighty Orbots was canceled after only a single season on ABC, so there was never a line of action figures based on the show. There were 5 Orbots (6 if one counts Ohno), and each of them had the ability to transform into a single giant robot. The product practically sold itself.
 
Superfriends; He-Man; Jem; G.I. Joe; Transformers; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; She-Ra; My Little Pony & Friends; Care Bears; Pound Puppies; Challenge of the Gobots

Google any one of the above shows as these were most *toyetic* shows produced in the 80's.
 
Actualy, with the exception of Turtles (a specific I'll go inot later) they were all Show-etic toylines. TMNT existed as a comic book several years before the decision to make it a cartoon series, but it was a toy company that pretty much helped to sell the show so it could sell toys.
 
EVERY show aimed at kids in Japan is pretty much toyetic out of economic reality: Japanese company need to PAY for airtime on TV, thus to make money of their show they need to shove as much stuff in store as quickly as possible.

Shows are thus designed with a toyline and a bunch of related products from the get go. Unlike US shows where they, most of the time, wait until a show is sucessful to pull out the toys. Toyetic shows are different from the majority of shows made in North-America since the majority can be worth the investment due to ratings alone.

I think the Japanese model has merit. It forces company to make the show as involving as possible so that kids will want the toy, the music as good as possible to be sold separatedly and... well it's a toy collector's dream ^o^ It's not like Japanese toyetic properties got no merit. I'm sure we can all agree that Yu-gi-oh! Duel Monster or Digimon Tamers did a far better job 'selling' cards than Chaotic.
 
Mainly since Chaotic is an online virtual card deck. And 4Kids can bungle any property that could easily make money (still upset at them for the lack of Kirby toys, and nothing coming out of a plan to make products based on the early works of Jim henson).

That said, Japanese shows pretty much do have a built in toyetic ness to them. Some shows feature hundreds of characters that would be great for individual minifigures... Like Anpanman, or Pokemon. Some are just so cute, and they sell to little kids and teenage girls, Like Doraemon. Some shows are action based... goes without explaination. And whatever's left always finds a place as a Plushie, minifigurine, candy figure product or anything else you can care to imagine.

I say that any cartoon has potential for toyetic-ic-icity(?) It depends on how much the merchandisers want to make them. I pretty much buy anything I like, and even some occasional things I don't care too much for, but like seeing in toy form.
 
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