People are always looking for ways to distract themselves and novel forms of entertainment are usually the best ways. For children, toys are one of the best forms of entertainment; they allow them to act out what they see in life while injecting their own twist into the play. For adults, novelty items provide entertainment by giving them a chance to act outside their normal behaviors and prank and tease their friends and family. Between the two they can provide not only entertainment but also a chance to engage in their own little fantasy world, sometimes based on the world of others.
Entertaining the Masses
The large variety of different forms of toys and novelty items make them great for play. Toys can be used for a number of games and modes of play, from cooperative play where everyone is working towards a particular goal to team play, where everyone is trying to defeat everyone else. Novelty items can be used to amuse or annoy, providing entertainment to those wielding them or even just displaying them. In both cases it is how the person interacts with them that provides the interaction; they give people a chance to act outside the normal bounds of activity to be someone different than they normally are, giving them a chance to see life from the perspective of others while still providing some entertainment.
Getting the Word Out
Companies have, of course, found ways to use toys and novelty items to advertise different projects. Novelty items can be devised to exaggerate the actions of characters in movies and comics, such as a woman’s expression or a bodily function of buffoonish character; by having an item that pokes fun at the character interest is created in how the character really functions. Toys allow children to act as the character in question, making watching the character important to make sure that they get the character right. A great advertising campaign is thus likely to create plenty of both for fans and potential fans of the project.
For the Collectors
Suffice to say that this makes a great situation for collectors. For fans of the movie or comic, this makes for collectibles that allow them to show just how big a fan they really are; the bigger the fan the more items they will have. For speculators, this gives them a chance to find items of potentially high value and snap them up. However, there are always those that will just enjoy them the way they were supposed to as pure entertainment.
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