(Jun. 25, 2018 1:22 PM)ThePheonix Wrote: (May. 01, 2018 10:32 PM)Cat Wrote: Parents hate anything that a child whines incessantly for. They are also irked by things that are collectable, because they can't satisfy the kids buying only one of them.
Wow. You know quite a bit about parenting... Is there a chance that you are a parent yourself? Haha
I have a 3-year-old son and a baby daughter. Screaming purple-faced tantrums in the toy aisle, I've soooooooo been there... :/
One thing I will add- there is an ignorance factor. The first time I looked at Beyblades, I thought "Big deal. It's a top. This toy is centuries old, they're just reinventing the wheel." I didn't know that they were customizable, that each model behaved differently, that you could employ strategy with them, or that they borrowed from mythology and history. I also didn't know that battling spinning toys was an old custom that dated back to Japan's Kamakura period, so there is a cultural element to it. In short, parents may think this is simply a top with fancy embellishments, missing what makes it an interesting hobby.
"...I am a graveyard that the moon abhors..."
