#81 “Oh yeah? Well, if you hadn’t shown up with your stupid little cardboard spaceship and taken away everything that was important to me… ” Woody - Toy Story 1995
Remember when Pixar hit the Disney animation world? Well, if you didn’t… out popped out Toy Story in 1995. I haven’t posted any animation type movie lines in the eighty movie quote postings thus far, but, I have to admit; this is a great film. Cowboy toy threatened by a fancy spaceman toy. Battle to save one another from the horrific neighbor child who sacrifices toys. It’s just pure genius; it makes me feel like a kid again.
“YOU! ARE! A! TOYYYYY! You aren’t the real Buzz Lightyear! You’re - you’re an action figure!” - Woody
Remember as a kid when your toys were “judged” by you? The old toy got replaced by the new toy. The bigger Tonka truck replaced the little matchbox cars? If we were competitive with our toys at such a young age; have we become competitive with our current toys at our adult age?” The cars, the boats, the jet ski’s, the motorcycles, the bbq’s, etc? I mean aren’t we in a society, or we used to be, where the fancy car wins over the old beater classic? Aren’t we in a world where our children are not playing with pots and pans anymore or building anything; they are mastering the newest video game? Perhaps the Nintendo Wii? Toys are inevitable in the day to day existence of confidence. The better we align ourselves with the greatest gadget, the cooler we appear to others?
But, who is really raising the stakes there? I believe the battle for “coolness” is within yourself, within your own interpretation of what is cool.
Think about this, why are the retailers, toy distributors and video game programmers constantly reinventing and coming out with a new “it” toy, gadget, device or video game? Why are we replacing what we have so quickly, instead of keeping it until the end of it’s useful life? I used to build forts, create obstacle courses in the backyard, even read books; what the hell is our generation doing to maintain that childhood? NOTHING! It’s getting more and more commercialized. The more you get or have now, the better, the stronger you appear to society; the more “worth” you exude.
Are materialistic things setting the bar for status nowadays? Have we become a toy story?
What if Andy gets another dinosaur? A mean one? I just don’t think I can take that kind of rejection!” - Rex
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