Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Kids watch the videos, then ask their parents to buy the toys. Same way toy advertising works on television.


Or like He-Man, where the entire premise was to create a cartoon they could sell action figures from. Rewatching it, the plot wasn’t all that coherent. But that didn’t matter, because Battle Cat was cool and Skeletor’s castle had a microphone and speaker built in.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: