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Post by Paul on May 23, 2018 2:54:16 GMT -5
www.amazon.com/Spectra-Star-Radical-Nightmare-Krueger/dp/B0051OTAEWThey marketed a Yo-Yo featuring Freddy Krueger (who was a child murderer and possible child molester I want to remind you) to children (!!!). That's kind of messed up... And this isn't the only Freddy "thing" they marketed to kids. They sold Freddy Krueger "Squirt Heads", talking dolls, child-sized Halloween costumes, bubble gum, and other stuff, too. Wow. I've got to side with the parents who were up in arms over this at the time.
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Jiren
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Post by Jiren on May 23, 2018 3:43:55 GMT -5
Sure looking back it's odd but us kids didn't care about the plot just Freddy cracking wise & killing people.
We loved him, He was cool (Along with Jason).
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Post by Fundertaker on May 23, 2018 3:49:41 GMT -5
Isn't that basically every 80's horror icon? Freddy, Jason, Aliens, etc.?
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on May 23, 2018 3:53:40 GMT -5
Speaking as an 80's kid, only spent a few days in the 70s, it was a different time. In the school yard in elementary school we would play tag but augment it with whoever was it as Jason/Freddy/Mike. Cops and robbers was replaced with Robocop. Most of what were the "kiddie" cartoons were the old looney tunes or MGM cartoons.
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on May 23, 2018 4:37:12 GMT -5
Freddy and Jason were seen as modern day movie monsters back then. Not much different than Dracula or Frankenstein.
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Post by paulbearer on May 23, 2018 5:48:38 GMT -5
They made toys from Jaws too back in the day , same with Alien.
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Post by The Barber on May 23, 2018 5:52:38 GMT -5
www.amazon.com/Spectra-Star-Radical-Nightmare-Krueger/dp/B0051OTAEWThey marketed a Yo-Yo featuring Freddy Krueger (who was a child murderer and possible child molester I want to remind you) to children (!!!). That's kind of messed up... And this isn't the only Freddy "thing" they marketed to kids. They sold Freddy Krueger "Squirt Heads", talking dolls, child-sized Halloween costumes, bubble gum, and other stuff, too. Wow. I've got to side with the parents who were up in arms over this at the time.  |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 23, 2018 6:25:10 GMT -5
We honestly had toys of just about every R rated movie. I owned action figures of both John Rambo and John Matrix.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 23, 2018 6:28:10 GMT -5
Hell, back then I had a battery operated uzi with a strap and realistic sounds that you would add liquid smoke to so the barrel would smoke after you got done firing. And this was pre-painting toy guns bright orange&such. It looked like it was straight up ordinance
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dav
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Post by dav on May 23, 2018 7:48:01 GMT -5
Now I really wish we got to see a Saturday Morning cartoon version of the franchise. Might have just turned out more like the Beetlejuice one though.
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Post by cabbageboy on May 23, 2018 7:56:28 GMT -5
There were a ton of Rambo, Robocop, Commando whatever toys in the 80s. That said, an R rated action movie is one thing. Freddy is another. But yeah it is funny that my wife even now decries my dad taking me to see stuff like Rambo, Robocop, or whatever Arnold flick was out. I'm hardly alone in that however.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on May 23, 2018 8:02:29 GMT -5
Weren't the movies themselves very kiddified by then, though? I know a big complaint people had was the Nightmare on Elm Street movies getting increasingly goofy and dropping the horror almost entirely, and that New Nightmare was an attempt to rectify that (and it took the piss out of it quite a lot).
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 23, 2018 8:19:03 GMT -5
I don’t understand why we’e getting all the Nightmare on Elm Street threads all of a sudden, but I have to say I’m loving it  |
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Post by Jiren on May 23, 2018 9:28:08 GMT -5
Now I really wish we got to see a Saturday Morning cartoon version of the franchise. Might have just turned out more like the Beetlejuice one though. I think the closest we got was the Justice League episode with Doctor Destiny |
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Post by Allie Kitsune on May 23, 2018 9:30:13 GMT -5
Isn't that basically every 80's horror icon? Freddy, Jason, Aliens, etc.? I also had Robocop and Terminator action figures. Even cigarettes were marketed to children. At least the movie characters were fiction. The real crime is the marketing of candy, sugar, and fast food. That stuff is deadly. If only we'd outlawed everything except Kale back in the 70s... ...the world would be Utopia by now. |
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on May 23, 2018 9:36:15 GMT -5
Now I really wish we got to see a Saturday Morning cartoon version of the franchise. Might have just turned out more like the Beetlejuice one though. I think the closest we got was the Justice League episode with Doctor Destiny Batman vs Freddy is all I need in my life. Batman vs Freddy would bring world peace. |
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Post by pegasuswarrior on May 23, 2018 10:07:41 GMT -5
The marketing is not a comment on how effed up it was. It just wasn’t so eggshell sensitive/fragile-minded then. It’s merely further evidence of how society has now changed. The evolution of fear. People can’t wait to dissect everything and find a way to be afraid, offended, or appalled by it institutionally. Freddy was just Freddy, scary as heck and therefore cool. It wasn’t anything like “I can’t be the person I want to be because of this outrageous symbol of societal oppression and real-world abuse.” It wasn’t weird then just like it’s not weird now to not be able to browse corners the internet without seeing someone offended by a media gesture because of the larger message it somehow connotes. Evolution of fear.
^ Not a comment on OP and not designed to be brutal. Just honest take on the topic. It’s about the topic itself.
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Post by Tenshigure on May 23, 2018 10:08:40 GMT -5
Now I really wish we got to see a Saturday Morning cartoon version of the franchise. Might have just turned out more like the Beetlejuice one though. We had an incredible amount of Saturday morning cartoons based off of R-Rated properties back in the late 80s/early 90s. From the obvious like 'RoboCop' and 'Rambo,' to horror properties like 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,' 'Tales from the Cryptkeeper,' and 'The Toxic Crusaders.' We even had some 'straight out of left field' ones like 'Police Academy' and 'Starship Troopers' (albeit that was a late 90s CGI show, but I digress). Point is, I wouldn't have put it past them in creating a 'Nightmare on Elm Street' cartoon where the protagonist kids were literal Dream Warriors who worked to stop Freddy in randomly themed Dream Worlds not unlike Little Nemo back in the day. |
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on May 23, 2018 10:11:34 GMT -5
The most interesting example of this is the original version of the LJN NOES game where you played as Freddy killing the kids.  |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 23, 2018 10:19:35 GMT -5
Speaking as an 80's kid, only spent a few days in the 70s, it was a different time. In the school yard in elementary school we would play tag but augment it with whoever was it as Jason/Freddy/Mike. Cops and robbers was replaced with Robocop. Most of what were the "kiddie" cartoons were the old looney tunes or MGM cartoons. At the peak of the Slasher craze I was a young teen,and yea the movies and all kinds of products were marketed to kids and teens. Hell when we went to see Friday the 13th Part 5 the crowd was mostly teens. Back then,at least in that area,they didn't card for movies. So the teens went to see every R rated film they could. Most of my cousins,who were all 2 to 4 years older than me,had a Halloween or Friday the 13th poster on their wall. Plus if you didn't get to see them in a theater HBO or whatever would rerun them to hell. |
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