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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

I don't know why.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Wow.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

It's almost like, have you ever, what's your grocery store, Kroger or Publix?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

I can't remember.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

But I think what you get there is, which is why probably they wanted to use the rotational molding, is if you have those little Star Wars guys, or imagine G.I.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Both, but generally Publix.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Okay.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So there's a lot of people out there who are only Publix and only Kroger.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And I think my theory is that they're laid out in a certain way that they appeal to one type of person and then the other one appeals to a different type of person.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Joe if they were injection molds,

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

If you look at their body from the side, it's in two pieces and sometimes you can see a little seam on their head or on their arm or something.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So if you are a Publix person and you go into a Kroger, it feels weird and out of place and reality is just slightly askew.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Or probably not on their arm because those were separate.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Yeah.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

That's how Legend of Zelda made me feel.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So I never got into it.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, sometimes you could see the seam where the two halves were pressed together.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

But I know some people have essentially dedicated their lives to that game.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

They wanted that smooth look for the rotational molding that that provides, but I guess the detail is the tradeoff.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Beyond playing it, probably dress up as Link, the main character, have all sorts of toys and stuff like that.