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GreenFlamingo7
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Have we talked about this toy?
GreenFlamingo7
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https://www.target.com/p/McDonalds-Drive-Thru-Playset/-/A-13403688
A McDonald's Drive Thru Playset. Maybe because we rarely eat fast food...or because this just rubs me the wrong way... I don't even have a good reason. I think this is pretty horrible. What happened to play kitchens and gardening benches and grocery stores? McDonalds? Really??
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(baby just woke up, I'm going to have to post and run)
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Re: Have we talked about this toy?
I think it's disgusting, but I have no intention of feeding Molls fast food before 5 and even then only as a treat (I don't even like food as a reward or punishment) but things happen so I won't say never. H and I have said we will do our best not to allow it before then. I don't really trust his parents not to feed her that or his brother.
I just don't see the point of kids playing with it. Like you said whatever happened to play kitchens?
This may be an UO, but I don't have a problem with it. I (gasp!) had a McD's set that went with my Barbies. I also had a post office, and a doll house, and a red Barbie Mustang. They all represented different parts of imaginative/realistic play.
(oh wait, Barbies are probably a whole other post, but we'll move on. lol.)
I don't think this is meant to replace toy kitchens at all. Those are all still out there. There are tons of play benches and grills and fancy kitchens and food sets. It's just that a kitchen is not the same as a restaurant. As a kid, I liked playing restaurant and playing house, and they were two different games.That's all this is to me.
I doubt that if this was a generic diner (with similar unhealthy plastic food to serve up) it would be controversial.
I wouldn't have a problem with a generic restaurant, I do have a problem with my kid playing with some unhealthy name brand daily. Then asking me to eat there because they played with it all day. They can use their imagination to name generic diner whatever she wants, she doesn't need to know what McDonalds is.
ETA: She can ask all she wants it doesn't mean we are going there, I just don't want the fight. Hopefully, I can instill in her good healthy eating and making good choices.
I get what you're saying. Although, I'd just assume kids who play with it are already familiar with the brand, rather than the toy being meant as an introduction.
I understand that, I guess it upsets me that kids are familiar with any brand at that age.
Maybe it's because I grew up so sheltered from that. Not by anything my parents did just by where we lived. I am thankful for it now. I had very little influence on my tiny person life and choices it was all open fields (literally) and free to imagine anything.
Oh, the humanity...
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I'm betting she won't she's just asking what people think about it.
I'm with Molluskwrangler on this one. I don't like this idea at all. It's just a marketing tool for a largely unhealthy restaurant to get more customers. Really. Not to say that kids wouldn't have fun. Not to say that every kid that plays with it will eat at McDonald's. But, I still don't like it for our family. Then again, I'm not a big fan of any of the "merchandising" ploys aimed at such young kids.
I know there will come a time when DD will know all about McDonald's and other fast food from her friends (or from the limited tv we will probably let her watch) - but I hope we can keep her away as long as possible.
Thank you for saying that much better than I did.
I know we would never buy this toy for our DD (because I HATE McDonalds) but I'd rather her play with that than video games or watching TV - at least they would be using their imagination.
I wouldn't buy that thing just because it is kind of like having a McDonalds billboard in your house. There are MUCH cuter play sets that don't encourage eating crap food.
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I can see that you and FutureMrsH are big on discussion.
Molls, I didn't grow up eating that stuff either. I like the generic diner idea...I would go for that sort of thing for LO. It is the brand that I don't like, not the idea of the play set. I guess if it was a ChickFilA set, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Maybe I am a McD's hater?
This is perfectly said. I normally I would totally agree. I just have such great nostalgic memories of using this toy as a child. But back then (even after using the toy) I had no real idea what McDonalds was. My family almost never ate there and as a 4-5 year old it wasn't something we thought about.
But with that said I probably wouldn't buy the new version. It doesn't look nearly as cool. And unfortunately we do live in a very different world now.
I just googled it - the older version was much less advertise-y. Maybe thats why I never really associated it with McDonalds?
Well then, J will have to come over and check that out!
lol, well see now, that's not fair.
I do love me some Chick fil A!
I do get what you guys are saying. And a generic diner probably would be cuter. That being said, I think it's virtually impossible to shield kids from brands/advertising, since we're all bombarded with it. I am not saying that is always right, it's just not something I am overly concerned about (at least in this case), personally.
(Maybe I'm biased because I loved McDonald's as a kid.
For the record, I never eat it now. I had it once in the last year or two and immediately regretted it, lol.
I don't think it's a big deal. It's not like it dispenses actual french fries (though that would be AWESOME). But my kid will also eat fast food occasionally. And maybe bake brownies under a lightbulb, too.
I don't have a problem with it, besides the fact that it's ugly. I don't get why McDonalds needs to be plastered all over it, any kid can play drive thru without the name on top. They could play drive thru with a regular kitchen set. All it takes is a little imagination.
On the occasional night when my sisters and I were home alone because our parents were out and about we would play "Bar". Don't ask me where we got this idea, (our cousins maybe?) because my parents certainly didn't spend any time in one and didn't drink a lot in front of us. We had a blast setting up the bar, walking around with dishtowels around our waists and serving glasses of "Scotch on the rocks" (mountain dew with a jolly rancher in it...gross!) Martinis (water with a pickle on a toothpick) and shots (apple juice in one of the two shot glasses in our house) and taking turns pretending to be sexy ladies sashaying up to the bar.
We didn't grow up to be alcoholics, in fact, far from it. We didn't drink a drop in high school and were average drinkers as college students. We just had fun being silly, and probably making the whole kitchen sticky. Let the kids play drive thru. Like PP said, Kudos to them for playing make-believe and not sitting in front of the TV.