A New Care Bear Stare!
July 28th, 2008
Via UTNE
UTNE’s Kari Volkmann-Carlsen has been noticing a rash of Facelift epidemics… on Eighties Cartoon Characters.
She also ponders:
“So why are companies reinventing old cartoon characters instead of designing new ones? According to Kolodenko, playing off of parents’ nostalgia has proven to be a safer investment than creating unknowns in our poorly functioning economy”
Sigh.
Go check out the rest of her article at UTNE.
-Jeaux Janovsky
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