Is JJ gay or just SUPER Canadian? I can NEVER tell!

@@bocawilliams9200 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr9pg9Bzs8iXgHk.html

@@bocawilliams9200 It's both, he is gay and also SUPER Canadian

This is largely true, but as a kid in the 90s I seem to recall plenty of other fast food chains having cool toys (or at least what I thought were cool) in their kids' meals. Nowadays McDonald's essentially has a monopoly (pardon the pun) on that market with Happy Meals, but I don't think that was always the case.

@@hotwax9376 In the 80s I remember Wendy's giving away ALF records that were pure fire and Kentucky Fried Chicken had dope California Raisins figures. Those weren't even in kid's meals because they didn't have those yet. As a kid, the only way you got one was because adults ordered food and just gave it to you. Very hard to collect being limited and Kentucky Fried Chicken wasn't something you go for at just any given time the way McDonald's was. I had a babysitter who hooked me up with the coveted guitar guy after her boyfriend didn't want it so she saved it for me 😊!

I wanna play that version

"You've been disgraced"-- certainly the story of MY Life...... 😁👍

Username checks out.

"You've been challenged to a duel, and you've lost. Relinquish your family's honor and go back ten spaces."

I'd buy such a book -- if J.J. wrote it. 😊👍

@@markmh835 I'd buy it if it was actually a cannon.

These are the best of his chann imo

Is JJ gay or just SUPER Canadian? I can NEVER tell!

@@bocawilliams9200 no he mentioned on a past video he was gay

what about Hot Wheels?

Thanks Detroit Borg! You have a lot of subs!

@@JJMcCullough I love his review of the nook simple touch

Another big part of the IP explosion in the 1980s JJ didn't touch on in this video was Regan's deregulation of the television industry which made it possible for toy companies to make cartoon shows to directly sell toy lines to children

Nope. You'll wanna look into how Reagan de-regulated advertising and allowed corporations to directly and indirectly target children. Free market capitalism! What could go wrong? 😂

@@CharlesJohnson-tp7qq still kinda messed up toy company's are allowed to directly market to childern. In the USA tho it's not legally for a cartoon to directly market a toy or product. Like say the rugrats couldn't have the babies say we like coke brand cola or a specific toy that is not legal anymore in the United States. When the KZfaq kids thing happened a few channels did videos on it also about how youtubers directly marketing to chikdern is illegal but not being prosecuted yet.

Me too. J.J seems to know more about American culture than us actual Americans do sometimes.

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 he’s American

@@user-hl6ls8sv4t Really? I didn't know that.

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 yeah he’s Canadian

@@user-hl6ls8sv4t Dammit.

I've been waiting for series 4 for ages. It's a great light hearted documentary series, when you want to learn about something less serious.

Were kids actually into beanie babies? I have a hard time thinking very many parents would let their kids play with "investments" like that, but what knows.

@@tomifost I don’t know if it’s really universal, but at my elementary school in particular (in the early 2000s) they were huge. Not among everyone, but with me and my friends. However I do feel like they weren’t big enough among the general population to reasonably be a part of this cultural canon.

Hot Wheels definitely belong. I feel like most kids, regardless of gender had at least a few Hot Wheels. When I think of my childhood and my own kid’s childhood, Hot Wheels and Lego heavily feature in both.

Nerf, Hot Wheels, etc are essential American toys and more important than many toys in this video, but they aren't literally iconic. You can't represent them with a single image like Mr. Potatohead or Snake-eyes. They are more abstract and generalized. Nerf (hasbro) is just foam projectiles/balls/blasters and Hot Wheels is thousands of miniature wheeled vehicles. Other toys that could be iconic are transformers (hasbro), lego minfigs, Barbie.

@@Annie_Annie__ That's basically most of my late childhood. Hot Wheels and Legos, along with wooden trains. Though, Hot Wheels continue being a hobby for me today.

You sound like quite the action figure fan!

@@JJMcCullough thank you

To paraphrase Hank on Breaking Bad "they're ACTION FIGURES, Marie!!!" Man, Micronauts were so AWESOME!!! The larger Baron Karza with the magnetic joints and fists and missiles that shot, & you could turn him into a centaur as well (same as his enemy with the opposite colored white armor, forget his name) was kind of a bridge between the small 3 inch ones and the Shogun Warriors die cast toys (I wanted the large plastic versions about 2ft high, but no bueno from the parental units, claiming "safety" ...but I was allowed to play with lawn darts, so go figure^^). Acroyer, Time Traveller, what was it, Biolab the giant robot guy, they later on had some alien/bug humanoid type series that was cool too & the city track with tubes they could travel in, very "Logan's Run" -ish. Very cool, I had the Adventure Joe's being a 70s kid, they were a lot of fun, esp once the Six Million Dollar Man action figure came out, could have them all fight bigfoot XD. The story of how 20th century fox gave up the merchandising rights to Star wars to Lucas is always one of those tales in hindsight seemed so foolish, but considering the studio's skepticism over the movie and budget and filming issues, toys were the last thing on their mind. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.....

Actually, a part that is not often talked about is this first venture of a transforming robot toyline collaboration between takara and hasbro called mysterians. This was where the toys that eventually that became Micro Change Jeep or later Brawn in the transformers, Micro Change American truck or late Huffer and Micro Change Transam or Windcharger originated from. The toyline was cancelled before release and the existence of this toyline makes the whole "Hasbro employees discovering Diaclone and micro changers at a Japanese convention" story that led to the importation of the figures sound sketchy. The Mysterians toyline was eventually released in 1984 by a company called Marchon but the details behind how this non hasbro owned company got the rights to use the abandoned designs from Mysterians that were never used in Micro change and transformers is still not clear till this day.

_how GI Joe went from 12 inches to 3 inches_ Hmm. 🤔Oh! I know. 😎 It's called _detumescence._ 🤣😂😅

Which toys do they talk about!

@@JJMcCullough reading off the full list of episodes: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Power Rangers My Little Pony Professional Wrestling Star Trek Transformers LEGO Hello Kitty Star Wars toys Barbie He-Man G.I. Joe

@@SpiralSine6 oh nice, so not too much overlap. I was worried I had missed a big possible reference source for this video

Well he can’t have been that great if everyone forgot him so quickly

@@JJMcCullough This is an absurd statement. Georgist ideas are still commonly discussed, especially by economists. The land value tax is an idea which has had particular popularity and influence across the world. I don't agree with much of George's writing but you're being dismissive to a degree which does not suit Georgism's actual prominence.

@@JJMcCullough I wouldn't think that he is overly obscure, most people haven't heard of him but he is still quite popular in alot of circles, especially that of the internet & American collage culture, which makes sense given his stance on property tax. I do think that the commenter above me is a tad bit overzealous and I wouldn't say that it's an obsurd statement to make, but he has actually seen a bit of a resurgence in the 21st century, just in general, mainly due to the fact that Andrew Yang has seemingly thrown his support behind George's ideals. I personally find him at least interesting and while I can't speak for everyone else, I do know that some internet personalities like Mr. Beat is a fan of him as well.

Its because his ideas were both "dangerous" and popular, you might even call him a populist. But precisely because his message was anti-elite and ant-capitalist to some extent those elites with their vested interests did everything short of assasination to bury his message.

Still, even as a Georgist myself, I'd say that Georgism was and is esoteric, mostly because the way it conceptualises land value is somewhat idiosyncratic. (Of course I have to believe that, because if people actually understood Georgism, they would all be Georgists, because I believe it is the best system of taxation there is.) Still, there can be no doubt that he was a major celebrity in his time, but almost completely forgotten by WWII, having been overtaken by economic Liberalism and Socialism.

Ohhh I remember him! I liked that comic

I mean in my personal experience growing up in the 2010s no I don't believe they are anymore.

@@JJMcCullough Just "like", not "love"? Because he "needs love". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLZ9f9Kiu7GllqM.html

I like the first 2 transformers movies :/

He-Man wouldn't work cuase he's Mattel so he wouldn't be here but transformers is a hasbro property so idk why it's not in the line up

Also, Transformers is fascinating because they where toy lines from two separate Japanese toy companies that Hasbro sold in America under the single moniker "Transformers"

Lego too

holy shit bro pay attention to the video

I’d say uno even more so.

Me and my sisters, cousins etc. never finished a game of Risk. Once the world is reduced to just two players, you hit a bit of an equilibrium, and one person can not obliterate the other. Maybe that's one of the lessons the game teaches, switching to a "cold war" is inevitable and a good outcome.

I think you right. Although actually monoly is not that long and complicated compared to most games. An hour and a half, at most, if you follow the rule but like you said everybody changes the rules slightly and things change. I just always played how my family said it was played and did not know there was an auction until 3 or 4 years ago. I think people look at say risk a full game can take a few hours and it looks very complicated.

@@Landon_C_Official my dad bought us monopoly as kids, and I think maybe to keep the game from being confusing he had us just play until we ran out of money. We were kids, so the game didn’t last long, but the older we got, we just kept playing like that and never bothered to actually look up the rules or anything, and we got smarter with money, and games took absolutely forever because we would budget like crazy and try and have hotels everywhere. Def played it very, very wrong

Monopoly always felt like that one game that the family would only play if they were desperate. If there was nothing good on the telly on a Sunday afternoon, and you'd used up all the fun board games that week, and if it frankly was too early to just go to bed - you'd reach for Monopoly. Usually accompanied by audible groans and at least one younger member of the family just complaining outright. Although seeing what others have said about the game, both in this thread's replies and elsewhere, it could just be that me and family were incredibly stupid ;p

I’ve really come to realize that PA played a huge role in American culture and should get more credit.

Well, Pennsylvania is still a pretty big state, home to more people than Illinois, for example. And Pittsburgh and (especially) Philadelphia have lots of culture and history in them.

It's a big state and had plenty of manufacturing. It's always been important historically since the birth of the country (first capital and all that).

@@JJMcCullough PA feels like one of those places where you can go to any town or city and there will be at least one notable event, invention or person associated with it. And it's all a lot closer together than out west, distances between big towns and cities feel more "european".

i like many of my family are native pennslyvanians who have moved elsewhere, new jersey for me i didnt get too far lol, like at all i'm 8 minutes away from philadelphia

You’re a Rhodie??

@@JJMcCullough live right across the the Massachusetts line in Bristol County, Mass. Which shares a border with Bristol County, Rhode Island. It's one central road away from me.

I think it'd be totally discontinued if it wasn't for toy story

Transformers is weird In that Hasbro shares ownership of the franchise with the Japanese toy company Takara.

Transformers started out as a rebranding of a couple of different Japanese toylines, though. Which makes them not American.

Transformers is a Japanese toyline brought to America by Hasbro.

I'd add those little plastic toy soldiers that list.

What a hero!

Get it right or pay the price! It’s RICH Uncle Pennybags!

TMNT is one of those brands that gets a new show and a new set of toys every few years, I'd say they count. Same with Transformers.

Haha i played with some street sharks n tmnt mixed!

The Mighty Ducks were my favourite of those, if you count them.

He's a boy toy 🤑

Neither is Pla-Do or Operation. They just represent the games in action figure form.

He's typically not

@@lilbbgrinchiepoo2429 more of an old man toy. eww

Mattel also got the inspiration for Barbie from a German doll called Lilli that was marketed primarily to adult collectors.

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Barbie....

It's been back...

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Gloworm is an English publisher of children's books.

I was gonna say as a Gen Zer I've never really heard of Glo Worm, My Pet Monster or Stretch Armstrong before this video

Yeah, I asked my 13-year-old if he’s ever heard of Milton Bradley, and he hadn’t. I only just realized I hadn’t heard or seen the name in a long time and that most of my kid’s board games even say Hasbro on them. It’s starting to feel like pretty soon 90% of toys are going to be made by either Hasbro or Mattel.

Except Mattel--that one hasn't been yet (and they own quite a few smaller toy companies themselves, like Fisher Price and Pleasant Company (the makers of American Girl dolls). And plenty of the toys they created in-house have been successful as well (like Barbie Dolls and Hot Wheels cars.)

@@hotwax9376 Mattel owns Fisher-Price??? My mind cannot even grasp that Hot Wheels and Little People toys are under the same umbrella.

Ironically playmobil started as action figures with set pieces at first. Construction doll houses only came later.

Yeah, construction toys have always been big. One such toy that was more popular with Baby Boomers but is still sold is Erector set, but even before that there were of course building blocks.

There's no real difference other than Canada's schools are less prestigious.

@@JJMcCullough I disagree JJ. I think the whole attitude towards post secondary education could be explored in a separate video

@@JJMcCullough I completely disagree, as someone who has both canadian and american friends. The cultural attitude toward university is completely different. Canadian universities are publicly funded and as such aren’t as stratified and there aren’t any tiers per-se. This causes a lack of student debt which means most canadians don’t make university as big a part of their lives as americans. Canadians aren’t expected to know all the big universities, college football is a much smaller deal, and “where did you go to school” is less likely to pop up in canadian conversations. Additionally, I feel like there’s much less of an emphasis on university being a defining period of your life. Since most good canadian universities are in cities, commuting is more common and there is less of an emphasis on the “college experience” as in the US. Frats aren’t as popular and hazing is much more looked down upon. I don’t know if it’s the same as in english canada, but here in Quebec you choose a major and stick to it, thus there are no gen-ed classes and no undeclared majors, meaning university is much more of a way to invest in a career rather than something you should do just because. Was hoping to hear a bit more in depth about this as opposed to just “they’re basically the same” because they’re really not, and the place they have in society is very much different.

@@sbel6626 I agree! I have worked at both US and Canadian universities, and the funding for research is on a different level. Of course, there is much variation between individual institutions.

@@sbel6626 The point about student debt is patently false. Student debt in Canada is a significant issue, especially among younger people, with thousands of dollars of debt being common. The median debt levels between US and Canadian graduates are actually not all that different.

The original game: anti capitalist The game now: pro capitalist Playing the game: anti-social Play the game and stay friends with people, I dare you.

I love how they made a tax evasion edition, now I can really feel like a billionaire.

kinda reminds me how Oliver Stone would talk about ppl leaving the movie Wall Street, and being all psyched to be like Gordon Gecko.......

Georgism isn't anti-capitalist, it is simply anti-rent seeking. The derivation of unearned rents from the common inheritance of the human race is a perversion of liberal values, and therefore a market system.

The Landlord's Game isn't so much anti-capitalist as it is anti-landlord. Georgism makes the distinction between capitalists, who profit from the productivity of their investments, and landlords, who profit from hoarding land and waiting for its value to rise without putting it to productive use.

SUCH AS??

That would be fun but it would take a very long time. There are like 100 references so the video would be hours long to explain it all.

@@JJMcCullough If you’re willing to make it, I think your viewers would be happy to watch very long videos. Longform content is more popular with KZfaq these days too

There is a podcast analyzing every lyric of we didn’t start the fire called what else “we didn’t start the fire”

Thanks so much! Are you an American?

@@JJMcCullough I am indeed!

You’re right. I guess girls don’t but these sorts of collectible things. Though there are a lot of girly Funkos.

I always found it silly that he carried his parts in his butt.

NO!

@@JJMcCullough pew pew !

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That's the Mattel toy he mentioned at the end.

@@T1mesAreHard Thanks lol must have missed that

Good job 👍