drifterlee opened this issue on May 16, 2007 · 56 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 16 May 2007 at 1:11 PM
Kids? As others have already expressed: the subject just isn't an interest. I'd have more use for the teenage figures (like Laura) morphed up to look older than the default. But not for the kids -- unless perhaps if they're morphed into gnomes or little monsters or some such -- in which case they aren't children.
And BTW - regardless of what others have stated, it's a fact that in today's world -- any adult male who specializes in producing art which features children -- even children of the fully-clothed, 'cute' variety -- will instantly fall under suspicion. One wonders how some of Norman Rockwell's old paintings would have been interpreted in today's climate. Or how the Coppertone girl would be regarded......I doubt that such an advertising icon would come fresh on the scene today. Although Coppertone still uses her, surprisingly.
It's just the way that things are in the current era. In many ways: children have become positively radioactive. And a climate of paranoia tends to make everyone paranoid.
So......if it's a subject of no particular interest to begin with (as in my case).....then it's best just to avoid them altogether. I've never purchased the Matt & Maddie figures from DAZ. So I'm not likely to be buying clothes and accessories for them. I do have Luke and Laura. But I almost never use them, either.
However: if someone comes up with a good gnome or dwarf character based on the pre-school figures, and I happen to have a use for them -- then I might consider it.