{"id":3945,"date":"2012-04-30T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:48:49","slug":"mr-potato-head-and-pester-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/mr-potato-head-and-pester-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Potato Head And Pester Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/043012_1544_MrPotatoHea1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jon Kelly took a look at adverts designed specifically to appeal to children, and the popularity of one toy in particular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>60 years ago Mr. Potato Head was the first ever toy to be marketed on television to children instead of their parents. It was a revolutionary idea at the time.<\/li>\n<li>The original Mr. Potato head did not have a potato body \u2013 kids were to use a real potato. The potato body didn&#8217;t come until a decade later.<\/li>\n<li>In the wake of anti-smoking campaigns the pipe was dropped from Mr. Potato Head toy sets in 1986.<\/li>\n<li>Advertizing toys to kids has become widespread and this has led to complaints from parents that toy manufacturers rely on &#8220;pester power&#8221; or the &#8220;nag factor&#8221; where adverts try to convince children to nag their parents for the things they see on television.<\/li>\n<li>The toy makers say that they act responsibly, especially since their most effective ads draw children into a fantasy world, rather than those that get children to nag their parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the advertizement that depicted cartoon characters being led to a butcher&#8217;s shop, what the Mothers&#8217; Union has to say about it, when Mr. Potato Head found Mrs. Potato Head, how effective the advertising campaign was, and the person who invented the toy, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17871107\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17871107\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Kelly took a look at adverts designed specifically to appeal to children, and the popularity of one toy in particular: 60 years ago Mr. Potato Head was the first ever toy to be marketed on television to children instead of their parents. It was a revolutionary idea at the time. The original Mr. Potato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/043012_1544_MrPotatoHea1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}