![]() ![]() What girls wanted, he said, was Nerf toys that boast both high performance and a design made especially for them. “I think if anything, we went into this without any stereotypes and instead talked to young girls, found out what they wanted, and then designed a line of products that addressed that opportunity.” I’m the oldest sibling, there’s a hierarchy.Īnd the second reason I’m behind Nerf Rebelle: It doesn’t seem like a slapped-together effort on parent company Hasbro’s part, where they just said “Girls like pink and heart stuff, right? Slap some of that on the bow we already have.” Says Hasbro’s John Frascotti: I didn’t play much with toy weapons as a kid-I was more the “read books, watch movies, and run around the backyard playing Thundercats” type-but if my brothers and I had had a lot of toy weapons to play with you’d best know I wouldn’t want to be stuck with the weak one. (Because little girls are… weaker… than little boys? Or something? I’m not even going to pretend I understand the logic behind why companies do this.) One: The Nerf Rebelle line “will feature projectiles that have the same power as the top items in the brand’s Nerf Elite line.” Four for you, Nerf, for not creating a wimpy version of your product for girls. I’ll admit, I have something of a knee-jerk reaction to the notion of “pink toys for girls, blue toys for boys.” So when I read about Nerf Rebelle, a new line of toys created for specifically for girls, the first of which is the Heartbreaker bow…. ![]()
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