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Overly Cool Play Space
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This trope applies to any Toy Commercial featuring children (often, but not always, boys), using an elaborate play setup unrelated to, and often more interesting than, the toys themselves. For action figures, the children have set up an elaborate play environment made of rocks and sticks that must have taken hours more to assemble than the 30 seconds seen that it took to play in. For toy cars, the children have a kitchen that has over wide stretches of spotless,note After all, if Mom had just mopped it, the kids probably wouldn't be playing on it. uninterrupted linoleum or going through a dirt track a little too obviously built by an adult. This is not to say that there aren't kids out there who make their own playsets, but the trope is to make the toys seem even more exciting to the potential buyer. Toy manufacturers sometimes put a disclaimer to the effect of "background set not available" at the bottom of their commercials if they're playing this trope straight. A subtrope of Rule of Cool. Pops up in Fridge Logic. Compare to Adjacent to This Complete Breakfast where unhealthy food is displayed next to healthy to make you associate the two. |
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LEGO commercials and pictures of the models (such as space stations and pirate ships) displayed in the manuals and on the box often invoked this trope. | |
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A commercial for action figures based on the Green Lantern (2011) movie featured a Coast City playset which was explicitly stated to not be available for purchase. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Parodied in the episode featuring the film Gamera vs. Barugon, where one of the host segments is a commercial for a Kaiju attack play set. In Tom Servo's Motor Mouth legal disclaimer, he admits that "Some parts do not exist," which probably includes the massive terrain piece that the toys are set on and is never explicitly mentioned as being included. | |
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Parodied in Two More Eggs when a commercial for "Gankroar" turns out to actually be a real estate commercial for the homes being used as the backdrops. | |
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Homestar Runner: A Parody Commercial for Cheat Commandos toys has Homestar, Strong Bad, and Coach Z playing with the action figures in the Field, and using The Stick with a pie tin balanced on it as an "enemy radar dish". | |
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Defied by Blue Peter back in the nineties when Thunderbirds was enjoying a bit of a renaissance. All the Thunderbirds machines were available as toys, but there was no proper Tracy Island playset for them. After receiving a staggering number of letters asking for help with this, they dedicated one of their famous craft demonstration segments to how to build your own. The official Tracy Island playset that showed up some time later couldn't really compete. | |
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