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Paw Patrol
Apr. 25th, 2020 10:01 pm It's quite disconcerting watching a six year old's first steps into fandom. In her case, 'Paw Patrol'. (think Thunderbirds, in a small Canadian town, with all the vehicles and gadgets operated by talking puppies)(a very abridged epiosde is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xJHGAwEIQ )
She absolutely loves the show. The rescues are gentle, never scary, and tend to involve things like needing to repair a barn in time for a wedding, or helping a baby dolphin find its family. It's funny, has lots of set sequences, and, hey, puppies!
She's made her own tiny puppies, and a drawing of the Lookout Tower with little pouches to put each individual in. She plays Paw Patrol games in which the puppies have to rescue owls from falling trees, and find food for Errol (Her knitted dragon that AuntyGillian made), and has great fun.
Grandad and I have to keep making up new tasks for the puppies to do, but they're always very helpful!
While Mummy was out on her postie rounds a few days ago, she found a Paw Patrol tin outside a house, with a sign saying 'Help yourself". So she did, and dropped it off at our place - got to wave to Oswin through the window and chat from 3 metres for a couple of minutes.
We asked Oswin beforehand how she'd feel about being able to see Mummy and talk to her, but not being allowed to go outside and touch her. She thought about it and decided it would make her more happy than sad, and she was right. She coped fine, and pulled funny faces at Mummy, and they had a good laugh and then she waved Mummy Goodbye and there were no tears.
It helps that they have video contact every evening for half an hour or so, and play Minecraft together while they are chatting.
Mummy is very busy and working a lot of overtime. Social distancing for postal workers means you can only have one person per van, and the system is set up to work with two posties per van. Add in workers off sick, and a massive volume of extra parcels, and Mummy is much in demand.
She's go the kind of brain that learns new routes very quickly, so they tend to use her as a floating worker between postal depots to replace anyone who's sick or on holiday. New route virtually every day. She enjoys the variety, so it isn't a problem.
The tin turned out to contain an unused set of 3D cardboard puppies, which have been played with every day since. (I rather miss her little hand drawn ones, but still has them - and the carboard ones are bigger and don't get lost as easily...)
She's cheerfully resistant to commercial merchandise, without even being aware that she is. Her Lookout Tower was drawn by copying a picture of a rather expensive children's toy, but it never occurred to her to ask us to buy her the actual toy. This is a good thing. Paw Patrol was designed from the start to have masses of merchandise. Each puppy has a distinctive hat, a unique vehicle, an individual badge, and a backpack with gadgets in it, not forgetting the actual puppy!
The show has made around 7 billion in retail sales!
She absolutely loves the show. The rescues are gentle, never scary, and tend to involve things like needing to repair a barn in time for a wedding, or helping a baby dolphin find its family. It's funny, has lots of set sequences, and, hey, puppies!
She's made her own tiny puppies, and a drawing of the Lookout Tower with little pouches to put each individual in. She plays Paw Patrol games in which the puppies have to rescue owls from falling trees, and find food for Errol (Her knitted dragon that AuntyGillian made), and has great fun.
Grandad and I have to keep making up new tasks for the puppies to do, but they're always very helpful!
While Mummy was out on her postie rounds a few days ago, she found a Paw Patrol tin outside a house, with a sign saying 'Help yourself". So she did, and dropped it off at our place - got to wave to Oswin through the window and chat from 3 metres for a couple of minutes.
We asked Oswin beforehand how she'd feel about being able to see Mummy and talk to her, but not being allowed to go outside and touch her. She thought about it and decided it would make her more happy than sad, and she was right. She coped fine, and pulled funny faces at Mummy, and they had a good laugh and then she waved Mummy Goodbye and there were no tears.
It helps that they have video contact every evening for half an hour or so, and play Minecraft together while they are chatting.
Mummy is very busy and working a lot of overtime. Social distancing for postal workers means you can only have one person per van, and the system is set up to work with two posties per van. Add in workers off sick, and a massive volume of extra parcels, and Mummy is much in demand.
She's go the kind of brain that learns new routes very quickly, so they tend to use her as a floating worker between postal depots to replace anyone who's sick or on holiday. New route virtually every day. She enjoys the variety, so it isn't a problem.
The tin turned out to contain an unused set of 3D cardboard puppies, which have been played with every day since. (I rather miss her little hand drawn ones, but still has them - and the carboard ones are bigger and don't get lost as easily...)
She's cheerfully resistant to commercial merchandise, without even being aware that she is. Her Lookout Tower was drawn by copying a picture of a rather expensive children's toy, but it never occurred to her to ask us to buy her the actual toy. This is a good thing. Paw Patrol was designed from the start to have masses of merchandise. Each puppy has a distinctive hat, a unique vehicle, an individual badge, and a backpack with gadgets in it, not forgetting the actual puppy!
The show has made around 7 billion in retail sales!
