Comments on: Consuming West Ed http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/30/consuming-west-ed/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/30/consuming-west-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Anonymous Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:13:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=357#comment-214 You do realise that Kidtropolis has huge overhead costs. The place is 50,000 square feet of the most expensive retail space in Edmonton, ie West Edmonton Mall. The staffing costs are enormous and the only way to keep the price point down is to have corporate sponsors foot the bill. <br/><br/>Think about the internet. It's supposedly this great tool for the freedom of ideas but the only free sites with anything of value are ad supported. Same thing with Kidtropolis. It's not like the kids are actually being sold products by our corporate sponsors. <br/><br/>If you want to bitchabout indoctrinating young consumers go look at the American education system where kids are forced to read Pepsi branded text books.<br/>-Anonymous Kidtropolis employee You do realise that Kidtropolis has huge overhead costs. The place is 50,000 square feet of the most expensive retail space in Edmonton, ie West Edmonton Mall. The staffing costs are enormous and the only way to keep the price point down is to have corporate sponsors foot the bill.

Think about the internet. It’s supposedly this great tool for the freedom of ideas but the only free sites with anything of value are ad supported. Same thing with Kidtropolis. It’s not like the kids are actually being sold products by our corporate sponsors.

If you want to bitchabout indoctrinating young consumers go look at the American education system where kids are forced to read Pepsi branded text books.
-Anonymous Kidtropolis employee

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/30/consuming-west-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Anonymous Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:31:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=357#comment-75 Interesting to see that kidtropolis.ca now points to dead space, as do the other links in this blow, and I could not find it in an internet archive website I usually use. Interesting to see that kidtropolis.ca now points to dead space, as do the other links in this blow, and I could not find it in an internet archive website I usually use.

]]> By: Anne http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/30/consuming-west-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Anne Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:59:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=357#comment-30 For some reason , this quote reminds me of <a HREF="http://www.smm.org/explore/ootm/" REL="nofollow">Chancay dolls</a>... For some reason , this quote reminds me of Chancay dolls…

]]> By: Joost van Loon http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/30/consuming-west-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Joost van Loon Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=357#comment-27 Roland Barthes once wrote "All the toys one commonly sees are essentially a microcosm of the adult world; they are all reduced copies of human objects as if in the eyes of the public the child was , all told, nothing but a smaller man [sic], a homunculus to whom must be supplied objects of his own size' (Mythologies, p. 53). Roland Barthes once wrote “All the toys one commonly sees are essentially a microcosm of the adult world; they are all reduced copies of human objects as if in the eyes of the public the child was , all told, nothing but a smaller man [sic], a homunculus to whom must be supplied objects of his own size’ (Mythologies, p. 53).

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