Post by tetsuryu on Aug 8, 2013 23:03:14 GMT -5
These exist.
I'm not talking about "easy targets" for bashing like amazon reviews, especially for toys that are primarily aimed at children, and the reviews will for the most part be written by parents who bought the toy for their child, thus providing no collector point of view. Written reviews in general have the benefit of either actually forcing the author to talk about the toy in detail, which actually is useful in a written format, provided they do not fall victim to wandering subject (like talking about articulation, then some random accessory and suddenly articulation again, etc.) - or letting pictures speak for themselves, only speaking up when there's something worth pointing out - but it's easy to write an incoherent review.
Video reviews in the other hand are extremely prone to this. It is no longer just a matter of what you say, but how you say it. Some particularily awful video reviews I've seen have been incredibly long-winded, like taking a whole hour to talk about a figure that shouldn't take a whole hour to talk about, or badly edited, in the worst case scenario meaning that the video has not been edited at all and you have to sit through the reviewer opening the package, not reading the instructions (or worse, taking a break to read the instructions - in real time) and fumbling transformation, etc.
One particularily obnoxious review I came across was half hours long, only about ten to fifteen minutes in the middle were actually about the toy (with an obnoxious music playing on the background almost as loud as the reviewer's own voice), while the rest was just shameless self-promotion about things completely unrelated to the toy itself.
One personal gripe of mine is when the reviewer tells about the toy's source material...and spends several minutes to pretty much tell the entire story of said toy in the source material. I mean, if you're just buying the toy for the looks alone, you're probably not going to care about that (not to mention there are other ways to find out if you do), and those who want the toy because of the source material should already know all this, so it's just a waste of time.
Anyone want to talk about some particularily bad toy reviews you've seen? I know I've probably written a couple, that new toy excitement can make you blind to everything but the most glaring flaws.
I'm not talking about "easy targets" for bashing like amazon reviews, especially for toys that are primarily aimed at children, and the reviews will for the most part be written by parents who bought the toy for their child, thus providing no collector point of view. Written reviews in general have the benefit of either actually forcing the author to talk about the toy in detail, which actually is useful in a written format, provided they do not fall victim to wandering subject (like talking about articulation, then some random accessory and suddenly articulation again, etc.) - or letting pictures speak for themselves, only speaking up when there's something worth pointing out - but it's easy to write an incoherent review.
Video reviews in the other hand are extremely prone to this. It is no longer just a matter of what you say, but how you say it. Some particularily awful video reviews I've seen have been incredibly long-winded, like taking a whole hour to talk about a figure that shouldn't take a whole hour to talk about, or badly edited, in the worst case scenario meaning that the video has not been edited at all and you have to sit through the reviewer opening the package, not reading the instructions (or worse, taking a break to read the instructions - in real time) and fumbling transformation, etc.
One particularily obnoxious review I came across was half hours long, only about ten to fifteen minutes in the middle were actually about the toy (with an obnoxious music playing on the background almost as loud as the reviewer's own voice), while the rest was just shameless self-promotion about things completely unrelated to the toy itself.
One personal gripe of mine is when the reviewer tells about the toy's source material...and spends several minutes to pretty much tell the entire story of said toy in the source material. I mean, if you're just buying the toy for the looks alone, you're probably not going to care about that (not to mention there are other ways to find out if you do), and those who want the toy because of the source material should already know all this, so it's just a waste of time.
Anyone want to talk about some particularily bad toy reviews you've seen? I know I've probably written a couple, that new toy excitement can make you blind to everything but the most glaring flaws.
