Gearing up for toy shopping? Amazon’s got a few Rapidsea-ready top sellers

If you have to buy for kids this year and you’re not excited about waking up at 4:00 AM to go wait in line for toys at Target, you may want to consider just going to Amazon’s Holiday Toy List here.  Here’s a selection of Rapidsea-ready toys and games that have either been discussed here [...]

Make-A-Wish ~ Someday I’ll bring my kids here

I had the privilege of going with my nieces and nephew on their first trip to the ocean, and the experience left little doubt as to why our love of the oceans pervades so many areas of our lives.  It’s often the first memory many of us have of really feeling so overwhelmed by existence, [...]

Hasbro Squawkers McCaw Robot Parrot ~ The most annoying toy of 2007

The Hasbro FurReal Friend Squawkers McCaw robotic parrot, an advanced tropical Furby, needs no further explanation:

The only endearing part of the bird is that it responds, "I love you too."
You can see the commercial here at Amazon.com (where it’s selling for $49.99 and is listed in the Top 20 Toys and Games at the time [...]

Amazon Baby where escape and paradise are #1 ~ and #2, and #3, and #7, and …

For those of you who very skeptically follow the blog here, you might ask yourself how influential the images are that we open up here for discussion.  Sometimes it even surprises me.  Like last night when NBC aired a commercial for the Fisher Price Ocean Wonders Musical Aquarium Crib Attachment.

At first, I thought it was [...]

How the rich are supposed to act vs. how they actually do act ~ a lesson from Reddit links

You will often see large numbers of get rich expeditiously programs, such as multi-level marketing companies, touting their plans in tropical locations.  Many of them will show flashy pictures of exotic places and activities to entice new recruits.  Yet, you don’t often hear about business people who are super rich and how they spend their [...]

Luxury Air Jets ~ Travel to paradise with your stuffy, little grandson

Along the same lines of telling rich people how to live as was mentioned in the Bang & Olufsen post, Luxury Air Jets has put out this ad.  I wonder whose kid that is and if he really wears his sweater like that.  Or is this just a representation of what rich people supposedly look [...]

Australian beer "Brewtopia" ~ breaking up the beautiful people’s party

Reality busts through to Brewtopia in this Pure Blonde beer ad from Australia, brought to our attention by way of Duncan’s TV Ad Land:

This beer is apparently a full-alcohol beer with fewer carbs from Fosters.  The commercial is pretty entertaining.  There’s nothing like shaking up the ideal.  But it goes back to exactly the point [...]

Remington man shavers ~ a decades-long quest for hairless dudes to fill our beaches

In the post on the Dove "Onslaught" commercial, I brought up that guys as well as girls are being manipulated more and more with images of perfect people in perfect places.  The post reminded me of some Remington personal shaver ads.  Specifically, I remembered the webpage shedmycoat.com where you can use one of two Remington [...]

Authentic person ~ Dove’s commercial "Onslaught"

Dove has a new commercial out, this one for their Canadian market but relevant to all, with a little girl who is sitting quietly smiling, and then a barrage of images of beautiful women start flashing across the screen.  Sometimes in writing here at Rapidsea, I don’t delve enough into how these images of beaches [...]

MyScene dolls ~ a Happy Meal on a happy beach

I went into McDonald’s today hoping to get one of their scuba cups that I noticed someone carrying on the plane.  They have since switched to the Monopoly cups, but what I did see was the new MyScene dolls playing in as Happy Meal toys.  They’re the RollerGirls as seen on TV.  The theme?  Roller [...]

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