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Another very confusing collaboration. The cafe was weird enough, I ended up checking one out whilst in Birmingham, but Toothpaste? Man...
 
WHY'D THEY GO WITH PURPLE SQUISHEE OF ALL THINGS!?!?! And not like, Classic Donut Pink / Sprinkles?!

Or Nuclear Waste Green?!?

They're gonna do a Squishee flavor but they're too afraid to put Apu on it? C'mon...I know his very existence is contentious, but if that's how they felt, they shoudln't have made a 7/11 Kwik-E-Mart reference.

I think it's a shame to have a The Simpsons product without any characters on it. Like, just a logo? What's even the point of it then?

I'm not usually so negative about Simpsons merch but this one is really grinding my gears. They spent all this money and didn't even put a single character on it, C'mon now.
 
lunacy said:
I ended up checking one out whilst in Birmingham
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YOU DID???? I'm jelly! Did you like it? :)

The cafe concept doesn't seem weird to me, since I'm used to Japanese anime themed cafes and cartoon themed eateries at Comic Cons.

But just like this toothpaste, I wish they would've went harder on the cafe's branding to please the hardcore character fans, such as by including various characters not just Homer/Marge/kids.

And here at the toothpaste - once again I am appalled at the total lack of actual Springfielders.
 
MaggotMagnet said:
YOU DID???? I'm jelly! Did you like it? :)
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It was pretty good! There wasn't much there I could have, but what I did have was nice.
Everything looked very cool however! The donuts and drinks all looked pretty cartoonish and over-the-top. I don't think I'd go back but it was a cool experience to see it :)
 
MaggotMagnet said:
WHY'D THEY GO WITH PURPLE SQUISHEE OF ALL THINGS!?!?! And not like, Classic Donut Pink / Sprinkles?!

Or Nuclear Waste Green?!?

They're gonna do a Squishee flavor but they're too afraid to put Apu on it? C'mon...I know his very existence is contentious, but if that's how they felt, they shoudln't have made a 7/11 Kwik-E-Mart reference.

I think it's a shame to have a The Simpsons product without any characters on it. Like, just a logo? What's even the point of it then?

I'm not usually so negative about Simpsons merch but this one is really grinding my gears. They spent all this money and didn't even put a single character on it, C'mon now.
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checking out their instagram, the simpson family is apparently featured on the packaging, although still not on either of the products themselves:
The box for the Simpsons electric toothbrush, showing the brush itself surrounded by smiling portraits of the family.The inside of the box, showing the toothbrush and its detached head alongside an illustration of the family stacked on top of each other.
the art on the exterior packaging is rather commonplace (that homer and bart in particular are used on the jakks pacific merchandise), but the interior artwork is markedly less common. I don't recall seeing it on anything before, but putting it through reverse image search does show that it's been used for merchandising before.

personally, the lack of characters on the actual products doesn't bother Me that much, but I get the complaint. it's aesthetically appealing (assuming you like bright-colored minimalism), but admittedly not very simpsons-like.

I definitely agree with you that the choice of toothpaste theme is odd. squishees are iconic, but not so much so that I see the color purple and think "wow! a squishee!" especially since they've come in other colors before (damn, even the famous all-syrup squishee from "boy-scoutz" was green, not purple).

yellow is the obvious pick for the main color scheme, but purple is nowhere near the second leading simpsons color. when I think about that, I'd say either pink or blue, most obviously because of the pink donut and blue sky in the opening, but also because those colors were frequently used in the early years of the show.

for instance, the family's house is predominantly pink, and a lot of the cast wears pink clothing (E.G. ned, krusty, milhouse, carl, the lovejoys, etc.). as for blue, they had a fondness for using that as characters' hair color early on, as well (E.G. marge, burns, wiggum, the van houtens).

meanwhile, there's not a lot of purple on the show. there's the family's TV and some character designs (E.G. smithers' bowtie, skinner's dress shirt), but it's nowhere near as common as the aforementioned colors are. green isn't that common either, but at least green goo is a prominent feature of springfield's ecosystem.

speaking of goo, I'm shocked no one has mentioned how repulsive this toothpaste's consistency is. why's it so slimy? every toothpaste I've used or seen anyone else use looks something like this:
A photo of toothpaste on a toothbrush. It's white, opaque, and formed as a simple dollop.
meanwhile, this toothpaste is translucent, runny, and looks much more like part of a messy PB&J than something I'd want to spread around My mouth for two minutes straight.

also, it's $72?? $59 for just the toothbrush and $13 for just the toothpaste (no sale when bundled? those tend to be cheaper). that's highway robbery, IMO; both toothbrushes and toothpaste alone cost $1-3, so that's up to 5,900% of the average price for these things. I get this looks to be a "luxury" brand, but it's dental care FFS. imagine if there was a "luxury" brand of toilet paper that charged you $300 for it, just because they gave it a "stylish" design.

for comparison, you can get a sonic-themed toothbrush for $5 AND one that has literally games on it for $25. like I said, I don't believe the concept of a yellow simpsons toothbrush is inherently bad, but it's honestly ostentatious at best and outright scummy at worst to charge this much for such a simple product, especially since both toothbrushes and toothpaste have to be replaced after just a few months.
 
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