Oh, I don't have a problem with giving lightly damaged/missing parts toys to charity. As a kid, while my family wasn't poor, we were pretty much scraping the bottom of the middle class bracket, and I generally had fewer toys than any of my friends. I would have been happy with a hand-me-down that was missing a piece or two, or had some scratches. For instance, the tailless Megatron would have been cool.
Yeah, the Ultra Jetstorm was totally thrashed, but there's two things to consider. One, most parents have no idea how a lot of these toys work, and it's not immediately obvious when they're missing parts. Two, I expect a lot of donations consisted of parents telling their kids to put all the toys they don't want anymore into a box, and then hauling the box to the donation location without sorting through it. Or even just using the old threat, "if you don't pick up your room, any toys I find on the floor are going to charity!"
In any case, I doubt anyone donating broken or parts-missing toys thought they were doing a "grand favor". More likely it was, "Well, it's not TOO bad, and it'd be a shame to throw it away if some kid might get some joy out of it."
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Date: 2005-11-17 08:16 am (UTC)Yeah, the Ultra Jetstorm was totally thrashed, but there's two things to consider. One, most parents have no idea how a lot of these toys work, and it's not immediately obvious when they're missing parts. Two, I expect a lot of donations consisted of parents telling their kids to put all the toys they don't want anymore into a box, and then hauling the box to the donation location without sorting through it. Or even just using the old threat, "if you don't pick up your room, any toys I find on the floor are going to charity!"
In any case, I doubt anyone donating broken or parts-missing toys thought they were doing a "grand favor". More likely it was, "Well, it's not TOO bad, and it'd be a shame to throw it away if some kid might get some joy out of it."