sadmanbarty
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As far as toys go that's a choice we make as audience isn't it. It's possible to watch 2000ad or star wars and distance yourself by saying "lol those aren't real spaceships they're just airfix models" and it's true, they are. Or you can permit the fiction.
the toy thing's not wholly about the future signifiers not connecting (though that may well play a part), but more about the small scaleness of it, the fiddliness. the geometry of it. it's ergonomy. its textures. music like an xbox controller where you can loop round the joy sticks and press the buttons and pull the triggers and all that. music you interact with with your fingers. those plibby synths are like tapping for example; there's a direct physiological way of relating to that sound in the body.