Can't agree
Disney, sure - especially the later spinoffs (we went to see 'Piglet's big movie' when my daughter was about 3, and it was truly hideous), but the original book was far from twee. It's a very subtle book with great characters and stories - and for its era, it feels very genuinely childlike in its view of the world.

The very last chapter, where Christopher Robin goes off to school and says goodbye to them all, is about as heartbreaking as books for small kids get. The toys can't understand why he's doing all this education stuff and leaving them behind. Think Toy Story 2 - you all know the bit I mean (sob).
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 12:23, 1 reply)

"genuinely childlike"
is my point - small children are the target audience, not functioning adults.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 13:04, closed)

I still play with Lego.
It often brings about a heady nostalgia and reminds me of a time when I was innocent and carefree.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 13:12, closed)

this reminds me of that old, dragged out bible phrase that gets on my wick:
"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways"

fuck that, now I got older I can buy all the toys I want (I'm running out of space...)
( Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:16, closed)