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This trope applies to any ToyCommercial featuring children (often, but not always, boys), using an elaborate play setup unrelated to, and often more interesting than, the toys themselves.
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This trope applies to any ToyCommercial toy commercial featuring children (often, but not always, boys), using an elaborate play setup unrelated to, and often more interesting than, the toys themselves.
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* When toy cars could be received from Kelloggs Cornflakes, an advert showed two children playing with the cars on a very elaborate model town.
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* Parodied in ''WebAnimation/TwoMoreEggs'' when a commercial for "Gankroar" turns out to actually be a real estate commercial for the homes being used as the backdrops.
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Specifying the generation. I had this toy as a kid and can confirm it's part of G3 (well, G3.5)
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Parodied in the episode featuring the film ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E04GameraVsBarugon Gamera vs. Barugon]]'', where one of the host segments is a commercial for a {{Kaiju}} attack play set. In Tom Servo's MotorMouth legal disclaimer, he admits that "Some parts do not exist," which probably includes the massive terrain piece that the toys are set on and is never explicitly mentioned as being included.
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* A commercial for action figures based on the ''Film/GreenLantern'' movie featured a Coast City playset which was explicitly stated to not be available for purchase.
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* A commercial for action figures based on the ''Film/GreenLantern'' ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' movie featured a Coast City playset which was explicitly stated to not be available for purchase.
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* [[{{Lego}} LEGO]] commercials and pictures of the models (such as space stations and pirate ships) displayed in the manuals and on the box often invoked this trope.
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* [[{{Lego}} [[Franchise/{{Lego}} LEGO]] commercials and pictures of the models (such as space stations and pirate ships) displayed in the manuals and on the box often invoked this trope.
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* The terrain and backdrops used by many miniature wargames to provide examples of play are often magnitudes better than what the average wargamer can put together.
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* The terrain and backdrops used by many miniature wargames to provide examples of play are often magnitudes better than what the average wargamer can put together. And then there's how well they're painted...
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* Defied by ''Series/BluePeter'' back in the nineties when ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' was enjoying a bit of a renaissance. All the Thunderbirds machines were available as toys, but there was no proper [[IslandBase Tracy Island]] playset for them. After receiving a ''staggering'' number of letters asking for help with this, they dedicated one of their famous craft demonstration segments to how to build your own. The official Tracy Island playset that showed up some time later couldn't really compete.
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* The terrain and backdrops used by many miniature wargames to provide examples of play are often magnitudes better than what the average wargamer can put together.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': A ParodyCommercial for WebAnimation/CheatCommandos toys has Homestar, Strong Bad, and Coach Z playing with the action figures in the Field, and using The Stick with a pie tin balanced on it as an "enemy radar dish".
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* Commercials for [[NerfBrand Nerf]] guns and [[WaterGunsAndBalloons Super Soakers]] often cross into this territory. Large groups of children or teens are often depicted playing on courses that seem more suited to paint ball or even military training than for guns that shoot foam darts or water.
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* Commercials for [[NerfBrand Nerf]] {{Toys/Nerf|Brand}} guns and [[WaterGunsAndBalloons Super Soakers]] often cross into this territory. Large groups of children or teens are often depicted playing on courses that seem more suited to paint ball or even military training than for guns that shoot foam darts or water.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwF-lWvgzM This commercial]] for WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries toys features an epic playset that's certainly not sold in stores.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwF-lWvgzM This commercial]] for WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' toys features an epic playset that's certainly not sold in stores.
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For action figures, the children have set up an elaborate play environment made of rocks and sticks that must have taken ''hours'' more to assemble than the 30 seconds seen that it took to play in. For toy cars, the children have a kitchen that has over wide stretches of spotless[[note]]After all, if Mom had just mopped it, the kids probably wouldn't be playing on it.[[/note]], uninterrupted linoleum or going through a dirt track a little too obviously built by an adult.
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For action figures, the children have set up an elaborate play environment made of rocks and sticks that must have taken ''hours'' more to assemble than the 30 seconds seen that it took to play in. For toy cars, the children have a kitchen that has over wide stretches of spotless[[note]]After spotless,[[note]]After all, if Mom had just mopped it, the kids probably wouldn't be playing on it.[[/note]], [[/note]] uninterrupted linoleum or going through a dirt track a little too obviously built by an adult.
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This is not to say that [[TruthInTelevision there aren't kids out there who don't make their own playsets]], but the trope is to make the toys seem even more exciting to the potential buyer. Toy manufacturers sometimes put a disclaimer to the effect of "background set not available" at the bottom of their commercials if they're playing this trope straight.
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This is not to say that [[TruthInTelevision there aren't kids out there who don't make their own playsets]], but the trope is to make the toys seem even more exciting to the potential buyer. Toy manufacturers sometimes put a disclaimer to the effect of "background set not available" at the bottom of their commercials if they're playing this trope straight.
