My Family At Toys R Us For Her Daughter s 8th Birthday

When I visited my Aunt in Concord not too far outside of the San Francisco, I accompanied her in buying a present at Toys R Us for her daughter s 8th birthday. When entering the store it gave a very exciting and bright atmosphere. The colors were very vibrant with shelves upon shelves of different types of toys. The colors at the front seemed to have a combination of all the different colors and seemed to keep a neutral environment. The store had many places for kids to wonder such as a video game section, different toy sections that were separated into types of toys, and the older kid sections which included bikes, scooters, tri-wheelers, and push carts which were just for the parents to use to push their toddlers around. The entire†¦show more content†¦This obviously is to intrigue the boy who shows interest in explosions and people fighting off monsters to save the Earth. For the bigger toys in these sections, I noticed that the toys meant for boys had many toys that suggested they should pretend to be different super heroes. In this section even though many heroins had similar colors to the men, there were no girl super heroes in this section despite having many batman and superman toys. When walking into the girl isles of the toy store, the type of toys completely changed. When walking in the isles I noticed that the colors obviously changed to pink and purple. The type of toys in these isles completely contrasted the toys meant for the boys. Toys meant for girls usually comprised of barbie dolls, flowers, and many color books of princesses. Most toys in this section suggested tea parties and playing house. Many of the toys also promoted little girls to wear aprons and to bake cookies and other meals for fun. One of the interesting things about this isle however were how they had more Life size toys than the boys. The life size toys were usually barbie dolls where they could dress up the toy in the girls actual clothing to see what the barbie doll would look like. Another thing that I noticed was that most of the toys were very similar to one another because the girl isles comprised of different types of dolls rather than