Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Fan Experience
Ladies and gentlemen! Come one come all! Carnival Toys is
proud to announce the latest must-have in the Miss Peregrine’s Home for
Peculiar Children craze: Orphanage Action-Figures! Through a partnership with
author Ransom Riggs, Carnival Toys has developed authentic, peculiar action figures of each of the
children at the orphanage house, as envisioned by the author himself! We have
the fiery Emma, the brutal Bronwyn, invisible Millard and our hero himself, the
courageous Jacob! But wait, it gets even better; each action figure comes with
their own creepy collector’s photograph, depicting them in all of their
peculiar glory. A 12”x12” replica of the orphanage will also be sold
separately. Fans of the book both young and old will finally be able to
experience the world of Miss Peregrine’s
Home for Peculiar Children on their own as they explore the orphanage and
experiment with each of the action figures unique powers.
Based on Jacob’s remarkable adventure in the novel, the
action figures, photographs, and replica orphanage will be sure to satisfy all
your dire cravings. As all fans know, the main focus of the Miss Peregrine’s
Home for Peculiar Children in Jacob’s unlikely journey to Wales where he discovers
an orphanage full of extraordinary children, children with powers beyond your
wildest imagination! All of the peculiar children live in the orphanage, and
therefore the orphanage is the symbol for everything magical and fascinating in
the novel. Ransom Riggs describes it as “A bright, happy place –big and
rambling…full of light and laughter (Riggs 79). The orphanage is such a key
place and symbol in the book that Carnival Toys had no choice but to offer it
to its multitude of adoring fans! The main focus of the story though, is
obviously the peculiar children themselves. The peculiar children are “peculiar”
because they possess what can only be best described as super powers. The idea
for the action figures is that it will allow fans everywhere to see and explore
with the powers they heard about in the novel. For example, Jacob describes
Emma as “The Girl…held a flickering light, which seemed to be a ball of raw
flame, attended by nothing more than her bare skin” (Riggs 117). The Emma
action figure will feature young Emma holding a ball of fire in her hand! The
other action figures will follow this pattern; models of the characters
depicting their special abilities. Lastly, the idea for the collectable
photographs comes from the fact that antique photographs are intertwined in the
book itself! Creepy, eerie, and unsettling images lie around the turn of every
page in the novel, and Carnival Toys is here to pass that creepiness onto you!
Take this photograph for example, described in the book as “My dad was in this ridiculous
pink bunny costume…Grandma took a picture of my Dad crying in the street so she
could show my grandfather” (Riggs 85).
The Orphanage Action Figures, collectable photographs,
and replica orphanage will all be extremely successful because they contain
aspects that appeal to both genders and cover a majority of the novel’s target
age range (11-18). It’s a well-known truth that children love toys, and at the
peak of that love for toys lays a perpetual love for action-figures. Throw in
the fact that the Orphanage Action Figures have unique powers and children will
flock to the toys. Children who have no experience with the novel will be
introduced to it through to toys, broadening the story’s audience. Current fans
of the book will be delighted as well. Finally there will be a visual
representation of the story for its reader to interact with and enjoy. The
hands on experience that the Orphanage replica and the action figures will
provide will serve to deepen the fans interest in the story and keep them
engaged for as long as possible. Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is also inundated with eerie old
photographs depicting the peculiar children, and there isn’t a fan alive that
would die to get their hands on those photographs! However the greatest reason
for the success of the toys lies completely outside of the toys themselves. As
luck would have it, the Miss Peregrine sequel, Hollow City, is released on
January 2014 and a movie for the first book is being planned for fall 2014,
completely the trifecta – toys, movie, and book. Demand will skyrocket, and the
world will become a little more peculiar.
Visual Ideas of Fan Experience
I like your idea and the little extras you added to the action figures. The photos are cool because they're so central to the novel (the bunny picture above is creepy). A replica of the home makes sense, too, and gives some purpose to the action figures. Nicely explained!
ReplyDeleteI love how engaging you are throughout your entire project, especially when you are advertising the action figures. It is such a neat idea and your writing style makes the figures that much more attractive. Very cool!
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