Toy Story Report

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External Analysis

Toy Story is a movie series that targets young children, specifically those under the age of 6. This places an emphasis on targeting parents who are in household life cycles that involve young children. These HLC’s that incorporate children are Full Nest I, Single Parent I, and Delayed Full Nest I. Since the birthday requires a bit of discretionary income, the Toy Story Birthday Party will concentrate on the HLC’s that involve couples since likely they have more combined income to support the same number of children.

Full Nest I

The Full Nest I Household Life Cycle is the HLC that involves young married couples with children under the age of 6. This HLC incorporates 6% of all households. Since the young couple is recently married they are likely are their first child. This first child changes couples purchasing behaviors in many ways. They are likely to spend the majority of their discretionary income on purchases for their young child. With the addition of a new child, total income dips approximately 9.4%. This is largely due to the fact that many couples elect for one parent to stay at home to avoid the high cost of childcare.

There is also a decrease in purchases not related to children, such as alcoholic beverages, which drops an average of 25%. Apparel purchases for the couple also lowers 8.3%. This is in complete contrast to purchases directly tied to their new family member. Apparel purchases for children increases by 215.7%, food prepared at home increases 24.3%, and finally health care purchases increase 16.1%. The person with the strongest purchase power in this life cycle is the mother. Mothers across this HLC have a combine $1.7 trillion in spending p...

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...rchase because there are virtually no concepts such as political motives that will offend parents. The brand also promotes good values such as friendship, courage, family. In addition if parents look into the characters that are involved in the story there is a character that can relate to almost any child. There are characters for kids that enjoy cowboys, dinosaurs, superheroes, aliens, and even a few characters for girls such as Jessie the cowgirl, Barbie, and Little Bo Peep.

Works Cited

Barnes, Brooks. "Lightyear Ahead: Pixar 'Toy Story 3' Is a Strong No. 1." The New York Times. The New York Times, 20 June 2010. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. .

Otnes, Cele, Michelle Nelson, and Mary McGrath. "The Children's Birthday Party: A Study of Mothers as Socialization Agents." 22 (1995): 622-27. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.

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