>>9957849>Frankie is white because Mattel said girls don't like green and then during a focus group the kids asked why she wasn't green kekPretty much any toy focus group story I've heard is funny. Back in the mid-80s, She-Ra went through cycles of figuring out how animals would fit into the play pattern. Doll designer Justine Dantzer initially proposed a winged stag for She-Ra, which got focus grouped into "girls prefer ponies". So Mattel sent a white horse named Swift Wind to the cartoon people, who decided he was a boy. Then another focus group round with little girls produced the feedback that Swift Wind should be a pink girl and Bow's horse needed to be blue and have wings to be interesting.
