by EhnVee » Wed Aug 30, 2023 4:00 am
There was an old cartoon called, "Dragon Tales", which ran from 1999-2005. In one episode, Max (younger brother) tries to retrieve a softball, but is too small to reach it. So he wishes he was bigger. And conveniently, a coin falls out of his pocket and lands into a pond, granting him his wish.
Max grows just enough to grab the ball, but keeps getting bigger without realizing it. This results in:
1) his glove not fitting anymore
2) him reaching for a pile of wooden bats, but accidentally crushing them
3) him becoming so huge that his treehouse becomes like a dollhouse to him with all of his friends, and older sister in it
That was the show that started it for me. But there were other notable mentions...
"Totally Spies" had an episode where one of the teenage agents shrinks, and has to be carried everywhere. At one point she borrows doll clothes, and is embarrassed by her crush seeing her like that.
"Spongebob Squarepants" had a shrinking episode where Spongebob acquires Mermaid Man's utility belt, and accidentally shrinks Squidward. He doesn't know how to reverse it, and tries to hide the mistake by shrinking any witnesses.
It's played for laughs, so Spongebob carries Squidward around in his pocket, Patrick swings Squidward around like an airplane... etc.
As for written material, there's an R.L. Stine book titled, "Monster Blood III", which has a boy grow large enough to pick up his bully, then put him in a tree.
This is everything that cultivated the idea of size-play, and its taboo nature.
There was an old cartoon called, "Dragon Tales", which ran from 1999-2005. In one episode, Max (younger brother) tries to retrieve a softball, but is too small to reach it. So he wishes he was bigger. And conveniently, a coin falls out of his pocket and lands into a pond, granting him his wish.
Max grows just enough to grab the ball, but keeps getting bigger without realizing it. This results in:
1) his glove not fitting anymore
2) him reaching for a pile of wooden bats, but accidentally crushing them
3) him becoming so huge that his treehouse becomes like a dollhouse to him with all of his friends, and older sister in it
That was the show that started it for me. But there were other notable mentions...
"Totally Spies" had an episode where one of the teenage agents shrinks, and has to be carried everywhere. At one point she borrows doll clothes, and is embarrassed by her crush seeing her like that.
"Spongebob Squarepants" had a shrinking episode where Spongebob acquires Mermaid Man's utility belt, and accidentally shrinks Squidward. He doesn't know how to reverse it, and tries to hide the mistake by shrinking any witnesses.
It's played for laughs, so Spongebob carries Squidward around in his pocket, Patrick swings Squidward around like an airplane... etc.
As for written material, there's an R.L. Stine book titled, "Monster Blood III", which has a boy grow large enough to pick up his bully, then put him in a tree.
This is everything that cultivated the idea of size-play, and its taboo nature.