Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame also pushes children to face their fears of physical abnormality and reinforces the cultural taboo of hermeticism. Quasimodo is a harmless person, but his physical deformity might make him frightening to children. Other representations of Quasimodo present him more monstrously, and so once again Disney has reduced the physical fearfulness of monsters in its movies. As children age their fear of frightening appearances decreases and so their ability to face more grotesque images increases. They begin to play with gruesome toys and watch frightening television shows and movies as they experience the 'fun' of horror.
Toys allow children to play with their fears, especially that of physical deformity.
Aurora then proceeded to market monster models for children to build and began a history of monster toys. Since the '60s several series of monster action figures have depicted classic monsters such as Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, and the Mummy. These toys allow children to play with ideas of physical abnormality and supernatural monsters rather than fear them. Another example is the Topps' Garbage Pail Kids trading cards of the 1980s. They parodied Mattel's Cabbage Patch Kids dolls by mutilating and transforming their images grotesquely.