Playmob - edit2

[dukealien]

edit2;

Looking at some plastic people
made for children, slick and bright;
there is but one format for them
in two sizes, kid and adult
bending only at the waist.

Individuals bear clothing
printed on their molded selves–
click-hard beards and hairdos make
each one a character apart–
shiny model work of art.

Heads and hands come in two colors,
pink and brown with black/white eyes:
both smile, attitudes unaltered
by their faces’ shade assignment
at sententious factories.

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Many thanks to @Micah3801 for the excellent critique.  I've mended the weak spot about the eyes

where another option was "contrast," also trying to get across that there are black eyes for pink faces and white eyes for brown faces.  The change required losing the somewhat juvenile "dotted eyes" pun - no loss there.

Your other critiques are so good I'll indulge in explanation (under the shield of the spoiler) of why I didn't comply.

I couldn't use "child" instead of "kid" because I had "children" just above.  Besides, it foreshadows the factory-huckestering "Hey, kids!" which will show up below in a different form.  If I change "children" to something else ("babies" or "toddlers") to allow "child" I get the plural "s" tangling with the next word "slick," which I want to keep.  As an aside, only "children" lacks this because of its Anglo-Saxon roots versus Latinate -s plurals.  It would be wasted lower down (g).

"[F]ormats" is another puzzle.  I could say "one form among them" or "one blueprint for them" but neither seems to work quite as well.  "Formats for them" has the right clunkiness for Playmob(il - TM) people, at least to me.