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12-23-2022, 02:36 PM | #11 |
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Maybe after all these years of still trying to go after the next generation of Kids - companies have realized that the Adults are a better market. Kids are not playing with this stuff. Stop trying to win them over. Make this stuff for US - and make different stuff for the Kids. Make what they want... not what we want to force them to like.
I'd be happy to be able to order the figures in a plain brown cardboard box. No elaborate packaging necessary. To me they're just toys. I have no intention of ever selling or making money off of any toy that I buy. |
12-23-2022, 02:45 PM | #12 |
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When I read Toys for Adults division, I imagined a multi-colored series of Classified Dongs and Blowup Dolls. What else could it be?
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12-23-2022, 02:56 PM | #13 |
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It IS new to see companies acknowledge so openly how much adult buyers buying for themselves (rather than for kids) are actually contributing to the market these days. I still remember comments from Hasbro staff in the 90s comparing collectors to ?a zit on an elephant?s ass?.
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12-23-2022, 02:59 PM | #14 |
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And it is a relatively new thing for the major toy companies to admit it's a prime market and to target it in an organized way.
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12-23-2022, 03:04 PM | #15 |
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It IS new to see companies acknowledge so openly how much adult buyers buying for themselves (rather than for kids) are actually contributing to the market these days. I still remember comments from Hasbro staff in the 90s comparing collectors to ?a zit on an elephant?s ass?.
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Actually, there are still a ton of people who don't know about adults who buy toys for themselves. Most just don't give enough of a shit about it one way or the other to think about it or notice it.
And it is a relatively new thing for the major toy companies to admit it's a prime market and to target it in an organized way. The major toy-makers must be worried, though. Us 40-somethings are the last of the played-with-a-lot-of-toys-as-a-kid generation. |
12-23-2022, 03:08 PM | #16 |
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Oh, there's still hope. The story talks about 20-somethings buying toys and specifically mentions it's Hasbro's strategy to keep adults buying toys who'll then pass that interest in toys onto their own children, who'll pass it onto their children, and so forth.
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12-23-2022, 03:13 PM | #17 |
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The subject-at-hand describes adults collecting poseable statues. |
12-23-2022, 03:26 PM | #18 |
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They talk about Lego and Light Brite too. Apparently it's mostly nostalgia fueling the current phenomena of adults buying toys, specifically stuff related to toys they had as children, and the story notes that the hope is if children grow up with adults into toys, that'll spark their own interest in toys, which will then eventually turn into their own nostalgia.
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12-23-2022, 03:34 PM | #19 |
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They talk about Lego and Light Brite too. Apparently it's mostly nostalgia fueling the current phenomena of adults buying toys, specifically stuff related toys they had as children, and the story notes that the hope is if children grow up with adults into toys, that'll spark their own interest in toys, which will then eventually turn into their own nostalgia.
It's a nuanced subject. For instance, some people collect Acid Rain, Marauder, and Joy Toy figures, which they have no nostalgic connection to. It's purely out of appreciation for the artistry and engineering that are present in said items. Does that make such people kidults/man-children? |
12-23-2022, 03:57 PM | #20 |
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It's a nuanced subject. For instance, some people collect Acid Rain, Marauder, and Joy Toy figures, which they have no nostalgic connection to. It's purely out of appreciation for the artistry and engineering that are present in said items. Does that make such people kidults/man-children?
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