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04-22-2010, 10:23 PM | #11 |
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Good point Facehammer. There is just so much thrown on the shelves that it makes it hard for the kids to get into it.
Which is why I think that any of "us" created this generation of kids will have so much more to go and collect. The vintage sellers are going to have huge inventories.
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04-22-2010, 10:32 PM | #12 |
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Also to add to thie above post. This new wave every month to three months, does not let a kid (or adult) build an emotional attachment to a new figure. If a new one is always coming in to the collection the older on is set aside. So I get a new Snake Eyes, next month there is a new vrsion out. Im on to playing with him.
While in our youth we had one SE/Luke/He man ect for year(s) at a time. |
04-22-2010, 10:34 PM | #13 |
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Also to add to thie above post. This new wave every month to three months, does not let a kid (or adult) build an emotional attachment to a new figure. If a new one is always coming in to the collection the older on is set aside. So I get a new Snake Eyes, next month there is a new vrsion out. Im on to playing with him.
While in our youth we had one SE/Luke/He man ect for year(s) at a time. Well stated!
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04-22-2010, 10:35 PM | #14 |
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there is a lot of truth to your arguement; but many of the toys that will be 'classic' in 20 years are past our time.
Expect Power Rangers, Pogs, Bakugan, Magic! The Gathering Cards, and of course an increase in vintage video game sales. you should read the book The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It's genius. The outliers for the Joe fan are simple: had to be born in the range of 1974-1982. had to have tv. had to have access to a local shopping outlet of some variety, which required a car, which also required money, so your family had to be lower-middle income. had to be literate to read the file card, else the character development that led to the joe phenom would have been lost beyond cartoon character enactment. that said, the outlier of the joe fan is often that we are from a post / late gen-x generation with a tech gen mix. That means disenfranchisement. That means the sky is falling is a common theme we emerse ourselves in often. Thus, this thread. wow now this guy got his sh#t together i salute you Tanker !
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04-22-2010, 10:36 PM | #15 |
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"Kids" will always want toys. Tweens on the other hand are probably more interested in video games nowadays and with the whole motion control casual market shitstorm that's being unleashed in the video game market now, the age at which kids get into video games has gotten younger.
I think worst case scenario there will end up being a gap between children's toys and collector's toys, but even that seems incredibly unrealistic. As long as there are TV shows and movies aimed at tweens, fans of them will want to own the toys. The world is going to end in 2012 anyway, so I dunno what you're so worried about :P
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04-22-2010, 10:36 PM | #16 |
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Yeah. And if they miss a character in a wave, there's no chance to get it later on.
I missed Beachhead and Dialtone at the start when they came out. I searched all over for those guys and finally was able to get them very late in the year. That formed a huge attachment with me and those characters. That I finally got them was HUGE. That can't happen with so many waves.
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04-22-2010, 10:36 PM | #17 |
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There will still be collectors, it's just that the types of toys may change. It may not even be action figures. My grandfather played with marbles as a kid. As an adult, he had a HUGE marble collection whose value rivals that of my action figures. Actually, it blows it out of the water. As a kid, marbles were not something I ever played with. I don't know if kids today even know what marbles are, much less how to play the game. If I had to guess, video games will be one of the big things kids collect. Sealed mint video games will also be something hard to come by, as almost all purchased games are opened to be played with, just like 80's action figures were. I also can see thirty years from now, people buying every new game that comes out and keeping it unopened, hoping it will have a lot of value. We may even see varient packaging.
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Yeah. And if they miss a character in a wave, there's no chance to get it later on.
I missed Beachhead and Dialtone at the start when they came out. I searched all over for those guys and finally was able to get them very late in the year. That formed a huge attachment with me and those characters. That I finally got them was HUGE. That can't happen with so many waves. |
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If I had to guess, video games will be one of the big things kids collect. Sealed mint video games will also be something hard to come by, as almost all purchased games are opened to be played with, just like 80's action figures were. I also can see thirty years from now, people buying every new game that comes out and keeping it unopened, hoping it will have a lot of value. We may even see varient packaging.
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