Why were old toys so objectively better than new toys?

>>11433925 (OP)
>dead scale
>5poa
>studs on top

>>11433925 (OP)
Holy Boomer

Bubble economy

>>11433925 (OP)
Less safety constraints.

>>11433925 (OP)
They're not.

>>11433925 (OP)
>ugly
>ugly no articulation partsforming
>just a nerf gun they still sell those
>structurally terrible + they still sell Lego star destroyers except they’re better now
>adjusted for inflation the value for all of these is pretty rough
Womp womp

>>11433925 (OP)
As a huge fan of G.I. Joe, Transformers, Nerf and Lego, I can very much assure you that new toys are *far* and away better toys then what came out way back when. A modern Transformer is far more fun to mess with then a G1 brick, a current G.I. Joe is way cooler then the original O-ring toys, newer Nerf blasters.....well current Nerf kinda sucks, but there was a time when they put out amazing stuff about 5 years ago. Most other foam flinger brands are way better now, stronger, faster and just cooler to play with.

And Lego is Lego, if you ain't MOCin you're doing it wrong.

I grew up with all the stuff in your pic, I much prefer what we have now.

>>11433925 (OP)
Because you played with them when you were a kid, when everything seemed better.

>>11433925 (OP)
nostalgia goggles

>>11442036
>partsforming
Ironic since Megatron is one of the few early G1 toys who DOESN'T partsform. Only his accessories do.

Come to think of it, none of the microman based ones do.

>>11433925 (OP)
They actually had SOVL.

>>11443044
Back to /v/.

>>11433925 (OP)
Even nostalgia can't make you THIS retarded, holy shit. There is no way you played with toys in the 80s and 90s if you seriously think this. Modern toys are almost better in every single aspect except for maybe the materials not being the best (e.g. plastic being used where metal was used in the past). Articulation was basically non-existent back then

>>11433925 (OP)
i don't get why anybody wants that big lego pyramid

>>11433925 (OP)
Because Asians made them now Americans want to be super involved yet end up making ugly woke slop no one wants.

>>11433925 (OP)
Focus on design

New toys have better engineering, but 90's-2000's toys really benefited from budget allowing for beautiful, detailed paint apps and different materials, as well as a lot of features being added.
Modern toys are better..if you're willing to pay. Even after inflation, you're hard pressed to find retail toys that can match what you would've gotten for the same money after inflation is factored under $25.

>>11433925 (OP)
>so objectively better than new toys
I'm a transformers fan an NO
all i remember from 90s transformers is shit disappointing features and transformation.
And how fucking fragile they were and how i wanted knee articulation so badly (to make toys run/kick/sit on a corner of a table).

Newer transformers toys is everything i ever wanted from them.
Also i wish we got recent Beast Wars in the 90s instead of what we got.

also those combining buildable transformers (weaponizers/fossilizers/junkion bros) are the best of the best
God i wish i had toys like these as a kid. I would be playing with them in non stop.

Sometimes im working and thinking about Amazon order that will get me another junkion Scraphook and i can't wait to get home to start playing with them and building all kinds of shit with them

>>11442036
>better now
The current lego SD playset is literally just a worse, smaller version of the one in OP.

>>11433925 (OP)
Because new toys destroy the sculptures to put grotesque double joint articulations on everything, when you finish to pose that shit doesn't even look human, just flaps of plastic Meat overlapping.

>>11433925 (OP)
The simple explanation is kind of dark. Millennials were the last large generation of kids and the current population of Western countries is being being kept afloat not by child birth but by adult fighting age men for third world countries coming in to replace the elderly as they die.

The economy surrounding the large number of children in the 80s and 90s and even the early 2000s was massive. Everything back then was basically required to have some means of reaching out to children because children were often the deciding factor of how their parents' money would be spent. The play places, toys, and arcade machines largely disappeared because kids were disappearing. I grew up in a family with me and my 3 brothers. The oldest has 3 kids and the other two only have two each and it's unlikely they will have more. I myself have none.

There are numerous complex reasons for why larger families are so much harder to start today that are far too difficult to pin down in one post (especially not on /toy/, go to /pol/ if you want some spicy theories about it) but suffice to say, businesses pivoted away from kids and towards serving working age adults about 10 years ago. We live in a largely childless civilization bereft of the joy of the nuclear family, and the window to fix it is closing fast.

>>11454198
The window has closed and the vultures are circling the 90s kids who are now middle aged and have extra money. Some of them congregate here, others chase different but similarly frivolous pursuits.
The nuclear explosion isn't something you can undo, and the wasteland will be here to stay.