I never realize how butt ugly american toys are
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There's probably a rose-tinted glasses effect, but I'm remembering having some pretty cool toys back when I was a kid. There were some ugly ones. I generally found that human faces were fucked up, but I had some nice-looking Ninja Turtles, Aliens, Predator, and others.
It's definitely not just rose-tinted glasses. There was a distinct point when toy quality took a rather sudden and sharp turn back in the early 2000's. The timing coincides with the drop in quality in kids programming/cartoons and the gaming industry becoming gigantic almost overnight.
I wonder if investors just jumped ship in droves, all at once?
American toy companies could never make a half-decent toy of a human character to save their lives. Even if the characters were cartoony or stylized, they'd still fuck em up.
Maybe I'm dating myself a bit but the starcom toys were leagues apart from anything you could get today at a toy store. High build quality, well engineered, durable metal parts and powerful magnets and motors, and cool as fuck.
I think toys got ugly because people went nuts for those goddamn Cabbage Patch Kids ....