[Tarquinius]

Toyark has changed........a bit. But definitely not for the worst.

First and foremost,this thread is a prime example of the biggest change. Toyark is severely dominated by Marvel collectors. Not bad, and we definitely participate in other toy threads too on the site.

But also the Marvel section has become the new General Thread section. This Thread SHOULD be in General Discussion. Instead people are putting their threads in the wrong places for whatever reason (so it shows up in the sidebar, or its because they declare themselves a Marvel/DC whatever collector and it goes in there anyway).

And like everyone has said, a lot of speculation forums. But its mostly new people and that can be boiled down to laziness of not looking through the forum.

Solution? We need a sticky for the speculation forum and maybe a sidebar for the General Discussion forum because people don't want to risk having their thread being lost and not read. Furthermore, the sidebar promotes only surface level reading. There are LOTS of great threads in this forum but no one may get to them because they just stick with whats on the right. Assumptions I know.

LASTLY Toyark is a community of forums. We have Toyark, Hisstank, Thundercats and TFW2005. If one website encompassed all of these members, threads and ideas into a single website it would be too great for anyone NEW to get into. We break it up so that people can select and choose what site they want to dedicate their time to. Toyark is supposedly the well rounded one.

In conclusion, the Toyark forum family is a community like I said above. The forums are USED for insight about our hobby but is PROPELLED by us. Not everyday can be a heavy news day. I don't know about much of you guys out there, but I don't know anyone in real life who collects toys. So even on slow news days, the fact that there is an outlet for a hobby of mine with people who share this passion is a big deal.

And that IS the point of ToyArk.