[Jmacq1]

To hear the doomsayers speak, modern toys will be nostalgic because they'll be examples of a product/artform/what have you that no longer exists.

But more seriously, I don't really know, but I'm leaning towards "no." Part of what made the "nostalgia" so powerful for our generation was that the toys of our youth actually went away for a while, so it had some impact when it "reappeared." Nowadays it seems like the lines just keep going and going and going. Of course, that's not necessarily a bad thing either...someone that was 8 years old when Star Wars Episode 1 came out is 18+ now. If they've collected all that time, they'll likely keep collecting into further adulthood.

Add to that the fact that kids seem to naturally get weaned off of toys in favor of video games and other electronic gadgets, coupled with toy franchises simply not having the same cultural impact that they did in the 80's (Think about it...just about every kid in America probably had at least one or two G.I. Joe toys, or Star Wars toys, or whatever in the 80's...are there any current toy lines like that?), and I just don't feel like the stuff that's out there now will "stick."

But who knows? I could just be looking at it from an old fogey perspective and be totally wrong. I'm sure our parents didn't expect that the toys they were buying for us back in the day would still be luring us to the toy aisles in our adulthood.