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Originally Posted by CyberScream95

The golden age for original and instant classic toys are over. But Pokemon is already Nostalgiac. Maybe Ben 10 because its so popular. But still, things change faster today then they did in the 80s. New toy lines seem to come out every day. Its near impossible for new stuff to become instant hits these days. And because of that (and today's society) most kids won't remember toys the way us collectors do.

I'm not so sure about this.

Sure we remember thundercats, tmnt, star wars, star trek, dino riders, captain power, microman, the other tv show light interaction lines, food fighters, barnyard commandos, bionic six, centurions, galaxy rangers, Rom, M.U.S.C.L.E., DC figures(toybiz/hasbro), marvel universe(toy biz), ultraman, godzilla, macron 3, voltron(3 different diecast robots even), robotech(again 3 different lines in one), rocklords, Jem, jayce and the wheeled warriors, transformers, terminator, robocop, Mask, silverhawks, he-man, inhumanoids, gi joe, gobots, visionaries, she-ra, bravestar, those other hologram mideval spirit ones, cubix, zoids, insectoids, battle beasts, aliens, predator, etc. But those are mostly what we remember. The 80s seemingly had a new toyline for almost every 6months including those string warriors, and krystal warriors, the kommandos, even chuck norris had a toyline and heaven knows what I can't remember. The 90s waned and slowed into more of just superheroes, and now we've been slowly building back up the variety from pokemon and yugioh and bakugan since the TCG years. But it's been nowhere near as bad as the 80s were with new toylines.

We've seen the likes of Megaman EXE, Xevos, exo-force, hyper monkey team, Stikfas, gundam, mighty max, digimon, beyblade, b-daman, and a few others come and go, including a few movie toy attempts but nothing quite on that magnitude that the 80s had of every new idea getting a toyline. Every gimmick being spun into a toon, or 3. Plus toys R us even carried diecast imports back then. I have random diecast sentai mechas from TRU back then, before power rangers even came stateside (the bioman mecha, but they also had the dynaman one, among others).

Every generation has had that multitude of lines that were just thrown out there at them. We just remember the different ones as 'golden eras' because of our perception of what's great while we were kids. Kids today won't have that same magnitude to navigate, but they'll still pick their favorites from what they have, like we did.

The 80s 'golden era' of action figures at least, had far more than kids do today. We were bombarded from every direction with things back then competing for our attention. Nowadays seems to be more selective in that process. Try adding up all of the 80s lines, and compare the amount to the 90s and 00s, and you'll see the 80s was a maelstrom of just action figure concept bombardment that totals higher than both those decades put together. The thing with the 80s you have to remember though, is it was the first time toons were allowed to be 30 minute toy commercials. So that decade in particular saw the most new lines at the time, as every body wanted a piece of the action. Heck there were so many new lines, and accompanying toons, that not even all of them could air everywhere. You could spend months just watching the intros to these toons alone, not to mention the commercials for each. The 70s were a bit more controlled with just the various mego lines, and ken doll GI joes. Besides of course barbie. But to say that kids today have a new line every day, isn't all that accurate in comparison to what many refer to as the 'golden era' of action figures. They actually have less to choose from in the action figure department and number of lines to remember. I'm not counting sublines either, but even with those in modern times, compare them to the ones in the 80s. All the various tf lines back then, gi joe sublines, etc. It was indeed an insanity that's well remembered because something had to hit it's mark. Whereas today is more about market testing before release, and bringing things over that are popular in other countries. A more accurate assumption would be that kids today have fewer to be nostalgic about than we. But I'm sure they'll regal their kids with stories of the epic top battles, or baku ball battles, even digimon or pokemon, or of megaman and his brethren. Maybe even Ben 10 or the newer board games, but don't kid yourself, we as 80s children saw an unending stream of newlines that was nearly a new line everyday, which is why it's nostalgic to us. With so much coming at us, something had to stick.