[Alucard1138]

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Originally Posted by webz

"Kids don't have money" Are you crazy? Kids have BANK today. Kids today have ATM cards, allowances like crazy, often come from broken households so they get money from both parents, etc. The days of paper routes and magazine subscriptions are long gone. Also, parents buy tons of toys for kids, their kids' friends birthdays, and tons of other reasons. Amazon and Walmart have THOUSANDS of toys that are geared for kids. Just putting in the term Spider-Man brought up tons of kids toys not geared to adults at all. You and I have VEEEEERY different ideas of what constitutes "geared towards adults." Just because there are some adult collectors that collect it doesn't mean it's aimed at adults. BBTS and Entertainment Earth are poor choices, because they are aimed at adult collectors, not parents buying for kids, but even those stores have a few items that are geared for kids.

Also, if you are correct, and adults are holding up the action figure market, then I have lost all faith in humanity and hope for the future. That means that children have no childhoods. They've lost their imagination. It means a bunch of cheeto-crusted World of Warcraft playing manchildren have had enough temper tantrums to get the toy companies to bend to their will, instead of catering to the desires of children. Willy Wonka has lost the candy factory. The magic is gone.

Haha, I wouldn't worry about kids childhood too much. Sure they don't get the cool Saturday morning cartoons we did, or the cool cereal's based on hit shows, or all the cool action figures we got but they've got things now we could have only dreamed of back in the early 80's.

Kids, with debit cards, are you referring to teens? There aren't any 8-12 year olds going into Target to buy action figures with a debit card man. And it appears you're "one of those" who thinks action figures are just for kids. Who cares if the bulk of action figure collectors are adults, that somehow makes it less valid or cool of a hobby? And BBTS and EE are not poor choices they just further my point and not yours. Etailers are for everyone, but you have to be a certain age to have an account to buy things online so by default most etailers are geared towards adults cuz like I said, kids don't have money, and if they do I don't think most of them are dropping it on action figures. If I was a 10 year old now, I doubt I'd be into action figures, I'd probably be gaming online and using a tablet to look at porn, like most 10 year old boys wanna do.

To be fair, you know people in the industry and most likely have more insight into this than myself. Based on personal experience and 30 plus years of avid action figure collecting, I don't see nearly as many kids into this hobby as adults. I don't work in absolutes so I can't say "no kids play with action figures anymore" but it certainly appears to be far less, and there's way more geared towards adults than ever before, I imagine the reason is we want them more and are willing to pay/drum up interest in whatever property.