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Thread: Toy Fair 2022 Cancelled
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Old 01-12-2022, 01:03 PM   #15
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Obviously we will never see the 80’s type of toy stores and toys everywhere. The 90’s, yes. Toys were everywhere. The adult collecting market exploded with Mcfarlane toys, then came dozens of indi companies that gave us great toys. Toysrus, Kay-bee, media play Sam goody, sun coast, Ames, Kmart, Hills, Walmart, Target the list goes on. Star Wars came back in 1995, then Star Wars episode 1 toys were in gas stations in 1999. Batman the animated series, Batman forever, Batman and robin, Batman returns,the dark knight collection, legends of Batman, etc. How can anyone say toys were not everywhere in the 90’s? I think people forget how many to lines existed from 1990-1999.
"Toys" in general were abound, and there were a lot of toylines (and there still are), but that specific figure you wanted was never at those retail outlets. Maybe you'd get lucky at a Kaybee outlet, but otherwise you still had to hunt them down at specialty shops and pay their mark up because how else could you get it? Buying online was barely a thing so you had no choice but to get them from someone, sometimes at a show even from some jerk "dealer" (all for a figure that was likely not worth the hunt).

No sir, I grew up in the 90s, I remember the 90s, and the reality is comparatively with today's quality and convenience (and quantity as there's literally an action figure out there for everything) we're living in a golden age now.
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