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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

"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.

This is my major memory of toy collecting in the 90's. All too often I'd hit the toy aisle to find a new series of figures with all the characters I actually cared about already sold out. Soooo many Prince Xizor's on the pegs, no Luke's in Imperial Guard Disguise. Stacks of the same Star Trek character but no Geordi as Tarchannen Alien to be found. I had to buy McF The Maxx figure from a flea market for like $30 (I was a kid, that was weeks of allowance). It was a pretty frustrating time.