RockyRambo
Freakzoid
Now I know this is a controversial subject seeing as this is a predominantly Adult Toy Collecting site but I think its a topic worth discussing.
I'm in my 30s and started buying toys again about 10 years ago when NECA started to make great figures and have been mainly buying them and Hot Toys meaning I usually either buy in comic stores or online. I buy these figures to be displayed in my entertainment room like a lot of people on here and look at them as being pieces of pop culture art rather than toys as these are aimed at Adult Collectors (Especially as I mainly collect horror). But I've took my niece to the toy store a few times recently and noticed more adults without kids buying figures than adults with kids and its a known fact that toys aren't that popular with kids anymore. There are also a lot of Youtube channels (I wont name names) but the way they treat there kids sometimes like when they come in the room while there filming like there getting in the way instead of involving them in the toys or when they take them to the store on toy hunt videos so they can buy bags filled with toys while they maybe get one for the kid I find it all a bit cringy. I mean I know this generation is a lot more pop culture orientated but just stop for a second and think back to the 70s/80s and your in the toy store with your dad and he buys you a Star Wars figure and then he buys nearly the whole collection and you cant play with it and is more enthusiastic about it than you are, would you really have found buying toys as fun?
I'm in my 30s and started buying toys again about 10 years ago when NECA started to make great figures and have been mainly buying them and Hot Toys meaning I usually either buy in comic stores or online. I buy these figures to be displayed in my entertainment room like a lot of people on here and look at them as being pieces of pop culture art rather than toys as these are aimed at Adult Collectors (Especially as I mainly collect horror). But I've took my niece to the toy store a few times recently and noticed more adults without kids buying figures than adults with kids and its a known fact that toys aren't that popular with kids anymore. There are also a lot of Youtube channels (I wont name names) but the way they treat there kids sometimes like when they come in the room while there filming like there getting in the way instead of involving them in the toys or when they take them to the store on toy hunt videos so they can buy bags filled with toys while they maybe get one for the kid I find it all a bit cringy. I mean I know this generation is a lot more pop culture orientated but just stop for a second and think back to the 70s/80s and your in the toy store with your dad and he buys you a Star Wars figure and then he buys nearly the whole collection and you cant play with it and is more enthusiastic about it than you are, would you really have found buying toys as fun?