I cant believe toysrus has been dead for 7 years now. 2018 was the year everything went wrong especially. 2016 may have been the start but shit really hit the fan in 2018
>>11523605The world doesn't deserve a TRU. We need it, but what does it get in return? Money isn't enough
>>11523645>The world doesn't deserve a TRU.Kinda funny how TRU went away right around the moment society became completely irredeemable, too. Like the moment we needed it most it vanished
>>11523666>Like the moment we needed it most it vanishedWhy did we need it the most? The concept of pre-ordering toys wasn't even a concept back then...at least not for them
>>11523605Collecting would sure be a lot more affordable if there was a retailer that had fucking weekly sales, Target's $10 off $50 every few months doesn't compare to all of TRUs BOGOs and clearances
>>11523718Because for people who dont like waiting an extra 3 months for pre orders to get in and who actually like buying toys in person it was a great place. Also they carried speciality lines that practically no one else would so because of TRU alot of toys that wouldnt have otherwise gotten released did and because TRU closed alot of toys that should've gotten made didnt too.Toysrus closing back then was the final nail in the coffin for me, and it made me realize that we are cursed as a timeline
And now you have to go to Macy's to see it's echo. Humiliation ritual. It's sad my family was too broke for TRU when I was a kid. I feel like I missed out. I would be allowed in but not to buy anything.
>>11523605We need to go back and save Harambe to return to a better timeline>No bored apes>No coof>No trend hoppers driving up prices >4chan still using outdated servers from before Moot retired
>>11523942Totally agree, that was literally our canon event which doomed this timeline>>No trend hoppers driving up pricesI hate that TCG hobby got ruined by that and i shudder if the logan paul tier YouTubers set their sights on action figures next
>>11523605TRU sucked, most of the shit they were carrying in the final years before their closure was nothing but shelf warming garbage.
>>11523605Toys R Us is starting to enter a death spiral here in Canada as well. They're so understocked they don't have any of the Superman or Fantastic Four movie toys, August Lego sets, Cyberworld/AOTP Transformers past wave 1, or Mattel Brick Shop sets while Walmart and Gamestop have all the new and weird toys. They also stopped doing free Bricktober sets last year. The most new/exclusive things I've seen there lately are the Sonic and Naruto Transformers and some Jurassic World Matchbox. They're also closing stores left and right, and when I went there last week, it was the emptiest I've ever seen the place in all the years I've been going there.Last year they started putting large sections for adult books and records in their stores. They also started stocking bedsheets and kitchen items for some reason. I assumed this is because the Walmart/Target era means less toys are being released, but the parent company is also buying up a ton of other chains (they recently bought some clothing stores and own a large record store chain). I assume it's classic private equity incompetence.
Why does Asia have a thriving toy market?
>>11524004I think Bandai gives a lot of sponsorship money to Toys R Us in Japan if they put their toku toys front and center. God, I'd be so happy if Toys R Us in Canada imported all the Japanese lines. Give us Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Sentai, and Tomica rather than bedsheets!
What year did the first Star Wars sequel release? That was when things really started going to shit all at once. Or maybe it was when things finally got bad enough you couldn’t not notice.Everything cool or fun from the 90s and 2000s is either gone or now exists in some shitty zombie form and nothing new from the last decade replaces it in any worthwhile way
>>115242262015
>>11524226>Everything cool or fun from the 90s and 2000s is either gone or now exists in some shitty zombie form and nothing new from the last decade replaces it in any worthwhile way^this, its why i think about suicide at least twice a day lately. Even trying to bring back these properties usually ends in disaster. I just dont get it>>11524229>10 years of culture war worldKill me
>>11524226Yes society really started going downhill and soul started dying around 2013 when Disney bought Star Wars.
>>11524226>>11524273Millennials and their consequences have been a disaster for the entertainment industry
>>11523645>Money isn't enough>>11523666>>11523823It's wrong because TRU was killed by vulture capitalists loading it with debt so they could steal pension funds. >>11523924I have fond memories of the clearance and knock-off aisles where I got just as many toys as my richer friends>>11524637>MillenialKathleen Kennedy was born in 1953 and JJabrams and Rian Johnson are from the 60s and 70s. They're Gen X
>>11524653Kathleen Kennedy is a literal boomer in her 70's. But I'm not just taking about Star Wars here. Millennials were the ones crying for diversity, feminism, and other gay shit to be in everything. As soon as they were hired into positions within any kind of entertainment company, be it movie studio, games, or comics and animation, they infected everything and everyone with that shit and convinced the boomers and gen X'ers in charge that's what everyone wanted to see thanks to Twitter. Most of the reboots and sequels that have turned out awful have so been because of Millennials being hired onto the writing staff. And I say all of this as someone born smack dab in the middle of that generation.
>>11524659>Millennials were the ones crying for diversity, feminism, and other gay shit to be in everythingNo that was Gen-X. The offspring of faggot flower children with minds addled by an upbringing in front of the TV. Millennials were the first to have it violently thrust upon them. The oldest millennials are in their early to mid-40s. Shit has been getting incrementally worse for a lot fucking longer than that.
>>11524659Yeah but you guys voted for Trump and sped up the collapse.Also Toys r Us was kinda fucked to begin with without the acquisition by that company that basically used debt to purchase the company. TrU was wasting MILLIONS every year because of their Times Square store that was supposed to compete with FAO Schwarz and they were burning more money on hiring Disney celebrities and teeny bopper pop stars to shill some new toy launch. They also expanded way too quickly, which a lot of companies seem to do and fucking bomb. Some of the most successful companies stick to a handful of manageable shops.
>>11523823I still love buying in-person. Problem with TRU is that they didn't always have everything. They had the occasional rarity, but most regular trips left with nothing
The western economy is backed by exploitation of 3rdies and wars. 3rdies are still being exploited to sell us raw goods for super cheap while being forced to buy our products at higher price. More important, there hasn't been a big war in a while where the west is directly involved so your economies are in a slump. Watch this decade have a major war in Asia, most probably South Asia to curb India and China. Any other reason for economic downturn is a meme.
>>11524764Americans really can't make anything worth a shit can they?>>11523605isn't Dr disrespect a pedo?
>>11524637Youre right, i could considered a millennial and i hate my generation. I was born in the last year to be a millennial and everyone my age and around it is cancer>>11524719I didnt know the NYC TRU location was burning them money like that>>11524764Wars hurt the economy tho, the great recession was caused in part because of wars in the middle east
Didn't really feel the void until I had a toddler, her favorite toys are always the ones she picks out herself and really only Target has a toy section worth a shit in our area.
>>11525015>having a child and still browsing 4chanIs it just me or does /toy/ seem to have alot more oldfags then most boards? Not even /co/ has many genuine parents on it like /toy/ has
>>11524226>TFA : 2015>TLJ : 2017>TROS : 20192017 was the year TRU basically keeled over and died. I still viscerally recall the mountains of unsold TLJ garbage. BB-8 playsets, Animatronic Yodas, armies of Finn/Rey/Poe Big-Figs cluttering otherwise vacant shelves. The late 2010's fucking sucked.
>>11524273>>Everything cool or fun from the 90s and 2000s is either gone or now exists in some shitty zombie form and nothing new from the last decade replaces it in any worthwhile wayYou forgot the worst part>As the established IP whales get driven into the dirt, the normalfag consoomer masses move onto more obscure targets. Radically disfiguring the fanbases for said targets in the process as they descend onto these niche interests like swarms of locusts.Anime, Warhammer, Yugioh, Pokemon Cards. Nothing is sacred. They'll rape everything to utter ruin and discard the desecrated husk as soon as the thing you loved stops being seen as cool. They did it to sci-fi and capeshit, and now they'll do it to anime and anything else they can get their grubby mits on.The only bit of good to come from it all is realizing your long dead favorite properties are the only things safe from this pop cultural mass extinction event. That is unless Seth Rogen and his butt buddies take note of it, in which case, they will be given carte blanche to go full MOSSAD black site on them. Premptive (F) for Darkwing Duck, Venom, and GPK.
>>11525080NTA but I chalk it upto the love of the hobby. If you're a diehard /toy/ soldier these days it's likely because you grew up sometime between the 80's and 2000's and have some fondness for an established toyline that released across that window. MedaBots, TMNT, Transformers, GI Joe, Bots Master, Bone Age, Revoltech. Whatever it was, you got bitten by the bug early and it stuck woth you. That's how it went in my experience.
>>11525135> The late 2010's fucking sucked.They were the worst time period and sadly the 2020s so far are just the 2010s 2.0 so far. I hate the last ten years more then i hate myself
>>11525141Why do normies ruin everything they touched? When the bazinga show made nerd shit cool way back when i thought it would make normies cooler by being into the same stuff i liked and id have more in common with them. But instead all they did was intrude on these franchises and ruin them with their shit taste and selfish need to change the source materials to cater to their newfag perspective. They literally are pop cultural invaders at this point
>>11525146You might be right. I was born in the mid 90s and am almost thirty. I was heavily into star wars and lego early on and got into transformers when the first bayformers movie came out and alotnof other franchises when the 80s nostalgia boom had alot of old toy franchises revive in the late 00s. Its a central core of my childhood that ive never gave up because no other hobby really surpassed it. Everyone else my age is heavily into vidya but i was honestly more into games as a kid and even then i was never as engaged with video games as much as my peers were.
>>11525153The 2020's continue to feel like an endless fever dream. Time seems to go by faster and faster with every passing day. I genuinely wish I could just jump ahead a decade to see whether or not living through this hell is worth it. The state of the world tires me in a way sleep cant fix.>>11525156Because normalfags are sheep that follow MSM shepherds around like drones. They never had a genuine interest in these franchises until some random influencer or talk show host introduced them to it and it became popular. They dont relate to the passion or enthusiasm of genuine fans because they're ultimately just passing through. Once they take over they also eliminate all barriers to entry AND demand that the existing fanbase aquiesse to their will. Once they finally get their way they expel the remaining oldfag hobbyists, at which point things are unsalvageable. Wash, rinse, repeat...I'd give my left nut to see "geek" culture return to the relative obscurity and mainstream disdain it enjoyed in the late 90's. The Joneses should not know what a Chaos Marine, the Court of Owls, or a Shaak Ti are.
>>11525159Same here. I've always been an odd outlier because of it. Most of my cousins were vidyafags over anything else while I continued to seek out action figures, comics, and capeshit media into my mid to late teens. I see the appeal of vidya but I was so much more infatuated with toys that I never really took to them in the same way. These days I'm mostly invested in retro figures, but occasionally something modern will catch my eye. (RIP the new street sharks collection)
>>11524681Gen X isn't totally innocent, but my generation grew up on Married With Children and laughed at faggots wanting political correctness and equality bullshit. Gay marriage never got the vote until after millennials reached voting age. But blaming one generation when we have been experiencing death by a thousand cuts for over a century (and at an exponentially increasing rate since the end of WW2) is pretty one eyed.>>11524719The point of no return was long before the Cheeto Hitler you want to cry about ever threw his hat in the ring. The enshittification was obvious at least half a decade before that. You are complaining about the symptom but you still can't identify the disease.
>>11525170> The 2020's continue to feel like an endless fever dream. Time seems to go by faster and faster with every passing day. It feels faster but is also is worse. They always say time flies when you're having fun but its more accurate now to say time flies when youre miserable>I genuinely wish I could just jump ahead a decade to see whether or not living through this hell is worth it. i dont want to depress you too much but i dont think it is. I genuinely struggle with thoughts of an heroing all the time lately. I keep going for my family but i hate this time period so much that it gets harder and harder to not snap and jump off a bridge lately.>Because normalfags are sheep that follow MSM shepherds around like drones. They never had a genuine interest in these franchises until some random influencer or talk show host introduced them to it and it became popular. They dont relate to the passion or enthusiasm of genuine fans because they're ultimately just passing through. Once they take over they also eliminate all barriers to entry AND demand that the existing fanbase aquiesse to their will. Once they finally get their way they expel the remaining oldfag hobbyists, at which point things are unsalvageable. Wash, rinse, repeat...It reminds me of when some normalfags are talking about something like batman and i mention some deepcut character or story and they look at me like i have lobsters coming out of my ears and say "youre too much of a nerd anon". I have to hold back the urge to strangle that person everytime something like that happens>>11525175I just am into toys and cartoons and movies so much more, i used to somewhat like vidya but by now i dont play it at all. It also is because im annoyed by how popular and over encompassing the medium is these daysAlso theyre ending nu street sharks? Without getting to clammando? Fuck mattel then
>>11525178>grew up on Married With Children and laughed at faggots wanting political correctness and equality bullshitMillennials watched South Park when it was still calling trannies freaks with mutilated penises, and made Eminem a millionaire for mocking faggots. Then Eminem (a Gen-Xer) went and made a big show of performing with lord high fag Elton John; and Matt and Trey (also Gen-Xers) became what they are now. It's true though, you can't blame one generation entirely. They've been boiling the frog for close to 100 years.
>>11525186Apparently the end times according to the quaran are said to play out like this. I dont put alot of stock into apocalyptic thinking, Im sure the bible has just as many claims, but I do wish the nightmare would end already. To your credit it does seem like Mr Bones' wild ride is only just getting started sadly. I sympathize with you alot anon. Especially on the matter of family, but at the end of the day, the simple matter of fact is that only time will tell. We have no option but to grin and bare it regardless of how bad it gets. In a roundabout way I think these hard times have only emboldened my appreciation for toys and comics. Even after all the devastation the bulk of this stuff remains my escape. > are talking about something like batman and i mention some deepcut character or story and they look at me like i have lobsters coming out of my earsTrust me, I've been there plenty of times. That's partially why I've moved to boycott all post 2018 capeshit flicks. I'm fucking fed up with tourists thinking they know everything about a given character after watching a youtube video or two in the lead upto the next big cape flick. I'm both a diehard FF fag and Superman fag, so watching everyone suddenly give a shit about the two again after a decade of total radio silence (outside of the usual complaints of the snyderverse or whatever) made my blood boil. The FF especially, when they were the butt of every joke for the last decade. But people totalllyyy love them now because Sue's in Rivals and they got that half assed new movie. Im just so tired of how cynnical it's all become.>I just am into toys and cartoons and movies so much moreHell yeah man same here!
cont. >Also theyre ending nu street sharks? Without getting to clammando? They put out two waves. They both sold out in an instant with the exception of Slash and Piranoid who shelfwarmed for awhile. Then things went radio silent for nearly two years, after they'ed showed off the protos for slobster, killamari, clammando, etc. Suddenly, a bunch of leftover stock began to crop up in discounters nation wide earlier this year. With no announcements made at SDCC we can only assume it's dead.I keep mentioning as much in /motu/ but the line's best hope for a conclusion is a crossover with Masters. Release the remaining villains alongside Eternian versions of the Bolton bros and Gene-slammed He-man/Skeletor.
>>11525232I dont believe the literal end of the world is here but i just think society is at a place where it just wont improve, not for a while anyhow. Unlike the other anons im gonna avoid going full political mode but i am very bleak and cynical and angry about practically everything going on right now. I Dont want to blackpill you but im very paranoid for the future but then again i have legit severe OCD and intrusive thoughts on top of that as well as the tism, so maybe all of my premonitions and predictions and fears will be false and turn out to be nothing burgers, hopefully...>>11525237They did a prototype for clammando? Damn, i never heard of that. However i heard about the prototypes for slobster and killamari and that wing fin shark. Why didnt those come out yet?
>>11525254Last seen at SDCC 2024. Weirdly enough I cant find the Clammando pics. I swear they made one. Maybe its my mind playing tricks on me.>Why didnt those come out yet?I really dont know. It's like they just pulled the plug on the line over just Piranoid and Slash shelfwarming. They're still the only figures in stock across all the big e-tailers. You'd think they would just double down on releasing the four brothers as a direct response to the demand but no dice. With how collab focused Mattel is these days they could have gotten away with a JAWS crossover set for SDCC too...
>>11525274>Last seen at SDCC 2024Im fucking fuming right now. That killamari especially looks great. Why does 80s nostalgia keep riding high yet any attempt at 90s or especially 2000s nostalgia falters badly most of the time?
>>11524825>isn't Dr disrespect a pedo?Shhh
>>11525274>Weirdly enough I cant find the Clammando pics.Clammando was never announced for the 30th anniversary line. He was released as a 5poa retro continuation figure on Mattel Creations with two other concept characters, but went by the name Clambo.https://creations.mattel.com/en-au/pages/mc-drop-street-sharks
>>11525277weaker purchasing power amongst the younger generations sadly
>>11525159I was born in the mid 2000s. I spent my childhood building Lego and playing with Hot Wheels. Around the time of RID2015 I got into Transformers. My mom introduced me to MOTU and Transformers since she watched those cartoons in the 80s in university, and I got into TMNT and Star Wars through Lego. That's one way younger people can get into 80s toy franchises. >>11525175I wasn't into vidya either. I did watch anime as a teen, but I outgrew it for the most part and now I think the stories and designs I make with my toys are far cooler. >>11525186>It also is because im annoyed by how popular and over encompassing the medium is these daysSame here. I've also noticed that vidya/anime designs aren't as colorful and imaginative as toy designs. I guess they know they can sell those designs as "thing from your favorite media" rather than on their own merits. >>1152527790s/2000s was a slump for toy cartoons. People mostly have nostalgia for Nicktoons, Disney movies, video games, anime, and Cartoon network shows. Toy cartoons seem to have had a comeback in the 2010s with TMNT, Transformers, and Ninjago persisting, but they're still niche compared to shows like Gumball and Regular Show and especially video games like Minecraft and Fortnite.
>>11525990I have a similar relationship with anime. I sort of just had my fill by the time I hit my late teens. That wasnt helped by anime starting to get kind of lame around the mid 2010's.>90s/2000s was a slump for toy cartoonsThat's not to say we didnt have any good ones. The sad thing is alot of them just never grounded themselves as huge hits, and the few that did burned out fast only to find themselves neglected behind corporate ownership. There were just as many cartoons that could have had toylines which never did too. Things get only sadder when you recognize toylines which should have been hits (Dexter's Lab, PPG, Samurai Jack) largely failed. And so many of those cartoons went without merchandising. You either die a MegasXLR or live long enough to become Teen Titans Go/Ben 10/Bakugan
>>11525995Stargate Infinity would have made for a great toyline. I'm still surprised they've never made a Megas XLR toy. Exo-Squad kind of did get a reboot with Lego Exo-Force, which had very similar robots. I think lots of those 90s/2000s cartoons were made with a toy-resistant mindset so they could do weird and experimental things, which is fair -- but somehow Spongebob and Disney movies get a buttload of toys to this day.
>>11525990>getting into transformers with one of its worst cartoonsI pity you>I did watch anime as a teen, but I outgrew it for the most part Ive always been more of a western cartoon guy but i like older anime. Every new anime being about some loser getting sucked into a shitty JRPG vidya killed the genre for me.>90s/2000s was a slump for toy cartoons. People mostly have nostalgia for Nicktoons, Disney movies, video games, anime, and Cartoon network shows.I want merch and nostalgia for those cartoon network and nicktoons shows, anon. Im very pissed shows like my life as a teenage robot and grim adventures of billy and mandy amongst others are left mostly forgotten now while 80s shit no matter how obscure keeps getting revivals and merch. At least XJ-9/jenny got some youtooz plushies recently
>>11525080/co/ is full of pedos. Of course they don't reproduce. While /toy/ has its own forms of degeneracy, they at least like adult women.
>>11526182Youre not wrong, now that i think about it /toy/ almost exclusively horny posts over toys made of adult women where as /co/ thirsts after many a cartoon character that are barely in their teens if that lol
>>11526157For the most part it seems like we're all on the same page. Down to even the preference for western cartoons. Over the last few years I've taken to drawing a bunch of my own merch ideas for said cartoons. I've shared these on here before. Anyways for as much as I like 80's toytoons it would be a nice change of pace to see some of the shit we grew up with get the attention it deserves.https://files.catbox.moe/0glz09.jpg
>>11526259I like 80s toytoons as you call them too, i just wish there was more 90s and 00s nostalgia pandering as well on top of the already massive 80s nostalgia panderingCool drawings BTW. I miss when i could draw better before i fell out of practice due to depression
>>11526274Thanks, I encourage you to take up the pencil again anon. If you draw for your own pleasure you'll find the process alot more enjoyable.
>>11526737I will, i need to somehow motivate myself to draw more regularly but i havent figured out how yet
>>11524229>>11524273>>11524400>>11524637>>11525135thank you for the (yous) gentlemen, things are bleak but it’s good to know you guys are out there and “get it”.
>>11527587>things are bleak but it’s good to know you guys are out there and “get it”.Unironically we are all in this together. This past 10+ years has been the worst decade in modern history, but one of the only bright sides to me is that more and more people are starting to realize it. So hopefully someday change can happen, maybe even sooner then we think
>>11525557>my generation being stingy bitches is why my favorite 2000s properties dont get revived or get new merchFuck zoomers
>>11527740What?
>>11523605You never know how much you need something until it’s gone.
>>11523605Mitt Romney repeated what his business partner did to kb toys and made a bunch of money tanking TRU. Its kinda fucked up watching people still trying to champion him as some morally sound person bc he says orange man bad every few months
>>11529829Glad that fucker lost to obongo then. Fuck him
>>11523605>All these replies itt from people too young to remember it was 9/11 and 2008 that fucked this country
>>115362259/11 and 2008 fucked this country over but the 2010s were when this really started going to shit with 2016 being the breaking point
>>11538151He's not wrong.The ramifications from 9/11 and 2008 took years for them to play out.It's like how Bain bought TRU in 2005, but TRU's collapse from the crippling debt didn't happen until 2016.
>>11538162>The ramifications from 9/11 and 2008 took years for them to play out.Im not a sociologist but i would love to see step by step how both 9/11 and 2008 all set the stage for the 2010s era of activist social justice mentality and culture war faggotry that we still never got over
>>11538162Akshually TRU collapsed and shut down in 2018
>>11527837Aint that the truth
>>11538166It's pretty simple if you think about it.>9/11 happens, justifies a needless forever war in a series of godless desert nations>the war on terror effectively plays out like Vietnam 2.0, built on lies, and the senseless violence spurrs on a total leftist take over of all facets of society. Tarnishing the neo-con right's reputation forever more.>2008 excacerbates all these issues as millenials were coming of age. Occupy Wall Street crops up as a response to Wall Street's blatant greed and the gov's betrayal of the American people.>Occupy, having proved so effective initially, eventually gets dismantled by glowie gay ops that sowed the seeds of division and collapsed the entire movement>The left, fully entrenched in the government at this point, was now fully content with aiding and abetting governmental tyranny as long as they kept power and thus they grew consecutively bolder>gamergate comes and goes, ushering in the civil war of the sexes, total cultural marxism, millenial writing, etc>The Trump arrises to prominence as the voice of the new right wing counter culture. And the rest is history
>>11538609>>Occupy, having proved so effective initially, eventually gets dismantled by glowie gay ops that sowed the seeds of division and collapsed the entire movementI hate how much thats true especially
>>11538609>>11538166... i like how this has little to do with the actual shift in market conditions and the shit companies did in reaction to them. Brief synopsis though, 9/11 made the government more authoritative and people more trusting/cowed.2008 had companies working more closely with the government and the normal joe never actually recovered from wages/work loss.
>>11538609>2013 Obama amends the Smith Mundt Act and now allows "news" organizations to become "entertainment" (i.e. propaganda)100% Safe and Effective!
>>11538635Well I could have gotten into it further but I assumed most anons were old enough to know already. Those forever wars led to mounting national debt and inflation. Even 9/11 had its own impact on prices. It was tolerable up until 2020. Covid basically made everything 1000× worse. Originally you saw the impact on toys during the war in Iraq. We still had a decent economy up until then. But with oil prices fluctuating like they did, excessive washes and parts counts of toybiz legends were no longer economically viable. That 90's push for highly detailed, well painted, high end collector product went into remission for atleast a decade as a result. Hasbro, to save a penny, then started producing gimped underscaled figures without the same talent that made toybiz so successful. That ended up biting them in the ass and they'ed spend a decade trying to get things back on track while reissuing older TB molds. Likewise Mattel didmthe same thing with DC. Just compare the 2003 Batman and DCSH releases to the following 12 years of incessant repaints. Lego ofcourse became more expensive too. Especially once it began to be seen as an adult hobby.
>>11539059I liked hasbros 1:18 era the most but its kinda depressing in hindsight knowing that my favorite scale had its greatest era only because companies wanted to save money on plastic by scaling figures down from 6 inches to 3.75 inches in part because of the effects of 9/11
>>11538964Its funny how milquetoast democrats think obama was the greatest thing ever because he was black despite all the bad stuff like this or drone striking weddings
>>11539065I know that feel anon. In retrospect I probably should have noted hasbro's rocky start withMarvel Legends line directly led to MU. Anyways with how well MU sold, I'm still baffled that they didnt try to do a GI Joe crossover at any point between 2008 and 2016. There was such a massive overlap in consumers for both lines then aswell, but no effort to market to that audience. It was all just terribly handled from top to bottom.
>>11539072He was literally black democrat GWB, down to passing even more patriot act-esque legislation into law. The fact that he's such an after thought these days after having been so infinitely praised and fellated for over a decade is baffling in its own right. I suppose that goes to show the extent of fatigue the country's in.
>>11538964and yet you'll still come across people online who refuse to acknowledge the last 15 years worth of media as anything other than an ongoing demoralization campaign. it's baffling stuff. the entire system painted a big red bullseye on its back and now people are drawing their bows.
>>11539751>Anyways with how well MU sold, I'm still baffled that they didnt try to do a GI Joe crossover at any point between 2008 and 2016. There was such a massive overlap in consumers for both lines then aswell, but no effort to market to that audience. It was all just terribly handled from top to bottom.I collected both lines heavily in that time period. I agree a crossover seems like a no brainer but i wonder if legal red tape had something to do with it>>11539756Ill never forget how disillusioned i was after seeing obama decry edward snowden and classify him as a traitor on tv in like 2013 because up to that point teenage me foolishly thought obama would be against something as scummy as what the NSA was doing then and there because to me that was a bush jr move and not something i pictured obama condoning but after that point i slowly started seeing the two in the same light. Fuck this shithole country.
>>11540002>I agree a crossover seems like a no brainer but i wonder if legal red tape had something to do with itProbably no red tape, but it would require even more money to license the Marvel brand to cross over into the GI Joe brand.And would it be worth it to the owner? What marketing benefits would Marvel get from putting GI Joes into the Marvel universe? Probably nothing, since GI Joe brought nothing to the table that would raise popularity for Marvel.That sort of cross over would only be beneficial to Hasbro and there's really nothing that stops kids from just playing with their Marvel and GI Joes figures together. Plus, would fans give a shit, especially since there was no cross over back in the 80s when the comics were made by Marvel? Doesn't seem worth the money to pay for some cross over.Also, HAsbro was already doing Marvel cross overs with Transformers back then and that shit wasn't that popuar. I forget if the Star Wars ones lasted more than a year.not sure if pic is Toy Biz or Hasbro's Transformer, because it's so buttugly.
>>11540120>Also, HAsbro was already doing Marvel cross overs with Transformers back then and that shit wasn't that popuar. I forget if the Star Wars ones lasted more than a year.Lol i remember thinking the star wars ones were ass. At the time i was autistically obsessed with star wars and pretty much only star wats at that point in time, and didnt even get into transformers as a franchise until bayformers 1 came out in 2007 so when the star wars transformers came out i thought they were stupid as anything.
>>11523605We've had toys r us the entire time here in jersey. And I think canada has had them the whole time too. But yeah it sucks for the overall toy collecting space.
>2018 was 7 years ago and not like 2 years ago
>>11523605I used to have to commute out of my local city every weekend and would frequently have to deal with peak hour traffic turning what would normal be an hour long drive to almost three hours, but there was a TRU half way along the route and so I would frequently stop in there to stretch my legs and browse around. Fuck I miss it.
