Was the 80s the best era to grow up toys wise? Anyway, if you were american of course.
>>11563859No, action figures were barely articulated and lacked lots of detailWe are in the golden age of toys right now
>>11563871>It's like video gamesExcuse me, faggot?
>>11563859>5poaI collect toys now for a reason
>>11563868Microman and Seint Seiya in Japan in the 70’s and 80’s says hold my beer.
>>11563859what the fuck is this Instagram shit doing here
>>11563859>Biker Mice, Star Wars, Street Sharks, Hot Wheels, Toxic Crusaders, MiMP, Trash Bag Bunch, Power Rangers, Bad Eggz Bunch, Zbots>80s
>>11563924Eh, early 90s may as well be 80s. Ish.
>>11564067>the 80's decade now spans from 1978 to 1994
>>11564079The 80s never ended, it truly was peak human societyAmerica anyway
>>11564080cue Rammstein's Amerika
>>11563924>>11564067Monster in my Pocket was 1990 too.
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>>11563859Super naturals?
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>>1156385980s was speak lego so yes
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>>11564080You and your precious 80s!You know it would have continued to be the 70s if not for you!
>>11564100Action figures with spooky holograms, kinda like visionaries.
>>11564079This is correct, though.
>>11563859This. Anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in the past.
>>1156385980s wasn't peak as far as figure engineering, but it was peak in original IPs, toy gimmicks, and vehicles/playsets.TMNT is a good example of the figures still being great designs despite lack of articulation. Each of the four turtles was sculpted with dynamic posing that gave them a martial arts stance that newer turtles can't pull off even with their modern engineered articulation.Or MOTU origins that despite having vastly superior articulation to the vintage, the leg articulation in Origins is basically useless and has, in some ways, inferior range of motion. When attempting a sitting pose, for example.
>>11563893Microman has had 4 failed reboots & no one cares. Whites do not even know what saint seiya is
>>11563924Star Wars started in 78, but the bulk of the line was released in the 80s. That would be like not counting Lego Classic Space or Classic Castle as 80s themes because a handful of sets were released in 78 and 79.
>>11563859IP wise? Yeah. Toy wise? Probably not.
>>11564323>>1156438880s was peak for volume alone. Engineering may be better now, but there were so many things not even in the OP that blow every other decade put of the water.
>>11564403>there were so many things not even in the OP that blow every other decade put of the water.Such as?
>>11564408Well you gotta weigh in your options when settling down what HAD the most volume after stacking them up left and right, in and around. On pure volume alone transformers outsold everything given it was a mishmatch of things here and there, as the saying goes. On pure distribution alone? None can even come close to He-man and how much of a bigger effect that had among the generations especially in LATAM and LATINX places even in Europe. Quite a number of chunky little bootlegs got thrown around with official stock too we cannot forget that.
>>11564408I was a fan of Army Ants. Also My Pet Monster. Madballs and M.U.S.C.L.E(western release of Kinnikuman) were pretty popular. Tiny Horse show that will not be named. Glow Worms. Smurfs and California raisins figurines were also kind of big back then. Rainbow Bright, Strawberry Shortcake and Popples were popular with girls. Oh, the Mad Scientist sets. Alf dolls. Monchichis. There was a lot of good stuff in the 80s.
>>11564459Funny how stranger things never mentions them. Guess they weren't as popular as you're making them up to be.
>>11563859>80s/90s when transformer toys were infecting all brands.>TMNT mutations>Micromachines Zbots>hotwheels that changed from monster truck to monster.
>>11564463Do stranger things mention 80s hits such as transformers, gijoe or motu?
>>11564468Yes, because theyre still relevant unlike the boomer crap do many soys boys on YouTube make videos about
>>11564463That might be because Stranger Things is written by hacks that weren't even born until halfway through the decade.
>>11564463Are you seriously using the ST bait?
>>11564481Are you seriously denying the simple fact that the majority of 80s crap isn't a good as you make it out to be? Boomer
>>11564463What's stranger things? Some youtube channel? Never heard of them, I don't follow "influencers".
>>11563868the average 1/12 fan right hereimagine being this retarded
>>11564463kek best bait i've seen on this board in yearsif you're gonna do it at least be original like this faggot
>>11563859I think every era had its stuff. The 70s got better because of better production. 80s and 90s got more creative because of getting consumer attention, trends and cartoons as advertisment.2000s till 2015 increase in production technic and articulation consumer expect.After 2015 you see a company consolidation.
>>11564590I had forgotten glitter poop unicorn dolls were a thing and then I looked through your image. Thanks I hate it.
>>11564591The last 10 years got really gimmicky and blind box. Yeah, the slime and pooping really became famous.
>>11563859The 80's ended in 1992. Many of the Rock bands broke up by then (strangely), cgi was just starting to ruin movies (Jurassic Park), and Western developed 3D shooters (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom) were just starting to destroy the video game industry. Cartoons turned to shit thanks to the Children's Television Act of 1990. Rap music and Grunge were being promoted. Will Smith and Denzel Washington were being portrayed as the ultimate in cool. The perfect storm of faggotry. Now here we are 33 years later wondering what went wrong.
>>11563859Only good stuff, rest is trash
>>11563859street sharks is the 90's... power rangers is the 90's. what retarded zoomer made that picrel?
>>11564659>doesnt like robocopway to out yourself as a giant flaming homo anon
>>11564659>Food Fighter badNo taste
>>11564647>Western developed 3D shooters (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom) were just starting to destroy the video game industry.????
>>11564691Cope
>>11564659>Monster in My Pocket>trashYou hate fun?
>>11564782The popularity of the FPS genre is in large part to blame for the downfall of the superior Japanese game industry.Japanese game design is far more complex than the typical Western FPS of turn left, turn right, push the shoot button. This simplistic game play has been easily replicated on the Atari 2600 in games like Battlezone (1983). Western gamers are willing to ignore 40 years of progress just so they can play the equivalent of Battlezone online with their friends, and Western game designers are catering to their lack of intelligence.
>>11564788Mmp suck though
>>11564891Complex =/= good. The superior aspects of Japanese games are mostly down to presentation and story (and in recent years not being intentionally ugly slop made by dangerhaired hormone-addicts who hate beauty). Though frankly most pre-90s games from either side of the Pacific are pretty unplayable, being as they were often deliberately too difficult to force players to rent them over and over again to be able to beat them, and thus artificially pad out the pathetically sparse amount of content in the games themselves.
>>11563859I just want to go back to actual ACTION figures. Fucking articulation is not an action feature. If that's all you have, you are making poseable statuettes not action figures. I hate how people have been buckbroken into letting that distinction slide over the years. If your toy doesn't shoot water or a projectile, change color, transform, or stink it's just pic related with paint and tits.
>>11564892>MmpOk, but we talk about Mimp.
>>11564378LEGO aren't in the image.
>>11563859No, the late 50s to late 1960s were much better.>Peak for toy trains in America. Beginning of golden age for toy trains in UK and silver age in Germany/Austria.>Peak for model kits>Corgi, Dinky, Matchbox, Majorette and Hot Wheels were at all time popularity in sales of toy cars>Meccano and Erector sets were in their silver age and some sets were even motorized>BB guns were still commonplace>GI Joe and Action Man came out in this era>Actual miniature ICEs could be bought (manufactured by a number of companies, but most notably the Cox corporation), which were used on control line airplanes and tether cars>model rocketry was starting to take-off>plastic dolls started appearing>wooden and tinplate toys were still relevant, but more modern techniques were becoming more commonplaceDo I need to continue?Figgers are such braindead fucking retards, I swear to Jesus Motherfucking Christ.
>>11564894Japanese are now playing by Western rules of graphics, story and media hype is what sells games, not the actual game play, and no surprise, they're losing. Western developers have decades more experience at this game than the Japanese, who have, since the beginning, relied mostly on addictive game design to sell their games. The few Japanese developers that have survived to this point are the ones who have adapted the best to the retard Western design philosophy.>Though frankly most pre-90s games from either side of the Pacific are pretty unplayableSounds like I'm wasting my time because you don't even like real video games, and probably never will. You're content with pushing the X button when prompted to advance the story.
>>11564918Oh god, you're that "If you want anything other than frustrating tests of "skill" in your videogames you just want interactive movies" retard I've heard about. There is a happy medium between NES crap and Sonygger walking simulators, believe it or not.
>>11564919Sounds like you've been down this road before and have heard it all before, and yet nothing has changed your opinion that old games are trash. Not going to waste my time going back and forth then.
>>11564937I accept your concession. Also>Old games are trashNo, lots of old games are good. Just not pre-1990 for the most part.
>>11564919Enjoy playing Battlezone till the end of time.
>>11564940Gameplay is probably the least interesting part of vidya. It's like being obsessed with how the pages turn on a book.
>>11563859You missed a line.
>>11564323true both MOTU and TMNT* understood that for figures with relatively limited articulation you needed to have just the right blend of dynamic posing that would make the figures interesting by themselves, while still being done in a way that allowed for most figures to be broadly compatible with most vehicles and other accessories*not surprising really considering a lot of MOTU alumni were involved in the early days of the TMNT line, TMNT is in many ways basically MOTU 2 in terms of design philosophy>>11564590agreed, even today I'll see new toy lines in the toy aisles that I know if they had been around when I was a kid I would have loved>>11564592to be fair there were plenty of blind box toylines back in the 80's and 90's too(MUSCLE, Battle Beasts, and Monster In My Pocket all come to mind just off the top of my head), and slime has been a toy industry gimmick since the 70's, there's a reason Nickelodeon had slime as a big part of its image back in the 90's after all
>>11565045I feel the opposite. I can't stand another minute of storytelling in video games. It's a complete waste of my time. I don't care why the princess has been kidnapped. I don't need to know why the ghosts are chasing Pac-Man. I just want some action and excitement. Let's get on with it!
>>11564905The more I think about it, the more I agree... >Figgers are such braindead fucking retards, I swear to Jesus Motherfucking ChristFuck you, though.
>>11565058It's not often you get a playset that can hold the main vehicle in it. That was always the best feeling in the world with the Firehouse set.
>>11565219I always contemplated asking my dad to cut a hole above the door so the swivel-chair could go through>>11565058Sorry for my OCD but the packs are out of order, everyone knowsPeter has the green, Winston, yellowRay, orangeEgon, red
>>11564659>She-Ra>GoodNow I know a troon made this post.
>>11564647Time to take your meds, grandpa.
>>11564590>kenner aliens before the 90sOkay, this made me laugh
>>115645901983-1989 is missing Zoids.
>>11565045If you don't care about the gameplay you should be reading books. Or playing with plastic toys I guess.Like why even engage with a medium if you don't care about the only thing that's unique about it. Insanity.
>>11565350The interactivity element of games allows for unique stories to be told.
>>11564647You consider Jurassic Park "ruined?" The CGI is pretty scant in that movie, and that does a disservice to the puppets, animatronics, and practical effects.It didn't feel like CGI went full ham until George Lucas was using it for literally every possible thing he could in The Phantom Menace.
>>11565064>blind box toylines back in the 80's and 90's tooYou are right. They were never gone.My Little Petshop, Trash Pack figures, Lego Minifigures were all around 2010 in the shops.
>>11565272You are right.>>11565349Thats a good one!
>>11565352https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzkCmidjeHc
>>11565363He's not wrong.
>>11565064You would probably like Ninjombie. I saw it in the halloween toy thread and it uses the aesthetic of limited articulation and dynamic posing with the detailed and exaggerated sculpts of the 90s and includes a part swapping gimmick as well as a slime oozing feature when the limbs are removed. They look really cool and are an original IP by an independant company.
