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
>>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.
>>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.
>>11565357>You consider Jurassic Park "ruined?"No, Jurassic Park is a good movie, but they always introduce something bad with something good, otherwise no one would adopt it. CGI had Jurassic Park, first-person shooters had Doom, Grunge had Pearl Jam.Jurassic Park didn't need cgi to be a good movie. In fact, the best parts of the movie were done with practical effects, but cgi got all the attention and was credited as the reason the movie was so amazing. People bought into the hype, which opened the door for more cgi in movies.
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>>11563893Not that anon but we had the very same Saint Seiya figures in Europe back then and even if they were better articulated than most toys of that era still can't hold a candle to modern toys.And the faces were horrible.
>>11565413Mostly because the cgi was the most groundbreaking aspect of the movie. While the practical animatronics were impressive, a lot of them had issues during production (like the T-Rex breaking down during the first scenes they were filming with rain). The cgi scenes were originally going to be stop motion, which would have aged poorly and would have looked inferior even by the standards of the time. The cgi enhanced everything and it wouldn't have happened if one employee hadn't worked on it behind the studio's back, but once they saw the final product, they knew it was going to be huge.I do hate, however, that it led to the Special Editions of various movies and that a lot of modern movies now rely heavily on cgi visual effects over actual substance and storytelling.
>>11565581NTA and I haven't watched Jurassic Park but I have read the book, and from what I've seen my main gripe is that the film isn't the "Alien with dinosaurs instead of a xenomorph" story the book was. I dunno, I really enjoyed the book, and the transformation of the franchise into a cash cow seems kind of the antithesis of the point of the original story (that is "messing about with things that should have stayed dead to entertain the public and make money from it will lead to disaster").I think effects-wise my two favourite monster movies are Aliens (the first one is probably a better film but the Queen vs Power Loader fight is one of my favourite scenes in cinema from a spectacle point of view, period) and Dragonslayer (possibly the best stop-motion ever put to film). Also honourable mention to the OG Godzilla from 1954; considering the film was made 9 years after the end of WW2 and the filmmakers were inventing techniques as they went along, it's aged phenomenally well. Godzilla himself is fucking sinister, and outside of a few scenes (notably the stop-motion fire engine and Godzilla's oddly adorable debut "peek-a-boo!" bit) it's genuinely a superb looking film.
>>11565581CGI should never have been used as a replacement for practical effects. Maybe once capitalism dies, cgi will be used only to enhance scenes instead of being used to cut costs.I prefer that CGI never be used again in movie making, even if it means stop-motion returns, but I also prefer women to not wear makeup. I like it all natural. >"messing about with things that should have stayed dead"Or that, just because we have the technology, doesn't mean we should use it.
>>11565058Kino
>>11565058The soft rubber ghosts had a very distinct smell to them.I still have my original vinyl Stay Puft with my kaiju figures. Also the spring trap ghosts were pretty fun.
>>11565597>NTA and I haven't watched Jurassic Park but I have read the bookThe movie is definitely worth watching. Don't know how people still haven't seen it today. I've read both the book and the movie, and the book definitely had twinges of horror mixed in with the Sci-Fi. Movie also changes some things so different characters live and die. The irony is, the series as a whole basically becomes exactly what the series warns against; A franchise that just becomes a money-making cash cow with zero regard toward anything.I thought The Lost World was ok, but I was probably like 14 or 15 when it came out, and at that point I just thought it was cool seeing another JP movie. Jurassic World had the intriguing concept of "What if the park actually got up and running for years before everything came crashing down?"But then the movies go absolutely pants-on-head retarded after that with literal mutant dinosaurs, cross bred dinos, shady business men wanting to sell the dinos to the military, literal fucking black market scenes where evil henchmen are bidding on dinosaurs in an actual Resident Evil mansion, a human clone who has some dino DNA, a 'member berries movie where we mash the cast from the first three movies with the cast from the Jurassic World movies.And that's not even bothering with whatever the most recent one was doing...
>>11566397>A franchise that just becomes a money-making cash cow with zero regard toward anything.I was legitimately excited for the JW movie that was supposed to take place when Dinosaurs now roam free across the world, only to be sent back to the park to investigate Prehistoric bugs. Because of that disappointment, I didn't watch the newest film.On topic, my favorite franchise that's stood the test of time over the years is TMNT. Though I did skip the Rise and Mutant Mayhem toylines, I recently picked up a few at ROSS. The design of the new Metalhead is super cute, and while I don't love the new turtle designs, the figures do pose much better than the 2012 figures. Look at this little psychopath.
>>11565352no it doesn't
>>11566663Yes it does.
>>11566663>>11566687I agree that that unique stories point is wrong. There are toys much better. Videogames are more flashy and give you something that simulates play partners.
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>>11563894this whole board is filthy with instashills, sister
I'd say the 90's were better for kids toys. A lot of the main 80's lines are cool, but easily eclipsed by Like Dino Riders is cool, conceptually, but as much as I love Charles Knight dinos Jurassic Park was a much better line for dino sculpts.The best 80's stuff is the stuff that didn't sell that well and got neglected by actual 80's kids. Stuff like Godaikin or Spiral Zone that was impressive and ahead of it's time.
>>11564896>Fucking articulation is not an action featureHey man, I need articulation for the 80 $130 anime figures im going to stand side by side on a $50 walmart shelf made from particle board. I need to know if can bend those ankles. I just do. And I will shit up every thread and every conversation to complain when walmart toys that cost below $30 are lacking any and all articulation
>>11567062You miss out
>>11564463But they do mention them. MOTU in particular was a plot point in season 2.
>>11563859Yes it was.I’m really glad I was born in 1978.Early 90s were kino too.
>>11564659Haha he missed Blackstar. What an idiot.
>>11568916There are alot toy series you can miss, but most of them were not a big seller.
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>>11569418Micro stuff was really big in the late 80s.
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>>11568885>not be born when Star Wars played>be 2 years old when Empire is in theaters>be 3 years old when Raiders of the Lost Ark was in theaters>be 5 years old when ROTJ is in theatersYou missed a key part of the Gen-X childhood, bro. You're almost young enough to count as an early millenial.
>>11564659Wheeled Warriors was awesome. Both the toys and the cartoon were great, and are still very watchable. The line failed because of the big disconnect of them not producing any of the characters in toy form. MASK was cool, too.
>>11570183Nope. Thanks to VHS, Betamax, and movie re-releases I remember seeing all those films, plus E.T. and Jaws by the time I was 4.I even remember seeing the premiere of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.I remember witnessing the fall of Disco. Pac-Man fever,
>>11570207>I remember witnessing the fall of Disco.Disco collapsed in 1979 after it got crushed by "new wave" music. By 1980 "new wave" dominated, and you can see movies like "Xanadu" that were filmed 1979/1980 and released in 1980 that completely lack any disco at all. You were 1 year old then. You have one hell of a memory to be able to remember that.
>>11564659Starcom was really fun. Really noisy, but fun.MASK was good in the first wave, but the vehicles and gimmicks got less and less interesting with each wave.
>>11570216https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6dqIYKIBSU [Embed]I question everything you say, zoomer.As someone who has memories of the 70s and 80s, disco was too popular for me to believe what you're saying. It was still everywhere in the 80s, albeit not as much as it was in the 70s.Just going through google, sales were 4 billion dollars in 1979 and supposedly near to overtaking rock in sales. Even the next year, sales were at 80% of that high point.Article is from 1983, btw. So i don't think New Wave was as popular as you think.
>>11570381This. I remember hearing Disco Duck play a lot in the early 80s.
>>11570405Gen X’er here. I guess it depended on what station your parents were listening to.
>>11571018Not him, but who even had one radio like you're implying? We had 2 TVs in the house and at least as many radios, plus my mom and dad had their own cars. Everyone pretty much could watch or listen to their own thing whenever they wanted.When i made my post earlier about my memories about the 70s and 80s, i was mostly thinking about what was on TV and seeing what was going on outside of my house. So disco was still playing in ads and commerciails. Disco 8tracks, tapes, records, were still being sold in stores and had their own sections... up til a certain point.I think it was mid-80s when it was actually seen as some fuddy duddy shit and not even made fun of on TV anymore, because it was forgotten about.
>>11571018I heard alot of Disco music. Because my parents had friends who made mixtapes with disco music and played them in the car.
>>11570381>>11570405>>11571018>>11571070>>11571321I don't know what ass-backwards country you all lived in, but where I lived disco collapsed in 1979 and was deader than fucking dead with no turning back by 1980. The lone disco hit in 1980 was "Funky Town." That's it.
>>11571392You're looking at sales charts, bro.It's like saying that no one likes fantasy shit because Elden Ring or GAme of Thrones are no longer on the top 10 best sellers listThere's a difference between corporations suddenly getting scared of outputting more disco shit because of a marketing event calling for the death of disco and the actual death of disco.People don't just suddenly hate it, hence sales still being in the billions into the early 1980s.I mean, it's like saying that Star Wars died with The Last Jedi in 2017. Yeah, that was the bullet that killed Star Wars, but holy fuck, Star Wars is taking forever to bleed out.
>>11571540I had a good giggle with that picture. I wonder how many Rose and Finn figures ended up in landfills due to not even Ollie's being able to sell them.Anyway just because disco was barely out there in the early 80s doesn't mean it was culturally relevant or the dominant form of pop music like it was in the 70s. Don't misunderstand me. I do respect it. It was the first form of pop that wasn't exclusive to teenagers and early-20-somethings. It was the first form of music without social class or racial categories. Black, White, rich, poor - all under the roof of the same clubs. I respect that. I just acknowledge that when its time was up, it got swept aside quickly.
>>11571543>when its time was up, it got swept aside quicklyThe same can be said for all forms of music that were phased out. Hair Metal died seemingly overnight in 1991 when a few iconic Grunge and Rap albums came out.Nirvana - Nevermind (Sept 1991) Pearl Jam - Ten (Aug 1991)Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (Oct 1991)Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91 (a fitting name) (Oct 1991)A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (Sept 1991)NWA - Niggaz4Life (May1991)Ice T - Original Gangster (May 1991)Cypress Hill (Aug 1991)After those releases it was hard to find good music. I went out and bought Pearl Jam like I was expected to, and I fuckin hated it.
>>11571543>barely out thereNah, it was still everywhere until maybe 1983. Disco's fall took years and even had to be relabeled to get people to not be immediately scared away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tnOVideSo People who weren't alive and just repeat memes, like you, don't actually know what it was like.Like i said, you're currently living in a situation where something like Star Wars is suffering a similar fate, but look at how long and still everywhere shit like Star Wars was until 2021 or 2020. When was the last time a normie even remembered STar Wars? 2020 with Baby Yoda?
>>11571606>Hair Metal died seemingly overnight in 1991 when a few iconic Grunge and Rap albums came out.That's well-known truth. And it deserved it, too. I was playing guitar a lot at that time, and I remember all the ads at guitar shops as well as in the local alternative newspaper calling for hair-metal bandmates: "must be good-looking with a good image. If you happen to be able to play drums or guitar or bass or whatever, that's great too." Hair metal got so shallow that it really didn't take much to kick it aside. It didn't help that there was an unusually large abundance of non-hair albums in 1991: the black album, use your illusion 1 and 2, no more tears, blood sugar sex magik, nevermind, badmotorfinger, ten, achtung baby, and so on. And you hated their album "Ten" in 1991? I think it's brilliant. The album only has one shit-track on it, and is the closest grunge ever came to a perfect album.>>11571617Just because Star Wars is out now doesn't mean that it bears any relevance like it used to. Star wars used to be the alpha movie and merch property. Now it's a low-rated streaming TV show with shit the stores can't hardly even give away.
>>11571641>And you hated their album "Ten" in 1991? I think it's brilliant.I agree, it was brilliant for what it was. It had to be to be the killer of the Rock music that it clearly ended up being. I eventually came around to it again and discovered how good it was a few years later. It was a time when I was drinking a lot of soda full of sugar, eating junk food full of onions, and I was masturbating 3 times a day. That caused my testosterone and energy to drop to the point where I could finally appreciate Pearl Jam's moody-sludge music. That's when I realized that Hair Metal was like an orgasm shooting high in the air, and Pearl Jam was the aftermath, the slow slide down the leg.
>>11571669Hair-metal is alright in small doses, but I can't listen to too much at a time before it bugs me. Dokken's song "Fugitive" last year showed me that at least some of them still know how to produce a good song even if they're old as farts with voices that are shot now. Grunge collapsed quickly because it started off deep, then shallow trendy people made it shallow. Yeah I'm talking about Bush, Liz Phair, Eve 6, and others. There was even a song by Nada Surf called "popular" that said how important it is to be popular. That's the complete opposite of grunge, but it was in there. That kind of shallow shit brought an even quicker death than what hair metal and disco both got
>>11571677>Hair-metal is alright in small doses, but I can't listen to too much at a time before it bugs me.Too much of anything can be annoying. But Hair Metal has a good mix of styles for every mood. When I'm feeling good, I want to hear positive, high energy music, and Hair Metal delivers it like no other. When I'm down or feeling moody, I'd much rather listen to Cinderella's "Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone" or Tesla's "Love Song". Hair Metal just elicits a stronger emotional response. It makes me feel alive. With Grunge, the emotions are more muted. It feels like I'm on mood stabilizers. The highs and lows just aren't as powerful. "Even Flow"
>>11563859Where are the 90s toys?
>>11572308They're there. Biker Mice from Mars, Zbots, Bad Eggz, Street Sharks, and all the 80s carry-over brands still in production in the early 90s such as Transformers and GI Joe. Plus Star Wars had a huge comeback in toy stores in the mid-90s.
>>11572316>>11572308>>11572317The bigger question is why OP named the thread>80s toysA 80s/90s would be better. Not only because the pic includes 90s toys. But there is no hard dividing line between 80s and early 90s toys.
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>>11572324OP here, I thought all were 80s. I was born in 2001 (after 9/11). Sorry
>>11572343Oh. Ok. Understandable. You probably got that by a Google search and believed that it fitted your search criteria.Happened to me too once in a while.
>>11564080Does this mean we're still in the 80s now?
>>11572516WE NEVER LEFT, BRO.
>>11571641>That pictureEverywhere I see evidence the 80s and 90s were a more prosperous time than now. Obviously this is just one small example, but it is everywhere. People want to deny we are on the downswing but I don't know how they can.
>>11564590time is a bitch>>11572334these are fuken awesome
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>>11572543They were for the average person. House prices were a lot cheaper, as were car prices. The average person had a lot more disposable income because of it. >People want to deny we are on the downswing but I don't know how they can.Since then the rich got richer where billionaires now have hundreds of billions in wealth while the poor got poorer and what's in the middle shrank. No nation ever increased its prosperity by adding millions more people to the shark tank to compete against.
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>>11573799>>11573800>>11573804I personally like Micro Machines more, but sellers now want around $20 average for each, which adds up pretty damn fast.
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>>11573821>$20What? Thats really crazy. Suddenly nostalgia toys became investments!
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>>11573825Yeah shit's stupid levels of expensive now.
>>11573821And i think Micro Machines and Ring Raiders are two different things.Micro Machines were more cars. But i liked their Galaxy Voyagers.
>>11573832And i liked the Highway Warriors.
I always felt toys went bad in 88.
>>11576973Why?
>>11569414I remember having a Ring Raiders coloring book, but I can't recall having the toys.
>>11577557I never had any merch. But i had all of the 1st squadrons minus the Leader.
This >>11564478. Those bums haven't even scratched the surface on any rap or glam/hair metal that many remember from the 80's. They need to get this likes of Slick Rick or Dokken and their ilk referenced on the upcoming season(s).
>>11576973>>11577540its just true. after 88 toys were aimed at kids who werent allowed to have kick ass figs or properties. everything turned into an educational farce or something safe. then toys were aimed at adults. the true kick assedness came from the honest space of making kick ass toys for kids. we didnt make the rules
