What are some of the most absurdly popular "must have" toys in history, /toy/? The ones that cause literal riots to break out over them.
pokemon cards and labubu currently
>>11644049Probably Labubu. Both of my kids asked for one and getting them was kind of a pain. Had to drive to a PopMart store in Orlando to get them. Kek was a 4 hour round trip.
>>11644049This guy literally had a baseball bat to deal with psycho-crazy moms looking to get Cabbage Patch Kids in 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0NcA2SOqbc&t=125s
Anybody here ever ask for one of those types of toys and never get it?
>>11644060That was just a guy looking for an excuse to assault people.
>>11644049Furby
Sony PS2 which came out in the US in October 2000 right before Christmas. There was a mad rush for them, and greedy scalpers wanted as much as $2,000 for one. The PS3 and Nintendo Wii ran into similar bullshit. >>11644064>never dealt with a room full of crazy-bitchesALWAYS BE ARMED IN THAT ENVIRONMENT. YOUR LIFE WILL DEPEND ON IT.
>>11644057You’re a kind parent, they’ll remember that. My parents went through hell to get me an original Furby and I was so happy and grateful. I still have him, actually.
elmo kills toylines, please censor your image, op.
In the 1800s it was a saloon hooker
>>11644438Oh shit, how many points of articulation?
>>11644427
>>11644049I dont think there was ever a massive meme toy i wanted as a kid. When i was a kid all i wanted for christmas as shit like legos or star wars figures
>>11644693God how i wish prime katy perrys nudes got leaked back in the day. The fappening 2 cant happen soon enough
>>11644049I just watch a TV show called this.Cabbage patch was #3Kenner Star wars was #2Rubix Cube was #1You also had Barbie, Furby, Tamagotchi, Turtles and Teletubbies in the top 10.
>>11644714Theres seriously no way people wanted rubix cube more then star wars toys or cabbage patch dolls
>>11644081N64 was worse, because of limited amount of units available. Sold out everywhere. SAme year as Tickle Me Elmo, btw, so most news reports talked about both being a pain to get.Also, Phantom Menance toys were extremely hot when they came out. I think the rush to get those was bigger Cabbage Patch Kids.Even though the market was saturated with episode 1 shit, they sold a fuck ton more than whatever was left over.
>>11644726An estimated 500 million Rubik's Cubes have been sold worldwide since it was invented. 200 million of them were sold between 1980 and 1983 when the craze started to die down. Star Wars figures only appealed to little boys, and Cabbage Patch Kids to little girls. Anyone can use a Rubik's Cube.
>>11644728TPM toys sold like wildfire when they came out, and sold too well as Hasbro kept producing as much as people were buying. That's why they're pretty much worth around their original retail price today. But there was no mad Christmas rush for them. They came out in March, and by December the market was pretty much saturated and people were waiting on wave 2 with the silver C-3PO that came out early in the following year.
>>11644732Maybe youre right i dunno. All i know is my dad loves rubiks cube and the one he got in the 80s broke on him recently
>>11644737Personally I liked the other ones like the pyramid and snake.
>>11644747They made a snake one? Thats awesome
>>11644049>What are some of the most absurdly popular "must have" toys in history, /toy/? The ones that cause literal riots to break out over them.Those two things dont really correlate. Children dont cause riots. Parents do. And they really only did that around Christmas.Season 1 transformers, gi Joe, heman and tmnt were all insanely popular must haves but I dont think the release was between October and December 25th so I dont recall there being riots. Must haves would have been bases. Getting a giant base under the Christmas tree was really cool. Parents usually had months to get them. Never heard of anyone getting knocked out for one. There are of course exceptions like the 90s thunderbird's Tracey Island that had a near christmas release. https://youtu.be/A_tmfZATtOIKind of funny considering 1. That show is from 1965 and 2. That island is still popular, japan STILL reissues the model kit version.
>>11644049dundun chickens
>>11644755Yes they did. That one was different. There was no "solving" it like the others. It was about seeing what shapes you can make out of it.
>>11644711I womder how much time passed between the Elmo music video and the Elmo shirt. Because she looks much smaller in the music video.
>>11644842They probably put padding in for that music video since it was meant for sesame street
>>11644842Women's boob sizes do change with things like estrogen/hormone levels.
>>11644842She's wearing a push up bra in the shirt gif and no bra here. Push up bras make boobs look 2+ cup sizes bigger than they actually are. That's the whole point of them.
>>11644057>>11644085I never forgot my mom buying me a Wii out of nowhere during the height of people buying and scalping them.And honestly any time she actually got me something on my wishlist. People think you spoil your kids by doing this but if anything it made me feel grateful for my mom and I am more generous to my friends and family because of it.
Zuzu Pets.For some reason.
>>11644064Nah, I worked in a Kay Bee toys back in 2005 when Furreal Friends were the hot item. I watched two guys go to beating the shit out of each other for that last one on Black Friday while two cops had to pull them off each other. They also got blood all over several parts of the aisle which a few employees had to keep the crowd back and clean up fucking disgusting drunk middle age man blood off stuff and take any product that got any on it to the back to be bagged up and thrown away.
>>11644710Meme toys were mostly a thing between 1982-2008 or so. Recent generations really don't have that same type of thing.Game consoles being too damn expensive now that they are not kids toys so the mad rush for the new console is entirely adults.
>>11644845>>11644885>>11644917But such big differences?
>>11644049Tickle Me Elmo, Cabbage Patch Kids, Beanie Babies and Furbies are the only ones I'm aware of that resulted in actual physical altercations
>>11644693>>11644842Do you think elmo got to see down her dress?
>>11645061AIR JORDANS. Back when there was only so many made per year, sons of Obama would shoot up places to get them. That violence is why Nike no longer has them so rare, and makes them more obtainable.
>>11645130I never knew they were so limited back then. Why did shoed become this big thing for blacks to collect anyways?
>>11644053>Pokemon cardsAs Donglover would say, this is America.https://www.newsweek.com/target-pulls-trading-cards-all-stores-after-gun-drawn-parking-lot-1591057
>>11645137Wasn't a group caught selling Pokemon and MTG cards to themselves to artificially boost the market price, where once raised they sold once-cheap cards at inflated prices for easy cash?
>>11645127Elmo's eyes are pingpong balls, anon. He ain't seeing shit.
>>11644971>Recent generations really don't have that same type of thing.uhZhu Zhu PetsPokemon cardsLabubuFunko Pop/Mighty Muggs/etc.LOL dolliesMLPAmibos/SkylandersThere's ton of stupid shit you probably missed, because mass media isnt important to you anymore, but there are definitely a lot of trendy toys still popping up that everyone must own... or at least, are popular enough with kids that they must own them.
>you now remember Hatchimals
>>11645269Every one of those are bought by Adult Collectors anon. No kid has any of that shit.
>>11644049The original Buzz Lightyear caused problems didn't it? They even referenced it in Toy Story 2.
>>11645322My nephews and nieces have had pokemon cards, LOL dolls, MLP and amiibos during last Christmases.
>>11645322look at this childless weirdo
>>11645132Blacks have been shallow consumerists since the end of slavery>captcha: OKRA4S
I remember the minor shortage of Power Rangers the first year. PR was NOT expected to become as big as it did at that time,
>>11644728I actually got an N64 that christmas. My dad went into a Toys R Us and they sold him the display model. Didn't have a box or any of the paperwork but it worked just fine. He asked them if they had Goldeneye available and they said no and just before he left a woman came in to return a copy of Goldeneye because her husband had already bought a copy so my dad bought it off her. I still remember that christmas fondly!
>>11645614Your memory is pretty poor, because the N64 had like 6 or 7 games on its first year.Mario 64, Wave Race, Shadows of the Empire, Pilot Wings 64, some racing game and maybe some fighting game was all it had by Christmas.First N64 game i played was Turok at a trade show before the N64 launched in the US. Super fucking impressive for its time, despite the shitty fog, but it was delayed.Goldeneye came out the next year>>11645564most toys aren't expected to be big. TMNT, XMen, Cabbage Patch Kids, and even Tickle Me Elmo weren't big when they first came out. Hype takes a while to build up.But i don't remember Power Rangers being all that in demand. They were popular, but they weren't hard to get and they weren't anywhere close to being as hyped as TMNT or even Batman toys. Didn't even make the national news. Maybe i was too old by that point, but my little brother's friends also didn't seem all that big into it even though my brother was.
>>11645731He may not remember the exact year, but both N64 an the PS1 were "hot-ticket items" for Christmas for the late 90s.
>>11645465I had Pic related, got it a couple weeks after Christmas though. Couldn't have been anything like tickle me elmo though. I remember being at a Fred Meyer when they brought some out, and my mom basically grabbed mine and my brothers arms and ran because the people trying to get them were in a blood frenzy. Shit was wild.
>>11645736AKCHUALLY... PSX wasn't as popular as you think. Everyone was waiting for the N64 after SEGA's overpriced disappointment. There were no shortages for the PSX and there weren't a ton of people jumping for joy over ESPN XTREME Games, Battle Arena Toshinden, Loaded, or Gameday like people today fondly remember these series.The Playstation sold alright, but it wasn't "hot" at all or even popular. Even in chats and message boards, there were still more SEGA fans for its first year than there were Sony anything.The PSX only took off after the N64 came out and people not having a lot to choose from or even hope to see on that console. Resident Evil took a while for it to become popular, but i think the first big PSX hit was FF7 and it cemented it as a console to fanboy for.
>>11645764Are you fucking for real? The PS was the system to beat thanks to Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, and a shitload of other games. Look at the console sales of the two if you doubt it.
>>11645797Tomb Raider came out after the N64.Like REsident Evil, it also took a while for it to become popular.IF you actually lived through that era you'd know the only console that people were in a rush to get was the N64. Like i said, the PSX took a while to become popular. In fact, the N64 took a couple of months to outsell the total number of PSX consoles sold up to that date (i forget which month in 1997).If you look at the numbers sold now, i don't blame you for thinking it was popular off the bat, but it simply was not seen as a "MUST HAVE" console until Final Fantasy 7 came out. BTW, i bought the PSX near launch. Still have my 1001 series too. I also own a Saturn and N64, because i never liked console wars and was just a gamer.
>>11645731>But i don't remember Power Rangers being all that in demand. They were popular, but they weren't hard to getAbsolute bullshit. The shelves were so empty that Bandai had posters made to put up in the action figure aisle apologizing for the shortage. I remember the news stories about how hard they were to get and my auntie jumping through hoops trying to find a full set of the Rangers and Megazord for my shithead little cousin and asking my side of the family to grab the ones she was missing if we saw them.https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/05/us/with-power-rangers-scarce-a-frenzied-search-by-parents.html
>>11645882Fluff piece full of anecdotal examples, especially where they talk about some of the most popular places to buy toys in NYC. If you go to any popular store, almost every toyline gets emptied out, especially in the 90s and 00s. The comparison is also pretty poor, considering it doesn't take into account inflation and the price differences. Nevermind the different market, where little girl dolls aren't going to sell as much as action figures that sell to a much wider age range of boys.Since it wasn't on the national news, like Tickle Me Elmo or Cabbage Patch Kids hype, it really didn't stick out and confirms my own experience with the toyline.
>>11646029nta but that sounds like you're just doubling down on your bullshit, Power Rangers were big as hell that first year. You said there were no news stories and anon provides you with a newstory(the NYTimes is a national newspaper despite the name).You saying it wasn't that big is your own anecdotal experience.
>>11646035>You said there were no news storieslet's see what i said>They were popular, but they weren't hard to get >Didn't even make the national newsAnd NY Times getting national distribution isn't the same as being national news.It's like saying that WGN or KTLA is national news just because you can watch their news programs in nearly ever region, and even other countries.The scope of the NYT's coverage being stores on certain blocks in New York City makes it very much as regional as the Topeka Star Journal Post morning and afternoon newspaper.
>>11644085I remember my parents casually came across Furbies while shopping at Costco and decided to get them for my cousins not even knowing about people murdering each other for them.
>>11645852Depended on the age. If you were in high school Christmas 97, then you and everyone you knew got a PSX.If you were in elementary or middle school everyone got a N64. It might have been the first time consoles were divided by age lines.
>>11646029>Fluff piece full of anecdotal examplesI guess Bandai just made that poster for funsies.Also complaining about anecdotal examples when all you have is an anecdotal example proves what a fucking retard you are.>confirms my own experience with the toylineNothing but an anecdotal example with no proof behind it. Disregarded.
>>11646055you weren't there, brah.Genesis does what Nintendon't.Genesis was for mature teens such as myself and Nintendo was kiddygay. Nintendo censored games for their SNES. The age divide existed ever since SEGA upped their marketing campaigns with the release of Sonic 2.... but i owned a Genesis and SNES, because each one had their own games i needed to play. Why limit yourself?Also, in my HS, almost everyone played Mario Kart 64. Smash Bros was also popular. the N64 was the dudebro console before the XBox existed, especially when Turok 2 came out and Goldeneye setting everyone up with wanting to play FPS multiplayer. Yeah, shit like Quake existed, but that was for nerds... so i secretly played Warcraft and then Starcraft.
>>11644993Yes, that's exactly what push-up bras are for. It can easily take someone from a b cup to a d cup. The entire bottom part is thick padding. If you ever get a girlfriend, you will see it for yourself and probably be disappointed the first time that she takes her bra off in front of you.
>>11646063lack of national news is proofWhereas you can find national news and magazines talking about the Tickle Me Elmo being such a hyped beast. You can't not find videos hyping Elmo up. It's a little harder to find shit about Cabbage Patch Kids, but only because not everyone had a VCR or cheap tapes to record everything in the 80s.pic of white oprah giving tickle me elmos away before black oprah made give aways popularBTW, posters like Bandai's is just to generate hype. It's the same shit as saying PREDATOR BADLANDS HAD THE BEST BOX OFFICE OPENING FOR ANY PREDATOR EVER. Or the PS3 selling out at launch.Ever heard of FOMO or being sheep?And like i said, there's no doubt that PR was popular, but it just isn't the same shit as the mad rush for an N64 or Tickle Me Elmo.
>>11646077>rosieI'm sure you think a 90s talkshow for housewives is a more reliable source than actual news agencies despite it being that era's equivalent of BuzzFeed, but please continue to prove your retardation.
>>11646083I'm not saying Rosie is reliable, I'm saying that products like Tickle Me Elmo were reported on everywhere because you couldn't find it anywhere.Just like Cabbage Patch Kids and other impossible to find products.You can't equate Power Rangers to phenomenon like that, hence PR not being on the national news or shitty daytime talk shows like Rosie ODonnell.
>Subjectanon's hateboner for Bandai is so absurd he's trying to retcon the undeniable success of PR in the 90s because the idea of anything Bandai makes being popular makes him seetheJesus Christ, what a sped.
>>11645852>Like REsident Evil, it also took a while for it to become popular.Tomb Raider was immediately a hit in 1996 so much so that EIDOS ordered a new one every single year until the next gen of systems. >IF you actually lived through that era you'd know the only console that people were in a rush to get was the N64.You are so full of shit. The N64 didn't come out until September 1996, and by then the PS1 was already gaining traction. And BOTH systems were high-demand Christmas gifts every year up until the Dreamcast in 1999 and PS2 in 2000 deflated that. It was a miracle that the N64 even sold what it did due to the lack of games in comparison to the PS1, but at Christmas time people bought it.
>>11646165>You are so full of shit. How old are you?I lived that era. I was online, in chat rooms and forums.I definitely know what I'm talking about. You don't.>more Nintendo 64s were sold within the first three days of launch than PlayStations had sold in one and half years. >Within the fiscal year (February 1996-January 31, 1997) more Nintendo 64s were sold than PlayStations to the end of the fiscal year. https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/05/30/recap-of-n64-sales>From January 1 through April 30, 1997, independent sales data show the world's first and only 64-bit game machine is selling more than 60 percent ahead of its nearest rival, Sony's 32-bit PlayStation. Additionally, the industry's seven top-selling games are available exclusively for Nintendo 64. Dead link, since the internet is dying, but here's the thread and everyon's reactions https://www.neogaf.com/threads/n64-x-ps1-sales-war-in-america.603276/ >By the end of Nintendo’s fiscal year ending in March, Nintendo had sold 5.8 million units worldwide! A feat made more impressive considering that in the first 16 months the PlayStation had been on the market, it had only sold 4.3 million units! https://gametyrant.com/news/a-brief-history-of-the-nintendo-64-in-1997So it seems someone else was reading the same magazines i was reading back then.>Tomb Raider was immediately a hit in 1996Tomb Raider was also on Saturn and PC, but the point I'm making is that TR did nothing to sell the PSX over the N64. Like RE, it wasn't a console seller until later. FF7 was that system seller and that's when the PSX finally started overtaking the N64 (late 1997).>>11646151cry more, dude. Sorry, but toys that are actually hard to get will be on the national news, instead of space wasting fluff articles on regional newspapers.
>>11646218Argue about this shit on /vr/. This is /toy/.
>>11646218He literally posted a national news story about it though. Why are the NY times suddenly less reputable than ugly Rosie? You're really reaching here to try and sound right.
>>11646220No bones about it anon, or should I say, no chunky little bonerinos about it kek
>>11646228It's a regional newspaper, hence the article that's posted having a regional perspective. Did you even read the article?Just because you recognize it doesn't mean it's not regional. It's the same thing as KTLA or WGN (and if you don't recognize these stations, you're either a fly over or a third worlder).
>it's a subby can't admit when he's wrong episode
>>11646236>"THIRD WORLDER!!!"That's all you can say! That's all you can say!
>>11646239>It's a faggot troll keeps starting ahit episodeKys
>>11646218>Acting like the N64 was a big successNintendo barely survived it, bro. Fucking Pokemon is what kept them afloat during that time. It only had around 400 games against the PS1's 1,200-game catalog. Plus the PS1 had free demos, and the games were cheaper than cartridge games. And hardly any 3rd-party developers wanted to touch it thanks to that 64-megabyte cartridge limit capacity against Sony's 700-megabyte CD capacity. >Tomb Raider was also on Saturn and PC, but the point I'm making is that TR did nothing to sell the PSX over the N64. Like RE, it wasn't a console seller until later. FF7 was that system seller and that's when the PSX finally started overtaking the N64 (late 1997).>It didn't help but it did but not until laterYou're doing mental gymnastics here. Tomb Raider was an instant hit. Deal with it.
>>11646253>Tomb Raider was an instant hit.Yet Super Mario is still making new games.
>>11646236>It's a regional newspaper, hence the article that's posted having a regional perspective. Did you even read the article?The NY Times is a national newspaper. No amount of revisionist history or retconning is going to change that. You come off as a little boy who can't admit when he was wrong. Consider working on that.
>>11646236>Covers domestic, national and international news
>>11646253You wanted to argue with me about the N64 initially outselling the PSX, despite the PSX having almost a 2 year head start, but since I offered proof showing you're wrong, you're going to move your goalpost to end of life sales? Mega cope.I also like how you bring up age old console war talking points, despite you being a zoomer. Did you learn that from tiktok or a youtuber?>Tomb Raider was an instant hit.Not a system seller though, like the post above was trying to claim. Tomb Raider came out a month after the N64 in 1996 and N64 console sales dominated charts for almost 10 months, while the PSX continued to sell mediocrily. Only FF7 really coincided with the PSX finally selling like a popular console should in 1997 (Tomb Raider 2 also came out in 1997, btw).
>>11646252>It's a faggot troll keeps starting ahit episodeThat's what he said.
>>11646259IT's still a regional newspaper, just like Carson City Gazette or the Seattle Star, which also covers national news. Again, refer to WGN and KTLA, which also talk about shit that happens in other parts of the country.Again, you're only proving you didn't read the NYT article. It talks about regional stores selling shit. Their reporting about the toy store the 55th city block in the puerto rican district sold out instantly doesn't matter on the national level. It's extermely anecdotal, because their scope is very limited, due to being a regional newspaper.A national news agency would reports on a nationwide level, offering multiple perspectives of where it sold out. You nkow, like when actual hard to get toys get coverage from national news agencies report on, unlike Power Rangers?I mean, fuckign Regis and Cathy :ee were more relevant because they were able to comment on nation wide shortages of Tickle Me Elmos, while the NYT can only talk about Muhammad's Pottery Barn/Toy Bazarr on Market Street running out Pink Rangers.
>>11646279>IT's still a regional newspaper, just like Carson City Gazette or the Seattle StarNo, it isn't. You insisting this over and over again like a child doesn't make it true. Sorry, but you're wrong and no amount of explaining, or ranting is going to change that. Do whatever mental hulah hoops you need to. Just stop shitting up the thread because of whatever mental deficiency you have that prevents you from just admitting you were wrong.Here's a video showing the rush at one random store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9ENBPb4M4Here's a story the Associated Press did back in the day about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9D0rhz4ADgNetflix's Toys that Made Us documentary series going over the most popular toys in the US had a whole episode dedicated to Power Rangers. Go watch that if you need more evidence. Fucking idiot loser.
>>11646279And here's the segment in the Netflix documentary talking about the toys being impossible to get initiallyhttps://litter.catbox.moe/vtvzlplooyz2dboj.mkv
>>11646288I was about to post that AP clip to show Subjectautist that national news was reporting on it, but you beat me to it.Here is another article from the LA Times, which while it is ONLY a regional newspaper, it gives more of a national perspective about the shortage and how even in states where you could still find them, people were grabbing figures out of people's shopping carts.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-23-vw-4705-story.htmlAnd here's one from CT which is behind a paywall, so I didn't read it.https://www.courant.com/1993/12/15/hot-toys-of-season-gone-from-shelves/And finally, here's one from some backwater smalltown newspaper out in the boonies that also has a paywall.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/12/06/morphins-mighty-hard-to-find/f2a49a9c-4115-46e3-894a-6f943d3b118d/Maybe if we can post an article from each state saying there was a Power Rangers toy shortage, he will shut the fuck up.
>>11646297Watch, he'll never come back to this thread again now that he's been so utterly blown the fuck out.
>>11646268You can say what you want. The Playstation kicked the shit out of the N64. That's the simple truth.
>>11646297>Let me post some fake news from liberal sources that always post nothing but lies!>SURELY this will convince anyone like it does all my liberal friends!
>>11646065I was in high school during Christmas 97 when everyone I knew got a playstation. I never actually saw anyone with a N64 in their house for a couple years after that, nor personally knew anyone who owned one. I knew lots of people who had a Playstation though. I later learned it was the kiddy console and it mostly went to smaller kids and middle schoolers. The problem is that the die-hard Zelda fans have spent the last 25 years consistently revising history to claim the exact opposite happened.
>>11646297just using the raid option on him is more productive than using those as news sources dude
>>11646381The N64 sold well at Christmas time because Nintendo was the established "familar brand" after dominating the console wars for the previous two gens of systems. And if you're not sure what your kids/grandkids want, play it safe and go with Mario Brothers. However it was nowhere near as massive a success as the Playstation. The games costed more, there were noticably fewer games, and that shit was noticable to anyone with eyes.
see what happens when elmo's involved? everyone fights
>>11646461It's just one guy with an asshole mindset that compels him to believe that internet discussions are competions/battles that he has to "beat people to win" with. He's mental.
>>11646475*competitions. Derp.
My understanding with the PS1 vs N64 vs Saturn (the poor thing) was that it was actually quite a regional thing and which one was "the winner" varied massively depending on where you went. The competition was fairly even in Japan, for instance; the PS1 was still the dominant console just by virtue of being considerably easier to develop for (which is the primary reason it had so many games compared to the N64 and Saturn) but the stigma of the N64 being "for kids" was considerably less of a thing, and the Saturn was actually pretty damn popular in Japan- had half the games actually been released outside the country (and the company in general not been horrifically mismanaged on the US side) it probably would have done much better.Now in the 6th gen, on the other hand, Sony absolutely bodied Sega out of the console market and did a major number on the GameCube despite the latter being arguably the better hardware. Though being placed in a prime position by how well the PS1 did to begin with probably helped.
>>11646507PS2 was initially the best choice since it was also a DVD player in the same time when DVD players were comparably priced. Spending $250 on a DVD player, or a PS2 which also played games, and was backward compatible was not a hard decision at all.
>>11645130Air Jordans aren't toys, anon...
>>11646292>"get fucked subjectanon" at the end Hilarious. Even more hilarious how he hasn't reered his fat head back in this thread.
>>11646288>>11646297>muh billybob news sources said it sold out and rare!I do appreciate your Associated Press find though, but the problem with that is that the AP does a ton of shit and it's up to national news to pick up their stories if they're popular/meaningful enough. If it came out in Time Magazine, 20/20 or Dateline, NBC Nightly News, or something that wasn't regional...>>11646381>Zelda fans have spent the last 25 years consistently revising history to claim the exact opposite happened.It's mostly zoomers. Everyone who lived in that era knew that Nintendo was kiddy shit since the SNES. Even in grade/middle school in the early 90s, SEGA's marketing campaign was in full force to make kids believe Nintendo was the kiddy. Zoomers didn't live through that era, so they don't know.But that really didn't stop the N64 from becoming the fastest selling console up to that point, and as proven, it outsold everything the Playstation sold in TOTAL despite its 1.5 year lead. Like that other anon said, it was a family console and the video game market back then was still mainly made up of kids.I mean, even you admit to buying the Playstation in Christmas 1997. The PSX had already been out a full 2 years at that point. I bought my PSX in 1995 (bought the Saturn the same year and my N64 in 1996) and i didn't know anyone else who owned a PSX, and given its sales (to compare: the SNES sold 3x as much than the PSX at launch) i think that's why. All my friends were still playing on their Genesis and SNES, and were looking forward for the N64. The Playstation was unfamiliar and was just there, until FF7 came out.I should note, i went to a private school, so we had more disposeable income, thus were able to afford owning more than one console. Despite most of us playing Turok/Goldeneye/Mario Kart, a lot of of us were also later playing shit like Final Fantasy Tactics... but that came later.
>>11646951>He still refuses to accept the fact that Power Rangers toys were national sell ours>Denying multiple sources>Continued to huff his own fartsHoly shit. You do realize that multiple of those billybob news sources reporting on the exact same thing indicates a national trend, right? You can't be this dense. The Netflix documentary has THE LITERAL TOY MAKERS COMFIRM EBERYTHING WAS SOLD OUT NATIONALLY! You really are too stupid for this world. It's a genuine miracle you're still alive.
>>11646951>I went to a private school, so we had more disposeable incomeI just caught this. This actually explains a lot. Imagine, developing only child syndrome when you have two siblings. LMAO!
>>11646951>billybob news sources>Noooooooooooo. Your national newspapers don't count because they proved me wrong! I need it to be The National Enquirer, or from an episode of Geraldo or Sally Jessy Raphael because I consider them to be real national news like the Rosie O'Donnell Show. Look! She gave away an Elmo! That's real national news! Who even read The Washington Post?The copium level is off the charts.>the problemThe only "problem" is that you have been btfo'd by national news agencies (and an international one) reporting on the Power Rangers shortage and you still want to pretend that it didn't happen.>or something that wasn't regional...You mean like The New York Times, The Washington Post, or LA Times? Do you even know what a newspaper of record is?>>11647057That private school had to be The Winston School of San Diego.
>>11647052Heres something you don't want to understand, because then your little fantasy would be ruined: your sources are anecdotal.You need to come up with 50-100 major news sources for what you believe in to actually be relevant, because none of your sources even state any numbers for what's being sold out. Shit like those videos only show a SINGLE store talking about how shit is selling out, when there's TENS OF THOUSANDS of stores out there.Your sample size is too tiny to actually be anything but flyover opinionsThis is why i want to see a national news source, because if they report it, it's likely a majority consensus that shit was hard to find and selling out everywhere.I mean, that fucking AP video has not even 9 people looking over the shelves, in no rush, just looking over the products. The toy owner or manager is talking about how they RESTOCK the shelves overnight, because the products aren't actually hard to get.Same with the TRU video, with like 6 people lined up, with a bunch of grandpas calmly picking and choosing, because there's plenty of stock for everyone.Whereas Tickle Me Elmo and N64 videos have people fighting and running around to get a chance for the limited stock (because even if they had a thousand units that's limited due to demand). They're lucky to even get a fucking RAIN CHECK.The difference between what's actually hard to get because demand oustrips supply and Power Rangers is very easy to understand, so why don't you? I think a single forum that has 80 people posting on it is more reliable than the Washington Post or New York Times, because those hundred people come from a hundred different places and if they're anything like us, actually going to 5-10 different stores every week or two and reporting what they see. But of course, the internet wasn't that popular back in 1994, so dumb people like yourself love to point at fluff pieces on a newspapers you can't even read, because of your rose tinted memories.
>>11645741Weird af I just saw the new version of this at Disney Springs. The new one's box it comes in actually looks like the movie box too. The silver here looks better though. Was this toy brittle? I remember some of my old Silver metallic toys flaking or just breaking.
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>>11647097>>11647052>>11646951 Christmas buying is the only real time the N64 sold well. You can do this argument of "ON A TUESDAY IN DECEMBER WHEN IT WAS SLIGHTLY CHILLY OUTSIDE THE N64 BEAT THE PLAYSTATION" argument until you're blue in the face. Those of us who were there remember only little kids wanting one. Even then there weren't as many takers due to the higher game prices paired with a smaller game selection.
>>11645564When you made this comment did you expect it to cause all this?
>>11647097>your sources are anecdotal.It's not anecdotal when multiple sources report the same thing. The only thing anecdotal in fact is you, because you're the only one saying this didn't happen. >You need to come up with 50-100 major news sources for what you believe in to actually be relevantWatch the Netflix clip I posted. Are you saying the toy makers lie?>Your sample size is too tiny to actually be anything but flyover opinionsI'm literally using the word from the actual toy makers. You're the one who needs all this proof, that has been provided. >This is why i want to see a national news source,Is the Associated Press not a national news agency? Holy shit. Keep ,moving the goalposts you whiney little faggot. I'm not respond to the rest of your post. You are genuinely too retarded to exist and it's a miracle that you haven't accidentally choked by swallowing loose change or something. The fact that you brought up you were a coddled private school boy who's parents paid off and probably still pay for you to exist is the most telling thing about this whole exchange. And the fact that for some reason you only think your childhood was valid because you can't fathom someone having a different experience than you. Bonkers.
>>11647148Anon the only reliable news source is Rosie!
>>11647132Yeomout of the three posts you quoted weren't even referring to the N64 debate. But whatever anon. You do you.
>>11647148The guy wants to argue. That's what he does here with going from topic to topic and using any tiny little excuse to start an argument with under his psychotic "I MUST BEAT YOU AND WIN A POINTLESS INTERNET ARGUMENT" mentality. We remember clearly. By the time the N64 came out in 1996 the Playstation already had north of 300 games for it with many new games for as low as $25 and pawn shops loaded with used games as cheap as $10 each so even poor people could afford it. By pure economics it was the logical system to get for every economic class. The biggest buyers of the N64 weren't even kids. They were middle-class suburban parents and grandparents buying Christmas presents for kids while remembering that the Nintendo was the alpha console since the mid-80s, so they said "fuck it" and went with the familiar. That's why it had routine annual sales spikes at Christmas time.
>>11647169I'm not even talking about the N64. Frankly you're being as retarded as subjectanon at this point.
>>11647170Right. Keep telling yourself that. Xbox may be fucked, but Sony's going nowhere.
>>11647148>i don't understand what anecdotal means, thus you're wrongYou don't understand statistics either, huh?You need more than a couple dozen cities to come up something that isn't anecdotal due to how statistics work and you think FIVE articles will do? Fucking child logic. Again, it's why it didn't make the national newsYou don't even read your own articles, since they talk about LOCAL toy stores and the videos also show how there's no rush to buy any of the toys, having plenty of RESTOCK>Associated Press not a national news agencyLiterally isn't, retard. The associated press are indie journalists who sell shit to local/national/regional stations/papers/etc. And the video makes no claims on how the toys are selling nation wide. There's no stats or numbers, muchless reports on what's going on on in the next county over, because it's a fluff piece for grandmas to tell them what to buy their grandkids>I'm literally using the word from the actual toy makersshipped ≠ sold. Hasbro can crow about how they made hundreds of millions of dollars from the Eternals figures, because they literally shipped everything, but it doesn't mean the toyline isn't still currently clogging the pegs at stores. Who knows what Bandai actually [i]sold[/i] without TRST/NPD numbers.As we saw from TWO videos, we can see that it's nowhere near what OP is asking about, because Power Rangers certainly wasn't causing riots or even fights. The toyline was popular, but it wasn't hard to get, hence grandpas and grandmas slowly picking and choosing whatever they wanted without being stomped on by karens, because the demand isn't as high as you keep trying to pretend it was.Your own videos you posted prove that.>>11647169>still mad after being proven wrong with factual numbers and period articles on how the N64 outsold the PSX in less than a yearFrom the shit you're saying, it sounds like you were born after the PS2 was launched.
>>11647223You can't be this stupid. You just can't. Something with multiple sources from across the entire country is anecdotal, but your particular memories and childhood can be the only way the rest of the world experienced their own childhoods? Are you actually being serious right now?So far, it's your one experience vs. multiple sources citing the contrary. Your whole premise is an anecdote. >Literally isn't, retard. The associated press are indie journalists who sell shit to local/national/regional stations/papers/etcWow, you're actually making shit up to double down on how wrong you are. Holy fucking shit. This is a new low for you subs. The AP is not an indie journalist. What rock do you live under?>shipped ≠ sold. Hasbro can crow about how they made hundreds of millions of dollars from the Eternals figures, because they literally shipped everything, but it doesn't mean the toyline isn't still currently clogging the pegs at stores.Except they're not talking about units shipped. They literally talk about how Bandai was getting phone calls from not only customers, but stores themselves that there was no stock and everything was sold out. You didn't even watch the clip, you're just making shit up again. This whole tripling down on being wrong is so bizarre, but I'll take it as your way of admitting that you were wrong. I accept your concession, feel free to not reply about this topic again. You contribute nothing to said topic. Fucking private school kids are insufferable all the way into their 50s.
>>11647223>Again, it's why it didn't make the national newsIt did, but you seem to be confused about what an actual national newspaper is vs a fluff piece by Rosie O'Donnell.I should note, I went to a private school, so I know what is required for a publication to be considered a newspaper of record.
>>11647243You don't understand! It's not national news because... because... IT JUST ISN'T OK! You're such a third worlder and my childhood was the only childhood that happened.
>>11647236>Something with multiple sources from across the entire country is anecdotalLiterally is, retard. It's how statistics work and you'll need at least 50 more sources for it to be anything but anecdotes, unless you can quote walmart or TRU instead of some vague recollection.>but your particular memories and childhood can be the only way the rest of the world experienced their own childhoods?I'm not claiming this, retard.I'm asking for a NATIONAL NEWS source on this, because they would report on this shit if it was a nationwide problem. Again, go look at the links youv'e been posting. They all talk about LOCAL stores. Even your own links claim it's LOCAL>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/12/06/morphins-mighty-hard-to-find/f2a49a9c-4115-46e3-894a-6f943d3b118d/>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/LOCAL/>The AP is not an indie journalist.>For nearly two centuries, The Associated Press has set the standard for independent, nonpartisan and fact-based journalism https://www.ap.org/about/I'm talking to a third worlder using a bot, huh?You literally don't read anything and don't understand anything.You just have a little fantasy about Power Rangers being the most popular thing ever because you liked it as a child, not realizing how easy they were to get back in the day. The videos you guys linked to even prove that.
>>11646083>I'm sure you think a 90s talkshow for housewives is a more reliable source than actual news agenciesBecause that's the metric. If it was a big enough deal to be carted out as midday entertainment for stay-at-home moms, then yes, that proves it fits the thread topic. Rosie didn't do a segment on Power Rangers because, comparatively, they weren't THAT much in demand to the point that people were willing to sell their soul to get one, like with Cabbage Patch or Tickle Me Elmo.
>>11647248>Literally is, retard. It's how statistics work and you'll need at least 50 more sources for it to be anything but anecdotes, unless you can quote walmart or TRU instead of some vague recollection.I provided quotes from the people who worked at Bandai at the time who reported that stores and customers were complaining about the toys selling out and there not being enough stock in stores to meet demand. For some reason, you're not counting this though.>I'm asking for a NATIONAL NEWS source on thisYou've been provided with several at this point, but because it proves you wrong, suddenly the NYT, WP and AP aren't national news sources. >>The AP is not an indie journalist.>>For nearly two centuries, The Associated Press has set the standard for independent, nonpartisan and fact-based journalism https://www.ap.org/about/>I'm talking to a third worlder using a bot, huh?You just might be the genuinely dumbest person I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with.>You just have a little fantasy about Power Rangers being the most popular thing ever because you liked it as a child, not realizing how easy they were to get back in the day. The videos you guys linked to even prove that.Is that what you think is being argued? The point I, and others are trying to make is that Power Rangers toys were so in demand at one point that they were difficult to get to the point Bandai made signs for stores to put out. There were multiple news stories posted about it in this thread. There was an interview with people who worked at Bandai who attest to this. That's what's being argued, not that they were the best thing ever ever ever. Stop making up bullshit in your own head that you can argue about.Don't you get tired of always taking the contrarian side of any argument on this board? Don't you get sick of arguing with everyone all the goddamn time? It must be fucking exhausting.
>>11647253ooof, someone with developed brain is in this thread and was able to understand the logic on why Rosie ODonnell or Regis and Cathy Lee were brought up?Maybe /toy/ isn't drowning in retards.
>>11647248>For nearly two centuries, The Associated Press has set the standard for independent, nonpartisan and fact-based journalismThat means that the organisation is independent of corporate and government interests.You claimed here >>11647223>The associated press are indie journalistsThey are not indie journalists. I'm surprised your private school education didn't teach you the difference between an indie journalist and an independent news organisation, so it really must have been one of the private short bus schools.
>>11647258Sure, but trying to say something didn't happen because Regis or Rosie didn't talk about it while multiple news stories and interviews are posted stating that it did happen is beyond retarded. Just because Rosie didn't talk about something in the 90s doesn't mean it didn't happen. You can't be this dense, can you?
>>11647253>muh fluff piece is more news than the actual newsRetards like you are what ruined America.>Rosie didn't do a segment on Power Rangers becauseBecause her show didn't start airing until 1996, retard.
>>11647262In case you can't tell, he's samefagging. Forgetting to use capital letters when he starts replying to his own posts is an old trick of his.
>>11647255>You've been provided with several at this point,Literally haven't, retard.You recognizing a regional newspaper ≠ national news source. Maybe a national news source like Time Magazine or NBC Nightly News can quote NYC or the WP, but that doesn't make them a national news source. Your articles are even labeled as local by the WP and NYT's own content is about on local storesSame shit with AP.>Is that what you think is being arguedIt's what this thread is about, retard. Did you even read OP?Everything you're shitting out stems from your inability to read and understand English.And you didn't quote anyone, but i chalk that up to your lack of English skills.It's just vague recollections without any context. Who were they talking to? Walmart? TRU? Target? Indie stores? Were they talking to distributors? Distribution centers?>There were multiple news stories posted about it in this thread.Yes, anecdotal. Again, i don't doubt that some stores sold out, because that's how stores during christmas operate. In America, toy stores look like tornados hit the shelves and nearly everything is gone by Christmas eve...but again, we have video proof from you that shows how grandpas and grandpas fought nobody to get a power ranger, and store owners/managers talking about how they had plenty in the back to restock for the next day.
>>11647269Yep. Good riddance. I never got the appeal of faggots in spandex suits karate-kicking the air while yelling "HYUH HUH YUH!" Japanese "tokusatsu" shit was never interesting to me, but more power to the 5-year-olds who thought it was cool. I guess they're not feeling any nostalgia for it now when considering multiple attempted relaunches have all failed. >>11647223>still mad after being proven wrong with factual numbers and period articles on how the N64 outsold the PSX in less than a yearYour gauge is so retarded, and relies entirely on scalpers and grandparents who didn't know what kids wanted buying that shit briefly in one single Christmas. That's like saying a movie was successful after having a big opening weekend while ignoring the massive dropoff in week 2.
>>11647262>You can't be this dense, can you?Yes he can. It's Subjectanon. His laundry list of retardation includes:>Believing 90 degrees is not a greater elbow bend than 60 degrees, and accusing the person who demonstrated basic understanding of mathematics of "dishonest posing">Proclaiming that G.I. Joe Classified is "near death" despite all evidence to the contrary and that "true fans" don't like it because it's not 1/18>Plaguing the 40K thread for years, screaming about how bad JoyToy is and pretending to be some kind of expert on 40K despite being unable to post a single model>Claiming the SHF TMNTs were "completely inaccurate" and saying they most closely resemble the style guides for merch...which are almost identical to the cartoon models anyway>Claiming the Mafex Carnage's bubblegum mouth wasn't a complete laughing stock because of shots of cherrypicked colouring errors, being completely BTFO by /co/ and then doubling down on it>Pretending Mezco's Hulk's greens weren't horrifically mismatched (they were)>Claiming a fully articulated, fully painted dragon toy the size of a small child is "overpriced" because another MUCH smaller toy was cheaper>Honestly believing DCC's BVS figures were comparable to Figuarts in quality for a fraction of the price and only failing miserably because of the movie not being very good (despite the Figuarts selling out)>Pretending Todd McFarlane invented the concept of spherical joints and that Kaiyodo stole the concept for the Revoltech joint off himThe guy is our biggest lolcow for good reason. He also killed our chance of getting a sticky.
I actually do remember seeing a news report about the scarcity of PR toys in 1993. One was like “There’s a red and black ranger at this KB Toys atm”.
>>11647262We have at least two retards in this thread trying their hardest to prove that Power Rangers was up there with Tickle Me Elmo and Cabbage Patch Kids in how popular Power Rangers were.They haven't found shit to prove it was talked about on a national level, because it didn't happen (and that's why they're just making shit up and turning to insults instead). Shit that happens on a national level would be easy to find, because everyone would be reporting on it somewhere and/or memeing about it on TV somewhere.I mean, it's not hard to find PRE-INTERNET shit that happened 40 years ago, because parents actually had a hard time getting Cabbage Patch Kids.>>11647259that's some heavy mental gymnastics you're working on there, just to find fault in anything i say, because you're butthurt over Power Rangers not being hard to find back in the day.>>11647278that's an amazing new cope you needed to create because you were wrong about the N64 outselling the PSX in only a few monthsAnd your zoomer mentality is showing, because you think scalping was as wide spread in 1996 as it is today.
>>11647267>muh fluff piece is more news than the actual newsYes, actually. That's what we're talking about. Public perception and the hysteria around it. A reputable news outlet simply reporting the facts of a local toy shortage to inform inquiring consumers isn't really the metric here.Nobody was rioting over Power Rangers. They were very popular and hard to get at certain intervals, but not at "holy shit bring an aluminum bat" levels. That's the point when daytime TV takes over, because now it's not just a fact, it's a cultural event that's affecting a good portion of housewives (i.e., the people who are generally responsible for buying toys and stay home all day to watch Rosie)>Because her show didn't start airing until 1996, retard.Whether you knew that off the top of your head or googled it simply because you needed something to rebuke, it's equally pathetic. The fact is that Power Ranger toy shortages were not covered by any sub-par daytime TV host because it was not a pop-culture event, but simply a matter of supply struggling to meet demand. And that's not what OP asked for.
>>11647272>You recognizing a regional newspaper ≠ national news source.The news sources provided are not regional as I can subscribe to them when I don't live in those states. You insisting they aren't national news sources isn't going to just make them not be.>And you didn't quote anyone, but i chalk that up to your lack of English skills.I posted >>11646292. This is a segment from a documentary series about various popular toys. This episode was about Power Rangers. This segment I clipped has the people who worked at Bandai at the time discussing the toys selling out everywhere. You refuse to count it for some reason.>It's just vague recollections without any context. Who were they talking to? Walmart? TRU? Target? Indie stores? Were they talking to distributors? Distribution centers?You're reaching here. They say it was everybody, it was every fucking everybody. Goddamn the mental gymnastics you need to do to try and be right all the time even when you're blatantly wrong.>Yes, anecdotalIt's not anecdotal just because you say it is retard. Didn't I tell you to stop posting about this topic because you keep being so wrong.
>>11647312It's actually impressive at how retarded you are. Every fucking time.
>>11647321>Whether you knew that off the top of your head or googled it simply because you needed something to rebuke, it's equally pathetic. The fact is that Power Ranger toy shortages were not covered by any sub-par daytime TV host because it was not a pop-culture event, but simply a matter of supply struggling to meet demand. And that's not what OP asked for.Absolutely, 100% BLOWN THE FUCK OUT! I accept your concession silly old bear.
>>11647327>KTLA and WGN aren't regional TV stations from American cities because i can see them in my South American countryquality logic from a retardAnd why would i count it when it's vague as fuck?Something can be sold out at the distrubition level, but not in stores, hence Eternals still being popular shelf warmers.Were Power Rangers shelf warmers? Probably not, but again, you yourself have posted at least two videos proving there was plenty of stock that was easy to get during the busy Christmas season. You know what was actually hard to get and there's tons of proof documenting how insane it was to get? Pic related.Shit that actually happens is easy to find, unlike anything you're claiming, retard.
>>11647333You're an idiot. You got blown the fuck out. All your points have been utterly destroyed. Rosie didn't cover Power Rangers because she didn't get a show for three more years. Eat shit, you're wrong, you're a bitch, and it turns out you're a spoiled little rich kid and that's probably the reason you act like such an insufferable cunt.
>>11647312>that's some heavy mental gymnastics you're working on thereDid you call them indie journalists because you don't know what an indie journalist is, or because you don't know how to use English words correctly? Is this the power of your private school education?>because you're butthurt over Power Rangers not being hard to find back in the day.You are the one that seems assblasted because people can post actual news articles about it.>>11647321>They were very popular and hard to get at certain intervalsNot what you said here >>11645731>But i don't remember Power Rangers being all that in demand. They were popular, but they weren't hard to get How fucking retarded are you to try to backflip? It not even worth reading the rest of your drivel.>it's equally patheticPathetic is making bad faith arguments, moving goalposts and then trying to quietly backflip hoping nobody will notice because you can't admit you were wrong.You are the most pathetic sack of shit on this entire website. Even the losers on /x/ that try to summon a succubus aren't as retarded or delusional as you.
>>11647312>We have at least two retards in this thread trying their hardest to prove that Power Rangers was up there with Tickle Me Elmo and Cabbage Patch Kids in how popular Power Rangers were.Power Rangers was hugely popular. Just because you didn't like it didn't change that fact. It was just like "Star Wars Episode 1" popular that was spread out over the year, so by Christmas time there was no Christmas rush because kids pretty much had everything until the following year's wave of new shit. Hasbro did the same thing with GI Joe and Transformers in the 1980s where all the new stuff releases in the Spring and early summer, so by Christmas there is no real mad rush because it's been on the market already and kids pretty much had all of it. But that doesn't mean that those two lines weren't a success and still didn't sell well at Christmas. You just didn't have people fist-fighting over stuff that had been in stores for months since there was absolutely no "NEW IT THING" to get. That didn't make any of it any less desirable or less successful. >that's an amazing new cope you needed to create because you were wrong about the N64 outselling the PSX in only a few monthsYou're using the initial first-two-month launch as backed by scalpers (we had scalpers back then) and Christmas shoppers against a system that had been on the market for over a year at that point. People bought the N64 when it launched. Most didn't like it or its small selection of games that were noticably more expensive. Not even the Japanese themselves bought a lot of them. For it to not sell well in Japan itself is a "shamefur dispray" that was softened only by the psychotic sales of Pokemon cards and GBA games. N64 never bounced back after that. It's true. Deal with it, Princess Peach fanboy.
>>11647365Disclaimer: Hasbro did release a couple of new GI Joe figures for the following year's wave at Christmas time with "coming soon" cardbacks that named but didn't show a lot of the coming new figures. In 1982, it was Destro. I still remember a kid on the school playground showing up with one to show off after Christmas vacation. My memory is a bit fuzzy in 1983, but I think it was Duke and hooded CC that were the "early bird" figures of 1983. In 1984, it was the Dreadnoks. I remember getting two of them for Christmas in 1984. That's why they have the 1984 neck joints instead of the 1985 ball-joint necks like all the other 1985 figures have. In 1985 it was the BAT and Viper that got an early-bird Christmas release. In 1986 it was battle armor CC and Falcon. The thing is the "coming soon" cardbacks are rare as hell today, but they're not worth any more than a regular cardback. Joe collectors just don't value package variations like Star Wars collectors do, and a cardback variation can add thousands of dollars to the value of a figure.
>>11647342>>11647365>can't find proof that Power Rangers's popularity was anything like Tickle Me Elmo, Furby, N64, Cabbage Patch Kids, and other toys people fought over because it didn't happen>doesn't know what anecdotal means>doesn't know what statistics means>doesn't know what regional means>chooses to make up own definitions instead>ignores own links because they prove him wrongA single image is worth a thousand of your words, because this actually happens and that makes it easy to prove.everything you say is a load of bullshit and people actually went crazy over pic, unlike Power Rangers.
>>11647572You really need to distort the truth in order to be right don't you? Absolutely wild.
Is this 'power rangers sucked' dude the same guy who went 'elmo kills toylines'?
>>11644057>of my kids asked for one and getting them was kind of a painHow? I see thousands of them on like any online store I check.Not sure they are all even licensed
>>11647572>one anon mentions a MINOR shortage of Power Rangers the first year they were released here >>11645564>faggot claims they weren't hard to get>multiple anons post historic evidence that the shortage did happen and was widely known>faggot spends two days strawmanning and moving the goalposts to try to claim it didn't happen before backflipping from "they weren't hard to get" to "they were hard to get at certain intervals">faggot tries to act like everyone else is the liarHow do your parents feel after paying all that money for private school only for you to still end up being such a colossal retard?
>>11647615>>11647601Look up any "biggest toys of the 1990s" list, and Power Rangers will be on all of them. It was just done the same way as Transformers, Star Wars, and GI Joe with everything released in spring and summer so there was nothing new to create a mad Christmas rush over.
>>11647615Public education must be trash if you don't understand the difference between regional and national.I mean, you didn't even read any of the articles that were posted, where they even say that it's regional by labeling their own content as "local" and authors writing about "L'keesha's Childs Things on Martin Luther King Blvd's has sold out of Black Power Rangers"None of the articles are about the toys being sold out in a national level and two of the videos posted don't even show shit being sold out, muchless causing a riot like OP wanted the thread to be about. You zoomers are all illiterate and don't understand math.Nevermind anon's fuzzy memory from when he was 6 years old is about the first year, which would be 1993. Whereas most of the links posted by the illiterate retards are from 1994.You retards probably just watched that budget netflix documentary and took it for the gospel truth, because you're gullible zoomers who want to sound like you know something. Surely no one who actually lived in that era would correct you, because there's no way a 20 year old website would have oldfags on it!Pic of something that's in much higher demand than Power Rangers in 1993, and this is obviously true, because look at how easy I'm able to find a photo to prove it. These shitty toys have had 1-6 hour long lines year round, but maybe shorter now thanks to the shitty economy.
>>11647820I really hope you're whole personality here is a schtick because goddamn dude, you must be the most insufferable person to interact with in real life. Also, I love the racism coming out of you lmao. Goddamn, I knew there was a reason we picked on the private school kids.
>>11647820>Pic of something that's in much higher demand than Power Rangers in 1993,Kek power rangers is remembered unlike beanie babies
They're still going?
>>11647592Different guys, same breed of autism
>>11647820Your parent paid to send you to a private school and all you do is argue about toys on the Internet for multiple days? Damn.
>>11647820>Current thing is more popular than something from 30 years ago because I found a photoYou for real? The entire world from before Internet times hasn't been uploaded. News networks haven't released their decades of archives. So finding a current photo is like finding a current car over a classic. The 57 Bel Air used to be massively popular. When's the last time you saw one of those going down the road
>>11647934All you
>>11647820>I'm continuing my strawman argument even after backflipping on my claim that it never happened>muh zoomersTopkek.>Whereas most of the links posted by the illiterate retards are from 1994.I'm guessing you barely read the first one from NYT and just watched the videos after all dem words made your brain hurty, because all 3 linked in >>11646297 are from 1993. Were the words too hard so you just watched the moving pictures while you sat there clapping? Did your private school not teach you how to read, or did they delay that indefinitely until you graduated from pic related?
>>11647951If that's the same asshole I think he is, he tried to argue that two GI Joe figures (Classified Crystal Ball and Reaction+ O-Ring Cobra Commander) were not successful because he didn't like them. This is what he does. What he likes is a success, and what he hates is a flop. And he hates PowerRangers. I hate Power Rangers too, but I'm gonna be fair about it. That shit was shoved down our throats EVERYWHERE. It inspired copycats to do like Power Rangers did with re-tooling Japanese tokusatsu shows for the American market like Big Bad Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, and Superhuman Samurai Squad. It even managed to get a theatric-release movie which was moderately successful on a 1990s economic scale. It got multiple video games in a very short time. It absolutely was big, and got big right out of the gates. And he gets all sorts of insulting and nasty. That's not a civilized way to have a conversation. This is the Christmas season, and he needs to cheer the fuck up.
>>11647940See >>11647572 and >>11647312. Those images are from 1997 and 1983.Here's a video from 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQuxCWWTaI and there's plenty more videos from that year that document what a hyped up toy that causes riots looks like, unlike Power Rangers.So why am i able to easily find videos and images of toy riots from 1983, but not 1993?Does 1983 have a better internet connection than 1993?Was 1993 sucked into a blackhole?Or is it simply because the Power Rangers wasn't popular enough to garner national attention, because it wasn't selling out everywhere like some retards are claiming, muchless didn't cause riots and fights like OP was asking for?Pic of Ted Kopple reporting on the CAbbage Patch Kid's hype back in 1983, who hosted a national news program that would aired segments that affected many Americans, instead of just the city of Newark or the toy store at the corner of the Bloods turf.
>>11647991They even did just like Star Wars with shoving their brand onto as much shit as possible.
>>11647997So?
>>11647992Because, as the original poster said, there were only minor shortages when the toys were first coming out. That has been proven with the various historical records posted here. No idea how you came to the conclusion that people were claiming that there were riots and what not, but that all on you bucko. >>11645564 is the post that started this whole debate and he even used the word minor. You've spent the past three days arguing against a point that wasn't even made. I'm beginning to think my parents dodged a bullet by just sending me to public school. Based on years of interacting with you, seems like the private education system is worse off than the public one, and it comes with a hefty price tag. Also, you're a wonderful example of parents coddling and spoiling their children and what kind of weirdos they grow up into.
>>11647992>Does 1983 have a better internet connection than 1993?Nostalgia. More people SEEK 1983 than 1993, so that's what gets uploaded more. Look at the toy aisles now, and beyond Jurassic Park and Hot Wheels you'll be hard-pressed to find toy lines that did not originate in the 1980s. And 90s kids don't seem to have nostalgia. Multiple Power Ranger relaunch attempts for the line have failed. And it's not just them. The Beast Wars reissues also failed, and after 30 years the Star Wars stuff from back then is still not worth anything besides the classic vehicle reissues. 90s nostalgia isn't as strong as 80s nostalgia, so less gets uploaded from it. Maybe in the next decade that'll change. Who knows?
>>11648006so what you're saying is that Power Rangers doesn't belong in this thread about toylines that caused fights and riots because of how massively hard to get they were?Agreed. You can stop talking about Power Rangers now, retard.>>11648007Here's a Furby's video on CNN, which is a national news channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshXLR_NzGYThis is 1998, so it isn't just nostalgia for the 1980s that makes finding toy riots and fights easy.Nevermind Tickle Me Elmo was 1996.Again, simplest answer is: this shit attracted national attention because it was happening across America, thus everyone was reporting on it and commonly found on the national news. This is why it's easy to find articles, pictures, and videos of these toys causing injuries to parents and toy stores needing to mop up blood, unlike the made up shit a couple of retards like >>11648006 want to pretend happened about Power Rangers.
>>11648017You just don't fucking get it at all. Power Rangers was just like Star Wars back then: new waves released once a year, released early in the year, and by Christmas there was plenty for everyone while factoring in that kids and parents spent the whole year buying that stuff, so there was no desperate mad rush for the new thing. But that didn't make it any less successful. That's like saying Star Wars, GI Joe, He-Man, and Transformers weren't successful due to a lack of a psychotic Christmas rush.It's not like now where new waves of toys are small but multiple times a year. One wave = the product catalog for the whole year, and that's it. And that wave (at least for boy's toys) tended to hit early in the year. And the part about the boy's toys draws into talking about girl's toys: do notice Cabbage Patch Kids, Furby, Tickle-Me-Elmo, and that other shit. The majority of kids who wanted that were GIRLS. I remember my mom and dad frantically looking for a Cabbage Patch kid for my sister, but the Return of the Jedi and GI Joe stuff my brother and I wanted? No problems finding them there. They had been out for months. You want to say that Star Wars and GI Joe weren't as successful as Cabbage Patch because of it?
>>11648017>so what you're saying is that Power Rangers doesn't belong in this thread about toylines that caused fights and riots because of how massively hard to get they were?No, the shortage at the beginning of the run qualifies it just fine for this thread. You're arbitrary restrictions on what should or shouldn't be counted, are stupid, just like you. Get the fuck over it, no one died and crowned you the Queen of this thread.>Agreed. You can stop talking about Power Rangers now, retard.Did a Power Ranger rape your mom, or touch you at private school? What the actual fuck is wrong with you?>Here's a Furby's video on CNN, which is a national news channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshXLR_NzGYWhy is your source more credible than anyone elses? Honestly, CNN is just a small independent news agency. Small local channel you see.
>>11648027>Power Rangers was just like Star Wars back thenNo it wasn't
>>11648043Power Rangers is more like FNAF but even then FNAF has lasted way longer than Power Rangers in terms of relevance. Power Rangers lasted a few years while FNAF is going on past a decade. Star Wars is also way more culturally relevant than both. Just having a bunch of merchandise and a few flopped shows inspired by your creation doesnt make it Star Wars not even close. Kek
>>11648017>Here's a Furby's video on CNN, which is a national news channelYou've spent two days dismissing actual news reports as "fluff pieces" because they aren't "national" but you post that puff piece that is so blatantly shilling that it would need a "paid promotion" disclaimer these days?Your brain is fully cooked. No wonder your parents had to put you in a special school.
How old did you have to be to appreciate Power Bottoms, I mean Rangers? I was born in 1994 and I always thought it was stupid
>>11648073Kids in the 5 -10 age bracket at the time loved it. I don't know why, but they did.
>>11648073Basically what >>11648077 said. It was the giant robots/monsters and the martial arts that I thought were cool as a kid. I was in 1st grade when PR peaked and it was the biggest thing. I remember that Halloween there were tons of Rangers, me included. The toys were tough to get initially but by the time the series really hit it's peak they were fairly easy to get. I assume this is what subjectanon is referring to when he says they were easy to get, because he's thinking of when the show was already on for a year or so, in the lead up to the movie coming out. Before that though, when the toys and show initially debuted, it was a struggle to find toys.
>>11648030>how am i supposed to talk about power rangers if you're going to make up arbitrary exclusions?!?!LMAO. Holy fuck.First off, I'm not OP. He's the one that set parameters for this thread>What are some of the most absurdly popular "must have" toys in history, /toy/? The ones that cause literal riots to break out over them.This is what he wrote and wants to see in his thread. Stop trying to derail the thread because you're autistic over a dead franchise.Second, why is me saying Power Rangers wasn't popular enough to be talked about in this thread triggering you so much? Might as well be angry I said that white isn't black.Third, are you going to make up your own rules for what OP actually meant, just like you tried doing with "anecdote", "regional", and "national", now that I've pointed out that you're wrong about what this thread is about?>>>11648027 Power Rangers was just like Star Wars back thenlmao. your entire post is sad cope.>>11648062>zoomer languageIt's no wonder you retards think Power Rangers was bigger than it actually was and are illiterate.pic of something that i found easily about a toyline that was super in demand, because shit that actually happens is gets documented
>>11648077I was into Star Wars and Pokémon while the other kids in kindergarten and 1st grade were into gay spandex dress up.
>>11648099>LMAO. Holy fuck.>First off, I'm not OP. He's the one that set parameters for this threadHe's not the one who's been throwing a fit for three days because someone included PR in the discussion, retard.>Second, why is me saying Power Rangers wasn't popular enough to be talked about in this thread triggering you so much? Might as well be angry I said that white isn't black.First of all, you're arguing with like three or four people at this point. Second, it's because you're outright denying reality when there have been multiple sources posted proving that there was in fact a scarcity, but for whatever reason, you keep dismissing said sources and it's super frustrating. It's not even really about Power Rangers at this point, it's your incessant need to be right all the time despite being proven wrong. What's especially annoying is how you act like you're right despite literally everyone else in the thread telling you otherwise.>>>>11648027 Power Rangers was just like Star Wars back then>lmao. your entire post is sad cope.>>>11648062>>zoomer language>It's no wonder you retards think Power Rangers was bigger than it actually was and are illiterate.None of that is me, so don't get up in my craw about it.>pic of something that i found easily about a toyline that was super in demand, because shit that actually happens is gets documentedCool, none of that disproves that Power Rangers had a toy scarcity when they first released. Holy shit, Drink bleach and die already.
>>11648099>Second, why is me saying Power Rangers wasn't popular enough to be talked about in this thread triggering you so much?Because it's a lie. I doubt that you were even there back then. Just because it's a burned-out brand now doesn't mean it wasn't popular back then. I already told you. Look up any top list of most popular toys of the 90s, and Power Rangers will be on ALL of them. >>11648127>lmao. your entire post is sad cope.It was in terms of release schedule. There was no Christmas rush for it because it all got released earlier in the year. That didn't stop it from being successful just the same.
>>11648073>>11648118You're trying too hard, man.
I'm done arguing with an asshole who wants to believe what he hates was a failure because he didn't like it. This is Christmas time. For those who were there in the "retro-age" past and and those who weren't: who cares? Cherish your memories, and remember all the gifts you've unwrapped. Merry Christmas, bros.
>>11648099>zoomer languageWhat? I guess English would seem like zoomer language to someone who grew up as a nonverbal autistic.
>>11644711Man oh man, i was glued to this place that week. >>11646055That was a funny christmas since each of my friends all got one of the systems. I think we got a pc but i cant remember honestly. But yeah, this guy got an n64 or this guy a dc and then that guy a playstation. The dc was way more fun than the n64 imo. >>11646165And N64 games were crazy high, like $60 where as the other systems were easily hacked or had a much lower price point. I know ive lived a poor life but not everyones mom or dad could just shell out $60+ for n64 games. Resident Evil was pretty damn important for capcom, they released a directors cut which is very rare for the time. Was it as popular then as it bacame to be now? No, but it was a big game for ps owners and one of the first games i bought when we got the ps mini system for christmas one year. To answer op i remember my kid wanting justin bieber and twilight dolls for christmas, those were kinda hard to find.
I remember about a decade ago I went to gamestop to pick up my copy of splatoon when it first released and overheard some other guys talking about a "we had to call the cops" level fight break out at the nearby target over amiibos. Think it was specifically jigglypuff of all things, too.
>>11648228Yet here you are, trying to convince everyone you're right, when you're not.
>>11648099Nice pic of some local paper about 50 people asking for a Happy Meal toy in some podunk town. I've seen more people queuing for a McRib. It's not exactly the "blood on the streets" level incident you have set the bar for regarding the Power Rangers shortage, but we all know you are a hypocrite.>zoomer languageCooked? Holy fuck, where do you think zoomers got the word from? I've been using that term to describe druggies and retards for over two decades. These two in picrel were on the first page of results on Urban Dictionary. It's also been used to mean done or finished since the 1800s.https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/cookedHere is a bit of the history of the slang usage.https://www.theidioms.com/cooked/#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20%E2%80%9Ccooked,encapsulates%20emotional%20and%20psychological%20exhaustion.I'm glad some zoomies are using white slang instead of "gyat" or "unc"which were copied from subhumans, much like your overused exclamation of "hue" which originated from Brazilians. Of course, it's not surprising that you would latch onto Brazilian/Portuguese slang given that your parents' native language is practically the same.It's also funny that you singled out "cooked" as zoomerspeak while using "cope" in the same post. That's how cooked your brain is.
>>11648127>He's not the one who's been throwing a fit for three days because someone included PR in the discussionLOL.The only people throwing a fit are you retards.Here's what I originally said>But i don't remember Power Rangers being all that in demand. They were popular, but they weren't hard to getSuch a simple, non-threatening statement.But you autists took it personally, then lying about regional newspapers being national news, despite whose articles are written about local issues, and your own proof shows pegs full toys, not sold out, with no crowds, and derailed the thread, despite YOU AGREEING with me that Power Rangers isn't what this topic and thread is about.> It's not even really about Power Rangers at this pointSee? You even agree with me that you've taken this personally.All because you'er butthurt that Power Rangers wasn't hard to get and someone had the nerve to disagree with your fantasy world. Nothing but crying zoomers who watched a documentary about something that happened before they were born and not realizing the documentary was feeding you bullshit.Pic that's actually ontopic, unlike the dead power rangers franchise. This is probably the biggest time for Burger King ever, but was over eclipsed by a baby dying because a retarded parent can't be bothered to take care of it.Again, this was well documented, because it actually happened. https://www.vice.com/en/article/burger-king-pokemon-recall-deaths-1999-fastfoodweek2017/Less than TWO fucking months to sell 25 million toys. Insane.
>>11648493The N64 was a flop, and Power Rangers were hugely successful. It's true deal with it.
>>11648763Power Rangers was successful just not for very long. Zero and Turbo killed any hype Power Rangers had and made it strictly a little kid show. (Ages 1-5 type shit)
>>11648546>Such a simple, non-threatening statement.Sure, and when someone pointed out, in a non threatening, non confrontational way, that you were wrong, while also including photographic proof, and later news sources indicating as such, you quadrupled down for days, coming up with excuses like the NYT isn't a national newspaper or that the AP is an indie news agency because you fail at basic reading comprehension. You were the one who did that, no one else. You see the thing people are in contention with isn't your actual stance on the Power Rangers or whatever. It's your utter insistence that, despite numerous different sources being shared declaring otherwise, that you come up with these weird, often times wrong, reasons to discredit those sources in the shittiest attempt ever at not being wrong. That's what so many people are upset with you at. Your inability to just say "gee, I never experienced that, but I guess it happened, I'll drop this now". But no, here we are on day fucking four of you arguing with multiple people about some trivial bullshit you don't even really care about. I swear you do this so often it must be your only form of social interaction. If you aren't deliberately making these obtuse arguments on purpose in an effort to get people to reply to you, consider just killing yourself for the benefit of all mankind. You are a net negative on the entirety of human society if you are actually like this.
>>11644049Molest-Me Grover was impossible to get last year.
>>11648764It kind of transformed from the biggest property out there to just another toyline/series that was around. But by Turbo it had been around 3ish years anyway and the popularity was waning like it always does around that time. No one stays on top forever.
>>11648546I mean you can twist words and what not to make yourself feel right, but the rest of us are aware of reality. >See? You even agree with me that you've taken this personally.No, this is something else that is equally annoying. You quoting a single sentence and then replying to it in an out of context and irrelevant way. No, I'm not taking this personally because of Power Rangers. Everyone is just annoyed that you stick your head in the sand, deny reality when it's slapped right in front of you, and then declare for no reason that you're right and everyone else is wrong because of some made up bullshit you came up with that no one actually said.
>>11648007>And 90s kids don't seem to have nostalgia.I actually don't think this is true. 90s and 2000s kids have plenty of nostalgia; the problem is they don't have the raw spending power of 80s kids- partly because the economy is in the fucking toilet (and has been since 2020) and partly because children of the 80s didn't pass their wealth on to their kids, instead spending all their money on feathering their own nests and endlessly buying the same shit ad infinitum. So effectively, the money that 90s and 2000s kids should have had was inherited by 80s-nostalgia panderers instead.
>>11647105I only problem I remember it having, was the sliding part of the helmet didn't lock closed. It was flimsy and would flop open. Other than that, it was great, and no, the chrome paint never peeled or chipped. I remember asking for and wanting the regular buzz figure, not knowing there was a chrome version, so when I got this one, I was crazy excited. I just recently thanked my dad for being able to find this for me. Wish I still had it.
>>11648828"Smack the Shit Outta Me" Cookie Monster was an odd choice.
Yeah this seems like the guy who swears up and down Elmo isn't popular.
>>11649284And you seem like the guy that'd shitpost about Elmo when you have no interest in him or toys related to him at all. In other words, you're just a troll.
>>11649285I do have interest in him. That's why I want a NECA figure of him. You're just to fucking autistic to even consider the fact NECA isn't catering to you and you alone.
>>11649296The only autist has been you, you've made that very abundantly clear.
>>11649299You, who flipped out at the concept of a street sharks meet ninja turtles crossover? You who got mad at people showing interest in Elmo, the popular character from Sesame Street? You, who claims Power Rangers was a niche series that had no popularity because you deemed it a flop? You, the one who never posts a singular original picture and only posted from reddit and claim they're your collection? You who mass report people who dare challenge you in these threads, because 'I have final say'?Yeah no, you're the autist.
>>11648807>someone pointed out, in a non threatening, non confrontational way, that you were wrongLMAO>>>11645882 Absolute bullshit.>>>11646151 Jesus Christ, what a sped.>>>11646035 you're just doubling down on your bullshitSo much mad, just because i was actually alive in the 1990s and saw first hand how Power Rangers was just another toyline that didn't have massive hype like Elmo, N64, Tickle Me Elmo, Furbys, Labubu, and other toy phenomenasIn fact, my responses back weren't to insult or degrade you retards, because i gave you the benefit of the doubt that you're just ignorant and can admit to your mistakes >>11646043 >>11646077 >>11646029It's not until >>11646236 where I had to question if you even read the links you retards were posting, because they only proved me right>ib4 anecdotal isn't anecdotal just because a regional newspaper is famoushue>>11648998>but the rest of us are aware of reality.Says the retard who has derailed the thread because you're angry you can't talk about Power Rangers because OP is asking for toys that "cause riot to break out over them"See pic, which i found instantly on google? Cabbage Patch Kids made it to a national news magazine because parents caused riots over them. This is actually on topic.>>11649184arguably, i think Batman counts as 90s nostalgia, though it technically started in 1989. Batman got super fucking big after the Keaton Batman. Batman has been the pillar for DC toy sales throughout the 90s, 00s, 10s, and now 20s. Yeah, Batman's a ancient character, but a ton of 90s kids are still helping to prop up Batman sales.I'll include XMen too, because almost anything XMEn that's popular now stems from Jim Lee's 90s redesigns.
>>11649352Your inability to admit you were wrong is the thing that is holding you back in life you know. It's probably one reason why you're still single when you're nearing your 50s. It's also probably why your rich mommy and daddy still support you. Well that and the whole special needs thing.
>>11648546Pokemon is still the biggest media franchise out there. Comparing Power Rangers to it isnt fair. Id compare Power Rangers to FNAF. Basically the same audience just FNAF has lasted way longer at the top and still get merchandise pushed. Its recent movie made back 3x its budget over its first weekend.
>>11649352>So much madThat ain't english.
People are gonna fucking die once the Pokemon Lego toys release.
>>11649352>4 day meltdown>calls everyone else mad because he can't handle anons telling him he was talking bullshit when he said Power Rangers weren't hard to getIf you didn't constantly spew bullshit, people wouldn't need to tell you that what you say is bullshit.>hueBrazilian slang confirms you are a third worlder. Please stop pretending you know what was happening in America in the 90s, because I'm pretty sure your favela was only just finding out about Super Powers at that point.
>>11649430Yeah, that you're projecting.
>>11649301You who thinks everyone is one person. Go outside, touch grass, you basement dwelling loon.
>>11649443Pretty sure it's all you.
>>11649352I am frankly surprised jannies haven’t nuked your entire country’s ip’s sbubby
>>11649384Of c ourse it's not fair and that's the entire point. Power Rangers is insignificant compared to actual huge toylines and doesn't belong in this thread.Also, Beanie Babies and Tickle Me Elmo didn't last long either, but they're still on topic, because this thread is about toys that people got into fights over them due to massive demand.>>11649400>4 day meltdownThat's you.I just want to talk about toys, but you're still REEing over Power Rangers never causing a riot and wasn't as popular like Beanie Babies, Furbies, N64, Tickle Me Elmo, Cabbage Patch Kids, etc.How fucking retarded are you that you get angry over that?I've tried to steer the conversation back to toys that actually sold out, but you continue wanting to derail the thread because you've taken a simple statement about Power Rangers not being hard to find personally.I mean, even one of you retards admits that Power Rangers isn't ontopic, yet the rest of you insistent that all the proof to pretend Power Rangers was hyped isn't bullshit. And it totally is bullshit, because if Power Rangers was a hyped beast, it would be easy to find a nation wide news source that states so, like pic. Instead of cominmg up with any further proof, yuo just want to insult me. Is it because you're a third worlder and don't actually know any American national news sources? Because I've already given more than a few examples... yet, it's almost like none exist, huh?Also, i can't believe something like this goes for over a hundred bucks on ebay. insane. I saved my copy and $120 is actually worth it to deal with selling it to someone.
>>11648428>The dc was way more fun than the n64 imoThat came out almost a generation later, so that's pretty late.... but you're not a FPS fan? If you had friends, the N64 was THE console to own. Mario Party, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Turok, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, South Park, and tons of other games had amazing multiplayer modes which made it perfect for a group of friends to just hang out, without anyone feeling left out. 4 players on one console and the most anyone had to do was bring their own N64 controller (instead of bringing a heavy console/monitor/computer).Super casual and why i said it was the original dudebro console.As for costs, most people were already used to paying upwards of $120 for games since the SNES and Genesis. Normal prices fro shit like STreet Fighter 2 New Challengers was $60. So paying $75 for Shadows of the Empire was seen as normal and not exactly bad. So no one was put off from buying the N64 due to its prices, hence the N64 selling in 6 months what the PSX sold in 20 months.I think Sony saw this as a way to bring poor gamers to buy their brand. At first, all PSX games were $50. Then they started charging $40 for 1st party games and even created a budget "greatest hits" $20 line. So this is part of the reason why the PSX sold as big as it did.Competition back in the day was great. IT made things cheaper for everyone. Now everyone colludes to fuck over the consumer.
>>11649749>How fucking retarded are you that you get angry over that?I'm not the one hitting character limit because multiple anons posted evidence that Power Rangers were hard to get and can't handle being wrong.I don't even like Power Rangers, so I'm not taking it personally.>like picTime Magazine isn't a real "news source." It is popular press filled with puff pieces, which is why nothing in it is worth a Pulitzer Prize.>yuo just want to insult me. Is it because you're a third worlderThere's that hypocrisy we've talked about. Crying about people insulting you while you attempt to insult others. And unlike your unfounded "third worlder" accusations, we have solid evidence you are retarded. Also the fact that you keep using "hue" like a Brazilian is a good sign that you are an actual third worlder who is projecting.
>>11649749>I've tried to steer the conversation back to toysFollowed by>>11649782Not a toy. Take it to /vr/.
>>11649844>I'm not mad, you are!Dude, you've been derailing the thread since Monday. You took this personally. You insulted me right away for actually being alive when Power Rangers came out, unlike you.You've pretended regional cities like New York City, Chicago, and Washington DC is the entire country and that their newspapers sell or a viewed as much as national media.You needed to create a new definition for anecdotal.You didn't even read the articles that you linked me to that you thought proved your case, because they only proved me right.Even one of you retards admits this isn't about Power Rangers anymore and that Power Rangers doesn't belong in this thread, but you insist to continue arguing because I said mean things to you retards after getting fed up of your willful ignorance and making bullshit up just to argue.See pic? This is how you know something is super popular, unlike Power Rangers. 17 hour lines and it's talked about on national news, even in other countries.
>>11650625>See pic? This is how you know something is super popularUnsourced anecdotal photo. Disregarded.
>>11650625I was also alive when Power Rangers was huge. The only time they sold out of anything was the season 1 shit, before Lord Zedd was brought in. You couldn't find the Megazord fucking anywhere. Dragonzord? Fucking forget that, pretend it didn't exist.
>>11651068>...is what I tell myself every day because I'm THAT dedicated to keeping this lie alive for seemingly no reason whatsoever
>>11651141The fuck? What ever helps you cope, but I ain't your boogieman. I'm just saying, you couldn't find the original Megazord at all in 1993, and Dragon Zord was basically a myth with how rare it was. I never saw a Titanus in the wild either until the re-issue was released.But keep living in your fucking fantasy land and reply to people like it's the brown infested Dragon Ball Z generals on /a/ or the Death battle generals on /co/. That's SURE to help you win this argument.
>>11651176It's funny that he's still doing it. It's just like Carnage's mouth all over again.
>>11651176This. I was around during that time, and you never saw all three Zords together at once except one time. Speaking of which, anyone remember the NYC toy store Sukons?
>>11651176The dragon ball general would kill him, trust me>>11651141>IESLB
>>11651068>You couldn't find the Megazord fucking anywhereThats great that you were alive before the 90s, but you're speaking about personal experience about your local area. That's anecdotal. Same shit with the New York/LA Times, Washington Post, or that nobody newspaper from connecticut articles posted earlier, because they'er also talking about their local area. Professional articles from journalists is still anecdotal, because its still localized. And all the videos show fully stocked shelves with promises of even more stock in the back, with no crowds, muchless pushing and shoving.And like those videos, i saw everything everywhere in my area, because stores were stocked up. I never saw the sign that poster posted earlier. I never even heard about Power RAngers being hard to find until that low budget series series aired on Netflix.Go look at the GI Joe thread to understand how anecdotal experience means shit. One person there pretends that a figure was the most popular thing ever, because it totally sold out everywhere. But it's only an issue of distribution, hence people finding Crystal Ball everywhere now. Or people bitching about this figure being impossible to get anywhere, yet eventually found its way into discount stores for 75% off.If it wasn't a localized issue, it would be found on the national news, like Pokemon, Labubu, Beanie Babies, N64, Furby, and other formly hugely popular things that caused people to fight over them.You know what people didn't fight over, except online? Pic.>>11651316>still butthurt over being proven wrong a decade agothis is why /toy/ is so shit. You're not allowed to talk about the toys because faggots like yourself just want to shit up threads and air out past grievances.
>>11651471>stolen picsGet a new gimmick sbubby.
>>11651471You still don't understand what anecdotal means huh?
>Try and make fun thread>Subjectanon ruins it with his autism like he does every thread he enters
>>11651471>i saw everything everywhere in my area, because stores were stocked upAnecdotal.And most likely a lie, since you have made it very obvious that you don't like or care about MMPR, so the idea that you would know every item for a toyline you don't care about is extremely dubious.There really is no reason to trust anything you say.>shit up threadsThat's all you do. >and air out past grievancesIt's not a past grievance, it's just another instance in a long line of epic threads where you were btfo'd so you tried to twist the situation with retarded bullshit and strawman arguments because you can't handle being wrong.
>>11644073Furbies were just as ugly as labubus idk why people went crazy over them
>>11651480You idiots make it just as bad because you refuse to stop fucking with others. You're as much at fault.
>>11651555What the fuck are you talking about?
>>11651572Why did you decide to shit up a thread with endless bullshit about how super dooper extra really rare a single toyline was in the early 90s...when that was not the point behind the thread in the first place? And then spend a week trying desperately hard to make fucking sure that everyone everywhere the whole world over knows that hey this one thing was really really extra super dooper rare that one time, and yet STILL nobody fucking cares.
>>11651714>anonymous is one person>it's everyone's fault but Subjectanon's that Subjectanon had a spergfest about someone mentioning an in-demand toy in a thread about in-demand toysNice try. Haven't you got to go shit up the NECA general over someone asking for Elmo in the Sesame Street line?
>>11651732I remain unconvinced that this entire thread was not one sperg arguing with himself.
>>11651550Kpoop
>>11651512>And most likely a lie, since you have made it very obvious that you don't like or care about MMPR, so the idea that you would know every item for a toyline you don't care about is extremely dubious.That's hardcore projecting.This is why i like askign people to post their toys when i argue with them, because a lot of you retards i argue with don't collect the lines the threads are about. It becomes obvious you're there to shit the place up.This is why i asked your age or if you were even born when Power Rangers came out, because anyone alive in that era would remember that the line wasn't a hyped up, hard to find toyline. It's easy to tell most of you retards weren't alive back then.I mean, even >>11651176 talks about how only ONE thing was hard to get. So he definitely remembers the pegs being full of Power Ranger figures. Of course, i remember seeing the Megazord more than a few times during my almost daily visits to stores back then.And where'd I say my experiences aren't anecdotal? Again, this is why I've been asking for national news or NPD reports, because that would mean it's happening in more than just trivial cities, but nation wide. With large enough reporting on it, it stops being anecdotal and is statistically relevant. pic is from a mountains of proof of being hype beast, despite happening before websites existed>>11651480>make a fun thread>a few autists lose their shit because someone pointed out power rangers didn't cause people to fight over them because MMRP weren't that popular>plus 2 trolls who just want to air out their butthurtI always love how people blame me for other people needing to shitpost.It's like a little kid wailing and shitting his pants in the grocery store and blaming the parent because they weren't going to buy any candies that visit.
>>11651732You sound like a nutjob
>>11651999Oh yeah there where figures, but it was always the Rangers. Not even Green or White when season 2 started. Was just the original, and it wasn't Trini, Zach or Jason either. NONE of the cool Monster figures where available either at the toy stores I went to, and had to wait for ZEO to get my hands on monsters.>>11652002Oh shut the fuck up NecaAnon. Your logic in the NECA thread went 'You have NECA figures but no NECA Sesame Street, strange' to 'OK, you have NECA Sesame Street Figures, but no ELMO figures, so you must not want a NECA Elmo.' You're probably the most fucking retarded poster on /toy/.
>11652022And there we have it, the troll freaks out, showing why this thread went to shit. Because he caused it to.
>>11652022Kys fag
>>11652026Huh?>>11652027You first, NecaAnon.
Still waiting for ElmoSchizo to provide the evidence that Elmo is a toyline killer.
>>11652022A lot of kids got that really shitty remote control megazord, that didn't come apart into the individual zords and looked kind of dumb. also it was a lot cheaper than the normal one so parents naturally floated to that.
>>11652038I had to get that less painted little figure version of it. And I remembered it fucking crumbled after a few years.
>>11651999>This is why i asked your age or if you were even born when Power Rangers came outI already made it clear that I was alive then, but you spent a hundred posts since then trying to move goalposts and make strawman arguments. >Of course, i remember seeing the Megazord more than a few times during my almost daily visits to stores back then.That sounds utterly autistic. Why were you making daily visits to toy stores when you were in middle school? Were you so retarded as a teenage that your mother had to take you shopping nearly every day? I'd take my younger brothers once a week, and the rest of the time I was doing things functional teenagers do.Also the fact that you said THE Megazord is proof that you did not know there were different versions, which is expected since you've made it clear that you didn't care about Power Rangers.>trivial citiesNew York, LA and Washington DC are trivial cities? Ok retard. >NPD reportsYes, you do have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Ask your shrink for the reports.
>>11652038Yeah, remote control Megazord was $20 and the actual combiner toy was usually around $50. It was that same situation when parents bought the $15 expansion pack for a game instead of the $50+ actual game back then. They were usually going to lean towards the cheaper thing and never really know the difference.
>>11652348The OG DX Megazord was $30 IIRC.
>>11652273LOLNever moved my goalpost once. From my very first post:>>>11645731 But i don't remember Power Rangers being all that in demand. They were popular, but they weren't hard to get and they weren't anywhere close to being as hyped as TMNT or even Batman toys. Didn't even make the national news.>Didn't even make the national news.You still haven't shown me a single ounce of proof that Power RAngers made the national news, which would prove it isn't just anecdotal. Just local newspapers that you pretend are the entire US, because you're a third worlder who doesn't understand hwo big the US is.>New York, LA and Washington DC are trivial cities?Literally yes, when they don't even make up a 20th of the population put all togther. Again, your third worlder is showing.Also>he didn't go out to the malls every chance he could getLMAODon't lie about your age, dude. The fucking mall was THE hang out place for decades. The holidays allowed me to have the freedom to hang out whenever, wherever i wanted.Okay, maybe you aren't lying. You were just 2 years old, living in Bogota, when Power Rangers came out.You're just a third worlder trying to pretend he knows anything about the US in the 90s.
>>11652693>the two most populous cities in America are trivial because.... the population is big so they just are, okThe fucking mental gymnastics.>The fucking mall was THE hang out place for decadesToy shops weren't. If you were going to the toy section nearly every day, you obviously weren't going to the mall with friends. Or did you take your girlfriend on dates to look at the new GI Joes? Don't bother answering, we all know you've never touched a female you weren't related to.
>>11652724It's amazing how you just love fighting with people
>>11652726Subby is the only "person" I am fighting with. Whereas he has been fighting with no less than 4 people in this thread. Weird how you would white knight for him. Are you guys related?
>>11652759Weird that you waste everyone's time fighting with people. Maybe do something with your life instead of being a shit online?
>>11652724>still no proof that Power Rangers was talked about on a national levelSomeone less retarded than you already conceded the fact Power Rangers doesn't belong in this thread, but you're basically doing the same thing, since you haven't offered any proof of anything. Just meaningless words to try and rationalize something that never happened: Power Rangers being as popular as Tickle Me Elmo or Furby.Also, how old are you and when did you pretend to move to America? Because you have no idea how people used to use mall. People didn't have unlimited entertainment back in the day. IT's not like today where neets like yourself don't even have to leave your house to buy cheetos and high end video games that you could only find in arcades.So if your mommy took you to the mall, you sure as shit would go to the arcade and hang out with your friends. Once you ran out of money, guess where you'd go? any shop that had shit teen boys like: books/megazines/comics, toys, video games, music, and movies on VHS, because you can look at things you can't afford in malls.In 1993, i sure as shit didn't have the money or a drivers license to impress a girl, so i didn't need to avoid going to nerdy shit.BTW, i've taken GFs on dates to TRU/KB and even conventions to hunt for toys (and other nerdy shit). They have even hunted shit for me on their own, because that's what someone who becomes infatuated with you does.Of course, your infatuation with me is driven by hate, thus your contrarian posts, huh? Well, girls who wanted to know me better would pretend to like the same shit i do, even if they thought it was cringe. ... most girls who have done this never actually became real girlfriends though, because i think it's pretty pathetic to fake that shit and probably wouldn't end well.
I’ve got sbubby fatigue. When is he gonna leave.
>>11652858Do you know how third hand your account of living in 90s America sounds? It's like you saw Saved By the Bell or Boy Meets World and assumed that's what America was really like. It's really apparent from the tropes you go on about that you get all your experiences second and third hand.
>>11652913https://youtu.be/8UWjqFR1RYs
