I am 20 years old, I mostly collect Pokemon and other Nintendo statues/figures etc. I was on YouTube when this video popped up. I thought it was charming and cute about how toys were made in the 1980s back when people and not machine created toys.
>>11687548>20 years oldReminder that you can't be a real Pokemon fan if you're younger than the franchise itself
>>11687548There is a movie that featured a bunch of Tomy wind up toys you may enjoy.
>>11687548TOMY made a whole lot of those small wind-ups, and yeah they were cute. They're collectible today, and some can get a little pricey. >>11687991Yeah you can. Bringing in new fans from new generations is how a line keeps going, you damn fool. Pokemon is at peak worldwide poularity and the #1 IP on the planet because of it. And face it: NO ONE here is old enough to be an OG LEGO or Hot Wheels fan. This is how lines continue throughout the years, bro.
>>11687994>Pokemon is at peak worldwide poularity and the #1 IP on the planet because of itBecause of millenials spending fucktons of money on merch. You can like something but you that's different than being a true fan, and yeah there's lots of kids and zoomers that like Pokemon. But you can't tell me someone that wasn't even conscious when the Nintendo 3DS came out is as big as a fan as someone that has followed the franchise since the Gameboy era
>>11687994>>11687991Only those who grew up with gen 1 are true fans. The rest of you guys are secondaries.Also one thing I like about Nintendo that sadly never gets mentioned is their vintage toys from the 60s and 70s.
>>11687548>Actual 30+ genwunners in here feeling a sense of superiority over younger fansPathetic. This is why Digimon will always be the patrician's choice.
>>11687991If you didn't own any Pokemon movies or episodes on VHS.. fake fan...
>>11688013Didn't ask. Also if you're not gen 1 digimon and were there for Digimania then you are not a real fan.>>11688017>He doesn't have the shitty bootleg rubber toys>He doesn't have the fake "Chinese rare holographic">He doesn't have the bootleg stickerbooks that would come from Mexico or Canada>He doesn't have the Viz comics form the VHS tapes>He doesn't have the gold ingots from Burger King that confused you as kid as to why the Burger King kids meal is coming with gold ingots of Pokemon instead of toysHeh, nothing personell.
>>11688000>you're not a true fan unless you comply to my measurement gaugeThat's so arrogant to say. The younger generations will be the ones who keep the values of all you have up in the future, faggot. That's why baseball cards of people who have been dead for almost a century and no one alive today ever saw play are still worth a ton today. There isn't a comic book collector alive that bought that Action Comics #1 when it was new. The OGs build the value, and the generations after that are the keepers or the destroyers of that value. A lot of baby boomer and gen-X toys are at peak value or declining value because of the later generations not being interested.
>>11687991>>11688007Reminder that Pokemon is for autists like Chris Chan. Gatekeep all you want, your franchise is already tainted.
Wasn't someone asking about similar shows like The Toys that Made Us?>>11688108Sneed more.>>11688026>He wasn't alive when Action #1 hit and picked up a copy with all his friends and then hit up the soda fountains at the local drug storeLMAOING @ U
Do people use this hands anymore in factory’s to make toys or is it 100% automated now
Here’s the link. All the good stuff starts at 20 min mark. I think the dinosaurs look like Zoids? Were Zoids around in the 1980s?https://youtu.be/uLDoKgFw9RI?si=X0uOR3o9ObxqCZNI
>>11689098Zoids originated as Robostrux in 1983/1984, then rebranded as Zoids a year later. They had a brief re-launch around 1993 which failed, then had a big comeback in Japan around 1998. That eventually trickled into the US market around 2004.
>>11689095I think painting and decals are still mostly a hand made process. The shapes of figures are probably all injection molding by machines.
>>11689098Ah, thanks man. I didn't know what to search for when I mentioned the movie earlier in the thread. This is good stuff man. Grab the old lady and the kids and watch this together.
>>11689360I’m gonna be honest I can’t imagine doing that eight hours a day over and over I mean, you would have to listen to music or something
>>11688026Heh
