[TIME] How the toy industry is being outplayed by video games this holiday season
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Of course the handheld market is geared more towards kids. The handhelds are much more durable, and if you look at the licenses that Nintendo gives out, a lot of them are things that appeal to a much younger audience. Of course, that goes without saying that the handheld market is an extremely lucrative one.
SiegfriedFM
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No, MIYAMOTO'S games are in a crisis 
Guileless
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My interest in action figures and Hot Wheels waned after getting an NES for Christmas. Many of my friends recall that the year they finally got an NES was their favorite holiday season of their childhood. I have to place it in a tie with the Millenium Falcon Christmas. Good times.
The Take Out Bandit
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So Nintendo is going to drop the "toy company" party line now too?
"We're the leading innovator in the folding table market!"
Well, not only because there is a glut of his unsold statues in toy stores but because other toy companies tried to follow his way. At first what he did was great, toys started to become even more detailed and better paint applications were used. Then less articulation was being used in favor for even better paint applications and more detail, but other companies followed suit (Hasbro being the second worst). Toys stopped being fun. Thank god that Stikfas showed up, though i'm not sure how successful they are, but Hasbro created its own Stikfa type toys after Stikfas left.LakeEarth said:
Did the collector's market crash or something? I remember back when I was heavily into collecting toys that McFarlane and Star Wars stuff would sell out immediately and you'd never see certain figures outside of comic shops or ebay, leaving only the duds to warm the pegs. Now I can find everything i want, even though sometimes it's months after released.
Oh, and those little Wind Waker Link and Zelda figures are so much cooler than a "realistic" Link would be! Course, that's just my opinion... i hated the retarded faces the McFarlane MGS figures had. The anime line wasn't much better either. Personally, I like gashapon or trading figures more. Great detail and paint app, but small enough to leave plenty of shelf space for other stuff to display.
Great Wasabi Man
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Ironclad_Ninja said:
I don't think I've seen a single person holding an N-gague
And yeah it seems, sadly, that the toy boom from a few years ago is far gone. I remeber going to TRu and finding shit loads of good toys (good stuff like <but not exactly this line> Batman:Return of the Dark Knight Figures) for a good price now all I see is power rangers and hotwheels, and have to resort to overprices online stores and ebay.
