>>11585664Well first off why did you post a statue instead of an action figure or actual toy? Statues just sit there as static art and possibly increase in value.
Toys are pure imagination made into physical form. You don't understand what an action figure truly is if you have to ask. What you're holding in your hand isn't just a piece of plastic with joints. It's someone's vision, a team's combined effort to being that vision into reality so that a child's (anyone's) imagination can capture that vision and expand on it.
You live in a world where everything is shown to you on a screen and your brain doesn't work for it. You play a video game and have set rules and boundaries. You watch a show or movie and it's all flashy but it's defined and played out, you have no control. But take a figure and hold it, move it, imagine it doing anything. Have Snake Eyes fighting Megatron. Make your Battle Beasts live in the Ewok'a treetop village.
I came from a time (70's) where we played outside with GI Joe figures and when the street flooded I got out the Hovercraft and SHARK and floated them around by the curb. I had the original NES but set up elaborate hour-long adventures with my TMNT figures. Even pople from the 90's remember their Power of the Force Star wars figures. Their Kenner Aliens and Terminator lines. It's why NECA did homage series to those and you can find Jurassic Park retro stuff at Target. X-Men 97 is a huge hit. Because back then we had adventures in our minds and toys allowed us to cultivate our imaginations to achieve even greater heights.
LED screens have replaced all that and it's dumbed down our population. Pick up an action figure. Imagine what it could do. Visualize the process of its origination and the fact that a person/team with the design power to work at Ferrari decided to creature a tiny hand-held version of something they thought of rather than a luxury car.
