>>11062993Like i said, only simplistic shit is usually made domestically. Building blocks, green army men, models, etc that don't need assembly, painting, or other multi-step production. So shit like lawn chairs can and are made in the US. Stuff like cups, bowls, etc too.
I mean, you think your shampoo and water that come in bottles are made overseas? IT's cheaper to make it in the US than cart it all the way from Mexico or China.
Super easy to make and barely needs a human monitor the process, muchless touch it.
Also, is Squaresoft toys made in Japan? Because their shit is super fucking expensive compared a Bandai or Hasbro figure. I don't really pay attention to packaging, so i didnt even know Figmas were made in Japan.
That said, labor has a cut off point where quality can't be any better. A good factory in China is the same exact shit as a good factory in USA/Japan. Just like how there are bad factories in the China, there are bad factories in USA/Jp. If something goes wrong, it's easier to make a change in the US/JP than it is in China, hence domestic stuff usually being better
Mattel/Hasbro/Bandai/Apple put in a lot of money to set up their factories in China, so that standards are as high as if the factory were in the US (treatment of labor is another story). If a factory is Chinese made, standards are usually worse and materials can also be worse too.
>>11062988No, toys still need to be assembled by hand. Robots are still pretty simplistic and a toy would have to be made really really simply for a robot to get in there for mass assembly.
It's why clothes are so much cheaper today than they were 20 and 30 years ago. Even the expensive brands wear out extremely fast because cloth is being mostly produced by machines now and sacrifices needed to be made in order to lower the human labor required to make it.
Even cheap JCPenny store brand stuff from the 90s and early 00s holds up better than expensive brands from today and even from the late 00s.
