>>5979109>>5978721I blame walmart for their not being enough variety of army men.
Variety is bad for WalMart, so they only carry the cheapest and most popular. So many toy companies try to out do each other in the lowest common denominator to get WalMart to carry their shit.
This in turn hurts everyone else, because only cheapo crap is being made and a lot of people recognize that it's truly crap being made, thus fewer companies survive from no one buying their plastic turds.
Since WalMart killed off main street, there's fewer independant/momnpop toy stores, so there's less support for larger variety of toys.
The internet is slowly fighting back against this, with garage run toy shops and kickstarters being supported by the market who is into those rare figures you haven't been able to find in stores since the 80s and 90s.
It's still too small though, as even the most successful toy kickstarters only get propped up by less than 10 thousand backers, even when they get mainstream media to advertise it.
It's peanuts compared to collector only lines and other direct market companies.
Also, fuck green army men and their ilk. articulation superior.