>>9608457The Golden Age was the 00s for toys, going into the early 10s.
Everything today is a downgrade.
Prices have been going up significantly since 2011. MLs went from $8 in the late 00s to $15 by 2012 or 2013. By 2015, there hadn't been a price increase for 6" figures until last year.
Despite Hasbro's shitty budget for toys when they got the license in the late 00s, they managed to improve on their toys year after year. IT wasn't until 2012 that you started to see cheaper engineering and articulation being cut.
There's been some improvements, but budgets aren't anywhere close to what they were in the 00s. Not from ANY toy company. Not McFarlane. Not Good Smile. Not Kaiyodo. Not NECA. Not Mezco. Not DCC.
Almost all changes to toys were because it was cheaper to do it that way.