>>9974520>european doll shitI don't really get this. Are dolls really that cheap to make or was the modern eurofag caused by the popularity of playing dolls over there?
I'm going to guess the former, given you can buy a 12" articulated barbie for $10.
Which leads to the problem that even if there were more European toy makers, they wouldn't have invested money to make anything but the cheapest shit. Dolls, building blocks, and statueshit. No innovation because you guys only want to make cheapshit.
Innovation requires money to happen, or rather, spending a bit more in production costs to make something better than everyone else.
>Sadly the US is a the borg for that kind of thing, if someone did have a popular line Hasbro would buy them as well in the end.Isn't that a problem with the company just selling out? USually a company sells itself because its' doing poorly and needs capital to continue operating. It's rare for a company to sell itself where it's in a position of power, like Pixar or Marvel, where the buyee becomes the majority/largest shareholder for the company that bought it.
So they likely weren't makign anything to stand out. Companies like Galoob might have been super popular in the 80s, but by the time Hasbro bought them, their innovation wasn't a decade later, because many others copied them, and were bleeding money from failed toylines (Johnny Quest, Starship Troopers, etc).
