>>10822108Toys must become a subscription or microtransaction based service
Offer 1 base figure for a low price or free and then have kids spend their parent's money on microtransaction accessories and add-on or swappable parts. Make blindbox or lootbox sets to incentive them to hunt for the correct or desired parts
Make a model where a high price per year gives you different figures every month to keep the kid interested and with constantly new or varied figures and avoid having to hunt them down in stores or only purchasing 1 or 2 figures every once in awhile
These are the only way to survive and get kids interested again. As sad as it is, their brains are completely fried and addicted. Their dopamine receptors don't work normally anymore. Parents simply refuse to parent their children correctly and responsibly so the market must adapt to the new circumstances and take advantage of the child's damaged brain
Nostalgiaboomers and blind consoomers will fall into the new strategy anyway because of poor self-control and obsessive behaviour and mentality. They already can't control themselves on a lot of crappy stuff happening with some low-effort toylines, they'll fall for anything and won't complain
This is the only future where toys can continue to exist healthily. Anything else is unsustainable because parenting methods will not reverse course and the current market can't keep going on the higher and higher costs of production and dwindling number of collectors
