>>11288743>Jazwares is the darkest age of Sonic collectingI grew up in the early 2000s and you'd be extremely lucky to be able to go to any store and find Sonic stuff, let alone anything decent.
Want a Sonic plush? Good luck, you have to find it in a claw machine or some specialty shop. Want a Sonic figure? Only at Toys R Us, and it was ugly dogshit like pic related.
And this isn't even talking about the fact that the character selection was trash.
Jazwares sucked ass at quality control and I maintain that their figures were a nightmare to collect, but at least they actually made stuff fans wanted. I would've killed for a Metal Sonic figure as a kid, and had to wait until I was a teen before one ever got made. The fact that none of the old Sonic toylines ever had Super Sonic is astounding, it took until like 2010 for that to happen.
Like it or not though, Jakks is the best toy partner Sonic has ever had. Affordable figures that look good and have tons of variety, even if the articulation is lacking and they're clearly made for kids. The fact Jazwares' 3 inch figures were oftentimes more expensive than Jakks' figures over 15 years ago is ridiculous.
