>>5339551>Besides everyone buys the toys in japan. The kids get everything from sofubi to the better stuff. I think thier just acclimated to higher quality while we've been steady trained to eat shit and like it over the years.This sounds so much like the toy equivalent of the shit people say about anime when comparing it to western animation, it's kinda eerie, and I'm inclined to think it's just as likely to be mistaken.
If there's any reason for the difference in quality between toys in Japan versus the US, I would think it's less to do with nonsense like "everyone buys them" and "they're just more acclimated to higher quality than we are" and more to do with the different natures of the two markets. Transforming robot toys are simply far more saturated in the Japanese toy market than they are in the US, which naturally leads to a greater level of competition between brands than in the US, where you can count the number of non-Transformer brand robot toy lines on one hand and have fingers left to spare.
In which environment do you think a company has the greater incentive to make a better product: the one where there are few other brands competing with that product, or the one where there are many other brands competing with that product?
Of course, I think even that's overly simplifying it, and Japan is kind of a strange beast when it comes to their ability to sell shit to oddly specific niche audiences, but I hope you see my point. If Transformers had more competition in the US than MARS shit or dollar store knockoffs, there might actually be more reason for Hasbro to push for more quality in their products than they currently are, but that would require the US market to be capable of sustaining that competition, which it currently isn't.
