>>5374645>Toys today are much better made and more durable than in the 80s and 90s.I still disagree. At best, they're about the same. Toys from the 80s and 90s held up really, really well.
The difference between then and now, however, is that bodies and limbs were made of much more solid parts, because there was generally less articulation. McFarlane started adding in a lot more articulation in the late 90s/early 2000s, and some of those did have a tendency to be pretty fragile, I admit.
Toys today have way more moving parts, way more smaller parts, way more joints, and are just more intricate. I was rough as fuck with my toys in the 80s and 90s, and I had figures from several lines (TMNT, Ghostbusters figures, GI JOE, etc in the 80s, Kenner Jurassic Park, Terminator, Alien/Predator stuff, Early McFarlane Spawn stuff, etc in the 90s.) and even being rough as fuck, that stuff rarely broke.
>Yellowing plasticsReally only true on clear stuff, and bright-white stuff. Even on video game consoles they just couldn't get those whites to stay white. That was a legit issue.
>leaking plasticizers,I'm almost convince that toys leaking plasticizers is a myth. I've literally never seen it happen on an action figure, vintage or modern.
I mean, I am sure it happens, but I have legit never once seen it.
>rubber bands snapping in packages...I have so many 80s GI Joes whose thumbs and crotches have disappeared. GI Joe O-rings are about the only thing I can even think of where this applies...and they were literally built so that they were easy to replace. It really only sucks for MOSC collectors, I guess. And the thumbs and crotches? Come the fuck on. Those are TINY parts, and you really expect me to believe that you treat your toys the exact same way now as you did in the 80s when you were a kid? Come on. Like I said, I was rough as fuck with my GI Joes and I pretty rarely had thumbs and crotches break off, though it did happen on occasion.
