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>Toys R Us is about to go extinct, all U.S. stores are poised to close down in a matter of weeks and Europe / Asia / Canada will probably follow soon after
>Lego is getting back into the red after years of consistently making even, sales are looking even grimmier by the end of this year with the death of TRU and no Star Wars film to cash in during summer or christmas
>modern Star Wars figures are pretty much doomed by this point, the "normal" 3.75 inch toyline is disgraced by rudimentar garbage with only five points of articulation and Black Series went from a malicious cash-in to raise the prices of what used to be the quality standards we expected from regular SW figures to pretty much becoming nonexistent on retail for most countries
>after reaching an impressive peak, Transformers have been going on a downhill spiral since 2011, with contemporary figures being smaller, simpler, less detailed and yet more expensive than their counterparts from about a decade ago
>the Japanese toy market isn't doing all that well either, with Takara Tomy being on the verge of bankruptcy
>Funko Pops still exist and are slowly creeping into stores in place of actual action figure
Is this it, /toy/? Are we entering the dark ages of toy collecting?
>Lego is getting back into the red after years of consistently making even, sales are looking even grimmier by the end of this year with the death of TRU and no Star Wars film to cash in during summer or christmas
>modern Star Wars figures are pretty much doomed by this point, the "normal" 3.75 inch toyline is disgraced by rudimentar garbage with only five points of articulation and Black Series went from a malicious cash-in to raise the prices of what used to be the quality standards we expected from regular SW figures to pretty much becoming nonexistent on retail for most countries
>after reaching an impressive peak, Transformers have been going on a downhill spiral since 2011, with contemporary figures being smaller, simpler, less detailed and yet more expensive than their counterparts from about a decade ago
>the Japanese toy market isn't doing all that well either, with Takara Tomy being on the verge of bankruptcy
>Funko Pops still exist and are slowly creeping into stores in place of actual action figure
Is this it, /toy/? Are we entering the dark ages of toy collecting?
