>>7096361>once their kids became teenagers and grew out of toysAnon you just told me you didn't grow up n that timeframe or at the very least did 0 homework on the market at that time. It was not uncommon for teenagers to keep collecting toys well into 16 or older. It wasn't till the 4th gen of gaming systems rolled in that you started seeing kids bail on toys after 12ish.
You buy a kid a Skull Mountain at 8 he might be still playing with it until he's 15. That was all in theory however and many quickly learned that no matter how high the price tag most kids would want the next shiny bauble and that playset was the "wrong call" in terms of buying it, I wager this is why large playsets became rarer by the early 90s was the market wised up and they wouldn't buy timmy that $100 X-base to watch him lose interest a month later.
That's the big fact of it. The 90s was our best market for buying needless things for kids but the playset market was on a decline, again think on that, when the US was making more money on such a large scale, giant toy playsets were lower than what they were even a couple of years ago. That means money wasn't the issue, it was something else. Mattel would tell you video games, Hasbro would tell you the market "wised up" on big playsets. I think
>>7096290 is the closest to the mark however, as a kid you be more incline to get something -good- when given Christmas money and the like and most playsets even in the 80s wern't that good, it was just that was the best of the time. I guess you could say they just didn't age all that well.
