>>7370653Sup newfag?
This shit was a common complaint in the 70s and 80s, even when they were brand new.
There's also the fact that plastics would change colors or crumble in just a few short years, because they were still relatively new to the materials they started using.
Kids and adults complained a shit ton in the 70s, 80s, and 90s in conventions, magazines, and the early internet.
Just because you weren't aware of it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
It's only now that people are hyper-aware and think everything is worse now, conflating a few cases with the entirety of everything they make.
Even with the 70s, 80s, and 90s, I'm likely just grossly exaggerating how common these faults actually were. I never experienced my rubber bands breaking until the late 90s. Colors changing on plastics was relatively common though. Paint chipping off diecast was common as fuck too and why some lines were praised for using plastic, like Micro Machines. Toy lines with brittle plastic was also a complaint, but this wasn't for any major lines that people still remember today. Still, various Star Wars figures were known for being cheap, like the lightsabers or the stickers on figures, COPS being prone to shattering, etc, but they're glossed over because the rest of the line held up.
