>>7879613The thing is, its the 70s/80s kids that have the highest attachment to toys. They were the early-video game generation. Toys were still a big deal to them, thats why they'll pour money into things they couldn't have as kids.
>>7879821This is brutal truth. The early 2000s were a sort of lost era for figures everywhere; before Japanese articulated figures really became a thing, and while US figures had an implosion of collector companies while retail toys slashed budgets and focussed on cheaper, simpler figures.
Not even the 90s gets many toy homages. BTAS got a DCC line but while it managed to do all the major characters, it didn't make a huge splash. Marvel 90s stuff is popular, but its tied to a massive property which helps float it. Power rangers keeps cycling into the same few releases without really spreading into the later 90s stuff beyond the surface so far. Beast wars gets more attention from Japan than it does America, where Hasbro mostly wants to continuously redo G1. Dragon Ball, at least, has a widely spanning Figuarts line. And all those things are tied to massively successful, generation spanning franchises.
Stuff like Gargoyles, street Sharks,Dexter, PPG, that were popular, maybe even more so than some of those 90s series with modern toylines, aren't even considered for toys. Japan isn't even touching things like Yu yu Hakusho, Lain, Ah My Goddess, Fushigi yuugi, etc Their market still defaults to 70's/80s nostalgia, too.
