>>8866873>>The popularity of internet culture has created hype for toys that get scalped thanks to the newly vocal form of hype the internet has crafted.You a zoomer? Because you sound like the dumbshit from the other day who said that the internet wasn't mainstream until 2015.
Hype for a certain toy has existed for ages. I became aware of it back in the mid-90s when magazines like Wizard would talk about "hot toys" in their toy section, but i knew something was wrong since the 80s when i couldn't find certain figures from specific waves in every store i went to. And this was back when toylines had an entire year dedicated to a single wave.
So it's impossible to say that something is being scalped, especially back in the 80s, because popular characters are going to be bought and disappear from stores.
There's sooooo much bitching about scalping today in the GI Joe general threads that never existed back in 2008-2012, despite the fact that army builders have always disappeared from store shelves. Stuff like Pursuit of Cobra was all but impossible to find outside of Winter Destro, with people NEVER seeing the later waves of Renegade figures in stores.
The hype for Renegades Storm Shadow was huge, yet it was mostly positive discussion about him despite most people needing to buy it from scalpers if they wanted it at all.
Today, bitching about scalpers and not finding GI Joes on the shelves is endless and spilling into other threads. You kids are even worse and more entitled than fucking millenials.
>>Most forms of premium lines are overratedsomething i can agree with.
