>>9461737As a person who has been going to conventions for over 30 years, kids have always gone to conventions, with at least 25% of convention goers being under 17. The biggest difference between the 90s and now is that there's more females.
00ish-08ish, i think there were probably as many teenage girls as there were adult males. Fucking weebs.
After that, either those teenage girls kept coming to conventions as they aged or just more women started coming to comic con, but also more adult males started coming too (or male convention goers kept coming as they aged). Definitely seeing entire families coming.
With corona, there's been no real convention season and i went to like one last year. This year there's been a few more. So i don't really see much of a difference, other than the fact that people are way less friendly, thanks to masks and distancing. Way less people too.
>I for one think this is a good thing if so, kids should not get into potential hoarding materialism. Once you do its too late.Kids have always been hoarders. My elementary school was into Marvel trading cards. In HS it was magic shit. Magic, yugioh, and pokemon was definitely a thing in the 00s. But that's just cards.
With kids having toys.... Kids play with them and have entire chests filled with them. Every single kid I've known has had at least one mountain worth of toys. Can you really count that as hoarding?
I think that there is one thing everyone forgets is that collector toys and exclusives, it's almost always aimed at adults. So it's a character kids don't know and is likely why they ignore that shit. Kids don't give a shit about 80s TMNT, 80s He-Man, 80s Ghostbusters, outdated 80s-style toys, and other complete whos to kids.
I think Spawn toys were as popular as it was in the 90s was because McFarlane just made shit kids wanted to see. Completely made up shit just for toys, like ninja spawn, manga spawn, commando spawn, generic monsters, & other cool edgy shit that attracts kids.
