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you should have asked why arent bayblades made of real metal anymore.

The glasses are absolutely insufferable.

Loved this!!

To expand on the Beanie Baby craze, Ty's obsession with perfection created a series of rolling "revisions" among the various Beanie Baby sku's and helped further explode the idea of the speculative market. Almost unwittingly he had created a scene where you had "first edition" or "misprint" or what kind of ear tag and how it was applied would shift and alter the rarity and valuation of a Beanie Baby and that variability made the collecting of Beanie Babies so feverish. Now you'll see products push limited edition and special colorways but with Beanie Babies it was more pervasive which meant there was a separation of the casual consumer who just thought they were cute toys and a knowledge class of "experts" or much more avid collectors who knew the differences that most didn't, Beanie Babies very organically created its own culture and economy and while it didn't last forever is certainly something other toy makers have tried to recreate artificially.

The greatest toy story ever known is the question of why Wonder bread He-Man exist was he Conan and does Mattel oh Conan hundreds of millions of dollars

The reason why Legos are so expensive isn't because they're charging you for the cost of the cheap plastic they use. You're paying for the precision and tolerances of the finely tuned machinery they use to enable a Lego piece made today being able to fit a piece made in the 1960's.

he's the guy that stole woody

Toys of the future? Action figures with camera eyes and robot skeletons that you can control and see through with a VR headset, overlaid effects to make it feel like you're in the show/movie/game/etc. And with A.I. we could have real life Medabots (for example)

That Toy expert guy is a psychopath

He said boys and girls, surprised he hasn’t been cancelled yet

The pet rock really isn’t hard to understand when you realize people now still love ironic humor. No one bought it because it was fun. It was basically a meme, right?

One of the most fun Tech Support videos I've seen. This is so good!

I have one of the original Cabbage Patch dolls with the cloth face. I played with her and then her adopted siblings for a long time. I have them packed away, though I no longer have their boxes. Lol

i had that rollerblade barbie and i had to make my dad come roll her on the sidewalk because i wasn't strong enough to make sparks

None of this guys’s answers actually answered the questions. Maddening.

My GMA had a Mr machine! I used to play with him as a kid and I know my dad did as well. 🙂

To oppose your Mr. Machine comment, I saw a recent video that showed it come disassembled with a booklet containing assembly instructions.

Well, his friend Optimus Prime was my fad. Had an original one back in the 1980s when the cartoon was first popular. Of course, if I'd not unboxed it and played with it, it would be worth some money by now, but the memories are so much more valuable to me.

If you get lego sets enough the QC slips up some times. I've had sets missing pieces and I've even had a warped piece as well.

Did Joe biden hire this guy to replace the department of energy guy who was stealing womens clothing? They're close enough lol

Imperfect legos do escape the the factory sometimes, its not often but they do and depending on the piece it could be worth some money.(most are worthless though)

i’m an 00 kid and i loved beanie babies, i used to have a beanie baby magazine every month where people would show off their collections filling garages lol

A lot more than that little reductive and judgmental thing he said went into the Beanie Baby fad. Kinda weird to show up as a "Toy Expert" and then spout a half butt answer a question that whole documentaries have been made about. "I don't get it either!" Then maybe do some research? Wild to be so flip with Beanie Babies and then happily show off some McDonalds toys like they're war bonds... I could have given a better answer in the time and I barely care.
Also, Lego is the one of the LEAST sustainable toys? It's constant mass production of NEW material plastic to get those sharp, foot bruising edges and that perfect snap. Just b/c people can resell it doesn't make it all better. (Lego was?? is??? trying to figure out how to make something with recycled plastic, tho.)
Wood isn't super sustainable for mass production either...I hate to break the state of lumber and deforestation to this dino, tho... He got halfway to saying that simple toys that last a long time and that people only have a few of and then pass along are the most sustainable. I like to think we'll move towards that more and more, esp when it comes to toys for young kids who legit do not NEED a ton of toys they're only going to like for a short time.

I bet at the end of the video he slowly put his clown wig and makeup on and drove away in a tiny car

Never knew Teddy Bear was a caricature of Ted Roosevelt 🤔🤔🤔

Asks how transformers are made
Talks about injection molding
Bruh?????

I also wonder that when old toys are found and collected. Like someone bought that for a kid and the kid never ever touched it? Or more likely never got it, but why?

I had that tiny BK Woody! Dammit mom, why did you make me get rid of it?

Why does this guy look like a villain who would be named “The Toymaker”?

I remember my aunty spending 2 days sitting outside a shop to get a Teletubbie for her granddaughter my cousins kid.

I remember pogs. Those things where crazy popular for at least a few years. Then tbe year yo-yos became huge.

I loved beanie babies as a 90s kid. What I liked was getting so many different animals, learning about the specific animals I wanted. If beanie babies hadn’t existed, I probably would’ve collected plastic animal models. But beanie babies could be left on the bed when taking a nap. 😂

My job is running injection molding machines and I love that Lego and their quality control came into the conversation because they truly are miraculous in their execution of perfect plastic bricks

I wish they would have played the audio “There’s a snake in my boots” or “YOU ARE A TOYYYY” Toy Story at the end of the video.

As an ER doctor, I can also say that anatomically and physically there are many changes that happen to a pediatric child after the age of 8. 8 is a very important number clinically.

This guy looks like a toy.

I’m sorry, what? A tulip bulb costing a year’s earnings? I NEED to know the story behind this weird phenomenon. I have a gazillion tulip bulbs in my garden and it’s not like they are hard to grow. Fascinating!

Cabbage patch kids - ugh. I am not only old enough to remember, but also old enough that I thought it was unbelievably stupid at the time.

Could wired get like a animal wnd/or botnist expert to talk about the floral and fauna of the new avatar game and discuss their plasability

McDonald's toys were so good back in the early 2000s! Hot Wheels, the lightsabers, the musical instruments, Transformers, amongst other things. That was where it was at! Don't even get me started on cereal box toys!

I like this guy! Gave a special shout-out to Transformers 🙌🏼 As a collector, it's easy to just look for the next thing to buy without really appreciating what goes into making them or the engineering, so it's good to slow down and appreciate them for the engineering marvels they are, particularly Transformers.

"I'm going to bring my friend Optimus back in here"... What a sweet man with an impressive knowledge base...

This guy and the mortician are my absolute favorite!

He's that guy who owns that vintage toy store in The Simpsons...