He was very on point with the comment of toys probably not changing that much in 50 years (at least for little kids). I remember when a niece turned 2 or 3 (can't quite remember), but everyone got her these big elaborate toys -- and at the time I was very poor and just got her a bouncy ball... that 5 dollar bouncy ball won her attention COMPLETELY.
If you look at the toys of kids hundreds or even thousands of years ago, they're much like the toys kids play with now. Kids don't seem to be demanding in that regard.
Chris is the kind of person I want to show up to games night and just share trivia all night. We'll groan and give him a hard time but we all quietly love it, and he knows that.
@@littlecake453 really? Do they have the right to claim he know something that they can’t know whether he knows. The commenter doesn’t know Chris. They should simply have written “would know that”. Not a lot to add in 2 sentences.
@@littlecake453 I am chill. I disagreed with a comment, asked two questions and added “lol”. You disagreed with a comment, expressed that and added “lol”.
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
Personally Lego is the ultimate toy, it is unlimited fun that encourages creativity and engineering, it teaches art and science as far as your imagination can take you.
I discovered Lego at age 77, and bought a few kits with over 2000 pieces each. Lego is more than a toy. It's great for problem-solving and keeping your brain active.
Tech is great, but I truly don't ever think action figures will be replaced. There's just something so satisfying and fulfilling about acting out storylines and generally messing around with something tangible that looks and feels like something or someone you see as super badass
I appreciate the comment about math in toy design, as I became a toy designer on Hot Wheels with an engineering degree. Physics and math play key roles in mechanism and play set design, and I love every part of the process.
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.
Rubik's cube is really a masterpiece of a toy. Simple but ingenious. I remember around early 1980s when I was like 12 somebody brought one to the school and everybody tried to solve randomly haha. Eventually most of us learned after somebody found one tutorial on a magazine (the easiest layer by layer algorithm.)
I remember my Rubix Cube fell apart one day, and seeing how it went back together, that I could solve the puzzle faster by breaking it... I'm almost kinda embarrassed to say this toy was a breakthrough for me in my personal development as a human being.
6:50 if you want to see some truly stunning examples of injection molding and mechanical design, build a gundam model. They're absolutely astounding little engineering projects.
I gave my Dad a homemade "pet rock" in the 80s. To this day, he still keeps it on his desk. ❤ My Mom went NUTS about Beanie Babies. She kept telling us that she was investing in our inheritance. 🤦🏼♀️ I currently have almost 500 BB collecting dust... 😂
One of my favorite creative writing assignments in college was to go outside, get a rock, and write about your conversation with the rock. That rock is my pet and he’s still on my shelf. 😂
4:45 The association between Rubik’s Cubes and intelligence is thankfully changing though! It’s now more a super fun hobby than a sign of IQ. Anyone can solve the cube if they have the motivation, I’ve seen it first hand.
I tell people all the time that they come with 7 step instructions on how to solve. If you spend like an hour a day for a week, you'll have the algorithms memorized.
I forget what they called them long before beyblade. Zip tops before that I'm sure. They just convinced people to smack them into each other for no reason.
One thing about toys I find fascinating is how our attitude towards toys has evolved over the decades. Today, we get amazed by toys that light up, or interact with you in some way, I.e. usually some electronic feature. But back in the 50s or 60s, if you had a toy robot and its arms were moveable, that was considered amazing in its time, even if today it’s pretty standard for most dolls and action figures
just wait for the AI dolls who talk back and grow a relationship, remembers dates, and can literally grow up with them for their whole lives, understanding them perfectly. 😵💫
At first I thought being a toy expert was a hobby but this guy clearly knows his stuff. I have seen the light and definitely respect the profession after this video
Speaking of collectible McDonald's toys. When I was a child, there were the 101 Dalmatian toys. There truly were 101 to collect, and trying to get them all was hard as the McDonald's would only have a few, and you'd like to end up with doubles instead of getting the one you needed. Now, supposedly, if you wanted all of them, you could supposedly pay 101 and dollars, and you'd get them all. My parents were not going to spend 202 dollars for me and my sister to have a collection each.
I think one of the major changes in toys in 50 years will be the 3D printing. It’s getting more common to find people that have one and good ones are becoming less expensive and the product coming out looks better and better every year. Only a couple years ago they had super thick ridges and now they’re looking far smoother. They’re also doing multiple colors and different types of materials. I saw a thing on Dam Savage’s Tested channel that had a company that is doing 3D printed life portraits that print in color and look amazing. It’s still in early stages, but in a few years that kind of tech could become something really great. There’s a lot of designers that didn’t have luck setting up a toy company that create and sell files so you can print their toys like Tecco toys. I think eventually these printers will be cheaper and easier to use and even a kid could learn to use them.
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.
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?
My mother and I were casual beanie babie collectors.... But we didn't preserve them for later selling. We hugged and smooched them. We got them because they were super cute.
13:27 Whoa, that Woody doll itched the cobwebs somewhere within my brain's childhood memory. I could have sworn I nabbed the same toy years ago because I loved Toy Story so much. I clicked on this video just out of boredom, but it really reminded me how influential and iconic toys are, especially tied with fast food. Remember when McDonalds first did their monopoly series? The dinosaur toy craze? Man...
13:45 I have that Woody on the left! One of the few times I went to BK as a kid…However he was played with so much his right boot is currently held together with a rubber band. Also that comment about pristine toys implying that a child didn’t get to play with it does resonate with me. Sure it’s cool to see a retro toy in perfect or restored vision, but it is the intention that they are played with too.
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)
This really has nothing to do with the video itself; although it was pretty cool and fun!, I absolutely love that the frames of his glasses match his outfit, and with my favorite colour too!! Amazing. 💜
Yeah, and the articles I've read about mention it was for architecture classes, not (just) maths. And it started as a block of rocks forming a 2x2x2 like cube.
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.
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 remember going into my attic in the early 1980's as a kid living in the house my mother and Aunt grew up in. I was shocked there were toys up there, and the one I was most impressed by was the Mr. Machine.
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.
I never thought my Beanie Babies were worth anything, I was too young for that. I just loved them because they were just the right size for me and my little tiny human hands. Never heard of the craze until I was MUCH older.
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!
This happened hundreds of years ago in the Netherlands. The really rare and "valuable" tulip bulbs were the ones with unusual patterns and colorations that were hard to grow naturally. But it was also a speculation bubble (people paying high prices only because they thought they would be valuable in the future) that soon fizzled out into nothing, much like Beanie Babies or NFTs or whatever.
This was a great video, didn't know toys have so much history to them. Now, I wanna see this guy explain Japanese toys, especially the Gundam/Gunpla model kits and how they came to be, that seems like an interesting video idea. 😁
How can a huge toy company like Hasbro lose so much money on their toys? Their financial statements are horrible in the toy department. (Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering are making them loads of money though)
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
That Mr. Machine to the left seems to be the older version, so given those were produced towards the middle of the 20th century (50s or 60s), that's almost three-quarters of a century old.
I had that sparking roller skating Barbie. She was just as awesome as you're thinking. It was a little difficult to get her wheels to spark, but you definitely could, especially once you figured out the trick. We tested it once to see if we could actually set anything on fire, but never had any luck (as I recall, my slightly older cousin and my dad were in on this, I want to say we tried tissue paper).
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. 😂
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 feel like there's something kinda funny in the contrast between "Beanie babies as a highly valuable collectible? I don't get it" and "Yes old happy meal toys are rare collectibles and I don't want to ruin the value of these ones" like sure maybe they missed the mark, but you can't say it doesn't make sense
I mean there's a difference between both, of course there's happy meal toy collectors because there's collectors for basically every toyline that exists, but beanie babies were a giant fad where a lot of people seemed to be convinced they were going to become priceless collectibles while they were still on toy shelves.
In the Colorado Hotel in Glenwood Springs, CO, where Teddy Roosevelt stayed on all his hunting trips in that area, the story goes that he was bummed he didn’t see a bear to shoot on a hunt, so his daughter made a rudimentary Teddy Bear to try to cheat him up; thus, the Teddy Bear was born.
Good questions. Great responses. I’ve been playing and collecting since 1978. That said, I prefer the term “big kid” over “kidult.” And I’m not alone. Happi Holidays!
@7:36 Toy Master: As a species, really don’t change that often, that quickly - IA3.0: ….Alright, we all heard the man. Hold on to your VR goggles. *cracks knuckles
My grampi had my mother's Mr Machine in the basement. He was very worn out with buts missing. I loved playing with him. I was a Duplo Blocks, Fischer Price Little People, Lego, TMNT kind of girl. People kept buying me Barbies, Cabbage Patch Kids and I'd have to pretend to be happy. I loved my Puffalump and Holly Hobby though. My little sister was more stereotypically girly.
No one wonders why Beanie Babies are popular. The question was why some people believed that the Beanie Babies will be very valuable in the future. Many people collected Beanie Babies and they didn't play with them because they feared that those will lose their value. And they were hugely disappointed to learn that their collection is not worth lots of money. There are many other toys that will increase their value over the time among the collectors but 99% of Beanie Babies are not those.😅
How do I Submit a recommendation for Wired Expert series? My uncle Jerry Beck is a cartoon historian and professor. I think he is a perfect fit for this series given the unique category and his level of experience.
I feel like he doesn't fully answer the transformers question. The person already recognizes the intricacy of the design. They want to know how the design and manufacturing process can make so many, such conceptually complicated transforming toys so rapidly, at such a good price. It a really good question because, unlike, say, Furby, this is not a toy that has the same basic shape and style every time you make a new design and people are unlikely to buy multiples of the same one, so there has to be a wide diversity of complex toys cranked out rather fast. It is quite impressive to think of how that process has to just keep working. I wonder how many skilled designers that can design stuff like this they need and how much AI can help with the complex geometry involved. With so many moving parts, safety must also be quite complex.
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I mean this with all due respect and even admiration: Chris looks exactly like what I thought a toy expert would look like.
Thought the same
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Also sounds like it :)
He was very on point with the comment of toys probably not changing that much in 50 years (at least for little kids). I remember when a niece turned 2 or 3 (can't quite remember), but everyone got her these big elaborate toys -- and at the time I was very poor and just got her a bouncy ball... that 5 dollar bouncy ball won her attention COMPLETELY.
If you look at the toys of kids hundreds or even thousands of years ago, they're much like the toys kids play with now. Kids don't seem to be demanding in that regard.
He sounds and looks exactly like a person I would envision if they told me that they were a toy expert.
Chris is the kind of person I want to show up to games night and just share trivia all night. We'll groan and give him a hard time but we all quietly love it, and he knows that.
How would he know that? This is your little fantasy, lol do you think he read your comment?
@@LeanAndMean44damn chill. It probably is, but they have the right to do so lol.
@@littlecake453 really? Do they have the right to claim he know something that they can’t know whether he knows. The commenter doesn’t know Chris. They should simply have written “would know that”. Not a lot to add in 2 sentences.
@@littlecake453 I am chill. I disagreed with a comment, asked two questions and added “lol”. You disagreed with a comment, expressed that and added “lol”.
@@LeanAndMean44 *it probably is a little fantasy. Sorry if it wasn't clear enough for some reason.
And uh... It's not that deep?
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
Personally Lego is the ultimate toy, it is unlimited fun that encourages creativity and engineering, it teaches art and science as far as your imagination can take you.
Ong ong🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
Except when you step on it...
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I discovered Lego at age 77, and bought a few kits with over 2000 pieces each. Lego is more than a toy. It's great for problem-solving and keeping your brain active.
Tech is great, but I truly don't ever think action figures will be replaced. There's just something so satisfying and fulfilling about acting out storylines and generally messing around with something tangible that looks and feels like something or someone you see as super badass
I appreciate the comment about math in toy design, as I became a toy designer on Hot Wheels with an engineering degree. Physics and math play key roles in mechanism and play set design, and I love every part of the process.
That is a really cool engineering job.
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.
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Rubik's cube is really a masterpiece of a toy. Simple but ingenious. I remember around early 1980s when I was like 12 somebody brought one to the school and everybody tried to solve randomly haha. Eventually most of us learned after somebody found one tutorial on a magazine (the easiest layer by layer algorithm.)
Alien technology
Hungarian genius!
I remember my Rubix Cube fell apart one day, and seeing how it went back together, that I could solve the puzzle faster by breaking it... I'm almost kinda embarrassed to say this toy was a breakthrough for me in my personal development as a human being.
6:50 if you want to see some truly stunning examples of injection molding and mechanical design, build a gundam model. They're absolutely astounding little engineering projects.
just dont get addicted or you can kiss your money goodbye 😂
I could listen to this guy for hours and not get bored. This is so good.
I gave my Dad a homemade "pet rock" in the 80s. To this day, he still keeps it on his desk. ❤ My Mom went NUTS about Beanie Babies. She kept telling us that she was investing in our inheritance. 🤦🏼♀️ I currently have almost 500 BB collecting dust... 😂
One of my favorite creative writing assignments in college was to go outside, get a rock, and write about your conversation with the rock. That rock is my pet and he’s still on my shelf. 😂
even if you dusted those off i'd bet you'd make alot back selling them online, collectors buy anything if they happen to be missing it
I don't want to brag, but I bought a 50 piece puzzle that said 4 years and up. 4 years? It only took me 10 days
It probably means for 4 years old and above
@@princehabibu you must be fun at parties
@@princehabibuNo, it's the time it took on average to solve the puzzle
@@princehabibudats da joke
It takes me more than 10 days to put together 1,000 or 500 pieces
4:45 The association between Rubik’s Cubes and intelligence is thankfully changing though! It’s now more a super fun hobby than a sign of IQ. Anyone can solve the cube if they have the motivation, I’ve seen it first hand.
That's true
It’s just memory… all u need to do is memorise algorithms even I can and anyone who sits down to remember
i never understood it and never had desire to solve it which is the bigger problem.
This is facts! I taught my brother and sister how to solve a Rubik’s cube, and trust me when I say they don’t have very high IQ.
I tell people all the time that they come with 7 step instructions on how to solve. If you spend like an hour a day for a week, you'll have the algorithms memorized.
My toy fad was the Beyblades.
Everyone in my neighborhood played with them and battled using big bowls.
In the 90s we had "Spin Fighters", basically a less customizable Beyblade but with no TV show (that I remember).
We were were hooked on bakugan in my elementary school. Everyone had the toys and all the cards. It was so fun
Bakugan was our big toy craze
@@XxThatGuyOverTherex1 I had a magnetic one and watched the anime too.
I forget what they called them long before beyblade. Zip tops before that I'm sure. They just convinced people to smack them into each other for no reason.
He said Lego's are sustainable because they get passed down most. Classic answer, love this guy. 😂
One thing about toys I find fascinating is how our attitude towards toys has evolved over the decades.
Today, we get amazed by toys that light up, or interact with you in some way, I.e. usually some electronic feature. But back in the 50s or 60s, if you had a toy robot and its arms were moveable, that was considered amazing in its time, even if today it’s pretty standard for most dolls and action figures
just wait for the AI dolls who talk back and grow a relationship, remembers dates, and can literally grow up with them for their whole lives, understanding them perfectly. 😵💫
At first I thought being a toy expert was a hobby but this guy clearly knows his stuff. I have seen the light and definitely respect the profession after this video
This was fascinating. I love the people Wired gets and the topics they think to cover.
This guy is my role model. I wanna be a toy expert and still sound smart at the same time
I mean an expert at anything is gonna sound smart af when talking about it, that's the main benefit of expertise
Pro tip: Don't cite or reference Freud like this guy did
yeah 10/10 guy. we gotta have him back!
@Epicawesomeness64 lol I know right
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How do I become a toy expert? Asking for a friend. My friend also happens to be me.
Speaking of collectible McDonald's toys. When I was a child, there were the 101 Dalmatian toys. There truly were 101 to collect, and trying to get them all was hard as the McDonald's would only have a few, and you'd like to end up with doubles instead of getting the one you needed. Now, supposedly, if you wanted all of them, you could supposedly pay 101 and dollars, and you'd get them all. My parents were not going to spend 202 dollars for me and my sister to have a collection each.
I would LOVE to see another one with him.
6:10 fun fact, the tulip craze was the event that initiated our modern day stock market
It's also a classic example of financial bubble
I think one of the major changes in toys in 50 years will be the 3D printing. It’s getting more common to find people that have one and good ones are becoming less expensive and the product coming out looks better and better every year. Only a couple years ago they had super thick ridges and now they’re looking far smoother. They’re also doing multiple colors and different types of materials.
I saw a thing on Dam Savage’s Tested channel that had a company that is doing 3D printed life portraits that print in color and look amazing. It’s still in early stages, but in a few years that kind of tech could become something really great.
There’s a lot of designers that didn’t have luck setting up a toy company that create and sell files so you can print their toys like Tecco toys.
I think eventually these printers will be cheaper and easier to use and even a kid could learn to use them.
-action figures are dolls made for boys"
..Suddenly my whole childhood feels like falling apart
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.
There is an AMAZING series called "The Toys That Built America" that is very well done - I highly recommend.
Chris is on that show!
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?
I love looking at it as a meme, you're so right!
I remember pogs. Those things were crazy popular for at least a few years. Then, the year yo-yos became huge.
My mother and I were casual beanie babie collectors.... But we didn't preserve them for later selling. We hugged and smooched them. We got them because they were super cute.
I remembered the 1983 Cabbage Patch doll crisis.
I bet the person that asked about beanie babies has an NFT collecting dust.
13:27 Whoa, that Woody doll itched the cobwebs somewhere within my brain's childhood memory. I could have sworn I nabbed the same toy years ago because I loved Toy Story so much. I clicked on this video just out of boredom, but it really reminded me how influential and iconic toys are, especially tied with fast food. Remember when McDonalds first did their monopoly series? The dinosaur toy craze? Man...
One of the most fun Tech Support videos I've seen. This is so good!
13:45 I have that Woody on the left! One of the few times I went to BK as a kid…However he was played with so much his right boot is currently held together with a rubber band.
Also that comment about pristine toys implying that a child didn’t get to play with it does resonate with me. Sure it’s cool to see a retro toy in perfect or restored vision, but it is the intention that they are played with too.
This is the expert I didn't need, but the one I deserve...I'm joking of course. I just never knew this was a thing but it is interesting.
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)
This really has nothing to do with the video itself; although it was pretty cool and fun!, I absolutely love that the frames of his glasses match his outfit, and with my favorite colour too!! Amazing. 💜
They make me think he is wearing lipstick. 👄
This was somehow satisfying to watch. I love his energy.
I remember seeing this fella quite often on TimeToPlayMag’s TH-cam channel many, many years ago.
"I'm going to bring my friend Optimus back in here"... What a sweet man with an impressive knowledge base...
Rubik was the teacher of my history teacher. and he made the cube for her class. she liked bragging about it in class to us 🤣🤣
Wonderful presentation, Chris! Thanks so much.
I actually had a lot of questions about Toys. Thank you!
My grandpa had it rough back in the day with all the "Make your own nuclear reactor" toys lol
The original Rubik's cube definitely did not turn fluidly
Yeah, and the articles I've read about mention it was for architecture classes, not (just) maths.
And it started as a block of rocks forming a 2x2x2 like cube.
@@MaximilianBerkmann Someone before Rubik did a 2x2x2. That was a different thing altogether.
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.
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 remember going into my attic in the early 1980's as a kid living in the house my mother and Aunt grew up in. I was shocked there were toys up there, and the one I was most impressed by was the Mr. Machine.
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.
Need more of these!!!!
Why does this feel tactically released right after Hasbro announce some massive layoffs?
I'm glad he brought up the tulip craze. It's a really fantastic story about pre-industrial capitalism and market bubbles.
I want more of this guy! 😁
A wiseman once said, “You don’t stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing.”
I never thought my Beanie Babies were worth anything, I was too young for that. I just loved them because they were just the right size for me and my little tiny human hands. Never heard of the craze until I was MUCH older.
If DC should ever want to cast DR. Amazo, they should hire the guy
This kinda made me want to re-watch 'Big'. So fun.
Loved this!!
That Woody toy brought back so many memories 😮 talk about a throw back
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!
This happened hundreds of years ago in the Netherlands. The really rare and "valuable" tulip bulbs were the ones with unusual patterns and colorations that were hard to grow naturally. But it was also a speculation bubble (people paying high prices only because they thought they would be valuable in the future) that soon fizzled out into nothing, much like Beanie Babies or NFTs or whatever.
This was a great video, didn't know toys have so much history to them.
Now, I wanna see this guy explain Japanese toys, especially the Gundam/Gunpla model kits and how they came to be, that seems like an interesting video idea. 😁
How can a huge toy company like Hasbro lose so much money on their toys? Their financial statements are horrible in the toy department. (Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering are making them loads of money though)
Well for starters Toys R Us was a huge investor in selling Hasbro toys
Just thinking that while Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot the BABY bear, that means that time, even baby bears were hunted. That's so sad
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
That was brilliant. More please!
What a cool idea for a channel
Instantly subscribed 👍🏻
That Mr. Machine to the left seems to be the older version, so given those were produced towards the middle of the 20th century (50s or 60s), that's almost three-quarters of a century old.
I had that sparking roller skating Barbie. She was just as awesome as you're thinking. It was a little difficult to get her wheels to spark, but you definitely could, especially once you figured out the trick. We tested it once to see if we could actually set anything on fire, but never had any luck (as I recall, my slightly older cousin and my dad were in on this, I want to say we tried tissue paper).
Super interesting. Please have him back 😁
4:02 I can't believe I'm called a Ki-Dult.... 🤣
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. 😂
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?
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.
I LOVE THIS GUY
I feel like there's something kinda funny in the contrast between "Beanie babies as a highly valuable collectible? I don't get it" and "Yes old happy meal toys are rare collectibles and I don't want to ruin the value of these ones" like sure maybe they missed the mark, but you can't say it doesn't make sense
I mean there's a difference between both, of course there's happy meal toy collectors because there's collectors for basically every toyline that exists, but beanie babies were a giant fad where a lot of people seemed to be convinced they were going to become priceless collectibles while they were still on toy shelves.
My cousin had the rollerblading Barbie and it was so fun!
In the Colorado Hotel in Glenwood Springs, CO, where Teddy Roosevelt stayed on all his hunting trips in that area, the story goes that he was bummed he didn’t see a bear to shoot on a hunt, so his daughter made a rudimentary Teddy Bear to try to cheat him up; thus, the Teddy Bear was born.
Good questions. Great responses. I’ve been playing and collecting since 1978. That said, I prefer the term “big kid” over “kidult.” And I’m not alone. Happi Holidays!
But does anybody remember Pogs? They were a HUGE fad.
Ha the pride when he whipped out that OP
LOL HE PULLED IT OUT AGAIN
That's obviously the child of Willy Wonka and Elton John.
I'm falling in love with the Hot Wheels: Color Reveal series.
The recalled Boba Fett action figure with the shooting missile is worth 10s of thousands of dollars 😅
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Toy Master: As a species, really don’t change that often, that quickly -
IA3.0: ….Alright, we all heard the man. Hold on to your VR goggles. *cracks knuckles
I wish he could have explained Furbes and why they were made.
My grampi had my mother's Mr Machine in the basement. He was very worn out with buts missing. I loved playing with him. I was a Duplo Blocks, Fischer Price Little People, Lego, TMNT kind of girl. People kept buying me Barbies, Cabbage Patch Kids and I'd have to pretend to be happy. I loved my Puffalump and Holly Hobby though. My little sister was more stereotypically girly.
My GMA had a Mr machine! I used to play with him as a kid and I know my dad did as well. 🙂
More videos with this guy PLEASE ❤️❤️❤️
Best video ever made by someone on the RSO list.
- Bro, has a perfect toy company ever existed?
- It Hasbro!
I feel insulted about him not understanding why Beanie Babies were popular. They're cute! What else do you need to understand?!😆
Yes, and that's why I judged people who bought them and didn't play with them. 🤣
No one wonders why Beanie Babies are popular. The question was why some people believed that the Beanie Babies will be very valuable in the future. Many people collected Beanie Babies and they didn't play with them because they feared that those will lose their value. And they were hugely disappointed to learn that their collection is not worth lots of money.
There are many other toys that will increase their value over the time among the collectors but 99% of Beanie Babies are not those.😅
part 2, please 🙏
I remember my aunty spending 2 days sitting outside a shop to get a Teletubbie for her granddaughter my cousins kid.
How do I Submit a recommendation for Wired Expert series? My uncle Jerry Beck is a cartoon historian and professor. I think he is a perfect fit for this series given the unique category and his level of experience.
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.
Paul Simon looking good.
I feel like he doesn't fully answer the transformers question. The person already recognizes the intricacy of the design. They want to know how the design and manufacturing process can make so many, such conceptually complicated transforming toys so rapidly, at such a good price. It a really good question because, unlike, say, Furby, this is not a toy that has the same basic shape and style every time you make a new design and people are unlikely to buy multiples of the same one, so there has to be a wide diversity of complex toys cranked out rather fast. It is quite impressive to think of how that process has to just keep working. I wonder how many skilled designers that can design stuff like this they need and how much AI can help with the complex geometry involved. With so many moving parts, safety must also be quite complex.