To think today's toys are mainly rubbish compared to toys from about 30 years ago?!

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None of them seem to hold the appeal that toys did in the 80s and they mainly seem pretty flimsy in comparison too.

Some exceptions to this - Lego, playmobil etc, but so many toys now seem to be all singing all dancing and what is actually left for the child to do with them - the toy does it all itself!

They're just rubbish in comparison to toys when I was growing up in the 80s. The action figures were loads better then and much better made. Look at the crap that is Ben and holly figures or fireman sam etc. Is it because toys are much more dispensable than they used to be? I go to a toy shop and it all looks like tat!

Aibu to think 'vintage' toys were better made and often more interesting than lots of what is on offer today?

I completely agree. I feel like a lot f modern toys are built cheaply and are almost ‘disposable’ - they don’t feel like they’re built to last!
My little girl has a push along dog walker from the 70s and it’s sturdier than a lot of her other similar toys!

YANBU.

I dunno I think you might be looking at it through rose tinted glasses. I remember how exciting mr frosty looked and the reality of how shit it was.

A lot of toys do nothing to stimulate the imagination, which frankly, negates the whole point of a toy. As a kid, I always thought the best toys were wooden train tracks with magnet trains, assorted Lego, Lite-Brite, and action figures. I used to make paper-mache mountains and houses for my action figures and made little furniture for Barbies with popsicle sticks and glue. Also, clothes for the Barbies from lost socks, old pillow case fabric, and kleenex!

I remember being bored sometimes, but that would often spark an idea to make something for a toy or a game. We had bits and pieces, but never big sets for something specific. We had to use imagination.

Toy companies make a killing on stuff that kids really could make themselves with a little creativity and some effort.

I'm not saying it was the "good old days", because really, it was the 90s, so not too long ago in the grand scheme of things. Some kids still live like I did! And the memories are great.

Was just saying to DP the other day that modern day buckaroo is rubbish and flimsy compared to how it was is the 80's

Yabu. Imaginext are the total and utter empress of toys. They are so innovative and amazing yet technologically there is nothing to them that couldn't have been around for us as kids but no-one had designed them. Small figures with large feet that always stand upright when you want them to, enough articulation to set up various play scenarios but tight enough joints that they stay how you want them. So many fun features on the vehicles and playsets, little disks that move things, missile launchers, hidden compartments, etc. Well made and will last for generations of heavy play. They really are the absolute best.

Beats the hell out of dolls that would never stand or action figures that had to be carefully balanced to stand up (but would fall if you looked at them wrong) so characters had to be left lying down meaning only two could ever interact in a game at once. And playsets made from shoddy brittle plastic that cracked easily and had very little of interest within.

Not so sure about toys, but music and kids' television - hell yeah. There's nothing like "dogtanian" or "dungeons and dragons" these days!

Modern day twister ....crap
Connect 4 ....flimsy crap
Guess who

I think this about the vast majority of products, not just toys.

Clothes and furniture are two huge disappointing areas these days. The quality just is not there, unless you are willing and able to spend thousands of pounds on individual products.

YANBU. Hatchimals, Furbys, LOL dolls, Fingerlings, Robot things, I've done the mad scramble for these at Christmas and all of them are forgotten in a few days. Lego is still DS's (8) go to when he's on a screen ban. Which he was for most of this weekend, as was his sister (6).

The amazing creations they came up with on 'free play' i.e. using the bricks to make their own ideas vs the instruction books were amazing. I got a cruise liner, with buffet, bedrooms, captains deck, gangway....honestly Denmark would have hired them if they'd seen it. I felt like a shit parent for not facilitating this sort of play more often.

In fact look!