1 AM Rant: Trouble in Toy Land? Target Discontinues Star Wars Vintage Collection Toy Line! 

I had a brush with greatness. I ran into Shawn at the local post office. It was cool to actually meet you in person. I love your advice. I would have loved to get into a discussion, but I was already aggravating the postal workers with my large load of drop offs. 😂 Thanks for saying hi.

The quality of the toys is trash for the price so the adults who would buy them don't want them and the kids aren't excited about Star Wars.

Well it's not helping that a lot of the current Star Wars shows, movies and video games have not been as well received.

Sad to see that this generation won't know what it was like to walk into a Toys R Us, with perpetual stacks of our favorite toys neatly arranged to the ceiling, with each aisle dedicated to one or few toylines. Remember that Xmas goeffrey theme that played during the holidays😢

I remember many Star Wars and GI Joe collectors getting super excited last year when so many toys where showing up at Ross and Ollie's at deep clearance prices. I took advantage of some of these sales myself, but I knew that it was a bad omen about the future of the toy industry. Now collectors are a bit spoiled and saying stuff like, "All of these new figure look awesome, but I'm not paying full price for them. I'll wait until they show up at Ollie's or Ross," totally oblivious to the fact that that's the best way to guarantee all of these toy lines get cancelled.

Seems to be a trend when you try to consistently try to turn NEW products into 'collectibles' and then price accordingly. My youngest (now 13) still loves action figures. Even though I was never really a collector of them so he didn't get the exposure through MY collecting habits. However the design quality is trash for new items. Who needs to build in points of articulation if you're going to aim a product at a collector who will never open it? Children still have imaginations and still like to 'pretend' play.. even in this era of digital entertainment, however you have to build products,... GOOD products for them AND price them at a reasonable price point. What is out there now, arguably is not.

Disney literally killed a golden goose. I don’t collect action figures but kept up with Lego and Lego Star Wars was the only theme I payed attention to as I got older but Disney ruined the IP beyond belief to the point where I’m looking more at Lego city and other themes that I always thought were lame.

There wasn't much money around for toys when I was a kid in the 60's. By the time the Star wars figures came out in the late 70's I had grown out of 'kids stuff' and was quite into Games Workshop at the time ( though it wasn't an I.P back then just a few shops that sold D&D and third party miniatures). So having not had this stuff as a kid is exactly the attraction it now hold for me.

video on flipping on a budget PLEASE

Love that jacket.

Thank you very much

I have many friends who are teachers and they tell me what you describe is a symptom of lazy minds. Technology is replacing, for many children, a need to exercise an imagination. This is sad but in many ways empirically demonstrated in what children want as toys. It is also evident in that there is a steep decline in many science degree programs enrollment. Kids who are mentally lazy, want nothing to due with mentally strenuous degree majors.

Our local target and Walmart have had a really hard time moving toys. The same stuff has been there for years, and with the occasional case of newer toys, but it’s very occasional.

I love my two rooms full of 80s toys but I know it won't be worth the six figures I paid for it when I die.

Thanks for the info Shon!!

You can make that same argument about antiques. Especially today with history pretty much disappearing. I don't see future generations interested in antiques. I actually think it's going to cycle into popularity. A lot of new movies coming out like Thundercats, or GIJoe with Transformers in the same movie. Some Star Wars movies are coming out. This will help

Hey Shawn I know this ish a Q&A but just curious what is your rarest (not necessarily most valuable ) video Game and trading card?

Hey Shawn, of the toy categories potentially dying out in the next 10 /15 years (masters of the universe, mego, gi joe) do you think prices will continue to climb, stay the same, or decline over that same period. I didn't know if past categories you talk about (trains, Pyrex etc) provide a blueprint for what to expect.

Time to sell my 12 back Star War Action Figures. Targett is a Red Flag.

Shawn after watching 10 videos of yours, i became a billionaire!!!

Would you be willing to do a video on the new ultimate universe by marvel? I do realize it is very much a bubble. I think your take would be interesting!

Disney put the last nail in the coffin for Star Wars buddy. My kids play with all my vintage toys especially Star Wars, GI Joe and MOTU but I have no interest in buying the new toys if they are Woke. Why support Woke? Also parents use screen time devices as a babysitter bad parenting in my opinion.

what kind of kid wants vintage toys? This was adult product put with toys at Target. What did they think would happen?

D... discontinued? INVEST NOW!

Good riddance to relaunch rubbish toys

1st off IT'S 2024 NOT 1987 anymore. Most people 40 amd over forget that. Technology!!!!! Literally 1 gallon of oil is worth 100 HUMAN MAN HOURS OF WORK. Technology bridges that gap and is why physical is on the decline

Sell now it's the top

Nes video games?