The toys seem to be getting lamer and lamer as the years go by. I hate the new Littlest Pet Shop looks, I miss the Polly Pockets and I remember back when there used to be a lot of Barbie stuff, now there is very little on shelves. There used to be a whole section of them but not anymore. I also miss the Lite Brites, and the old Play Doh accessories but there seems to be less and all they make are the play mats for it and the cutters and the molds.
I was on youtube watching old toy commercials from the 1960's and I saw how much fun board games were back then and now they seem boring, lame. They don't make any great ones anymore except they still have some classic ones like Mouse Trap, Candyland, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Monopoly, etc. and some classic toys like Etch and Sketch. I told my boyfriend how great toys used to be, even when I was little and he had an interesting theory. Kids would rather play video games. I also read more and more kids are watching more TV than they did years ago so kids would rather be parked in front of the TV set watching it or playing games on it and they neglect their toys, so why make them if kids won't play with them? That's my theory why toys are lame.
I also read parents these days are having their TVs raise their kids for them by having them watch shows and having them learn from them but those are just peoples opinions.
I watch more TV now than I did as a kid and computer. As a kid, I came home, played with my barbie dolls or Polly Pockets, Knex, Bio train set and Lincoln Logs, action figures and match box cars, Mighty Max, rode my bike, played in the sand box, swung on my swing set, played in my play house, played house or school, read, wrote, played with blocks, jumped on the trampoline, roller bladed, went roller skating when I was six, played board games. These were things I did over the years. I still watched TV and did computer games and video games but not as much. Whenever my brothers and I did watch too much TV or have been playing too much video games, my mother would make them off limits and make us do something else. We had to be parked in front of the TV all day for her to do that.
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