Was he an advanced engineerper or just a crazy cybertronian invehter?
If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, then knock-offs of 25 year old+ toys must be the ultimate compliment. The fact that anyone actually gave enough of a damn to still make something that hasn’t been in a toy store since the 1980s, not even as an official reissue, is pretty awesome when you think about it. I say this because the other day when I was in Toys R’ Us looking at all the new Transformers on the pegs, I thought to myself, “I wonder if in another 25 years there will be knock-offs of any of these on the internet?” Like the G1 Mirage and Wheeljack I just bought from a personal favorite gray market toy supplier.
When you really think about it, knock-offs are even more committed to creating a facsimile than some reissues. The knock off G1 Mirage, for example, to the untrained eye one would possibly think that this was indeed the real thing from 1984. And, no, I’m not even going to get into the shyster types who takes these things and stick them on eBay demanding vintage-collectible prices, either. Just that there is an obvious collector demand for the original toy, which has never officially been reissued due to the mold being lost.
I guess what I’m getting at is in the day and age of better articulated toys, with possibly even more popularity than ever before, will anyone still be willing to buy these as facsimiles of their original forms, even as knock-offs?
I’m not sure if anyone would know the answer right now. In 25 more years will toy robot enthusiasm die off again?
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