After hitting the incredibly busy 80's toy show this weekend, I was chatting with my younger brother who is currently nuts for GI Joe RAH, and it occured to me that he was also really into Teenage Mutsnt Ninja Turtles at the same time, yet he shows no nostalgia for the heroes in the half-shell.
So what is it about the Turtles that currently inspires indiference whereas Transformers, GI Joe and Masters of the Universe has such rabid adult collectors?
Is it the fact that the Turtles never really went away in the past 25 years and have been available in some incarnation or another for that duration? Even Transformers had a kind of break when Beast Wars took over, and the less we speak about Sgt Savage, GI Extreme, The Street Fighter years et al, the better.
So what is it about the Turtles that currently inspires indiference whereas Transformers, GI Joe and Masters of the Universe has such rabid adult collectors?
Is it the fact that the Turtles never really went away in the past 25 years and have been available in some incarnation or another for that duration? Even Transformers had a kind of break when Beast Wars took over, and the less we speak about Sgt Savage, GI Extreme, The Street Fighter years et al, the better.
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