The “toy hunts” I used to go on as recently as the 2000s have mostly vanished for me, until recently that is. The brick and mortar toy store is also basically dead in the US, and most people get their toys online. ![]() As a result, there’s extensive coverage of new and upcoming toys at conventions and trade shows. Kids who collected have turned into adults who collect and it’s become a large market that seems to keep on growing. I assume there were newsletters and other avenues for the older collectors, but for a kid that was basically it. Catalogs, commercials, and card backs were my main source of information. When I was a kid, toy collecting meant going to Toys R Us or a similar store and seeing what was on the shelf. I have been rather fortunate when it comes to toy collecting in recent years.
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