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That's a fair question. It is hard to say.
If you really get down to it, the mainstream hobby is now pretty hollow. Now you just go buy a boat, golf clubs, a gun for hunting. There isn't a lot of doing and a whole lot of go buy it then work all the time and never use it.
And it changes by region. Does middle America on the west coast have extra income for adult hobbies? Can they afford a boat with the cost of living? Can they get vacation time to use it ?
I'm not sure we're reclaiming childhood as much as we never left it. And why would we want to? Our childhood was cartoons and Nintendo and sugary cereal and a solid economy and peace. Our adulthood is 9/11 and income inequality and debt and climate change and never ending wars. Trauma arrests/regresses people at formative ages.
Or: we're the first gen to have grown up absolutely submersed in advertisements. We were raised by marketing departments. Maybe all those screaming '80s and '90s toy ads--literally screaming--sunk in a little too deep. We saw the same flashing ads for Transformers every five minutes for entire summers. That's probably going to have a lasting effect.
I think you're on to something here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
We've had nerds with money since forever. At least going as far back as industry. At least as far back as Edison and the 100s he had developing things.
They used to take productive hobbies. A lot of them got into ham radio which was pretty much the pre internet message board.
But that brings us to something well documented. Pre 90s, nerds were people way to good at something and often a little socially inept. Now you can be a nerd by buying the right things at walmart.
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http://m.imgur.com/a/eJXm3
What a great idea.
Those are awesome. No huge welt on Chun's head though.
Political correctness invades Street Fighter. A woman fighter can't be shown injured. I guess MMA better get on real-time special effects for their broadcasts.
"First they came for the plastic toy heads based on 25-year-old Super Nintendo screenshots..."
There's hope yet, we haven't seen her right temple.
So this came in the mail from NECA today. :)
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1438194675
I really love the backing cards that have been coming with these retro figures. The guy they hire to do the F13 art is just killing it.