Making Toys On The Cheap
Call me old fashioned, but toys are not built as well as they used to be. Back in the day, a good toy used to last you well into adulthood, and would never go wrong. You could fire your old toys from a canon and be pretty confident that when you found them again they would work fine. If you drop one of these modern toys, then you shouldn't expect to be able to use it afterward. You spend weeks looking for all the bits and pieces that have cracked, smashed and fallen off.
There is an argument to say that toys these days are more technical, they do more stuff and therefore there are more parts to go wrong. I'm not sure this holds much water though as even very basic toys made these days suffer from the lack of quality materials and build. Also, think back to when got old train sets as gifts, and the intricacies involved with the small parts and mechanics. These things were as hard as nails. You could lay something on the line to derail it and it even when the whole thing came off the tracks, it still stayed in one piece.
Why then do we find ourselves with such inferior products these days? Unsurprisingly the problem stems from money, or more accurately, profit. Some of the better retailers only sell quality toys, but most are just interested in the bottom line and so have all their toys made in the Far East and using materials that you wouldn’t even want your bin liners to be made from.
What to do? If you’re buying for a girl, hunt around for the best gifts for her on trusted websites, where you know you’ll get quality. When buying gifts for him you’re more advised to actually go to a shop to take a look at the build quality. Boys like to test their toys to breaking point, so finding a toy that can take a pounding is imperative
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