Toy packaging then and now

Like pop music and football teams, the toys of our own childhoods are always much better than anyone else's. Not for us the utilitarian, worthy and slightly educational train sets of our parents' generation, or the cynically commercial film and TV tie-in toys of today's consumers. No, the toys of our own youth - the magical first wave of Star Wars figures, Evel Knievel Stunt Bike sets and Transformers - were proper toys, weren't they?

Whatever the toy may mean to the companies manufacturing and marketing them, they are all just product, and, like all product, they need packaging. If you haven't been in a toy shop since you were a kid, you'd probably be surprised by how much toy retailing has moved on over the intervening years. And nothing has changed quite so much as the way toys are packaged.

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