{"id":21820,"date":"2014-12-28T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2014-12-28T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T22:13:45","slug":"when-star-wars-ruled-the-toy-aisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/12\/28\/when-star-wars-ruled-the-toy-aisle\/","title":{"rendered":"When Star Wars Ruled the Toy Aisle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=10&amp;t=7257&amp;start=555\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21821\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/retail2009.jpg\" alt=\"retail2009\" width=\"466\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/retail2009.jpg 466w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/retail2009-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While cleaning out my hard drive, I came across some photos from December 2009 that I had snapped that showed what was on the pegs back then at various retailers.\u00a0 Head to <a title=\"the forums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=10&amp;t=7257&amp;start=555\">the forums<\/a> to check them out.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Personal Note:\u00a0 What a difference five years makes!\u00a0 What we see now, in my opinion, is the direct result of very poor management of the Star Wars brand since the 2012 line&#8230; questionable figure selections, shoddy case ratios, drops in quality, weird gimmicks aimed at kids, and focus away from the lifeblood of the line &#8211; the 3.75&#8243; toys.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cleaning out my hard drive, I came across some photos from December 2009 that I had snapped that showed what was on the pegs back then at various retailers.\u00a0 Head to the forums to check them out. Personal Note:\u00a0 What a difference five years makes!\u00a0 What we see now, in my opinion, is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/12\/28\/when-star-wars-ruled-the-toy-aisle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Star Wars Ruled the Toy Aisle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39,30,203],"class_list":["post-21820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-hasbro-2","tag-store-reports","tag-yakface-forums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21823,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions\/21823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}