Tat Tuesday.

My mom is home. Sadly things are not as happy as they should be. Her psychiatrist fucked her over. Which would be bad enough as is, but to add insult to injury the detox center at Beth Israel is shit. Firstly there was very little security, secondly the staff were incompetent, and the other patients were disgusting. Especially the male patients. One of whom decided to masturbate in front of my mother. This was not a productive experience. The worst part of all of this is that my mother's psychiatrist refused to prescribe her an anti-anxiety medication. A medicine she has been on for he better part of 15 years. While it is true that she has over indulged with them recently, that doesn't change the fact that she has extreme anxiety. I don't know what she is going to do. I'm just glad she is home. For better of for worse.

Anyway. Micro Machines.

As a young boy growing up in America you faced with a huge question. Actually many huge questions, but for today I will be focusing on the first of these questions. Matchbox or Hot Wheels. Well for me and many of the children growing up in the late 80s early 90s the answer was Micro Machines.

Micro Machines were the simplest of toy ideas. Take something popular and make it smaller. It worked with Might Max and it sure as hell worked with Micro Machines. I wasn't one of those kids that loved cars. They were and afterthought. Unless they were directly connected to franchise I loved. Micro Machines changed that. They were so cool.

Maybe it was the designs, the collectability, or the Micro Machine guy. The man with the fast voice. He spoke so quickly that you just had to pay attention to him. When those commercials came on you were hooked. He made 30 second commercial feel epic.

Sadly Micro Machines faded in popularity. Today they are no more. They had a small revival that went nowhere. I could say that "kids today are too concerned with video games" but I don't think that is true.

The truth is that die cast cars are just not popular anymore. Kids have so many other options. Toys that actually do things. The only value die cast cars have anymore is as collectables. The only people buying them today are collectors. When the collectors out number the kids then it is only a matter of time. Few toy lines can survive that. Those that do are the ones who have huge franchises behind them. Micro Machines didn't have a cartoon, movie, or comic books.

There were video games. Video games do not sell toys. While the video games continue to this day the toy line is long since dead. As always check out the links for more info.

YouTube
http://m2museum.com/
Wikipedia