Good point, though I'm not sure how important it is to have locally unique toys. Certainly not for the kids. Probably, you could have said the same thing 50 ye

Good point, though I'm not sure how important it is to have locally unique toys. Certainly not for the kids. Probably, you could have said the same thing 50 years ago, how nation-wide toys are taking over stuff that was only available in your town. I think the real differentiator is that 50 years ago kids didn't had that many toys at all. I'm not sure if that plentiness is always a good thing. AFAIK there's usually a very small subset of toys that are really important to them, anyways. So I wouldn't overestimate the importance each of the pictured toys holds. Maybe todays "uniqueness" comes from which of the toys was acquired in this sea of ubiquity. Analogous to today's plentiness of great cloud-tv-series, each with an earned addicted fan-base, where it is impossible for one to view them all. But what is still unique to each child is which of these acquired toys are really important to them.