'cause it looks like total B.S. from people who don't know what they're talking about or what kids will really play with in the long term. For the same money y

'cause it looks like total B.S. from people who don't know what they're talking about or what kids will really play with in the long term. For the same money you can get a something much healthier and long lasting in the form of a bike or, hell, a bunch of cardboard boxes and some art supplies and then let them go wild. Build themselves a transmogrifier or something. Make their own freakin' puzzles. My most beloved set of toys as a child was a bunch of plastic dinosaurs, a tiny pair of pliers, a trashed bike I was free to do whatever I liked to (bottle rocket launchers on the handlebars - oh yeah), and a really nice set of crayons and a giant roll of butcher paper. I'm not quite at the "get off my lawn" stage, but that isn't a toy, it's a product. Hence, the hate.