History TheyChangedItNowItSucks / Toys

--->'''Greg Farshtey''': This is Website/BZPower, and all new sets are greeted with a barrage of criticism. It's tradition.

* The Shopkins fandom seems to have a strong hatred towards modern toy franchises like Real Littles, Mini Brands and Miniverse.

* The Toys/Shopkins fandom seems to have a strong hatred towards modern toy franchises like Real Littles, Mini Brands and Miniverse.

* The "Toys/Shopkins" fandom seems to have a strong hatred towards modern toy franchises like Real Littles, Mini Brands and Miniverse.

** Even the toys made during the latter years of what many see as the brand's heyday have garnered complaints about incorporating more gimmicks and altering the gimmicks already present. Items of grievance include introducing pets with less realistic color schemes, getting rid of the embedded magnets in favor of holes to fit pegs in playsets, using printed-on eyes instead of painted ones, incorporating the human character Blythe, and even motorized pets called Walkables.

** The "Pets in the City" line, which ran from 2014 to 2016, returned to using bobble heads. However, fans still dislike them due to having removable heads, using a different kind of plastic than older toys, having a wide variety of expressions that make it harder to imagine unique personalities for the pets, and having tiny holes molded in to insert small pieces called Deco Bits. While Hasbro didn't reuse the old molds again, stating that the 2000s-era LPS are "retired", subsequent iterations of the toyline have used designs that more closely resemble the toys from the peak of the brand's popularity.

** The introduction of themes ([[Toys/LegoCity Legoland]], Toys/LegoSpace, Toys/LegoCastle) in TheSeventies. Until then, LEGO buyers were used to getting more or less big containers full of various LEGO parts that could be used to build just about ''everything''. [[OlderThanTheyThink Never mind that rather specialized building kits had been around for longer than the simple brick boxes.]]

** New colors weren't always universally welcomed. LEGO had started with only blue, yellow, red and white. The introduction of black in the late 60s and the introduction of grey bricks (there had been grey plates already) around 1980 were criticized for making LEGO less bright and colorful. Upon the limited introduction of the first green bricks in TheNineties, LEGO was accused of going against their principles--they had refused to produce green bricks for decades to keep kids from building tanks. And, of course, every color that came afterwards was deemed totally unnecessary because "that could have been done with the six colors available for bricks in TheEighties just as well".
** The increasing number of rather specialized parts in TheEighties. This was around the first time that (former) LEGO users had kids themselves for whom they got LEGO sets, just to discover how much LEGO had changed since their own childhood and was still changing rapidly. In particular, the introduction of five-high castle walls in Toys/LegoCastle and pre-shaped sailship hull parts for the new Toys/LegoPirates line felt to many like a shift towards Toys/{{Playmobil}}--again.

** The decrease in the size of the Build-A-Figures is another frequent criticism. [=ToyBiz=] instituted the Build-A-Figure concept with the idea that fans would be willing to buy an entire wave of toys so they could complete a larger figure that would normally be too expensive to release on its own. These included massive characters like the Sentinel and [[Comicbook/AntMan Giant-Man]]. Under Hasbro, the size of the Build-A-Figures gradually began to decrease, hitting a breaking point in 2013 when minuscule characters like [[Comicbook/AlphaFlight Puck]], [[Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Rocket Racoon]] and Hit-Monkey were featured. While Hasbro has since returned to doing larger Build-A-Figures (like the Hulkbuster from ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and Giant-Man from ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''), they'll still occasionally release one that is essentially the same size as one of their single releases, like Mantis from the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' wave and Okoye from the ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' wave.

** The "Pets in the City" line, which ran from 2014 to 2016, returned to using bobble heads. However, fans still dislike them due to having removable heads, using a different kind of plastic than older toys, having a wide variety of expressions that some feel limits what emotions one could imagine the pet to have, and having tiny holes molded in to insert small pieces called Deco Bits. While Hasbro didn't reuse the old molds again, stating that the 2000s-era LPS are "retired", subsequent iterations of the toyline have used designs that more closely resemble the toys from the peak of the brand's popularity.

* Many fans of earlier generations of ''Toys/LittlestPetShop'', especially those of the ones released from 2005 to mid-2012, have complained about the drastic changes in newer ones.
** The pets which coincided with the release of the [[WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012 2012 show]] have gained hundreds if not thousands of complaints from both children and grownup collectors combined, especially regarding the more stylistic features of the pets and the lack of bobbleheads, with several making phone calls to Hasbro to change them back. Hasbro eventually answered their wishes in 2014 with the release of the Bobble-in-Style pets, which reused the molds the 2000s pets had.
** However, the pets were redesigned yet again in the autumn of 2014 with the "Pets in the City" line. These pets were still bobbleheads, but were made of a different material from earlier pets and had very expressive faces. These were also met with several complaints from fans. Over the years did the pets start resembling more and more of the 2000s pets so many fans loved.

** Action Master line is often derided for being transformers... who don't transform. Sure it produced some original characters who've gone on to have their own fan bases, but many still look down on the line for going against the very idea of the Transformers franchise. It's telling that when the original characters get toy updates via retools, all of these new figures can transform.

** The introduction of themes ([[Toys/LegoCity Legoland]], Toys/LegoSpace, Toys/LegoCastle) in TheSeventies. Until then, LEGO buyers were used to getting more or less big containers full of various LEGO parts that could be used to build just about ''everything''. [[{{Hypocrisy}} Never mind that rather specialized building kits had been around for longer than the simple brick boxes.]]

'''Note''': This article lists examples which take place within fandoms; not TV Tropes' opinion as to whether a change is for the worse. TV Tropes doesn't have opinions. The focus is on over-reaction about minor changes.

* Adult WesternAnimation/{{Thomas|AndFriends}} Wooden Railway fans and collectors have not taken kindly to the "Thomas Wood" range that replaced the former range in late 2017, namely the compacted models of bigger engines, how certain parts of engines remained unpainted, and a new track system that is incompatible with track from Thomas Wooden Railway and other third-party brands (though adapters were included for a short time). If the reviews on the Toys R Us website are anything to go by, parents who purchased them for their children have not taken kindly to them, either.

** ''Technic'' going nearly completely ''studless''. Now you cannot build anything without the ''pins''. [[UpToEleven Metric trucktons of pins.]] The builds are also more rickety due to this.

*** Making ''licensed'' sets turned it UpToEleven and now the corporate suicide may actually [[FranchiseKiller become a real thing]].

** This was also the main criticism for Toys/{{Fabuland}}: It came with too many large, "pre-made" parts like doors in frames, and an automobile could be pieced together from about half a dozen specialized parts, not to mention that the figures couldn't be modified unlike the regular Toys/LegoMinifigures. It was still LEGO, but felt like dumbed down to DUPLO levels.

** Even the Toys/LegoMinifigures in their final form with movable limbs and printed-on faces had their share of backlash because LEGO customers regarded them as LEGO becoming more (too much) like Toys/{{Playmobil}}.

--> '''Greg Farshtey''': This is Website/BZPower, and all new sets are greeted with a barrage of criticism. It's tradition.

* Every change that happens in the ''[[{{Franchise/Barbie}} Fashionistas]]'' line is met with criticism and complaining.

--> They still fit in your pocket but now it is just the doll that fits inside your pocket instead of their whole world.

* Adult [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas]] Wooden Railway fans and collectors have not taken kindly to the "Thomas Wood" range that replaced the former range in late 2017, namely the compacted models of bigger engines, how certain parts of engines remained unpainted, and a new track system that is incompatible with track from Thomas Wooden Railway and other third-party brands (though adapters were included for a short time). If the reviews on the Toys R Us website are anything to go by, parents who purchased them for their children have not taken kindly to them, either.

** Under [=ToyBiz=], the Marvel Legends line generally eschewed movie figures, with the sole exceptions being ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'', ''Film/{{Blade II}}'' and ''Film/ThePunisher2004'', which each received a single figure. This immediately changed when Creator/{{Hasbro}} took over the line, with their first three waves including figures from ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Creator/SamRaimi's ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' being the subject of its own wave, and Target stores getting an exclusive ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' figure. Following the line's return from hiatus, Hasbro began doing movie-themed Marvel Legends waves, beginning with ''Film/IronMan3'' in 2013 and continuing to this very day. While this move proved to be a highly successful one (since the popularity of the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] helped renew interest in the line), a number of longtime collectors disliked it, as they preferred [=ToyBiz=]'s strategy of keeping the comic and movie figures separate.