They don't make 'em like they used to. When I was little I had a Tonka Truck that I got for my 3rd birthday. I played with that thing until the wheels fell off (As a note: the wheels never did fall off, but the bed rusted and cracked after hauling bucket loads of mud, dirt, sticks, and little kids for about 5 years). The old toys seem to be more durable. They were made of tough stuff like cast iron and carbonized phenolic. My uncle has a set of construction equipment that his grand kids are playing with 50 years after he did.
You don't find 3 generation toys very often. The exception would be toys that collectors collected, but those don't count because they are not played with (they are probably bitter like Stinky Pete in Toy Story 2). I guess it has to do with how much the toys are played with and in what environment too. If I had kept my truck inside it would probably still be around.
Of course being a toy has to be one of the best and worst jobs ever. There aren't many products that have to deal with the extreme conditions that toys do. They get slobbered and chewed on, they sit in cars through unbearable heat and cold, they are subject to strange kid science and menacing older siblings.
This concludes my theory on toys and why some Disney Pixar films are so popular!
ps. Look you can still buy the steel truck! What a deal!
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