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* American Girl is the expensive version, with some dolls being retired over time like Addie and Kirsten. The company does supplement this by offering other products like books, retail, and tea parties at their in-person stores.
* Collectible Card Games:
** [[Pokémon Trading Card Game|''Pokémon'' trading cards]] were this for '90s kids, and still appeal to collectors. People would play for their cards and try to collect the rarest ones. Some inIn the 2020s some cards will still retail for as much as $2,000 dollars for one card!
** Similarly, some ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' sets and cards can fetch a high price. Some collections cost as much as $4000. Hasbro has come under fire for sending the Pinkertons, historical mercenaries, after YouTuber Dan Cannon for receiving a May collection two weeks early and terrorizing his family.
* Even earlier than CCGs -- and one of their ancestors -- were bubblegum trading cards, most prominently baseball cards. Until ''Magic'' appeared in the 1990s, if you heard about a trading card being sold for an outrageous amount of money, it was almost certainly a rare card for a baseball player.