I usually see far more girls' and even unisex toy commercials on CN than boys' toys, but when I do see commercials for boys' toys, they seem to be getting weirder than in past generations. Today I saw for a commercial that was like a radio controlled car (though I don't know if it actually radio controlled), but it wasn't a car, it was a fucking bee. It didn't fly. It was a fucking bee with two giant wheels that it drove on the ground on. And it could do flips and stuff. Who the fuck thought to combine cars and insects?
A couple years ago I saw a commercial for dinosaur toys, but they weren't just any dinosaurs. They were like cyborg dinosaurs wearing missile launchers and shit. This is a toy literally straight out of Calvin's imagination.
Girls' toys on the other hand, seem to remain stagnant in the same old baby dolls of the past. The only innovation being that they are getting more realistic in talking, pooping and peeing, blinking, feeding, etc.