Just like you, we got tired of toys that held a kid for five minutes and then lived on the floor. So we only stock the ones kids come back to on their own.
First-play excitement means nothing. We look for the second, third, and tenth pickup, the ones that happen with no adult involved. No return visit, no listing.
Toys that survive a real toddler.
Dropped, stood on, stuffed in a backpack. We check stitching, joints, and small parts before anything earns a place, because "broke within 48 hours" shouldn't be a toy category.
Materials we can name.
We list what every toy is made of, in plain words, because you'll check, and you should. If we wouldn't hand it to a kid in our own family, it doesn't ship.
Every parent knows the room: hundreds of toys, and the same five minutes of play. We lived it too. So we stopped waiting for someone to fix it and built the store ourselves.
