Why spending a lot of money on toys is not a bad idea | Is This Art?

These modern collectibles are a multi-million dollar industry. wIth very rare, or special individual toys sometimes selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. What makes toys so special? So desirable that people want to collect them and pay huge amounts of money for them? And how is this trend linked to a seventeenth-century woman? Welcome to Is This Art? Where we take a closer look at pop culture and try to answer the age-old question: is this art?