I have to echo Apollo's sentiments, it is fairly crazy for parents to spend that much money. Am I happy to see it go? No, not really. Do I like the game? Again, not particularly. I've been indifferent towards it. As I predicted, the Pokemon players are slowly going to play Magic. Now, though, I find that this is NOT a good thing.
Bear with me here. I've seen far too many kids switch to Magic, build a deck from boosters and maybe a starter or two, and come to my local store to play. There they get laughed at by the "pro" players, and it has a very bad impact I find. The result is that they go to the damnable Dojo and copy a deck from there. Now the same uppity "pro" players start saying "now
THIS is a good deck, not like that
PILE you had last time. This leads to 10 year old kids acting like pros and trying to critique my fun decks. No offense, but I don't want ANY "pro" players anywhere near my store. Sadly, they're a plague that won't go away and show up sporadically. No matter how much I try to convince these kids that Magic is a game for fun, all I ever seem to get it "You'll never win a tournament with that..."
Oh, the sadness of it all