Alright, one common thread that I´ve detected amongst people I can usually
relate to is a thing for toys. Be they toys that go bang, buzz or throb. I
wanna´ know what kinda´ toys you guys got...and weither your creepy
collectors, or the types that actually get down and dirty.
Like me, I´m a complete freaking GI Joe nut...back in the day, many were
the times Cobra commander and destro completely wiped out She-Ra´s castle
(My little sister hated that)...or Snake Eyes totally kicked the crap out
of that crotchless pantywaist Ken when blondie found out ol´ silent but
deadly was sleepin´ with barbie...and midge.
In light of newer cooler, scarier toys that have come out...like todd
mcfarlane and all his good stuff, or those living dead dolls. Here is where
we discuss our beloved stuff, and talk about what we do, or did with
them.
May the games begin.
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Ironboots
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posted on 18/5/2002 at 07:27 AM
Oh... I thought you were talking about those -other- toys...
Anyway, I was really addicted to legos... Couldn´t have too many. I loved
building castles and spaceships... I started disliking them when the
company started stretching thin with its yearning for novelty... I mean,
ice planet was alright, but the underwater crap pushed me over the edge...
The good old days of legos were probably when I was about 5 (c. 1990) Those
were fun times! They had all sorts of knights, on horses, and you had
little robin-hood type dudes, and such. I loved them. And the Magnetron!
Oh, how I played with those, and envisioned all the things I could do with
those little magnets...
I had a few Carribean sets, just like a pirate and a monkey and such... My
brother got most of the modern-day themed legos... I dunno why. I still
have all of my legos. Most are lost somewhere in my brother´s room. When I
was about 10 my dad posed a ban on purchases of new lego sets for this
reason. But I already had a good size collection, enough to keep me
going.
I don´t play with them that much anymore. Occassionally I´ll get creative
and whip something together, but it´ll be broken down and forgotten the
next day. Nothing substantial. But it is still pretty fun to try and build
feats of engineering... Like building a bridge from one kitchen counter to
the opposite side´s one. Or building the tallest single-block-wide tower
you can. I loved those...
Next in line were the ninja turtles... I had a few figures, but my mother
was smart, and (realizing it was just a passing fad) didn´t buy me too
many. I only recieved about four or five of them, but I played with them a
lot, mostly just to keep up with the other kids who had larger collections.
Bah on fads, I say!
Nowadays, pretty much my computer is my toy. I play with it in all my
freetime, mostly. Next in line is the guitar, and perhaps my backyard. Its
mildly fun in my backyard *shrug*
Note:hahaha! Staying up all night until 7am paid off! I get to be first to
post a reply to Dolorosa´s topic! While eating Top Ramen! *giggles
insanely*
And I just noticed that my post numbers are nearing the bicentennial mark.
I´ll have to celebrate... *giggles some more*
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posted on 18/5/2002 at 07:54 AM
I got all kinds of toys. I have almost evrything I had when I was a kid.
(I´m 27 now) I´m a packrat. I still collect stuffed animals tho, my husband
and I have TONS of them.While we do love our stuffed animals.. we dont
*love* our stuffed animals if you get my drift. Lol...About 1/3 of the bed
is populated by the things. They all have names and personalities.
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I agree with you guys on the leggo thing...LOVED leggos, and linkin logs
too...they are the world´s oldest manufactured toy "game", know that?
I liked the jumbo leggos the best, the generic ones in the big tubs.
And Cooties...remember those? Little put together bugs? My barbies didn´t
last long, my older sister taught me they were more fun when you cut their
hair mass short and colored stripes with markers.
My little ponies were my gig...LOVED my ponies. Still have them too, just
in the garage waiting for my kids someday *gak*
I do remember one toy that I´d have DIED for was the He-man Skeletor castle
with the slime...my mom was ADAMANT that I not have it..I wanted it so
bad..that and transformers..."boys toys" she called them. Bah.
Did you guys know that they are re releasing the old toys of our past?
Yup, he man, transformers, my little ponies, strawberrry shortcake....the
toy industry is taking a plunge and want to go "retro" to save their asses.
Woo Hoo I say, skeletor castle here I come!
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Dolorosa
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posted on 19/5/2002 at 03:56 AM
Whoah...I remember the slime chamber thingie...it had a lock down chair, so
he-man couldn´t get away and then you oozed him. I don´t remember the
reason WHY you oozed him...all I remember is a hamster fit pretty well into
that lock down chair.
And I remember why my mom took it away from me...apparently the slime
stuff doesn´t come out...OF ANYTHING...including my sisters hair.
How it got in their I have not the slightest clue.
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posted on 19/5/2002 at 06:09 AM
I still have a lego pirate ship. If I had to pick something, I´d take it
over my computer any day.
I´m a bit disappointed with legos nowadays, you can´t buy any generic
peices in the stores, you have to special-order all the old stuff too. The
legos you see nowadays have almost completely robbed kids of imagination;
Lord of the Rings lego figures are small rubber-plastic replicas with
moveable joints that look more like G.I. Joes than old lego figurines.
But legos are the key to unlocking a child´s imagination. Most other toys
keep them within the realms of certain imaginations; barney dolls still are
barney at the end of the day, but legos you can build worlds. Creation is
given to the hand of the child, and they can build outside the realm of
television or games or whatever constraints society has placed upon them
into almost surreal landscapes.
I lost all my legos to the test of time, save that ship, which I lost the
instructions for(a real pity, considering callei and shade just love to
move things around and "accidentally" drop it on the floor) so I have to
re-build it from memory, but I´m happy I got to grow up with them.
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Dolorosa
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posted on 19/5/2002 at 06:17 AM
One good thing I´ll say about legos...is that once you master the various
combinations and colors...fucking with genetics is like, one half step
away.
You can tell what a kids going to turn out like by his favorite toys.
GI Joe=military psycho.
My Little Ponies=Dark, scary but cute CoS grrl.
Mutilated Barbies= Eerily insightful person
Legos= Mad Fucking scientist...
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posted on 19/5/2002 at 07:40 AM
When I was about 10, my stepdad locked all of our toys up in the garage,
and wouldn´t let us have them back. So my little stepbrother and I would
find little odds and ends, like pretty rocks, misc. machinery parts, and
old bullet casings, and would pretend the ones you could stand on end were
"people" and the other things were various props. we also had a few legos
that avoided incarceration... we called our game "little people" and made
up lots of adventures... I guess those were my favorite toys. not that I
had much choice in the matter, but it was still pretty cool when I look
back on it.
before then I guess I liked little playsets, like playmobil and things like
that. I always liked just creating my own little world, and determining the
actions of the little people in my hands...
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posted on 19/5/2002 at 01:01 PM
when i was young i had a lot of dolls, barbies and my little ponies.
although i have 3 brothers so i also played with the ninja turtle dolls and
legos. but right now i have a shit load of stuffed animals from when i was
young until now all over my room.
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posted on 19/5/2002 at 02:54 PM
Well now...i was big on Play-do and silly putty...i used to that the cover
off my fan and paste one of my M.A.S.K. characters in the middle and turn
in on "HIGH" and watch him spin and spin untill he flew in the air....when
i was really young i used to strip my sisters barbies and set them on
fire....hee hee...it was to fun to watch that bitches face melt off....
:evil:
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so that makes me a dark but cute eerilly insightful CoS girl?
But I wanna be a mad scientist *pouts*
Toys nowadays do rob kids of their imaginations. Really...it´s to the
point of ridiculousness. I mean hell, how many variations of barbie, GI
joe, spangly fangly sparklin´ talk n´ walk n´ rollerblading pop star
karaoke magic makeup superdupereasybakin´ moon walkin´ new and improved
turnyourchildtounimaginativeoatmealwadsit´llbebrokeandthey´llloseinterestth
reedaysafterxmasandsitinaboxintheircloset crap can they MAKE?!!!
My 7 year old nephew on my husbands side can maneuver the finer workings of
a plastation and can recite movie lines from hannibal but doesn´t know what
fucking linkin´ logs are? He doesn´t own leggos! He plays video games!
All day!
He gets excited when he comes to visit me because I don´t HAVE video
games...he gets to draw with my good colored pencils, he gets read to, he
helps me cook, he plays with his imagination. That´s IT. And he LOVES
it...but mom wants him to be good and quiet and veg out in front of the
video games so she won´t have to bother with him.
I think that´s what it is...people don´t want their kids to play because
then they don´t act like miniature replicas of them. They don´t want them
to be loud, to ask questions, to be challenged. They want them NICE and
QUIET!
Bring on the blocks...only now I use ´em for THROWING.
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posted on 20/5/2002 at 05:14 AM
I´d like to give my child only toys that require imagination and creativity
to play with. But at the same time I must admit that I really enjoy
playing my friend´s PS2. Maybe I´ll just keep that for special occasions
or rainy days or something. Although for those rainy days, I´d rather have
a padded room with a trampoline for a floor. Let the kid work off its
energy, and then give it some construction paper and crayons.
As for my childhood, I had a small collection of red-headed dolls which I
used to strip and perform grisly tortures on involving pins and red marker.
The child psychologists would have had a heyday with me.
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posted on 20/5/2002 at 12:47 PM
Hey Schizo, if you get that padded room/trampoline set up, can I use it
during the sunny days? I used to love trampolines. My dad set up one of the
eight foot ones about a year before I moved out and I probbly spent more
time on that thing than any other toy I´ve had with the exlusion of a
computer, and my body is definately lamenting the lack of physical
expression these days. And the computer gets a boost because I work on it
too.
Physically taxing toys are something we need more of these days,
figureinges are great , but like card games they don´t do alot for the
spreading middle of the youth today. as a nation th US is experiencing
onheard of rates of obesity (Read: 90%) and alot of that is landing
on the kids. It´s not a pretty idea, but maybe I´ll worry about once I´ve
finished this level of Final Fantasy 8
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posted on 20/5/2002 at 05:07 PM
TOYS RAWK. im a action figure collector myself. although i have been buying
invader zim stuff and i love my lenore doll to pieces. mmm toys.
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posted on 21/5/2002 at 03:26 PM
If I ever get that trampoline room, Shade, you are most certainly invited
to use it whenever you want! Maybe we can get Callei to organize a
trampoline orgy!
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Ironboots
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posted on 21/5/2002 at 05:05 PM
Why a trampoline? Why not make the whole room a jump-house, so that you
could hit the sides, too. And then you could also work with a friend to
pump the air. (resulting in super-high jumps) I love jump houses. I just
wish those people would let me do what I want in it. No wrestling my
ass....
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Schizo
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posted on 22/5/2002 at 04:09 AM
That´s a great idea, Ironboots! And besides orgies, we could pipe in some
good music over some high-quality amps, and turn it into a mosh pit every
so often!
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Dolorosa
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posted on 22/5/2002 at 09:07 AM
Hells yeah...I´ll bring the jello-shots...if we fill the floor of the house
with ´em we can have trampoline orgy-jello-wrestling fun!
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posted on 22/5/2002 at 11:31 AM
See its not just me that thinks jello and orgies go together!
Well this is something to put on the main list of good ideas for orgies...
mosh pits of jello in jumpy rooms with loud fun music.
maybe some leggo and mutilated barbies as wall orniments?
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