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Post by shaxper on Dec 1, 2016 22:33:20 GMT -5
Confessor begged the question here, but I think it warrants its own discussion 
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 23:20:50 GMT -5
Currently, they are almost all still in the packaging, but that's due to space constraints. Once I get moved, I'll pose them but I dont' think I'll ever play with them in the same way kids do.
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 4, 2016 12:49:58 GMT -5
I display them, some loose, some in their original packaging. But no, I don't play with them. Not anymore. Though I have had some of my collection since I was a kid, so I obviously did then (Action Man, Star Wars figures, Mego figures, Denys Fisher Doctor Who figures...)
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Post by Golddragon71 on Dec 4, 2016 13:23:25 GMT -5
Only in the sense that i pose them for photos (occassionally I'll do "comic strips" using them and my Comic Life program.  |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 8, 2017 4:49:16 GMT -5
I do wonder how many adults who still collect figures actually play with them when nobody's around. I went through a crisis right before I was to turn 13 in late 1990. I was still playing with toys as a 12 year old, but convinced myself that I HAD to stop playing with them once I officially became a teenager and I quit cold-turkey.
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Post by Mormel on Jan 8, 2017 11:52:52 GMT -5
When I still had my Transformers, I played with them well into my late teens. Then afterward when I moved, they ended up in storage and I didn't pack them out until I decided to give them away. If I still had Transformers, though, I would definitely play with them on occasion, acting out cartoon episodes or my own scenarios. There's no shame in those games! And everyone who knows me is aware of my geeky streak, so I'd see no need in hiding it. Toys are meant to be played with imo.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 8, 2017 14:06:18 GMT -5
There is no option for "I don't have toys."
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Post by shaxper on Jan 8, 2017 14:27:35 GMT -5
Playing with toys has actually become difficult for me. It stopped being natural years ago, but I push myself to do it because it is sheer chaotic creativity. As adults, we're only encouraged to be creative within certain formats and guidelines, and we attach expectations to our creations -- that they will be considered "good" by others. But you pull out the toys, and you create for no purpose other than sheer pleasure. It's amazing.
I have adult hobbies, and I express myself in a number of ways, but I've never found anything quite as creative and freeing as free play. Who cares if the story makes sense? No one's watching. Just make the figures fight, or talk, or dance, or whatever.
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Jan 8, 2017 17:06:41 GMT -5
Great question. I guess I'm guilty as charged. I have a bunch of Japanese transformers on display that I like to transform once in a while. I don't play out scenes or anything, I'm more of a toy admirer, if that is a thing. Lately I've been messing around with Lego's. My kids are at the age where they are really into them, so having fun building stuff with them. When I first saw the Nexo Knights line, we bought a few sets. The futuristic aspects screamed The Forever People's "Super-Cycle" to me, so this was my attempt in building that:    No Forever People figures, so went with the Justice League.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2017 17:38:48 GMT -5
I play with my toys occasionally with certain degree - mainly DC Direct Action Figures for fun.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2017 23:39:21 GMT -5
There is no option for "I don't have toys." C'mon stop that, everyone has toys. That option in the poll would just be there for the people who want to pretend that they are grown up... but trust me, they all have toys! After all; growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 9, 2017 3:10:09 GMT -5
Have not played with Dolls for over a half century. Not even the inflatable kind |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 9, 2017 11:31:11 GMT -5
There is no option for "I don't have toys." C'mon stop that, everyone has toys. That option in the poll would just be there for the people who want to pretend that they are grown up... but trust me, they all have toys! I would never pretend to be an actual grown-up, but honest... I don't have toys. The last ones remaining from my childhood were finally destroyed by my own kids at their grandparents' house a decade and a half ago. Rest in peace, Johnny West, fuzzy haired G.I. Joe and Lincoln Logs set. You fought the good fight and went proudly into the sunset, bringing joy to children from two generations. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 9, 2017 12:17:16 GMT -5
C'mon stop that, everyone has toys. That option in the poll would just be there for the people who want to pretend that they are grown up... but trust me, they all have toys! I would never pretend to be an actual grown-up, but honest... I don't have toys. The last ones remaining from my childhood were finally destroyed by my own kids at their grandparents' house a decade and a half ago. Rest in peace, Johnny West, fuzzy haired G.I. Joe and Lincoln Logs set. You fought the good fight and went proudly into the sunset, bringing joy to children from two generations. I still have my Megos, all in various states of disrepair, but I have them because I brought them back from my Mom's house shortly before she passed away. They were at her place and my boys played with them when they visited Grandma. Honestly, I'm not even sure where they are right now. In a box somewhere in storage, I guess. All the Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars my sister took, presumably for my nephew. And that was pretty much all that was left. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 9, 2017 12:38:24 GMT -5
I will say that I was never happier than I was from 1980-1990 (I can still remember as far back as 80') when I played with toys. Once you become an "adult" it's virtually impossible to get back to that type of blissful freedom and self-expression without the fear of being judged.
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