I used to find the masses of army figures I had boring. I always looked forward to playing with them, but once I'd spent ages setting them all up I wanted to do something else 
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i watched that fascinating Lego gender video and i have to say, that Lego Friends ad made me wanna puke. i found it offensively sexist and i'm a guy.
Yeah, it was pretty bad.
Imagine what it was like as a girl seeing all the cool stuff (basically all the toys you probably liked), wanting those same toys, and the messaging that they are not for you being loud and clear. Very disheartening for a little girl that wants to play with soldiers and spaceships instead of baby dolls and pink things.
Actually, Star Trek action figures were some of the first that I recall being marketed for boys AND girls. I remember noticing that--and what a breath of fresh air it was! There's an AWESOME DS9 action figure ad pitched by...none other than Quark.
Quark would hate being told this, for sure, but that commercial did the smart thing by pitching it so that they could make a profit off of ANYBODY, regardless of gender. 
Imagine what it was like as a girl seeing all the cool stuff (basically all the toys you probably liked), wanting those same toys, and the messaging that they are not for you being loud and clear. Very disheartening for a little girl that wants to play with soldiers and spaceships instead of baby dolls and pink things.
Actually, Star Trek action figures were some of the first that I recall being marketed for boys AND girls. I remember noticing that--and what a breath of fresh air it was! There's an AWESOME DS9 action figure ad pitched by...none other than Quark.
Quark would hate being told this, for sure, but that commercial did the smart thing by pitching it so that they could make a profit off of ANYBODY, regardless of gender. 
Crossfire was a great game. I used to play that with my brother all the time.
I miss the old dangerous playground equipment. It's all plastic and wimpy now. I miss those tall metal slides that would give you burns in the summer, and flying off merry go rounds. Wood chips with cigarette butts planted all over. Those were good days...
When I was 6 or 7 years old, someone gave me a toy ironing board and iron. Like any kid think--or adult, for that matter--finds ironing fun. 
But the one saving grace was that this was way back when they still made toys out of cheap metal.
That metal ironing board made a handy weapon for attacking older sisters with. I tried sliding down the stairs with it, but the darn legs kept unfolding and made it hard to sit on.
I never liked all that girly stuff. I was really into Matchbox cars, trains and Legos.
But the one saving grace was that this was way back when they still made toys out of cheap metal. That metal ironing board made a handy weapon for attacking older sisters with. I tried sliding down the stairs with it, but the darn legs kept unfolding and made it hard to sit on.
I never liked all that girly stuff. I was really into Matchbox cars, trains and Legos.
Those Lego Friends are repulsive. I am glad that they weren't around when I was a child.
My mother didn't object to me being a tomboy probably because it meant that my brother had someone to play with. My two older sisters paired off together and were in to girly things.
The thing that annoyed me is that my mother rarely asked me what I wanted for Christmas. She asked my sisters what they wanted and I got the same presents as they did.
I was sometimes asked what I wanted for my birthday. I remember asking and getting a chemistry set which was considered to be a boyish thing. My mother encouraged my interest in science. We also had a huge amount of lego blocks which Mum considered a toy for boys and girls.
When I was 11 my brother wanted tennis lessons. I had take him so I got lessons too. The next year I wanted to continue with the lessons but my brother didn't. I was quite willing to have the lessons as a Christmas present but my mother said no adding "you will never be good enough" (at tennis). I was so disappointed that I never asked my mother for anything again. Because she didn't get any answer out of me to resorted to asking my sisters what they thought I wanted.
My mother didn't object to me being a tomboy probably because it meant that my brother had someone to play with. My two older sisters paired off together and were in to girly things.
The thing that annoyed me is that my mother rarely asked me what I wanted for Christmas. She asked my sisters what they wanted and I got the same presents as they did.
I was sometimes asked what I wanted for my birthday. I remember asking and getting a chemistry set which was considered to be a boyish thing. My mother encouraged my interest in science. We also had a huge amount of lego blocks which Mum considered a toy for boys and girls.
When I was 11 my brother wanted tennis lessons. I had take him so I got lessons too. The next year I wanted to continue with the lessons but my brother didn't. I was quite willing to have the lessons as a Christmas present but my mother said no adding "you will never be good enough" (at tennis). I was so disappointed that I never asked my mother for anything again. Because she didn't get any answer out of me to resorted to asking my sisters what they thought I wanted.
And you'll get all that for a boy too I hope
And let's not forget the My Little Ponies. All genders need those.
I had a lot of fun with a pair of cheap knock-off ninja action figures I got from the dollar tree. One of them was a scientist who saved a decapitated Lego figurine by giving him a barrel (represented by a brown cylinder piece) for a head, and the other was always trying to destroy the mutant human-barrel hybrid. Tons of fun.
I'm not sure it counts, but the most boring toy I've ever had is Monopoly. Boring as hell, we usually just ended up playing Clue anyway.
I'm not sure it counts, but the most boring toy I've ever had is Monopoly. Boring as hell, we usually just ended up playing Clue anyway.
I hated Monopoly. If I played with my older sisters they would team up so because they wanted me to lose more than they wanted to win.
If I was playing with my brother and he landed on my property and had to pay a large rent he would go crying to my mother and she would come in a say he didn't have to play the rent because he was younger than me (my mother didn't take my younger age into account when I played my sisters). My mother would even put houses and hotels on my brother's properties 'to even things up".
If I was playing with my brother and he landed on my property and had to pay a large rent he would go crying to my mother and she would come in a say he didn't have to play the rent because he was younger than me (my mother didn't take my younger age into account when I played my sisters). My mother would even put houses and hotels on my brother's properties 'to even things up".
Legos were my primary toy that me and my friends played with longer than the target age. That was up until they started getting more and more "action" styled, then they slowly lost their versatility appeal. Looking at the Legos my cousin plays with today, it's disgusting. You can't make a good medieval setting anymore, all the castles are brightly color coded and the knights look like Power Rangers, and licensed sets take the place of the truly versatile generic offerings they used to do. Lego hasn't even done their own space themed set in decades because they're pumping out Star Wars merchandise, the space sets I remember were actually about space exploration and not clone tanks.
When I was playing with legos there was no space sets, pirate sets or any other theme sets. There were just blocks, windows, roofs and doors, and wheels, trees, and boards. There weren't even any figures (they didn't come out until the 1970s).
So when we played with Legos we created from scratch. We made houses for our small troll dolls. I remember when the first motor came out and we could make a powered car to put the trolls in.
So when we played with Legos we created from scratch. We made houses for our small troll dolls. I remember when the first motor came out and we could make a powered car to put the trolls in.
Remember the Mindstorms set they did a while ago? That thing was awesome. A light sensor, two motors, touch sensors, and what amounted to a tiny computer and simplified programming language to control it all. I haven't played with the new 2.0 Mindstorm set, but I have a feeling it's nowhere near as cool.
Plain Legos are really the best anyway. There's only so much you can do with "specialty parts" that they started flooding sets with by the 90s. I ended up buying tubs of generic parts just to build what I wanted.
I considered getting one once, but they were pretty damn expensive iirc.
I got a set recently and was actually amazed and impressed with how they used some of the parts. Very creative and very cool. I did have a pink block set when I was younger, and my sis had these pink and white Lego paradiso sets that we loved. We also had a bunch of other sets as well, though.
I don't remember ever feeling like I wasn't meant to play with a toy. Everything was incorporated. My parents brought home these Tagamet stomach characters once and they got thrown in with everything else to become part of some army.
Mine was a present from my brother, so I never knew the original cost. The "2.0" sets are still around $200, and they've been around for a while.
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My kids played with all of them, as I did before them.
Last night I was talkig about this thread with a friend. She told me that they were not allowed to use chalk on their house and thought it was terrible that I did. I said to her that it washed off when it rains (or was hosed) but she said her mother would have been angry that she had to scrub it off.
She also told me she never used rocks instead of chalk. As there is limestone and sandstone everywhere in Tasmania I found it hard to believe that she had to wait until some chalk was bought for her to play hopscotch instead of just finding a suitable chalky rock.
My kids played with all of them, as I did before them.
Last night I was talkig about this thread with a friend. She told me that they were not allowed to use chalk on their house and thought it was terrible that I did. I said to her that it washed off when it rains (or was hosed) but she said her mother would have been angry that she had to scrub it off.
She also told me she never used rocks instead of chalk. As there is limestone and sandstone everywhere in Tasmania I found it hard to believe that she had to wait until some chalk was bought for her to play hopscotch instead of just finding a suitable chalky rock.
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We used to have hopscotch fazes at school. I think it was very popular when I was in about grade 4. Other times it was skip rope that was the prefered game. Elastics (Chinese jump rope) was more popular than both and I played it right through my primary years.
And knuckles (a game similar to what American called jacks but with pieces shaped differently) was also very popular.
And knuckles (a game similar to what American called jacks but with pieces shaped differently) was also very popular.
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