For how long did you play with toys growing up?

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

that age thread got me thinking about the age limit for playing with toys. i played with mine till my early teens (around age 13 or so). afterwards i became a "collector". people will come into my home office and see shelves filled with Todd McFarland and Revoltech action figures, and model cars. and usually accompanied by weired condescending looks (especially from females for some reason). but for you, how long did you keep playing with your toys?

[Captain Clarkie]

Somewhere around twelve, about the same Alcohol and Cigarettes became available (apparently they need capitol letters) Imagination should never die though. Mind you Video games had already taken a hold.

[jessecuster3]

I still do. I am 37.

[JCAll]

I was supposed to stop?

[Captain Clarkie]

I still do. I am 37.

Hooray and fair play to you.



(Shockwave FTW)

[RohanRiderX]

I was supposed to stop?

this haha

[marvell2100]

Is re-arranging your action figures in battle poses considered playing with them? The Surfer doesn't like it if I leave him in one pose too long.

[JCAll]

(Shockwave FTW)

Soundwave is totally better.

[The Once And Forever]

Right up until my ever loving mother tossed them when I was 15 or so.

[Sabrina_Fried]

I was never really into dolls as a kid, but I loved science kits and kits where you could make things.

I was using my lego sets to visualize things well into my first undergrad. And I still regularly play with puzzles and the like just for fun.

And some of the testing equipment I use for my classes now are just more sophisticated versions of the chemistry sets I had as a kid.

[Captain Clarkie]

Soundwave is totally better.

*puttup*


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[dupont2005]

I think I was about ten when I quit playing with action figures. Don't really know where they went. I still played video games though. I built a few model cars but was never good at it. I have one waiting to be built right now but I can't bring myself to start it.

[The Black Guardian]

Depends on what you mean by "toy."

[Ben D]

Still do at times.

[mikekerrIII]

that age thread got me thinking about the age limit for playing with toys. i played with mine till my early teens (around age 13 or so). afterwards i became a "collector". people will come into my home office and see shelves filled with Todd McFarland and Revoltech action figures, and model cars. and usually accompanied by weired condescending looks (especially from females for some reason). but for you, how long did you keep playing with your toys?

Lost interest in "toys" when I was about twelve, switched to grown up toys like guns and sailboats about then, Then came cars at 16 and computers at about age 23 (You had to build one to get one then). We all play with toys, it just they tend to change when we are older

[Jer]

Lost interest in "toys" when I was about twelve, switched to grown up toys like guns and sailboats about then, Then came cars at 16 and computers at about age 23 (You had to build one to get one then). We all play with toys, it just they tend to change when we are older

This! Anything can be a toy. My Linux and Unix O.S were toys at one time.

Programming my TI-83. I must have read that instruction book from cover to cover.

Then I would blend random fruits and vegetables in my blender to see what I get.

Heck, my ex gave me a Tribble one year. Once in a while I get that out of the closet and throw it up and down and listen to the noise it makes.

So if you really look at it. We never really do stop playing with toys.

[Jer]

Still do at times.

Act more your age :tongue:

[Iangould]

I never really had toys unless you count guns and fireworks.

[The Black Guardian]

I had a bunch of stuffed animals. Those got put away when I was about 10. I don't know why I kept them, but it was good that I did, because I gave them all to my brother when he was born (when I was 16).

Stopped buying Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars when I was about 12.

I stopped buying action figures in 2002, but only because my dog didn't like the way they stared at her. She would try to climb the shelves to get to them and constantly bark at them. She's gone now, so I've been thinking about buying more... like the new Green Lantern figures.

I never have stopped buying pewter figures for Dungeons & Dragons.

I still occasionally buy stuff like Legos or GeoMags. I like to build stuff, provided its impractical stuff. Bought one of those Bionicle things once, but it didn't interest me.

I'm really tempted to buy one of the Mjolnir toys that's out now, cuz a guy's gotta have a hammer.

[Pól Rua]

I never really had toys unless you count guns and fireworks.

In my experience, fire works.

Exceedingly well, thank you.

[GozertheGozarian]

I have nieces and nephews in the two to four year range, playing with toys is mandatory.

[zryson]

i have loved toys ever since i was little. and i still play with toys. i even convinced one of my military pals to do miss piggy's hair. he later confessed that he never thought he would ever do something like that but he did a good job!

[PiratesPensSteelers]

I never played with action figures much, but I can remember having lightsaber battles outside with my friends till we were 18.

[David Walton]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7HTO3jP-_lk/SwT3d_vxKvI/AAAAAAAAF9g/hgpwqgff2Xs/s400/spaceballs_large_13.jpg

Never stopped!

I have a nine year old and a four year old and we play toys all the time. All though my four year old daughter frequently turns the supervillains into good guys!

The other night the Hulk, Doctor Doom, and Venom went fishing with T-Bone, one of the dogs from Clifford.

[parrish]

I played with action figures until I was about 16 because I had a little brother who loved to play.

Now that I have my own kids, I have started playing again.

[Bouncing Boy]

I still do, though admittedly not as much as I used to.

[frankiedetroit]

I played with action figures until I was about 16 because I had a little brother who loved to play.

Now that I have my own kids, I have started playing again.

Same here. It was an excuse, really.

I also had this electric football set that I played with until I was about 15. It went under my bed and pretty much stayed there before moving to the garage. It languished there until a few months ago, when my 10-year-old nephew saw it and took it home with him. It had been un-played with for 29 years.

http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/electric-football.jpg

[Steward Ace]

Same here. It was an excuse, really.

I also had this electric football set that I played with until I was about 15. It went under my bed and pretty much stayed there before moving to the garage. It languished there until a few months ago, when my 10-year-old nephew saw it and took it home with him. It had been un-played with for 29 years.

http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/electric-football.jpg
Yup yup yup. I never stopped collecting toys, and now that my son is old enough he has a helluva lot of cool G.I. Joe stuff to play with.

(In a few more years, I'll let him unpackage them)

[RickIsley]

I like to steal toys from small children.

[Shellhead]

I stopped playing with toys (just Legos at that point) by age 13, which is about when I got started with Dungeons & Dragons.

[Steward Ace]

I stopped playing with toys (just Legos at that point) by age 13, which is about when I got started with Dungeons & Dragons.
I got into painting miniatures when they rebooted D&D. Is that "playing with toys," or is it a "interesting hobby?"

[Relativity99]

I still play with some of my action figures every once in a while, but mostly I just have them for display/decoration purposes.

[JeffreyWKramer]

There are certain adult toys - an ever-growing collection, in fact - that get fairly frequent use in my home.

As to the traditional "toys," I lost interest in GI Joe and similar toys at around 11 or 12. I kept doing rocketry and models into high school, though.

[Athena Bast]

I sorta had to give them up in a way. Started around 8ish and went to like 11-12 and then around 20 I started getting cool stuff again because I could buy it myself.

It was really difficult to be a child for me when your father gets upset at you being almost 4 and shouldn't be playing with toys.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

I gave up out & out playing with 'em at 13, maybe 14.

My old toy-jones did resurface a bit in recent years, though somewhat more for nerd-decor. My-- now very dusty & unused computer-- workspace at home is littered with a few JL/JLU figures (a 10-inch Hawkgirl, as well as the dinkier ones), a Drummer & Jakita Wagner I got for cheap from my local shop, and a few old boyhood faves (an old Pee Wee's Playhouse Conky; among others). I may just move 'em back into my room now.

[Winslow]

I quit playing with traditional toys begrudgingly (my older brothers teased me)around 11 or 12.

I enjoyed playing with toys again when my kids were young. My son's Rescue heroes action figures were always in some serious situation. Of course, I was the charcter Bob Bouy (Coast Guard rescue heroe).

[pariah-1972]

I stopped playing with toys around 13 and stopped reading comics a few years after i think - mostly cause i was going thru some really hard times personally and i was always afraid that girls wouldn't like me if they knew i read comics.


Don't ask me why i thought this:confused:i blame the media.

[Smoothesuede]

The fruits of my imagination moved from one form to another a couple times over the years.
I used Beast Wars, Lego/Bionicles, and Digimon action figures until about 12. Then it was Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh while nursing a growing video game addiction. Comics came into the picture at 15 and took over, and now that I'm 21 I'm getting into writing my own and GMing tabletop RPG's.

Playing with toys, for me, has always been about living out exciting stories moreso than the toys themselves.

[blackdragon6]

13 seems to be the universal age...never gave up comics and video games though.

[The Black Guardian]

I got into painting miniatures when they rebooted D&D. Is that "playing with toys," or is it a "interesting hobby?"
I'd say it's a toy if you play with it.:cool:

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

guns and cars i moved on to as well. but i don't consider them toys. cars...MAYBE. now gadgets i can see them as being adult toys. btw i still collect hotwheels.

[dupont2005]

I'd say it's a toy if you play with it.:cool:

That makes me feel better about the NECA TMNT box sets on my computer desk:biggrin:

[pariah-1972]

Did anyone ever make up new characters using their action figures?

[Tien Long]

Did anyone ever make up new characters using their action figures?

In a way. Back in 1990, my next door neighbor and I were really into playing Michael Jackson's "Moonwalker" for the Sega Genesis. I was so into the game because of MJ's main attack which was this type of front snapkick. Though there wasn't a Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal action figure on the market, I got by by using Toy Biz's Joker action figure, due to the fact that it kinda, sorta, somewhat had the same 1920s zoot suit as Michael Jackson. Yes, it's silly, how could a ghostly pale skinned and creepy Joker ever be confused with the king of pop...:wink:

As for me, I guess I buck against the 13-yr old age limit trend. I was playing with my action figures up until the end of high school, around 18 and would play with them on a fairly regular basis. Things changed after college, however. When I came back home during winter break, my desire to play with toys diminished greatly. Though I did play with my toy guns here and there and even bought a Batman Knightfall action figure in college, most of my toys just sat and continue to sit in bins in my closet.

[THALASTDRAGON]

I think I stopped in my early teens, just as several others on here did. But I do pull them out every now and then and mess around with them. I need some more space so I can display some of them.


That makes me feel better about the NECA TMNT box sets on my computer desk:biggrin:

I love that set. I picked up the box set on ebay last year at a great price after missing out on them when they were first released. For some reason at that particular time, there seemed to be a bunch of sets on ebay at good prices. I did not hesitate to grab one. I don't have it displayed, nor are any of my other figures, until I figure out some space issues.