Tis the season for toy stories

[K'Nort]

First item:

My brother and I loved Playmobil as a kid but this is STUPID!!!!

http://store.playmobilusa.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/imagesOnline/products/3172.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002CYTL2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint. After placing her luggage on the screening machine, the airport employee checks her baggage. The traveler hands her spare change and watch to the security guard and proceeds through the metal detector. With no time to spare, she picks up her luggage and hurries to board her flight!

Somehow, Amazon is sold out of these. Gag gifts, I hope.

[Tadhg Adams]

That thing is awesome! FAVORITE TOY EVER

[Doug Strange]

But can you strip search her?

[K'Nort]

And second. This one is just cool.

Cardboard Box Added to Toy Hall of Fame
Low-Tech, Unpretentious Cardboard Box Enshrined in the National Toy Hall of Fame
By BEN DOBBIN
The Associated Press

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Forget the fancy toy: The box it comes in can be much more fun. Spaceship, castle, haven to daydream in, the cardboard box was enshrined Friday in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with Jack-in-the-Box and Candy Land.

No kidding, grown-ups.

"I think every adult has had that disillusioning experience of picking what they think is a wonderful toy for a child, and then finding the kid playing with the box," said Christopher Bensch, chief curator of the Strong Museum. "It's that empty box full of possibilities that the kids can sense and the adults don't always see."

Low-tech and unpretentious it may be, but the cardboard box has fostered learning and creativity for multiple generations a key qualifier for inclusion in the museum's seven-year-old hall of fame. And its appeal as a plaything or recreational backdrop is universal.

All over the world, "packaging is something that's accessible to kids, whether that's cans or tins or wooden crates," Bensch said, and the cardboard box "makes a point that you don't have to spend a lot, have a certain income level or charge it on your credit card to have your kids have a great play experience."

The museum, which boasts the world's largest collection of toys and dolls, acquired the hall in 2002 from A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village in Salem, Ore.

So far, 34 classic toys have been enshrined, from Barbie to Mr. Potato Head, Legos to Lincoln Logs, Slinky to Play-Doh and Crayola crayons to marbles.

The corrugated cardboard box, which quickly came to dominate the shipping industry in North America, was invented by a Brooklyn printer, Robert Gair, in 1890.

Strong Museum, the second-largest children's museum in America, is aiming to wrap up a $33 million expansion next summer that could double its attendance to nearly 700,000 visitors a year. The 23-year-old museum contains more than 70,000 toys and dolls and features circus memorabilia, children's books, household furniture, miniatures and various objects of American culture dating from the 1820s.

Hall of Fame website (http://www.strongmuseum.org/NTHoF/about.html)

[Tadhg Adams]

But can you strip search her?

My thought was having her smuggle an m80 aboard the playmobil airplane.

[Doug Strange]

It should come with tiny plastic condoms filled with tiny plastic cocaine.

[Guapo Méndez]

You can remove her hair and stuff inside her head a playmobil cowboy six-shooter.

[StoneGold]

That's why I like mixing around with toys. Imagine running a COBRA trooper through the metal detector.

[Guapo Méndez]

Or having Ram-Man give it a go.

[StoneGold]

Or having Ram-Man give it a go.
No, Ram Man is more fun in the prison playset, recreating scenes from Oz.

[Guapo Méndez]

Think so?

I mean Clawfull, Fisto and Jitsu have the market covered.

[Flawless P]

My younger sister hit me in the head with a toy of big bird rideing a tricycle. I said it was mine... she disagreed.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b15/Flawless_P/78_1_b.jpg

What... its a story about a toy...

[Charles RB]

http://store.playmobilusa.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/imagesOnline/products/3172.jpg

They enjoy their job far too much for comfort.

[StarsAndGarters]

Hehe I'm just glad they're still making Playmobile. Those were a key part of my development as a child. :D

[Dreadstar]

Checking out that Hall of Fame site:

How many of the 34 Hall of Fame entries do you have in your home right now? I'm pretty sure I can put my hands on 24.

[Doug Strange]

How many of the 34 Hall of Fame entries do you have in your home right now?1.

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