I'm an adult, past 40 years of age, and yet whenever I can, I journey down the toy aisles at the local stores. My wife humours me, she'll give me a grin and say "I'll catch up with you later" when we enter a local Target, Walmart etc... I feebly claim I'm shopping for the grand kids, well we both know we don't have any grandchildren and our kids are not of age to even have kids yet, but they are past the "playing with toys stage". Sooo what does this mean?
I'm a big kid, I suppose. I can get away with Legos, there are a ton of AFOL (Adult Fan of Legos) out there, but today I picked up a decidedly non-lego, non-adult product, heck I can't really claim its for my tabletop gaming, its well beyond 28mm scale gaming. I spotted this guy on the shelf and just couldn't resist picking him up...
Hmmm...now about those Wolf Knights?!
That will look great on your desk. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteMy wife buys me a big Lego set every xmass. I really enjoy putting them together, and I have some kind of half assed idea of making a stop motion movie with them. I'll be 45 in a couple months :).
ReplyDeleteAos, my wife gets me a Toys R Us gift card every year for my stocking. ; )
ReplyDeleteMrs. Whisk, Thanks! I may have to pick up a few more figs, just so my Ghost Knight won't get lonesome at work. LOL
I know, right? I'm 36 my wife 38 and my daughter is 6. All three of us love to brows the toy aisles, just to see what's cool-looking. I don't give a damn what my birth certificate says about 1974 -- toys are cool, and the day I stop enjoying them is the day that I die.
ReplyDeleteI always turned my nose up at Playmobil as a kid, as they were "too cutesy" to go up against my Star Wars and Remco Universal Monsters and Super Powers action figures. And they were too out-of-scale to interact with my Lego men.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as an adult...I love them to pieces.
I've seen mummies and witches and pirates and ghosts and pirate-ghosts, plus a bevy of other awesome pieces.
Here's some other great ones:
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_17_least_appropriate_playmobil_sets_for_childr.php
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/mpb/index.php/essential-7-offbeat-playmobil/
The hobo is a personal fave.
I'm lucky in that my wife (we're both late 30's) also likes to go through the toy aisles at stores, and we did so even before our son was born.
ReplyDeleteWe went through a play ovule phase last year and the medieval fantasy sets are indeed awesome. But we've moved onto Lego and there's no shortage of awesome there. I'm digging it when I get to help my boys build them.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone! Good to know that I'm not alone in my "Grown up that still plays..er..I mean collects toys..I mean action..Oh who am I kidding!" LOL
ReplyDeleteJustin those links rock, gonna have to find a playmobil keg for my growing Playmobil army. : )
I went back to school a couple years ago. A few months ago I made a smart-ass remark about forming a LEGO club at school to one of my 19 year old friends there. She went ahead and did it. I'm now the oldest member of the college's LEGO club...
ReplyDeleteI think the reason of the cool toys is that these days young developers ddesign the games. And they grown up in fantasy and sci-fi milieu.
ReplyDeleteHey, add my name to the membership of the Green Skeleton Lego/Toy Aisle Club!
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