what is with

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what the hell is with the kids toys these days... like this dog thing that moves to the kid when you clap and barks when you give it it's bone.... do kids just not have any imagination these days? It seems liek so many toys are so automated it requires no thinking, no imagination to play with them. I mean, I had a lot of neat toys and a fair number that moved on their own or did stuf (well, often they were wind up or changed colour with water, but still), and i still used my imagination with 'em. so weird.

 

i loved skip-its....

 

I get frustrated because everything has to has lights, music, the works. What happened to using your imagination? Do you know how many batteries we have to go through with toys like that?! We bought rechargables to cut back on battery waste, but the rechargable ones just don't last long at all.

I got so mad when we were looking for a little kitchen for my daughter a while back. Almost every one we saw had either batteries, computer chips, and the like. I decided I wanted an old fashioned wooden kitchen set, no bells, no whistles. But my sister-in-law ended up buying her one...a Barbie one that talks. I turned the dang thing off so we wouldn't have to listen to it.

And you know what? Toys are made so cheaply anymore! You spend a bundle and they don't last! Stupid things.

Oh well, my daughter's Barbie kitchen is on the fritz, stupid cheap plastic thing. My boys have played with it too and you know how rowdy boys can be. I am bound determined to get myself some wood and make one for her myself, along with a play house for all of the kids. They've been wanting one, but do you see how much they want to charge you for one of those things? Ridiculous! Besides, if I make it myself, I can do whatever we want to it. I've already planned that I want to make little window boxes and have the kids plant actual flower seeds so that they can watch them grow with time. Oh, and I'll make the curtains, and find some indoor/outdoor carpet scraps for the floor...I think it would be an awesome fun project!

 

i had a barbie bath tub and i called it george, it was barbie's new husband after ken had died of cancer.

 

I never had a Ken for my Barbies. I always used my bendable Gumby figure for the guy.



My daughter has one hippy-looking Barbie doll. She's dressed modestly and in a little earth toned flower apron-like top and brown cords, and her figure porportions aren't ridiculous (I think the doll might actually be a teenager though). But she doesn't play with her much. I bought her a couple of Barbie baby fairy dolls and those are her absolute fave. She's loves fairies just like her mama. One has long magenta coloured hair, and the other one has long vibrant blue hair, they both have little wreathes of flowers in their hair, and sport some cute little flower petal skirts.

 

lol I also gave names to plastic things and invented life stories for them. Youre right, imagination seems to have gone out the window

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what is with new lego pieces? it used to be straight bricks, then they added a few variable pieces, it was still okay, you still needed imagination to build what you wanted...


then the great decline....


now there are pieces that you CANNOT use outside of their original planned application.....


it's disgusting....

 

what?! what the hell is the point of lego now then eh?!

 

staging the scenes they tell you to.....


you can still get some good gearbox pieces if you order them special, but other then that the decline is horrible....

 

*sigh*



why oh why have i sold my old lego dammit.

 

I gave my old lego to an elementary school teacher..... not a day goes by that I do not slightly regret it.....

 

maybe we should meet, and kill ourselves and go to lego-heaven or go to legoland together

 

lol, if I went to legoland I would walk away with a fixture....

at least knock out someone in a legoman costume and take the suit... those things are just so cool.....

 

those things are awesome...



lets go there man...

 

when i was a kid, all i needed was a trunk full of old clothes and a mirror. i'd act out plays to myself and stuff. you're right, kids toys have become completely mind numbing and ridiculous.

 

i had tons of fun just playing with my matchbox and hot wheels cars when i was younger...making ramps and jumps for the cars to do, and making race tracks.

i really didn't have that many toys except for the cars...i was usually out playing at the park - basketball, soccer, baseball, wiffle ball, and so on...

i was never really into any of the flashy new toys that were made...

 

I loved legos as a kid, but I also had this richard scarry's puzzletown set that was made in the late 70s....... it was cool, I had so much fun with it when I was a kid.... you could use your imagination as well...

 

hehehehehe, grandma used to have this jesus on a cross above the tv and when i was six i figured like, yeah he's okay but my happymeal doll is better, so i got a chair, some tape and taped my happymeal doll on this jesusless cross she had there too. yeah that's what i used to do as a kid.
also george, barbie's bathtubhusband, i took him with me everywhere,
and gawd yeah i had such a thing you can put in front of yer door so the wind don't come thru, it was furry and all and i called it sirians, he was awesome.
i hate the toys they have now, it's all crap.

 

I'm proud to say that I still have all of my legos from almost 30 years ago. And I still play with them on occasion. I plan on passing them down to my child when he/she is of an appropriate age. OR maybe I should just keep them around for his/her kids when the time comes.

 

I reckon it would be far more entertaining if we all got together and those of us that still have our lego (like me ) bring it along, and we could have a mass-building session