Do You Still Buy 'Toys'?
 

Just wondering if you or your wife or husband still buys kids toys. From model kits to trains to whatever soothes the savage breast of play.

There were television shows when I was a kid that didn't have a toy line. Somebody got wise and created toy lines based on those old shows. Now we're buying up them things like there ain't no tomorrow.

Wish I had kept all those toys I had when I was a kid in great condition. Each year they go for more bucks.

A friend of mine, a tv producer, to this day she still buys two of every Barbie doll they make. She must have an entire second house full of these things. Shoes, hats etc.

Another pal who is a doctor buys every 'Hot Wheel' they come out with and any he can find elsewhere. It's amazing!

Don't even talk about electric trains and slot car racing. I have pals who don't leave the house!

I enjoy collecting as they brighten up the work place, terrariums, etc. Some of these Japanese toys are so well crafted you'ld think they were museum pieces.

i bought way too many star wars toys from ebay a few years back!


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I have gaming systems / games
I have rc cars and model cars

But recently I've just been modding the BMW. I guess you can call that a big boy toy?
I just bought new 19" Wheels! :D

I'll allways be a kid at heart.

oo you just reminded me, I might pick up a Nintendo so I can play duckhunt

Sex Toys, yes!

Every once in a while I will pick up a pack of baseball cards.

Nope... except video games

When I read the title 'Toys' I thought that was what he meant. That would be a yes for me and my gf also. We also buy normal toys btw, but we are a little childish :)

ROFL!

Man, lemme tell you, KEEP them Star Wars toys! I remember when the first Star Wars came out in '77 and there were like NO toys to the franchise. Just a few things at first.

We snagged up everything we could back then but of course took em' out into the yard and blew em' up with firecrackers!

Now them fucking toys are worth a fortune!

Especially the misprints and errors!

With Ebay you can go into your garage and find old shit and roll out with a friggin' Benz later.

I buy Todd McFarlane toys..IMO great artwork going into those.
I also buy Johnny Lightning cars...much better quality than hotwheels.

airsoft....

I buy a videogame every now & then

But hey if collecting toys turns you on, then more power to you. Everybody needs a hobby.

i have a $5k toy collection of He Man and Ninja Turtles toys, i really should get a pic of the entire thing its pretty amazing.

The only "toys" I ever get are XBox games and that's like once a year.

90% of GFY is 17-27

I would say yes

I still have the urge to buy a RC Chopper not a 50 bucks one but a nice and real one.

Shame this things crash the minute you launch them... I cant even get a decent Boeing up and running on Flight Sim so ill wait a bit...

Oh and some guy posted my fav pinball on a local ebay alike site today... DAMN its hard not to buy it...

I also collect mcfarlane toys. and pretty much anything from sideshow toys.

Been collecting toys and model kits for years - love the shit. Especially the stuff at www.spawn.com and www.sideshowweta.com. Spent WAAAAYYYYYY to much on it - but I like it :)

batman action figures baby

Just Space Gost .... :winkwink:

I will always buy toys, I just bought some original He-man stuff.......I never do anything with it tho

It's been a long long time since I last bought toys...

"I" am the 'Space Ghost' toy MASTER!!!!

No one can defeat me!

Nooo! I won't tell you what I bought recently because you would CRY all day!

MetaMan, KEEP THEM FUCKERS IN MINT CONDITION!!!

If you have TMNT original toys in good to mint condition one day you will cash in like a mofo'!!!

It's almost 20 years anniversary for TMNT. I was there when the series launched. Wish I had kept them comics!

Guys who grew up on TMNT are going to fight each other in a few years for them bad boys!

I collect some model cars and Hot Wheels. Not so much lately, but here was a year or so where it got bad.

:upsidedow

sadly i have been only collection the new series of he man and TMNT, the originals are next on my list, ill have to take a pic of my collection for sure. just hundreds and hundreds of toys all packaged,

i am building a shelf to go around my fish tank to fit them all. ooo ya.

always.. but not this days ;)

but of course!

ROFL! Funny you should say that!!! I am planning the same thing! I grew up watching a show called "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and they had these kick ass submarines on the show. I bought multiples of the new ones and fan made ones. Just for a kick ass aquarium I'm planning for new house and office. My aquarium is going to be connected to a terrarium for my 'Sugar Glider' pets. I got me a Herculoids toy set to set that diorama off.

I must be the only crazy person on Earth who has to buy a bigger house just to put the toys in.

Ha!!! Some how, some way I KNEW Arkansas Dave would show up :)

i buy pez like crazy, just spent like $30-40 on ebay in fact a few minutes ago

my collection is huge now, getting too big for my walls

no, but I still have lots of my childhood toys up in the loft. might be worth somthing?

tony

I have about 5-6 k in Batman stuff if anyone wants to buy it hit me up on ICQ!

Yo! Pez collecting is HUGE worldwide. Man, if I had all the Pez dispensers I had when I was a kid I could buy a kick ass house!

What's the rarest dispenser you have?

My toy buying days are over.

I Have about $5k in Original transformers They Kick ass

i would play with toys if it was acceptable in society haha

No, but I get the urge when I take my son toy shopping. Today's toys are so much cooler than what we had growing up.

I just got him the new Sony PSP. The games, graphics and display on that gadget are breathtaking.

I'd love to get a few grand in Lego's here at my house to enjoy. I loved them as a kid and spent many many days building all kinds of crazy shit.

Maybe one day soon I'll indulge

I still buy toys of ALL kinds

i was only given a handful of toys when i was young
not really a big deal for me, parents prioritized education
for me, lesser time for playing

:smokin

I have 1000's of starwars toys

Nah, my toys are electronics, satellites and the like :upsidedow

im pretty addicted to my ipod and psp

I didn't even really like toys when i was a kid.

Now my toys are clothes and makeup. Going to the MAC counter at Nordstroms is toyland for me. :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Bro' you should put like armed guards on your Transformer toys cause them bad boys are worth a fortune in mint condition.

I remember when they first came out and my kid brother went ape over them. The only one that got my attention was a Megatron that was die-cast metal that transformed into a plane.

That fucking toy was so shit kickin' cool I sat there astounded and it was built like a fucking diesel truck!

Now you would have to sell your first born kid to get one.

Herb, I know Generals who spend all their free time with their Lego sets. I know street combat hardened cops who you can't tear away from their Lego sets!

I have a cousin who is a top computer engineer and his Lego sets are bigger than his living room! He can't live without them.

Lego keeps growing and growing and..

EUREKA!!! Herb, you just solved a major problem for me! I was looking to design new display cases for my toys and just realized I can do them in LEGO!!!!

Once you build something with LEGO it's so strong you can use it as furniture!

I have one of these:
http://www.pezlist.com/ebay/hornet1.jpg
which I got for $20 and now is worth about $120 or so

and one of these:
http://www.pezlist.com/ebay/frank1.jpg
he is worth about $130 now

wow, that is a great idea...i might try and come up with something for my pez collection

i'll have to raid my moms house sometime soon, she still has alot of my toys from my childhood years.