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Magic the Gathering (Score:2)
Wish I had my Revised cards with me, but I've been back in playing for a few years now.
Latest set seems very nice. So was last year's.
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I've still got a Vexing Arcanix from Ice Age, in never-been-played-mint condition!
My Blacker Lotus's, however, are played to death tattered. Probably not even Friendly Legal any more. Yes I know it says rip the card in half but I make sure we have a Gentleman's Agreement in place that no cards are to be destroyed during or after the game.
D20's, on the other hand...
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If my old cards are still in storage, they include full set of Revised, including 4 of each Dual Land, a Candelabra of Tawnos, Maze of Ith, and a few other nice ones. No Power 9, or really any Unlimitied. And, back then there weren't sleeves, so some are quite heavily played.
Fun times with those cards.
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I sold out my early-90's collection (moxes and all) in 2000, and got back into playing regularly in 2012 when a friend opened a gaming store. If hindsight were 20/20, I'd be richer than than moxes were worth, so I don't lose sleep over it.
The new set (Khans) is very nice. A lot of people are interested in this one, and it's outselling the last year's worth of cards right now. Time will tell. Magic is at an unheard of popularity. It drew 4500 people to a Grand Prix in Vegas for Modern Limited last seaso
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Khans of Tarkir might be their best set in a long, long time.
It returned Legacy fetch-lands to Standard (and, as such, Modern). It introduced many viable Commander/EDH cards (including very deliberate Commanders) to bolster that format. It drafts well, despite the color wedges -- there's plenty of mana fixing. ...and best of all, it's a fun set.
Morph is a bad mechanic (doesn't use the stack, "special action") but it's not an un-fun one.
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Actually, I think "the stack" is one of the worst concepts in Magic. I understand why it came to be, but it is a cludge that works well enough not to be replaced. I for one am glad that some things avoid it.
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I was a high level judge in the earliest days of magic. I even had to travel regionally so that events could have the level of judge necessary to hold events and so that I could "ordain" mid-level judges in other regions. While I gave up Magic entirely for a decade, the game has always used a LIFO stack, and the current concept of that stack, priority, plus triggers adding to the stack, and the APNAP (active player, non-active player) order for adding triggers works well. [And isn't too different from da
Do musical instruments count? (Score:4, Insightful)
Her toys (Score:4, Insightful)
are your emotions.
Re:Her toys (Score:4, Insightful)
How about... (Score:3)
I still have my Hotwheels cars, Legos, Construx, Heroclix, RC cars, and some Star Trek toys from childhood, as well as hobbies that I picked up since adolescence, like model rockets, computers, musical instruments, auto restoration, machinery restoration, and woodworking. Ended up buying a place with a detached workshop.
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I'm considering extending the house for toys.
A garage, to be precise - my car is first and foremost a toy.
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- Many Fighters (F-22, F-15, Su-37, MiGs, F-117, etc);
- Many helicopters (AH-64 Apache, two Mil Mi-24 Hind-E, Chinook, etc);
- One B1-B Lancer bomber;
- Many tanks;
- Many tank carriers for the tanks (including a M1070 and the M1000 trailer, soon will be two);
- One SR-71 Blackbird to do the strategic recon;
- Two Battleships >:-)
No, I will not tell what is the scale but is greater than 1:72
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Define A Toy (Score:5, Interesting)
Every man with a disposable income has a toy collection of one sort or another.
Define A Toy (Score:2)
For me it's sports cars. Missing the option "few but very expensive :$".
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Guns. Specifically, WWII era U.S. infantry weapons. Good for making old hard drives unreadable; good for defending the household. I can probably find other uses should the need arise.
Cheers,
Dave
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Somewhere on my dream list is a nice Class-3 Thompson. I see one every time I'm at the Crossroads show -- same guy I imagine -- but I don't have that sort of cash laying around.
Funnest gun I ever shot.
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M-2 (Dream big)
Cheers,
Dave
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Hear, hear!
In the last 6 months I've acquired a M1 Garand (s/n 2xxxxxx, but re-barreled in '55) and an M1 Carbine, Rockola, good stock, good condition, no bayonet lug and early "flip-style" rear sight. My eyes are open for a WW2-era 1911, Thompson, and BAR to round out the collection...
So fun to own a piece of American history, no?
Priced authentic 1911s. Ouch. I'll probably go with a replica.
Cheers,
Dave
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Violence is the refuge of people who don't think.
Gun violence is for cowards.
Couldn't agree more. That's why I only use my guns for non-violent things like target shooting, destroying old hard drives (there is a certain satisfaction in this application), etc. I will not initiate violence with my guns but the nature of these weapons means that I am in a position to reply very violently to someone who initiates violence against me.
BTW, I live in Colorado, USA and we have what has become known as the "Make my day" law. This law here says that I can legally use any and all means incl
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It could be reasonably argued that anything outside of survival necessities is a toy.
Actually that's the definition of luxury.
Define A Toy: anything fun? (Score:2)
childhood toy (Score:2)
i took it to mean child-oriented toys that we kept into adulthood...or children's toys we...ahem...purchase in adulthood
in a sense, anything not necessary for survival is a 'toy'...
i still have some model rockets I made, a really old teddy bear, a few odd legos, and a box of micro-machines i made to look like Mad Max vehicles...some other random stuff...but that's actually in storage at my parent's house
we gave away things like star wars and transformers when i was about 13 or so (kept my comics and basebal
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In my case I have at least a ton of toys. A motorhome counts, so does the solar panel I put on it as I built my own controller. Add in my test equipment and tools that I don't use for employment, my musical insturments, stage lighting and sound equipment I use for weddings and other socail gatherings, etc.
I spend a lot of time playing, so I have toys beyond the internet.
Computers I guess would include annimated Christmas lights, VOIP toys such as integrating a Grandstream phone wiht Google Voice, Talk, Sk
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Nope. None of those are toys.
There is an actual definition of toy.
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A toy is an item of play that helps a young person develop skills, usually fine motor skills.
Most of these toys are not actually toys. Just an excuse to make shit up.
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Legos, now that I have enough income to afford them (only had a small set of Tyco brand knock offs as a kid).
Industrial sewing machines for making soft goods.
Climbing gear galore, fun to collect some of the odd stuff life bizarre ascenders and niche cams.
Early Star Wars LEGO (Score:2)
Lining the window sill of my home office. Pretty much every minifig-scale non-collectors set from the launch of LEGO Star Wars through 2003. Original Trilogy only. I also have the "Collectors" TIE Interceptor and the "Destroyer Droid" Technic; plus a smattering of prequel trilogy sets (that were all given to me as gifts by people that knew I had the SW collection, and didn't know better,) on a shelf.
Plus a few (less than a dozen) of my old childhood toys (all smaller ones,) in a "keepsake box" in the att
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so you don't have the 10179 ultimate millennium falcon yet then? That thing is a collector's wet dream of 5200 pieces and three feet long. Oh, and it's a proper SNOT set as well (that's Studs Not On Top, as in plate-matched for style and fitting with the basic layout of the Falcon), and scaled for the minifigs!
Now the bad news: you can't get it any more unless you go to auction (it sold out retail in June 2010), though there's rumour out that the set is being revised and re-released in 2015.
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No, that came out after I stopped buying. And the Death Star, and the Star Destroyer...
But I now have permission from my wife to buy TWO of the next similar "ridiculously expensive Ultimate" set. One to keep for myself, one to re-sell three years later.
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Re:Gigantic and growing! (Score:4, Interesting)
No such thing. Don't ever grow up - adulthood is highly overrated.
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All that sex, and freedom sure is overrated.
Re:Gigantic and growing! (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm 61 and still buying toys. Some, of course, are for the grandkids, but some are for ME.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
In my case, I answered that I have no toys, but that isn't entirely accurate. It's more that my daughter has inherited all my toys at this point -- so when I sit down with her to play legos, it's her toys I'm playing with now.
The quantity of toys in our house has only increased. Anything that was mine is now hers, but that doesn't mean I don't get to sit and play with them anytime I want -- with a 4yo playmate to sit down and play with me at that!
Yaz
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Lots of my toys have been appropriated by my daughters. But both of them know that there are "Daddy's Toys" which they aren't allowed to play with. These are predominately anime figurines and models I have built. They know that the gundams are not for them to play with, mainly because they are so fragile they are hard to even move without bits falling off.
I never got into the star wars collecting but Robotech was huge when I was a kid and I have a number of original figures from that series.
As for her to
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Why, I play baseball with a baseball. I play football with a football. Why can't we play legos with legos?
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Playing with a baseball is not the same as playing baseball. Baseball is a specific game, a baseball is a specific piece of equipment. You can play baseball without a baseball, and you can play with a baseball without playing baseball. So unless legos is a particular activity that you use your legos to play, than saying "play legos" doesn't really make sense.
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Your post has been improperly moderated. It should be (Score:5, Awesome).
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"What exactly is a toy? Anything you can play with!"
Wrong.
There is a definition.
Yes, play is good, but play doesn't define what a toy is.
Toys from the (19)80s. (Score:2)
From the recent moves, I discovered that my parents still kept my old (19)80s toys like lion Voltron [voltron.com], Frogger MiniArcade [miniarcade.com], banana softie, rubber and plastic snakes, etc. in my very old toy box. No Transformers [transformers.com] G1 though since they have resale values. :( I did tell them to toss my Apple //c system and others.
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My parents had my lion voltron too! They did also have my complete optimus prime with his trailer too though!
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Nice. Are they/you going to keep them to sell later? Their sale values might go up!
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At the moment they have transferred from my parents roof space to mine.....
From there I'm not sure. I have to be honest and say the optimus prime was a bit of a let down seeing it again. I remembered it as being so much more awesome then it was. The finish is really poor and the mechanisms are really clunky (and that is taking out of it the fact it has been played with). I had been walking up and down the toy isle going "they don't make toys like they used to!" but clearly the new ones are nicer......
So
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Mine are rusty and hard to move too. They probably need cleaning. Heh. I wonder how much we can sell ours for these days. I am not going to put mine in display cabinets. I remember Robotech, but I never got into it.
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Good condition complete sets of voltron are going for about $100. $30 for an individual Lion. I found a couple of "in the box" optimus primes that were about $110.
I like my models and things - I have a cabinet in my man cave which I have figurines and toys from various eras and shows. I have to admit to still liking my anime now so I tend to pick those up these days. The quality of those is incredible.
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Wow, that's it? I was expecting higher prices! I guess I will wait another 50 years. Ha!
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vol... [ebay.com.au]
Though there is someone wanting $500 for a complete set of lions still in their boxes with the pilots and keys....
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Nice. My Voltron didn't come with pilots and keys. I think i lost his sword. :( I do have the giant plastic sword for humans though! Haha! I wished I still had my Transformers G1 ones. Argh!
Tools (Score:2)
Do tools count as toys, if I enjoy using them?
Toys? (Score:2)
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Whips and manicles (Score:2)
Do they count as toys? I know this isn't Fetlife, but I figure adult toys should count too!
Re: Whips and manicles (Score:2)
If it's not an abacus, it can't count. Most of the rational people have quit fet due to database failures, update disasters, an incredibly primitive unthreaded discussion format and a contingent of highly abusive individuals. Abusiveness and primitiveness has done for tech forums, too, which is why Kuro5hin has been in death throes for some time.
A community is never stronger than the people who stand behind it and, in sadly far too many cases, the people standing behind the community are crouched down and i
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We bought a lockable steel cabinet for the garage for storing those. :)
Just what kind of "toy" are we talking about? (Score:5, Funny)
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an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
So, no.
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Do boats count? (Score:2)
I've got maybe $25,000 invested in whitewater rafting equipment which has been my main form of recreation for the past 25 years.
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Yeah, I have about the same amount into kayaks (3x), jetskis (2x), and a jet boat. I also have about another $2K in downhill skis and about the same amount in golf equipment.
As for anything marked "for ages X to Y", the only things I still have are some LTTO Laser Tag guns and a couple of of the Lego collectors sets (TIE Advanced x1 and Obi-Wans Jedi Starfighter).
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He uses an RC raft boat you insensitive clod! After all, what better image of a "toy" than a guy standing on the side of a river with an RC raft boat driving his wife down that tricky class IV!
The definition of toy (Score:2)
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My motorcycles have use as transportation (California car-pool lanes, until they're all toll lanes for the better off, and splitting particularly useful), but that doesn't remove the fun factor, so they are not USED specifically as transportation.
Still "toys", I think.
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I would say, any item that you use for fun and/or enjoyment - whether it be an action figure/dolls, comics/books, role-playing games (CCGs,etc), climbing equipment, boat, model railroad, or RC vehicles, etc. I don't think we are limited to just "children's toys." Now especially with this crowd, computers could be a grey area - we probably all use them for work, but I'm sure we all use them for fun also.
I think we have all gotten too analytical and only view "the word of the law, rather than the spirit of t
Re: toy collection (Score:2)
The only difference between boys and men is the price of their toys.
I never stopped having toys. My current favourite toy is a femtosecond laser system ;-)
My "toy" is my computer (Score:2)
Aside from it's usefulness, my computer is my "toy". Specifically, working on my pet project (MSS Code Factory) brings me great entertainment value, a mental challenge, and a lot of fun.
Who needs bits of plastic when you have a thinking brain and a computer to play with?
Toys and the grown up. (Score:5, Insightful)
Guns, guns, guns. (Score:2)
I've been amassing a decent collection of firearms. Some would call them toys, since I don't hunt. Target shooting is more my style, and they're mostly set up for that,
They are not toys, they're dangerous and worthy of respect, but they fall into the same category - something non-necessary that brings me great joy.
I started making toys this year (Score:2)
I started creating a board game in May and I'm in the process of refining the game tokens as 3D printed models, the more it goes the more they look like tiny toys.
a few toys saved (Score:2)
I have a few toys saved. Because my parents lost their home when I was in my early teens, and I was effectively homeless through my high school years, what I managed to save has a bit of sentimental value. Some items represent connections to people and/or places. Some represent what I valued before and are a symbol of lost innocence. Basically, what I saved fits into one or two document boxes...
Having lived through that, I know it's all just "stuff" and ultimately is unimportant. I could lose everythin
No one's speaking up (Score:3)
I wonder if my skydiving gear and wingsuit would count. I guess the sky is now my playground and they're the toys I always bring when I play in it.
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All you really need is a sybian or a hitachi. :P
How about... (Score:2)
Small and moderately important. Almost none of it would qualify as "great sentimental value", but I can't say they're not important to me at all. Especially my penguin collection. I got a couple of plushy Tuxes from trade shows many years back, and several of people in my family became convinced that I was collecting penguins, so they started giving me any penguins they found. I wasn't, and am not, collecting penguins, but it turned into a nifty little collection despite my lack of effort, and I'd miss it i
Quit my real job! (Score:2)
I make toys for a living.
Requires a definition for Toys (Score:2)
One person's Toys may be another person's hobby equipment.
I have no toys from my childhood, but I do have a fair amount of hobby equipment, A couple of decades ago I used to juggle fairly seriously, so even though I stopped practising over 15 years ago I still have some juggling clubs, balls, rings and knives around the place. I also have 6 guitars, a ukulele, and a mandolin. So are they toys? Not to me.
Computers computers computers... (Score:2)
Clearly computers -are- my toys.
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I'm sitting right now in a room with about a dozen 'obvious' computers. Let's see: 3 PCs, one laptop, one Mac Mini, 2 Raspberry Pis, 3 Android tablets, one iPhone, one iPad. Yep that's 12. And of course there's also the wireless router and cable modem. And I'll go ahead and count my LCD TV since it's clearly a computer as well (especially when it locks up). Oh, and I shouldn't forget the Wii and PS2 even though I don't use those very often. Clearly computers -are- my toys.
I take it you're single? No slight intended. Whenever my PC count got above , where was the number I could keep off the floor, my wife would suggest that I 'pass on' a few to deserving homes.
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You just need your own space!
I am married with 2 kids and where I am sat I have 12 computers around me ranging from a pi to a dual xenon server. I actually have a problem with monitor overflow though currently and am having trouble storing them.
I get no complaints as long as the computers don't spill out of my study into the rest of the house. Same goes for her scrapbooking stuff. It just has to fit inside your room with the door closed.
Now if only I could get my daughters to keep their crap inside their
Traded my income for inventory (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a downside, however. Today's parents tend to be more selfish and mom will spend her money on a Brazilian and yoga pants before she buys anything for the kids. If Junior does have something it is an iphone to chew on or an ipad to play games or watch movies. Toys and toy stores are going the way of dinosaurs and mainframes, IMO. But I'm not abandoning ship just yet.
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Define Toy. (Score:2)
There's the consoles and all the video games., The couple of shelves of board games and then the pen and paper RPG bookcases. Then there's the collection of soft toys that started as monitor decorations and grew from there.
Lightsabers ... (Score:2)
I have a collection of replica Star Wars lightsaber hilts and a couple of blasters, on which I have spent many hundreds of dollars.
Sure, some people may call them "toys" but for me and for (most) other collectors in the community they were never made to be played with. I don't play with them and I don't let anyone play with them. I call them "collectibles". Anyone who calls them "toys" after I have explained it to them is no friend of mine.
Figurines (Score:2)
1. Must be higher quality, non-posable, on a solid large base
2. Must be purchased in a pair, as in a matched set of two from the same series (e.g. Batman + Robin)
3. Must be characters I do not already own (no repeats.)
These rules have prevented me from letting the collection grow exponentially, and given a lot of variety to my toy di
SAMLA box of Lego (Score:2)
Big enough to cause concern (Score:2)
My room is home to more ponies than the Shetlands, to be quite honest. It's getting out of hand. I just threw my wallet at Apple though, so the giant manchild within will have to sod off back down to the imaginary basement for a bit.
Childlike (Score:2)
Everyone should have some toys that they just play with for the fun of it. It is not a waste of time to return to a simpler time for a short while.
Something in between... (Score:2)
I don't have too many toys, but I do have a severe lack of time for them. My rusty '66 GMC pickup needs thousands of hours of labor to get back into shape, my guitar skills are waning due to lack of practice, my Wii hasn't been turned on in 3 years, and I have spare computer parts lying around the basement waitin
Toys ... (Score:2)
Toys use batteries. Tools plug into the wall.
What started as an office desk decoration (Score:2)
What started as an office desk decoration a few years ago has turned into a collection of over 40 Mr Potato Head dolls and variants. . I don't go looking for obscure and past potatoes, rather buy new ones/novel ones as they pop up.
Re:Non-existent. I'm not a child. (Score:5, Funny)
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Which part?
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Whoosh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Also whoosh!
How many parts are there to a slinky? Exactly.
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Uh, basically a slinky don't have parts... But, uh, if I had to call it anything, I would say it's its knee.
Just what kind of monster are you?
Re:Non-existent. I'm not a child. (Score:5, Informative)
This poll seems to mainly concern kids' toys. I have a kite, a Nikon DSLR, a gopro, climbing shoes and a bunch of other stuff that would probably qualify as toys in most people's eyes but they're not toy toys, like action figures or a slinky.
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A toy is anything you don't need for activities of daily living or occupational usefulness, yet you have it and/or use it because it's fun.
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