That toooo funny!
Well, I don’t remember a whole lot of how I played with my toys when I was younger, but I mostly played with figurines. (they were always animals, I didn’t like playing with baby dolls, barbies, and stuff like that.) My favorites were probably my breyer horse models and a few other horse figurines. I would build them barns and fences and stuff out of my wooden blocks. Man, I loved them wooden blocks. But I played with my other animals too, I always had my least favorite toys be the bad guys. (like my toy monkey, a bull, a weird horse riding person…)
But now I don’t have those precious blocks anymore, my mom made me gve them to my sister, as well as some other toys of mine.(but some of them I willingly gave to her.) I guess I don’t really need them now , the only way I ever play with my toys is posing them and taking picures of them. But I do feel a little sorry for my toys I gave to my sister. She doesn’t take good care of them like I did.
When i was little i played with my toys with gentle care. I had a handful of baby dolls porcilan dolls and and the lil girl favorite…Barbie dolls I also had a rocking horse. I use to dress all my dolls up in western atire and i would be the sheriff and i would pretend my dolls were trapped in jail and i had to free them. But i wasnt always an angel with my toys. as i grew older me and my older brother would rip the heads off the barbie dolls and draw faces on the cute faces of my baby dolls. I never did break my porcilain dolls they were to precious to me, and they still are I love my toys and when i was little they were much much more than plastic or thread. They were my best friends. And after seeing Toy story i began to feel very guilty for what i did to my toys when i grew bored with them.
So heres some advice: cherish your toys. Belive it or not they help you grow in so many ways. Like building your imagination,teaching you to have great fun,and even growing as a strong kid. <img src="//pixarplanet-forums.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb09ea74af61a9afee85f2221eb7ed07d9454777.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":-D)" title="Grin and Nod"/>
I guess I used to play with them pretty much like Andy did, except in most instances I didn’t “mix and match” my toys. I would only play with my Masters of the Universe figures or only my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figures, etc.
I very rarely used figures from other lines/series which didn’t “match”. I would sometimes use a figure from another series if I needed a new villain. The bad guys from Marshall Bravestarr were often used as mega-baddies because they were so much bigger than the usual 5-6" figures. And I wasn’t permitted to have many figures of female characters so April O’Neil (from TMNT) would have to double as other female characters like Teela from MOTU.
I definitely did the cardboard box thing. I would constantly be creating secret bases, castles, prisons, hide-outs, haunted mansions and whatever else from a large assortment of cardboard boxes, toilet rolls, tissue boxes, etc. And I always played through “big adventures” and would sometimes write a script or story-outline for the adventures.
And much like Andy I took great care with my toys. I was always devastated when I lost an accessory or a toy broke. But I did have a touch of Sid in me as well. I recall re-painting figures to try and make them into new/different characters (Webstor from MOTU was turned into some kind of golden knight), but I didn’t deliberately destroy any figures.
I had dozens of barbie clones (and some barbies, as well as their German analogues, Steffi and Petra. Petra is still here, I like her. What’s more, she’s long unproduced and rare) and I always handled them with care. I beleived they were alive, they were more of friends to me. in fact, I’ve never broken a single one, but only 3 are left now (instead, I have a bunch of new dolls))
When I was youger, I always came up with some stories and recreated them with my dolls. Or I was just mother ('cause I always thought babydolls to be ugly - it’s more interesting to take care of someone small, subtle and beautiful)\elder sister\firend to one of my dolls and we were up to something.
I remember, my last play was dance school. I was 12 at that time and stopped playing that way - but then my younger friend encouraged me to start again and go on for some time.
Then I just made doll clothes. I still make it in fact and started selling some recently.
Apart from that, sometimes I liked to race little cars my father brought me from somewehere. I cut some wooden weapon with a friend when I was about 11-12. And despite I had many toys, I liked to play with any other objects imaginig them to be some characters. Preferably with perfume bottles.
I had some small dinosaurs and liked them as well.
Before I was 4, I truly had a collection of ugly babydolls presented to me by different people. And just one Barbie. But I didn’t want to play with that babydolls and sometimes made games of protest which were rather sadistic. However, far from Sid’s games - I’ve never broken one. I liked to undress them, throw them, look inside their heads (at their sleeping eyes mechanism), but never truly broke them…