giving away a gift....

[Scotley]

Except when daddy looks at the toy and thinks "This is about the same scale as my minis. I could use this in my next D&D game!"

Hee hee, too true, hey I think I played with the Geotrax more than he has.

 

[Scotley]

I will have to dispute this. With two kids now aged 7 and 4, you would be amazed at the uses they find for some of their old toddler toys that are still about. When the play house and one of them is the baby, they play with the baby toys. Sometimes it is the dolls that play with them. A soft ring stacker is used time and again as pretend water wings when they are pretending they are at the beach. Sure there are things that just don't hold interest, but IME most of those have been toys that play by themselves, like Tickle Me Elmo - cute to watch a few times, but after that, what do you do with it?

Yeah, there are things that have a longer lifespan when reused for a new more imaginative purpose, but most things start to get neglected pretty fast. Maybe I should give him a couple of years. He already talks about things he played with 'when I was a baby.'

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Except when daddy looks at the toy and thinks "This is about the same scale as my minis. I could use this in my next D&D game!"

that would be a good use for all those stupid trees / signs / buildings that they stick in the wooden track sets to pad their piece count....

"This is the castle gates..."
"The castle gates are labeled Sheriff's Office?"
"Shuttap. Here's the trees...."
"Are they supposed to be that flat?"
"Shuttap your shuttapping...."