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Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - Mike Johnson - 12-03-2009
the_poochies wrote: You haven't visited eBay lately. 20 year-old Lego sets that I wouldn't pay more than $5 for sell for hundreds of dollars there because they are still in the box, untouched by grubbly little hands.
How in the world does that ruin anything for kids? It's not like you couldn't buy the Indiana Jones set because there was only one and some collector outbid you.
the_poochies wrote: I taught high schoolers in the 1990s and they were far more independent and self-confident than me and my peers during high school. The problem lies when well-meaning parents and toy manufacturers want to give kids instant gratification time after time.
Has there ever been a time when people didn't whine about Kids Today? Kids are kids, always have been, always will. What's changed is you.
Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - the_poochies - 12-03-2009
Mike Johnson wrote:
[quote=the_poochies]You haven't visited eBay lately. 20 year-old Lego sets that I wouldn't pay more than $5 for sell for hundreds of dollars there because they are still in the box, untouched by grubbly little hands.
How in the world does that ruin anything for kids? It's not like you couldn't buy the Indiana Jones set because there was only one and some collector outbid you.
Please read my post more carefully. I'm referring to 20 year-old Lego sets, not current ones. Current Lego sets are expensive enough! I guess it ruins things for kids who can't afford collectors prices for toys.
Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - Doc - 12-03-2009
the_poochies wrote: "Your son will love that. I still have mine in the original box."
I had lots of Legos in their original boxes/bins/tins before my parents decided to do some cleaning up and threw it all out while I was away in college. That doesn't mean they weren't played with.
It means that my parents blew my chance to make a few hundred bucks on eBay.
Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - Jimmypoo - 12-03-2009
The neighbor kid who used to eat glue (there's always at least one) also chewed up a few Legos
in his day.
Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - Jimmypoo - 12-03-2009
Mike Johnson wrote:
Has there ever been a time when people didn't whine about Kids Today?
Well... there was yesterday - but that's only because I didn't go anywhere.
Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - Seacrest - 12-03-2009
Jimmypoo wrote:
The neighbor kid who used to eat glue (there's always at least one) also chewed up a few Legos
in his day.
Why bring me into this?
What have ever done to you?
Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - Mike Johnson - 12-03-2009
the_poochies wrote: Please read my post more carefully. I'm referring to 20 year-old Lego sets, not current ones. Current Lego sets are expensive enough! I guess it ruins things for kids who can't afford collectors prices for toys.
Who's buying their kids 20-year old unopened Lego sets? And who expects to buy an unopened 1989 set for a 1989 price? Do you expect your local retailer to stock every Lego kit that was ever made?
If collectors hadn't been buying those sets twenty years ago, there wouldn't be 100 different sets at Toys R Us today. None of those sets are collector priced. Expensive, yes, but not because of collectors. Again -- that Indiana Jones set would not even be on the market were it not for collectors.
If you feel like something was ruined for you -- the sneaking suspicion that you'll one day regret letting LP get his grubbly little hands on the set -- just buy an extra one and hope that twenty years from now it'll be worth more than $300. Good luck with that. You've know what happened with Beanie Babies, right?
A better strategy would be to collect something that he loves that nobody else would think to collect. At the very worst, when he gets it in forty years, it'll be a treasure from his childhood.
Re: Thank you adult collector nerds for ruining another childhood toy - Grateful11 - 12-04-2009
Here's something to talk about before folks get all bent out of shape over "building" toys.
Personally I didn't have Legos during my childhood in the 60's. I had Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys,
hand-me-down Erector Set, and where the H@ll is my 60's GI Joe Space Capsule complete with
box and Gemini recording on a 45, it disappeared out of my parents attic and yes I played with
it a lot but took care of that toy like none of the rest. Back on the playing thing, I practically
grew up the woods playing in the creek, building lean-to's, sloshing through the creek, etc. All
in all I had pretty good childhood if only I hadn't daydreamed so much while in school.
This is what 10 lbs of Legos looks like that someone is going to need some of that imagination
to build something.
Did someone say Lego sets, some of these are gone now but not all of them.
