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Collecting for our kids, want your thoughts
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12-29-2011, 11:18 PM
WVMojo
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Everything I've bought with the exception of a few extras to keep sealed are for my kids to open and play with one day. I gave them Combat Heroes when they were 2...good bath tub toys and they still play with them two years later...
I started them on the classic GI Joe cartoons and my son liked Snake Eyes off the bat and my daughter loved Scarlet. They ask to watch Renegades and sometimes ask for the GI Joe box (the footlocker complete series). They play with the toys and my son asked for a Cobra base for Christmas and Santa delivered a Cobra Mountain and the RoC Pit...
I wanted them to like GI Joe as much as I did, and my son enjoys them, but they aren't the end all be all toy. I don't have a problem with that, I was just happy he played with them at all...or else I wouldn't have an excuse to continue buying little plastic army men (my wife is an enabler for my addiction - she bought me a Tippi foam cutter and a Dremel for Christmas so I can make dios and she didn't blink an eye when my JCPenny Peacekeeper F-18's showed up on the doorstep today).
There are a few that I'll keep sealed (extra SDCC Zarana, both Slaughters, etc.) but the rest have become good behavior incentives....kids pick up all their toys for a week and keep their responsibility charts going (clothes and toys picked up, help with getting ready for school / bed / bath, putting dishes in the sink) and they get to pick out a figure.
At the end of the day, Woody and Buzz preferred to be played with and Stinky Pete was just a crusty old bastard for being in MIB all those years...
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