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02-28-2012, 10:43 AM | #1 |
Cobra Viper
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What is the best way to manage being a collector and having kids that love to play with Joes?
I had some Joes when I was a kid. I still have a few small boxes of figures and some small vehicles from those days. Toward the end of what I now know to have been the Pursuit of Cobra days, I bought my boys (6 & 8) a couple of figures. I was impressed by the figures and their accessories; I started picking up a few for the boys, then a few for me. At some point I bought them a VAMP Mark II with Steel Brigade Delta. Within days, they'd taken Delta out to play in the grass and he came back minus one of his knives. Because Delta was our coolest figure at the time (possibly still the coolest), I promptly confiscated him with some vague and non-committal "You can have him back when you find the knife," which even my boys know will never happen. That has been months ago, and it is still a point of contention. I've been trying this tack with the kids lately: the figures are all of ours, but some of them I store and you can check out for a limited time like a book from a library. That is working okay. But the issue of me holding Delta hostage still comes up. Do you share collecting with you kids? And if so, how do you balance enjoyment of the collection with the protection of that collection? Thanks in advance for your insights. R.
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02-28-2012, 10:45 AM | #2 |
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I dont have any kids yet, but i imagine I would buy them their own figures and such if they were interested in Joes. I would have my collection and they would have theirs.
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02-28-2012, 11:07 AM | #3 |
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02-28-2012, 11:08 AM | #4 |
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I have a 6 year old and we are similar in my house. It stems from 2 things.
1. I am extremely anal retentive 2. I try to instill a lot of "pride of possession" in my son. Let me reiterate on the second one. I remember when I was growing up, I had a cousin whose mother bought him figuratively every GI Joe that hit the market (Star Wars too). He always kept his toys neat, clean and in protective cases. When we played with something, it was always made sure to go back where it was. He was a few years older than I, but very patient. I remember once asking my mother why I didn't get as many toys as my cousin and she simply walked me over to my pile of joes (everything was in a jumble, in a shoes box) and asked me what the difference between my toys, and my cousin's were. At that point it clicked that if I took care of my stuff (played with, but still looked after) that I would get... more, and cooler, stuff. From that point on, all my Joes has a spot to go into, with their weapons. With my son I try to teach the same lesson. I won't go ape-shit if he looses a small knife But I try to teach him the lesson that if you are respective of your own property, that you will be rewarded for it. It's not just on him though, if he has friends or cousins come to the house to play, he is the one responsible for how they act with his toys. If something gets broken and he tells me a friend did it, he get's punished the same as if he did. Responsibility can be taught anywhere, and your toys are a great place to start when raising a little one.
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02-28-2012, 01:12 PM | #5 |
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I have 2 ways to do it.
My son has his own of certain figures that I would like to keep in excellent condition so he has one to enjoy and wear and tear. the second approach if we can not find 2 of a certain figure is that he takes the guy and big guns but leaves the small knives and guns on display and uses his collection of smaller knives with the new guy. |
02-28-2012, 01:41 PM | #6 |
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I like what Black Lama wrote, I'm teaching my 4 years old son the same things. I believe it's to early to introduce modern figures to him so he's playing with my arah figs and modern vehicles (i.e. Steel Crusher, POC VAMP, Tiger Claw). All vehicles are 100% complete so far.
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02-28-2012, 02:04 PM | #7 |
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I never had a lesson like Llamas, but I was (and am) very anal retentive when it comes to taking care of my stuff.
I never lost any pieces of my Joes (through my own actions, lost a couple guns once when my step-father wanted my room clean when I was at school and I came home to a big pile of stuff in the middle of the floor). I played with them outside, but made sure to pay attention to the accessories. I never put them in water. I had some break and it was very upsetting. Once it broke, it was out of circulation and never played with again in fear of breaking more. So as a kid I had "pride in my possessions" enstilled in me from an early age. I twitch when I go over a friend's house and their kids toys are scattered all over in pieces. As for your problem, you messed up when you let them play with the figures you wanted to keep in collecting shape. If you were concerned with keeping some collecting shape, should have started that from the start, or bought doubles. Obviously holding Delta hostage isn't instilling "pride in your possessions" to your kids, so will have to try a different method.
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02-28-2012, 02:11 PM | #8 |
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I have a 6 year old and we are similar in my house. It stems from 2 things.
1. I am extremely anal retentive 2. I try to instill a lot of "pride of possession" in my son. Let me reiterate on the second one. I remember when I was growing up, I had a cousin whose mother bought him figuratively every GI Joe that hit the market (Star Wars too). He always kept his toys neat, clean and in protective cases. When we played with something, it was always made sure to go back where it was. He was a few years older than I, but very patient. I remember once asking my mother why I didn't get as many toys as my cousin and she simply walked me over to my pile of joes (everything was in a jumble, in a shoes box) and asked me what the difference between my toys, and my cousin's were. At that point it clicked that if I took care of my stuff (played with, but still looked after) that I would get... more, and cooler, stuff. From that point on, all my Joes has a spot to go into, with their weapons. With my son I try to teach the same lesson. I won't go ape-shit if he looses a small knife But I try to teach him the lesson that if you are respective of your own property, that you will be rewarded for it. It's not just on him though, if he has friends or cousins come to the house to play, he is the one responsible for how they act with his toys. If something gets broken and he tells me a friend did it, he get's punished the same as if he did. Responsibility can be taught anywhere, and your toys are a great place to start when raising a little one. My 8 yo son still has a little trouble keeping his own toys in line, but he's working on it. He can hang out in my office and play with my Joes as often as he wants, The rule is that he lets me know he's going in there to play and tries not to lose any of the smaller pieces (things like POC Lowlights bullet are stored in a baggie in my desk drawer....best not to tempt fate ). I must be doing something right, he's happy and I still have most every toy I own in the condition I got it in. |
02-28-2012, 02:25 PM | #9 |
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I have a six year old and a three year old both of whom play with both SW and Joes. My six year old knows that "if it stays in its package (MOC) it is not to play with and Daddy's, and if not its mine". It took time, but he gets the subtlety of what's on display and what to play with. He generally takes good care of the figures, but I have to crazy glue any part that immediately looks like it will disappear less it vanish fast. That means basically every helmet. We have an army of helmetless desert CGs to show my previous error.
My three year old took his brother's Volcano Viper from the Lava Pod that Ross had billions of last year and claimed it as his own. He said it looked like a firefighter, his true love. I went out and bought him a Hazard Viper in firefighter orange and he has not let go of it since. I just have to reconnect the damn tubes every ten minutes. |
02-28-2012, 02:27 PM | #10 |
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My kid is 10 months old. We both play with Yo Gabba Gabba toys.
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