Did you get bored of your toys, easily?

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While my folks have very fond memories of me playing with my toys as a kid--and don't get me wrong, I LOVE my toys....they're still my thing--the whole playing with them thing; I really don't remember myself playing with them heavily. I remember playing with them a little bit; I'd explore the features of the playets and the action figures to a good degree, and once I'd done that, they were more fun to look at and pose than anything else.

I just watched a video on a site run by some guys who did some nice advertisements for our website...they hit their one year anniversary as well, and are doing a whole month covering playsets.

You should've seen one of these guys go so thoroughly into detail with all the cool stuff about his Marvel playset. He said he could've played with it forever. I saw all the cool stuff...and likely could've enjoyed all of it for..an hour if I really put my mind to it.

Again, I'm not saying I didn't love my toys...I loved them more--and still do--than I love most human beings; they mean the world over to me( well, only second to my gal, obviously). But I wish I could remember how much I enjoyed playing with them as my parents remember me doing; I mostly just remember displaying with them, and looking at them.

Anyone else here the same way?

Yeah, at times yes and other times no.

It probably depends too on whether it is a toy you really "connect" with.

Sometimes would look at them imagining things happening like they were in real life rather than actually physically playing with them.

^^ Yaye, I believe I also do this. I believe this is dependent on the toy set in question. ^^ When I was younger, I believe I would enjoy playing with toy cars for a very long time. However, my child self could notlego or many other toys for very long. ^^ I enjoyed playing with Argos catalogues I believe. I enjoyed cutting the toy images from the catalogue and imagined playing with toy friends.

Sort of.
I can't say I remember much about when I had actual toys, though I don't think I got bored of them.

A couple of years I was given a secondhand PS2. I got bored of that very fast because a lot of the games are very repetitive. I got bored of Second Life because I didn't find it fun or challenging.

On the other hand, I like board games, and I like older computer games (mostly strategy games). I love pinball. And, ironically, I like the repetition in old Doctor Who DVDs.

Maybe it's something that's happened as I've got older, but I find that more trivial things, like games, have to work harder to engage me once I've got over the "ooh! shiny!" novelty factor.

I never played with toys.

I used to get bored with my toys in the 1970's. I would really want something for example at christmas and then the novelty would wear off quite quickly. I used to have a scalextric which I used to play with and this I lost the novelty. That was in 1974-75 and a globe the year before of which I lost the novelty. However it did glow as it had a light inside it which was run by electricity. Although this was not a toy as such. I had a remote controlled aeroplane, a hurricane which was petrol driven and it never worked very well. The novelty of this was the easiet to wear off. That year 1976 It was really a radio controlled one I wanted but it was OK if it worked as radio controlled aeroplanes would have cost at least £500 and in 1976 that was a lot of money. I did get a radio controlled car of which I used to play with this quite regularly this as in 1977. I used to have this computer game called Simon which was the one with the flashing lights. I do think that this was the one I used to play with the most. This was in the same year that I had the radio controlled car. This game called Simon was a memory game in which I had to remember which colour lights came with its particular noise. Most of the toys I had were really fit for neurotypicals as no one in the 1970's realised that I had Asperger syndrome. I did also play with this Simon game regularly as this exercised my memory.

I was a child of the 70s and have fond memmories of playing with toys. I was very attached to may of them. Although I always made up my own imaginary stories with them. I would do this for hours. I guess what I am saying is that I never played with the playsets the way you see it portrayed on TV commmercials. My imaginary stories rarely had anything to do with how the characters were commercially portrayed.

I know there are a lot of people on here who talk about writing books or comic books so I guess for me, since my thoughts travel through my mind faster then I could ever write them down, as a kid, I would act out these imaginary stories with various toys. Not to mention I would never have the patients (ADHD) to write it down. <<I hope that made sense

Don't have much remembrance off how much I played with my toy other then video games.


All I can say is that I still cuddle and speak with my old stuffed bear from time to time (can't have animal where I live, would be too small for a cat anyway). (it actually the only thing in my house that got more importance then my computer)

I do remember that from a fairly early age, I had difficulty playing with toys in the way that people would usually imagine when they think of a child playing. I liked setting playsets up, but I really didn't have much idea of how to make up and go through with a game such as playing with dolls and acting out a story with them. This is why that the toys I liked were ones that had a purpose, where there was an obvious set activity to do with them: like construction toys where you set out to build something. What I'm saying is that if the play was open-ended and ambiguous, I was quite lost; if the toy didn't have a specific purpose, I really didn't know what to do with it other than arrange and look at it.

I still have problems with activities that don't have a final goal. I couldn't get on with The Sims as a video game, because although I liked building a house, once that was done I couldn't find any point to the game.

Toys invented by other people are fun for a while, but the toys you create for yourself are better. My best toys don't cost a dime. Second best are open-ended toys like Legos, or toys that you can modify and use "incorrectly."

When I was a little kid, they were tangible. Folded scraps of paper representing people. A shoebox lid as a vehicle to take a group living in the window to visit another group living on the desk. Sometimes real people (siblings, friends) joined my games, sometimes they didn't. It worked either way.

My grown up toys are harder to describe. Favorite fantasies that have grown over the years. Philosophies that could easily save the world if anyone would listen. Lists of stuff so big that they can only be managed on the computer. If I had the interest or patience to write it all out, any one of my toys would take years to explain, would fill several books, and no one would read it. They're just my toys.

There's no right or wrong way to play. Arranging a collection of cool stuff on a shelf IS play. You don't need permission to play with your toys your way.

If you do need it, I hereby give you permission: You may invent anything you like that you think is cool and you may call it a "toy." You may write the rules and instructions yourself and play with it your way.

Interesting question to ponder - truth be told, in most cases, yes, I tire of a new toy pretty quickly. These days I buy them more out a collection obsession than to play with. Lots of them end up hanging on the wall in their original packaging as decorations.

But there were favorites as a child. I played with Hot Wheels (rechargable) Sizzlers for hours as a kid, as well as plastic toy soldiers (though I may have been arranging them in patterns and columns more than imagining actual battles). Legos were new in those days and i never had any, but I did enjoy arranging Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, and a set of wooden blocks into endless varieties of patterns. Oh, and I did love my Lionel train, but that's standard issue for Aspie kids, right? I think they give you one at the hospital now when you're born - the Sheldon Cooper autograph model...

My mother did make me a Superman outfit once, which I jumped about and played in alone, but was too embarrassed to wear in front of any other kids. In those days boys of that age (8-11) did spend an inordinate amount of time in the yard with noisy plastic M16s and rubber hand grenades shooting each other and blowing each other to smithereens. Good times.

I don't usually get bored with toys, but usually there comes a point where I no longer play with them.

As I child, if I picked out the toy myself I almost never got bored with it.

But the toys others gave me without imput were usually uninteresting to me and were quickly ignored.

My favorite toys were large refrigerator boxes which I liked to turn into "houses" and Lego, which I used to draw designs for on graph paper and then work with it on a large scale. Whenever someone asked me what I wanted as a gift it was always more Lego because I was always trying to build more elaborate structures and needed more pieces.

I also liked to build paper houses, write, and draw so most of my non-Lego play required a lot of paper.

I also had a toy red car that had working headlights that I could pedal around the house that I drove for hours. It was a "convertible", so if I thought it might rain, I always jammed an umbrella in the car just in case. I also like to play with old sheet so I could "make a tent" out of them and pretend I was camping.

I played with these toys for years and years.

The toys I really wanted were for some reason never given to me even though they were pretty inexpensive (I wanted cheap toy plane model sets, a Medieval castle model, kites, a toy lantern, and a Holly Hobbie doll.)

Instead I was given a very elaborate toy kitchen set that filled up my bedroom (they were worried I wasn't a normal girl), a giant pink swing set to swing alone on for the backyard (which rusted instantly) and a series of Barbie-like dolls that ate up space.

nope i remember loving to play with my GI-Joes and my parents remember me inside in my little bubble playing for hours.

Building paper houses. I forgot about that.
Drawing -- I always liked designing houses on paper.

And tents and stuff. We turned the furniture over and used the cushions to make houses. A rocking chair, face down with a blanket over it makes a perfect covered wagon – you need stuffed animals out in front for the horses…

We didn’t have Legos when I was a kid, so I made up for it when my kids were little. One can never have too many Legos. Or Brio trains. I almost want to drag them out and play with them for myself now.

No. From when I was 3 until I was 10 I collected McDonalds toys and I had buckets full of them. I never got bored of playing with them, although I don't actually remember playing with them but sorting them into different categories. I also had many little plastic farm animals and I used to categorize them as well. I never got bored of them because I liked animals. I had these until I was 12. Err I'm strange.