Adults with Childlike Obsessions

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Lazytown, toy plushies, comic books, Hello Kitty, Nick Jr.

I've never grown up, and I don't think I ever will. I still go nuts over toys. I am thinking of starting my Doctor Who collection up again. I just need to afford it. The first thing I want is a radio-controlled Dalek. But I do have an Adipose doll.
I still play video games. I have my Xbox and 360, and I love playing my favorites over and over and over again.
I have stuffed animals.
I still like art projects that kids love, like finger painting.
Age is just a number.

You need to go to an anime convention. Most people are in their 20s there....

oh where to start, where to start:

-TRANSFORMERS. The cartoon and the toys. Not my first "obsession" but certainly my favorite one.
-My Little Pony! I still have most of my old ones. Some got given away but I replaced them with identical -ones from thrift stores that were in decent shape.
-Smurfs! I still have a few. One of my christmas presents in the early 80s was a smurf in a baseball uniform with a ball and a velcro hand to hold the ball.
-Beany Babies! I have quite a few. Not hundreds, but certainly dozens. Most of them are up on a shelf with their tag protectors on. There are some I keep beside or on my bed in order to sleep with them. I got a 'spare' beany baby "buddy" Bubbles (the black and yellow fish) to snuggle in bed.
FEESH! I have several stuffed toy fishies. It all started in 1992 when the Fair was in town. One of the Midway prizes (for dunking a basketball in a hoop) was a variety of stuffed toy fishies that I found very appealing. One of them looks like my avatar and in fact my avatar is based off it. I LOVED that Fish, especially since the college I was going to had Koi fish in a pond and I was getting those fish in the pond to suck on my fingers. So I got several large stuffed Koi fish that were available for a limited time at Toys R Us. They are essential to my sleeping since I use a CPAP machine for snoring and I need these long large stuffed fish to keep the hose from digging into my arm in the night. Avatar-fishie, I carry that damn thing EVERYWHERE. XD
-dolls of every sort including Raggedy Ann and Hollie Hobbie. I have a few Raggedy Ann dolls, but am missing several that I've had through the years.
-I wasn't really into barbies that much since they were not soft, but I had at least one.
-LEGO! I used to create a spaceport with spaceships (some simple 3-block "colonial vipers" like on old skool Battlestar Galactica)...and the all important Cafeteria. I'd make "men" from the roof blocks, fitting them together as a sort of triangular 'pac-man' creature, when we didn't have enough 'little people'. Heck, I remember lego 'big people'...I swear to god I still have some of the heads and hands for that.
-stuffed toys in general. Anything soft. They were my 'friends'. Sometimes I brought one to school.
-Cartoons of most kinds. There are only a few I don't like, usually the ones in the ugly Nickelodeon style. I was crushed when the networks pretty much cancelled Saturday Morning Cartoons in 1989. I was all, did the networks REALLY believe that a bunch of adults would rather watch 4 hours of godawful NEWS that were greater in number than kids who wanna watch CARTOONS?
-Buck Rogers! Old Skool Battlestar Galactica! Make-it-So! (ST:TNG) ST:TOS. I loved all that old Sci Fi stuff. I watched that stuff religiously. I still watch it if I can catch it on TV (Sometimes the SPACE channel here in Canada carries those).
I could go on...

Halloween

The movie or the holiday?

The holiday, I decorate the house for it and it seems to be getting bigger and bigger each year

I wouldn't call it an obsession, but I do collect Pez dispensers. I think I have about 3 dozen of them or so. I'll usually go several months between getting new ones, either at the store if I see one that catches my eye or from browsing online through eBay or Pez.com.

Sometimes, when I'm working on something, I catch myself singing (very softly!) the Smurfs theme song.

Noa-If you look around, you might be able to find some Halloween Pez dispensers. Currently I have a glow-in-the-dark black skull dispenser, but would like to add the witch one to my collection.

I'll admit it. I've been watching transformers (all of them) for ages (as in 12 years). Surprisingly I didn't much of a kick from the actual live action movie versions of them. I'm just so used to the cartoon format... I keep track of most of the plots and hate the fact they always have to include humans in the equation. Optimus Prime is such a freakin' baby. So what if he accidently sits on some guy in the park? And how come Megatron is using such ret*d methods to gain domination? Really... If I was Megatron, I would A-bomb the earth and use the radiation from the explosion as fuel for my race. No... He's all 'Let's kill Prime!' even though that's the good guy and good guys almost never die (or come back from the dead). Moron! Ignore Optimus and get your job done right for once!

Oh... I ranted again...

With me it used to be meccano and steam engines and mechanisms and lathework and gearboxes and electronics and I.C.'s and short wave radio, tho being a bit depressed re childhood and now aged 51 ..... I never go there ....... I roam pastures new.

My favorite area in the superstore in red deer is the stuffed toy aisle...they have some pretty big stuffed animals there...they also have beanie babies

I have a couple of stuffed animals in my room

I love plushies (I still sleep with one!), Hello Kitty, My Little Pony, cutesy kid's anime/manga (currently reading Tokyo Mew Mew), etc.

I'm obsessed with cartoons and books. But only older cartoons. And some books.

I love Harry Potter, High School Musical and most cartoon movies.

When shopping I often end up in the kid's section. A big one of mine is yo-yo's, got my first in my freshman orientation package at the university and have collected many since then.

I'll be 20 in a month, and I sleep with a plush stegosaurus. Actually, I have three stegosauruses in my bed (stegosaurus is my favorite dinosaur), but I sleep with the one my bf got for me last Christmas in my arms, even though it has metal wires inside and probably wasn't intended to be slept with. And I have a giant triceratops plushie that I got at Sam's Club that I use for a pillow, plus several other assorted stuffed animals that I keep on my bed.

I also collect a few different toylines; Skeleflex, Transformers (mostly dinobots), and most recently I started collecting Xtractaurs (which I think are going to become addictive, since the gimmick with those is an online game).

Really, I think I've just been regressing back to childhood lately, since all of that stuff has to do with dinosaurs, and that's what I was obsessed with as a child.