Cactus_Man wrote:
Generally speaking, I only like kids' things if I associate them with my own childhood. A friend teased me about having Good Burger in my DVD collection, and I just bought Denis the Menace.
I would kill to play with Legos (and even Duplos) again. As a matter of fact, I'm a comedic writer of films (haven't gotten big, obviously; I've been too busy with school to try anyway) and at least half of my characters were conceived while playing with Legos and Duplos. It's significantly harder for me to come up with interesting characters without the aid of Legos to help me out.
The same goes for K'Nex- being obsessed with cars, I actually made a K'Nex car with crumple zones so that it wouldn't break apart on impact when racing it down the wooden stairs. This was when I was really young- I can only imagine what I'd be capable of doing with K'Nex/Legos if I had them today.
I won't even let anybody see my iTunes. Mixed in with the newer interests (Oasis, Biggie, etc.) are songs that remind me of jr. high. Stuff like Aaron Carter haha.
Though I don't play with those toys anymore, my parents always did harass me about being too old to play with them. I didn't stop until I was 16, and even then it wasn't voluntarily. I've tried to substitute them with things like The Sims and SimCity, but it just isn't the same. You can't make you Sims cannibalize each other, nor can you build a city specifically designed to be unsafe and then have your baby brother ("Baby Godzilla") come in and destroy everything. I miss those days...
This is pretty much my situation. I like things I can associate to my childhood. That's why I like Pokemon. Even my avatar relates to my childhood. I loved Lego and I too would kill to get my collection back, I gave it to a friend who didn't have much money.
I still listen to those Pokemon CD's at times, I think that Aaron Carter guy has a song on one of them.