What are Toys?

My wife calls my gun collection toys. My 4-wheeler and boat.... Pretty much whatever I want to spend money on,lol. that is until she wants to use them....

redcaped, why don't you just come out and tell the truth? This is a question set by your lecturer, isn't it?

Wonders......................If electronics keeps growing to existed for what ever reason............would we do as well on existing if something catastrophic happened.

What did you think while playing with a toy car? I saw the road and myself driving in it! Funny, because I do now and I don't feel the joy I expected...maybe because of too much rules and restrictions. Yes, that was missing in my thoughts and I totally understand what those stupid kids before us have created to the real word. Shame on iT!

Even by redesigning, reconstructing won't work unless you are right from the start.

Originally posted by redcaped
Again, nothing will be completed until things reach equality by function and significance. There is a lack of judgment among ourselves...we do grow physically but our views never change. We are the same children as we were 5 or 10, only with experiences that we barely catch the essence. Haven't you heard or lived a warning that later tried to attempt once more? That reflects our true immaturity...denial to face difficult facts. The knowledge or profession you know came from others like you...thank time, not heroism from those outstanding figures in our history. We have failed a lot more than accomplished. Instead our toys should be the full and official functional things. Start early dealing directly to avoid any further delay in our development. Kids won't know the meaning of fear or hatred until you instruct them the wrong way.

Equality? Sorry, but you have lost me. Things aren't created equal. Better quality cars, less quality cars, toy cars.

Toys are fully and officially functional as what they are - toys for heavens sake. What other purpose does a toy have other then being a toy? Some people collect them, display them or see them as a business. But a toy is still a toy at days end.

Please, just make yourself clear. What do you think toys should be? no philosophy. You want them to be fully realistic? Eh? A teddy bear replaced by a replica of a grizzly that can really maul a child to death? You want to be able to actually spend that monopoly money down at the shops? Or do you want a toy to cease being a plaything and so how carry a moral message? What exactly are you getting at, other then making a toy not a toy?

A good start would be making items not toys for children under safety regulations. For this we need a considerable progress in our system - all that deals with us daily. I would eliminate what the category of toy product represents - a limited version of real things...the idea of having a lifeless pet or a gun that can't do what a real one does/feels/looks like. Even today as a collector you buy a toy with the need of having what you see in a movie or event and what you get is nothing but disappointment. All because they keep the wrong judgement "a toy can never be a real thing" which is totally wrong. As a matter of fact all we think that we have as real is not...they break, get old, or run out of fashion.

Originally posted by redcaped
A good start would be making items not toys for children under safety regulations.

Why must we change the name? I am little, my parent buys be a toy for my birthday, not an item. And toys/items are made under safety regulations already. You know, to insure they don't choke, set fire to themselves and all that jazz.

I would eliminate what the category of toy product represents - a limited version of real things...the idea of having a lifeless pet or a gun that can't do what a real one does/feels/looks like.

So reclassification. Is it really necessary? Humans are intelligent, they already no that your average toy isn't real, that it is a recreation sometimes of a real thing or fiction.

And, well, that is the purpose of a toy - it is make believe. You know, use you imagination. There is a good reason why a child is given a toy gun made of plastic instead of a real one.

Even today as a collector you buy a toy with the need of having what you see in a movie or event and what you get is nothing but disappointment. All because they keep the wrong judgement "a toy can never be a real thing" which is totally wrong. As a matter of fact all we think that we have as real is not...they break, get old, or run out of fashion.

Uh huh. Still not sure where you are coming from. The people I know who collect Star Wars toys or Tranformers or G.I Joe of Anime toys whatever get them because that is what they are. For most they aren't looking for something real and nor do they expect a toy to be real in the sense it is actually Han Solo. They expect it to be real as a toy. And that doesn't disappoint them.

Basically we use our imagination with our toys for the lack of realism they reflect. A real action figure should be like a human being...only different in size. So it is an "item" not a toy anymore.

My precise idea of a toy is the ownership and usage of things that cannot be taken...made for all ages whatever it might be and to apply as much realism as possible, not make them look fake intentionally.

I've given real life toys such as knives, axes, bow and arrows, fishing rods, minibikes, bb guns, and oh yes..........for the older adults..........smokes and liquor..........

The word "toy" has many meanings and most of them reflect today's problems. Some kids prefer real guns instead, not to kill anyone but just to feel it is REAL...what makes people dream exactly. I'm just merely giving samples.

Real toys are better than fake toys..........................OOOOOOOOOOOOOoo WWWWWWWWW........................take em out, shoot em, and carve it all. eat it,, display it................feel like a real man!!!!!...............What's more natural than that kind of thing????? than that.???

Real Play!!! Real toys!!! Fkor real boys...........

Yes, I agree...girls don't really play.