Comments on: Boy Toys http://www.boredbutbusy.com/2004/04/21/boy-toys/ A bored housewife jousts at windmills, pokes fun at everything from leg wax to Miss Manners. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amber http://www.boredbutbusy.com/2004/04/21/boy-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Amber Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.boredbutbusy.com/2004/04/21/boy-toys/#comment-610 Debbie, I had to laugh at this. I have lamented the loss of well-made small plastic figurines too, many many times. To the point where some friends finally bought me a plastic bag of farm animals as a birthday gift joke years ago. It wasn't soldiers for me and my friends, no, but tiny plastic horses. Not only were the horses much more *real* looking (you could even see their nostrils flaring and muscles bulging) but they often came with fork-legged riders that came on and off. We'd make the horses buck the riders off *often*. You could buy separate faux-leather tack as well! And everybody stood up on their own, even the bowlegged cowboys. Now you get green sheep and red horses and nothing stands up, even on linoleum. It's a crime! Debbie, I had to laugh at this. I have lamented the loss of well-made small plastic figurines too, many many times. To the point where some friends finally bought me a plastic bag of farm animals as a birthday gift joke years ago.

It wasn’t soldiers for me and my friends, no, but tiny plastic horses. Not only were the horses much more *real* looking (you could even see their nostrils flaring and muscles bulging) but they often came with fork-legged riders that came on and off. We’d make the horses buck the riders off *often*. You could buy separate faux-leather tack as well! And everybody stood up on their own, even the bowlegged cowboys.

Now you get green sheep and red horses and nothing stands up, even on linoleum. It’s a crime!

]]> By: Sean http://www.boredbutbusy.com/2004/04/21/boy-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Sean Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.boredbutbusy.com/2004/04/21/boy-toys/#comment-611 I was going to laugh at you for your silly toy soldier fetish, but I have a shoebox full of dozens of meticulously hand painted, airbrushed, and weathered pewter Battletech miniatures. At $5 to $50 each, they took a good 2 to 3 hours each to finish. That's what I get for working at a hobby shop during my adolescent years. :) I was going to laugh at you for your silly toy soldier fetish, but I have a shoebox full of dozens of meticulously hand painted, airbrushed, and weathered pewter Battletech miniatures. At $5 to $50 each, they took a good 2 to 3 hours each to finish. That’s what I get for working at a hobby shop during my adolescent years. :)

]]> By: woojay http://www.boredbutbusy.com/2004/04/21/boy-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-612 woojay Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.boredbutbusy.com/2004/04/21/boy-toys/#comment-612 "a wee bit too competitive at certain games." I used to flip the board over when playing Monopoly with my sister and landed on a hotel. Another of my favorite pastimes was the good ole' game of using your checkers set to see who can flick out the other guy's pieces off the board first. “a wee bit too competitive at certain games.”

I used to flip the board over when playing Monopoly with my sister and landed on a hotel.
Another of my favorite pastimes was the good ole’ game of using your checkers set to see who can flick out the other guy’s pieces off the board first.

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