Childhood Toy Personalities

[DirectorAbbie]

When Brilliand (LII) and I were kids, each toy had an individual personality, along with abilities and sometimes even a backstory and relations to the other toys, such as families and teams. Years later, I saw my younger brothers playing with toys. Using a dinosaur as a monster that the day before had been a goodguy with different abilities. I was like, "No, what are you doing?! That's not who he is! Make up your mind!" Squishy (SEI) seemed to like the idea of a toy being basically the same over time. The SLE pretty much disregarded the idea. Is it a rational/irrational difference? Not type-related? What are your experiences?

[Lotus]

mine were always different. doubt its type-related. probably more creativity-related.

[DirectorAbbie]

mine were always different. doubt its type-related. probably more creativity-related.

As in the more creative ones put more value on what they created in the past?

[Creepy-bg]

my stuffed animals had their own personalities and relationships with eachother, friends, enemies, family.

I don't remember if I had toys that switched.

[anndelise]

My 16yo daughter has toys from when she was 2 that still have the same personalities/styles.
They were counted as friends while she grew up. They had their own experiences, responded to things in different ways than another toy would, had their own emotions, beliefs, likes/dislikes, etc. they didn't all get along, though some are still fast friends with each other. Even now she talks about the core stuffed animals as current friends.

Last summer, we were sorting through her stuffed animal box, to get rid of some. One yellow duck 'Ducky' was seen, then quickly grabbed and stuffed into the bottom of the tokeep box. I laughed at how quick she did that. She said "what? He,s so freaking annoying. I didn't want him to wake up and start talking." he IS annoying, but worth keeping, as there's many stories we,ve shared with him and the others.

When she was younger, she was telling a teacher about one of her friends. The teacher finally figured out that it was a bean bag dog. The teacher tried to tell my daughter than her friend wasn't real. My daughter got pissed and yelled at the teacher just before breaking down and crying her little heart out. To her, and me..these personalities ARE real. We've REALLY interacted with them...and learned from them.

[Lotus]

As in the more creative ones put more value on what they created in the past?

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i didn't mean one way was more creative than the other... just that the depth of personality a child develops for a toy is probably more related to how creative the child is... leaving being able to switch it up vs. having consistent characters merely a personal preference imo.

but way to make it a competition dude

[jessica129]

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[DirectorAbbie]

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She misspells stuff all the time. I think you're thinking of punctuation.

[DirectorAbbie]

I had one lol

His name was (or is) Squirrely, and his personality was something like Meowth's from Pokemon. I hadn't seen Pokemon when I was that young... I came up with the personality on my own (or so it seemed to me); that's just the closest representative of his personality I can think of.

That's how it was for me with Zambia!

[mu4]

All my toys were SLE, and they either were killing other SLE's or being blown up by me....

[jessica129]

I don't know what type my toys were, my barbies were probably really skanky SEE's cuz i'd always force them to make out with Ken...but then maybe that just makes me a skanky SEE? Me and my friends used to strip them and pretend like they were having sex. I was like 7.

[ArchonAlarion]

My toy's didn't really have personalities, but they were divided into factions based on their aesthetic particulars.

I was a little fascist.

[ashlesha]

i don't remember my toys having personalities but i thought i saw one of my dolls wink at me once and i threw it out the window.

i think every girl made her barbies have sex. i wonder if boys do that with gi joes.

[Nowisthetime]

This is an interesting thread. My and my sister (ESE) had a lot of stuffed animals & dolls. We divided them into two families: "Nisse" and "Gagge". This was something like a race or family that each doll belonged to. It had some metaphysical meaning that we both somehow understood but never articulated. There were also some imaginary animals, particularly one called "kotte" who used to follow the car when we went somewhere with our parents. The stuffed animals could interact with this imaginary animal, for exampel call him by phone. The animals formed relationships with each other. Often in pairs, so some would be best friends and always be together. Others liked to be by themselves. But it was always like we just knew what the animals were and their relationships. It was not articulated, or we just said "this is how it is", but no reasoning behind it. Maybe an example of strong and unconsious Fi, like in our case?

[sicklittlepuppy]

What types would Lego and Plastic Weapons be ?

[DirectorAbbie]

What types would Lego and Plastic Weapons be ?

It depends what you do with them. I really like legos. I use them in a way.

[munenori2]

It depends what you do with them. I really like legos. I use them in a way.

[sicklittlepuppy]

It depends what you do with them. I really like legos. I use them in a way.

What do you mean in a way.

My cousin and I used to build complete cities and then smash them to pieces. Good Times

What would that count as ?

[DirectorAbbie]

What do you mean in a way.

My cousin and I used to build complete cities and then smash them to pieces. Good Times

What would that count as ?

Maybe irrational?

I liked to build walls, primarily with 2x4 pieces. Then I upgraded to 90-degree angles, then rectangles, then I made buildings with entrances and inner walls, all solid enough to easily move across the house. Sometimes I would layer the colors, sometimes I would chunk them.

Making walls with the 2x2 pieces is fun, too. I hook them together by the corners and make them four or five high. Not as stable, but flexible.

[sicklittlepuppy]

Maybe irrational?

I liked to build walls, primarily with 2x4 pieces. Then I upgraded to 90-degree angles, then rectangles, then I made buildings with entrances and inner walls, all solid enough to easily move across the house. Sometimes I would layer the colors, sometimes I would chunk them.

Making walls with the 2x2 pieces is fun, too. I hook them together by the corners and make them four or five high. Not as stable, but flexible.

Ok my way still sounds like more fun.

[Scapegrace]

I had a microscope collection growing up. I liked to make my own slides. I also liked legos and Beetle Juice.

[Creepy-bg]

Beetle Juice

[Capitalist Pig]

BEETLE JUICE

[Beetlejuice]

Yo!

[Gilly]

Batman
Legos
Hotwheels
Blocks

[Hot Scalding Gayser]

Social worker barbie!

[Scapegrace]

BeetleJuice!!!!!!!

[fen]

I don't really remember my toys.
>.>

[munenori2]

None of my toys had personalities except for like stuffed animals. My brother and sister and I used to pretend they were like the good toys from the Oddkins, where they had a mission and weren't evil toys trying to corrupt another toy maker to make more extensively nefarious toys.

[Radio]

I didn't play with dolls, I mean my parents wouldn't let me buy dolls lol or stuffed toys. I don't know if I'd have given them personalities. I did play pretend a lot and all the characters I pretended to be were, um, non-recurring.

[ashlesha]

i went through a phase as a kid where i decided i absolutely loved the name isabel* and whenever i played pretend, that would be my name. and it was like this weird fixation and i felt a ton of resonance with that particular name. i would even whisper "isabel isabel isabel" over and over to myself. and then as an adult i moved in with my ex who owned the same house i lived in when i was a kid. so after all those years i was back in the same house. and his daughter named isabel lived there too. kinda funky, no? coincidences.

*name isn't actually isabel, he probably wouldn't want me sharing her real name on the internet whether it matters or not.

[Pa3s]

As a child, I was always wondering why Lego wouldn't release any tanks, battleships and bombers as sets... I also had to equip my soldiers with those revolvers and rifles from the western sets. So guns are okay if you only shoot native americans with them, but they won't let me build a Pzkpfw III or T-34? Where do they draw the line?

[Absurd]

Mostly toy soldiers and model planes.

[Pa3s]

Hey, that's awesome! Lego really was my favourite toy.

Of course, it's much less risky for other manufacturers to produce war-themed sets. If parents were upset (and that's not unlikely) about tanks and soldiers, it could have a large impact on Lego's image, because it simply is the leading brand and has a "responsibility" and whatnot. But nobody cares if a no-name (actually, I don't know how well known Tyco is/was) company produces war toys.

[Pa3s]

I see quite a few Lego Panzers in image search, but I'm not sure how people are building them:

Nice! well I can image how they do it. They get large amounts of standard pieces in a certain colour and put together their own sets. The tracks you see are most likely taken from a Lego Technic set or a large construction vehicle. The decals can be printed. That's something I also did, albeit on a much more primitive level. I've built my own tanks, autocannons, bunkers, ect. I guess it could be quite lucrative if you design your own models, print manuals and resell them.

I think I was able to be a kid right before political correctness neutered and emasculated everything fun. It was still bad enough back then in ways… but kids nowadays are really stupid and coddled, and I kind of feel sorry for them since it's not entirely their fault.

True. They read way too much into those things and usually, there is no proof to their findings. Just because they ban toys they perceive as inappropriate doesn't mean that children will never become aggressive. I think it's much healthier to be able to choose. If they want to play with tanks and soldiers, why not?

[GuavaDrunk]

Don't think I ever imputed personalities, let alone stable ones, to my own toys. I used them more to play out whatever neuroses needed discharging.

Although, not so with pellet guns.

[Galen]

I was always much more of a K-Nex kid. We had like four different roller coaster/tower/kinetic motion machine sets that I'd mix and match to create giant roller coaster monstrosities and other assorted Rube Goldberg machines. Oh to be a kid again.