"Antique with Antique"
.......[c]2006 by Richard L Zorek......1.05.06.....As a collector I go into a lot of antique malls. Sometimes it's like a trip down memory lane which I guess makes me an antique in some respects (I just can't find myself in the price guide). One thing I have noticed is difference in toys from then and now. For example, we had toy pistols with caps (a step up from a finger and a heartfelt "bang" bang"), and it was often fun getting shot and dying in William-Shatner-dramatics style while falling off an imaginary horse. Today's kids have all this in 3-D graphics. With kid-style arrogance, a kid can destroy gangs of people and see all the blood, guts and gore. Of course, they can be arrogant because they don't fire back. (Not like back in the day when a quick draw finger was pitted against a dead eye shot finger). Toy consumer groups would probably frown on the games firing back. But it might get their focus off things like if you wedge Elmo improperly between two railroad beams that you might have back issues. (or self esteem problems because you are 6 and a railroad beam is heavy).
The Tonka tractor had to been hand pushed and manually operated. Kids today have remotes and batteries. However, my Tonka could crush a new one with little effort...or at least maybe one big push and a jump. And the remote toys end with the battery charge. Mine could go til I was exhausted or had to go in for a nap (in the middle of the day, when it was still light out, when I wasn't tire, what was that all about?).
Similarities? The boxes and packing bubbles are still fun to play with at any age.
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