Mate, most of my school mates didn't think that toys were suitable for anyone over the age of 3.Originally Posted by DELTAprime
Oh don't worry Gok, all that stuff comes first. My family just see it as childish. I don't think they get that toys and video games can be made for anyone that's not under 12.It got progressively worse during school because a lot of other kids in my primary school pretended that they were teenagers and "too cool" for toys. This pressure led to a lot of my other toy-playing friends dropping out of toys as we got older. By time I was in Year 6, no other kid in my year was playing with toys. Other collectors had sold off or given away their collections because they felt that they had "grown out" of toys (weird, I know).
Years 7-8 was really bad because kids started getting nasty and bullying me (verbally and physically) because I was a Transformers collector. This included other kids deliberately damaging my toys and memorabilia. By Year 9 kids had matured enough and became tolerant of toy and comic book collectors. But it wasn't until I hit uni that I encountered more serious collectors; other people who displayed their toys, collected and read toy collectors' magazines, went toy hunting together etc.
I was able to carry toys on me without fear of bullies.
While seeing my friends "grow out" of Transformers meant that I was losing playmates, the one benefit for me was that I was often the recipient of unwanted toys - often for free or sold at dirt cheap prices.
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