Synopsis: Scunge is bored. Let’s set up a play date and I’ll bring over my action figures and we’ll play.
Yo remember when we were kids? I mean, like not together cuz more than likely we didn’t know each other growing up; but remember when you were a kid and I was a kid? Remember how much easier it was to have fun back then? I do. :). Remember when we were forced to grow up and leave fun stuff behind? I do. :(. Now I know not everything has been left by the wayside due to aging, like I used to love playing video games (still do), loved playing sports (still do when the opportunity arises); but one of my personal favorite and universally awesome things I had to let go of was playing with action figures.
Like remember how cool it used to be taking all the characters from a line and stage epic battles and movie type dramas with 5″ of Hong Kong plastic? Think about the lines available back in the day of people my age: you had The Turtles, G.I. Joe, WWF wrestlers (big rubber LJNs, little plastic Hasbros, or the bone crunching Jakks depending on age era), Ghostbusters, Masters of the Universe, Thundercats, Marvel superheroes, the numerous movie tie ins…I could be here all day listing all the cool options we had. Playing with action figures was like the closest thing we had or will ever have to playing god and controlling the fates of endless amounts of characters.
We made the decisions, who won, lost, lived, died (although sometimes those decisions were made for us through the attrition of broken plastic limbs, but I digress).
Come on! It was awesome!…WTF happened?? At what point did it become socially unacceptable to “play with toys”? I know what you’re thinking, the increased difficulty of schoolwork, the introduction of girls, peer pressure starting with the first douchebag that had to be cool by not having fun; all this stuff led to the fading out of toys and boyish, imaginative fun. But the question I pose to you is this: we’re grown ass men now…why don’t we tell the forerunners of society to suck one, pick up the plastic again and play with some toys!
Seriously, a lot of us have real jobs, imagine our purchasing power now as opposed to when we had to con the parents into taking us down aisle 5A of the local Toys ‘r’ Us? Am I piquing your interest yet? Come on, if we start a campaign, and we are a legion of 21-30 year old men playing with action figures, who’s gonna say somethin?
You wanna make fun of one of us you’re gonna have to make fun of all of us! And guess what, when there’s more of the minority…they become the majority. We can make playing with toys as socially acceptable as working on cars or going to the gym…you know, boring shit that we call hobbies now and force ourselves to do to break up the monotonous mundanities of our lives.
So I say let’s do it. All it takes is the first one. Like Rosa Parks. Maybe it’ll be me…maybe I’ll be the “Rosa Parks of Grown Men Playing with Toys”…I just gotta ask my mom if its ok first.
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