Playing?? With toys??? Inconceivable?
 

Does anyone actually play with their figures anymore? Which ones? I personally do (at age 13), But find figures like marvel legends and DCUC are quite difficult to play with. What are your opinions on this topic

The last time I actually remember playing with toys was when I was in 6th grade, which was around your age, 13.

That was like...nearly 15 years ago.

The interesting thing about my toy history is I played with them all the time till I turned 9. Then I messed around with them every once in a while, but didn't really play with them. Then I saw the nick figures in toy fair pictures (which opened me up to the turtles, they intrigued me before, but I'd never seen the show, just gotten a few figures) and I bought them, and they were really fun, so I started to get the younger oriented figures, brave and the bold-esque things.

I just collect. The only time I play is when my nephew asks me to.

Still do, and I'll probably play with them for awhile.

Heck,I'm pretty sure some adult collectors even play with them.

My siblings think its weird that I do still play with toys ( they were really confused when I had two face fighting a dinosaur (Rex from toy story) by shooting it with his feet)

Oh, and the inspiration for this thread is this video:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj9hzjzH4YY

I assemble the toys sometimes when I want inspiration for drawings and writing story plots.

I play when kids are around and if they wanna play. Their imaginations are wild and amusing.

Does it count if I really do want to play with my toys but don't know how anymore?

I'm not sure if posing them/setting them up counts as "playing" or not...if so, then yes, I do play with them.

Sometimes I play with my plushies. I like setting them up in little bundles or throwing them across the room and pretend that they're flying but other then that no. I like to put my figures on display or put them in action poses though.

If you buy toys and don't play with them then you are a terrible person D:

You should google how to online :D!

Well....sometimes I can't help myself with that Secret Sewer Lair....I'll admit...I do play with all the action features and whatnot (like the zip line) like a 5 year old but I don't even care :lol:

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I buy A LOT of figures... and with the ones I open, I test out all the different poses, etc... imitating their voices is fun too. I guess that counts as playing with 'em? Basically, the rule is: if I'm getting strange looks or laughter from my wife, I'm doing it right. :D

For a while I went through this phase of getting really drunk (ok, that bit I still do) and filming little R rated skits with my TMNT figs (like Dark Helmet in Spaceballs) and sending them to a guy I worked with who liked TMNT.

Without sounding like a d-bag, Im pretty good at doing voices (tmnt wise I do a mean Bebop and Krang) so they would usually involve those guys interacting with the turtles etc and talking about this guy Dave :lol:

Dave was/is a trolley boy and an alcoholic as well, he would get a kick out of these little vids, sometimes Id bust out a Megatron and Starscream one too

It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

Yes. With my little nephew, although I always end up playing with the bad guys/ villains and getting accidentally hit on my fingers when his heroes' attack the villains. I always end up doing different voices for each one. My fave are for Bane and Joker though, cuz he gets such a kick out of it.

I'm 31 and a kid at heart.

Plus I have 2 sons who want me to play with then from time to time.

I can't say I crack out the old collection and go to town with them, but I do enjoy trying out different poses and displays (especially with the NECA TMNTs).

I've also got a one year old son, and two nieces and a nephew, and more often than not I'm down on the floor playing with whatever they've got out with them.

The last time I really played with toys was one day in 6th grade and man was it an epic fight with my TMNT figures and all the others, the battle to end them all and it fit nicely that it was the last time I ever played with them. I didn't even plan it like that, well I had had many battles to end them all before but at least my last time playing wasn't a dull adventure.

I wish I could play with toys now but I can't the magic and imagination is gone. Now with that said when I buy a figure I do "play" with it and put it in different poses and have him fight imaginary foes for a minute but I don't know I don't consider that playing with toys really.

Somewhere I am indeed still a child. But I'm glad that I've gotten otherwise interests and needs. Today I play guitar, recreate vintage sounds with effect pedals. But still collecting figures ! Oh yes !

I love collecting and posing my figures. Not really any combat action playing or anything. Merely just posing them.

I must say that I love having a toy under the old Holiday tree. I know I'm an adult, but the child in me loves the notion of having a figure to open on Christmas day lolol.

If people play with their toys, I see no problem with it.

i didn't answer the poll cause i don't know how to accurately answer this. part of the reason i collect is i want to be able to share my collection and the TMNT experience with my kids(whenever i have them haha). so when i have kids and they are old enough i will play with my toys with them.
also i play toys with my little cousins and my friends kids. but i don't play by myself with my toys. so ya i'm both adult answers i guess haha

I'll play with my kids with their toys, but my figs are mostly on display. However when my kids want to play with my stuff I'll let them b/c they are careful. It is fun to watch them have fun and ask questions about figures they have never seen. One of my favorites was they were playing with my G1 Soundwave and I had to explained what a cassette deck was and how it worked. They loved that a big robot could carry small robots in his chest, which is the same reason I love SW.

27 Years old here, with work and just being busy with life in general, I no longer play with my toys. They're just specifically there for display and I may change their poses and what not, but long gone are the days when I went pew pew with my toys. I have some with me at work and I occasionally mess with them though if that counts.

Nah. I don't really ever play with them, not since I was 14 years old or so. I love action figures, I mostly like looking at them and picking them up looking at the sculpt and just moving the limbs.

I'll fiddle with figures while watching TV, but I won't start bashing them together and make sound effects with them.

I have a few transformers collection and I regularly transform them and pose and display them, my wife (and I think everyone else around me) think that it's "playing". That's also how I bond with my 2 year old kid, he now loves tmnt and just recently he requested for a shellraiser. I play with him and when he's asleep I put the turtles in cool action poses. :D

I dig my old turtles out and play around with them once in a while. :)

Im 29. The only toys I still play with are LEGOs cause I can make whatever I want and make up whatever scenarios and characters I want. Plus if they break they're easily fixed.

Other stuff like figures or vehicles no. I just display those. Some stuff is collection material anyway. I don't see why someone would play with the Classic line...unless they bought doubles.

I still cuddle with a Rouge plushie, and make it say "meow".

I'm 23 and I don't play with toys anymore. Although, I still did once in a while when I was 18-19.

Then again, whenever I happen to buy toys these days, I tend not to open the packages/boxes they come in.

I'm 23 and I play with them still. I tend to buy loose figures for that reason, since they're cheap -- not a fan of paying over 40 dollars for a chunk of plastic that I'm going to rip from the box immediately.

But my definition of "play" is a bit goofy, anyway. I like to place my figures in weird locations in the house or take silly pictures with them.

I don't see the problem with playing with Toys. Never have.

Even though I don't do it very often, I will occasionally grab the first toy I see on my shelf and start messing around with it:D

Is the lair good?

I pose my figures throughout the week. I personally dont consider it playing with them but imagine most people outside of this hobby would.

Thought I answered this before...oh well.

The ones I collect, no. They kind of just chill on the shelves. Although, I will put the NECA turtles in different poses once a month.

Now, my son's toys? Oh yeah. We play. Last night we had a battle royal with all of his wrestlers, until he decided to bring Superman into the mix and knock them all out :lol:

I play with mine. :D

I'm 30 and play with toys....

....with my 2 year old.

Yea, excuses!