She'll make .5 past the toybox....

[daytonward]

As some of you may know, my oldest daughter, all of 5, is a budding Star Wars geek.

Don't worry, she still digs Rapunzel from Tangled and various other Disney characters, but she migrates between those things and stuff that some people might dismiss as "just for boys." To them, I say, "Pffft!" If my kid wants to do the Star Wars thang, I'm not

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[randall120]

This brings back memories of a different sort, though related. When I was a child, I had a couple of uncles(twelve and fourteen years older than me; my mother was the oldest sibling) that always showed up Christmas morning to help with the Santa deliveries.

One year I got a rsce car set, with a 'Vette and a Thunderbird, and they helped me put the track together and they actually spent more time than I did running those cars around that oval than I did.

Didn't get it then, but as my sisters and I grew up with our own families, there was always some game or other when we opened gifts on the Eve to play.

For the kids you know.

[daytonward]

I've been getting sucked into the train sets. We keep taking them apart and finding new ways to connect/interconnect the different sets, and I've bought sets of extra tracks and all that sort of thing. Being aimed at that age group, the tracks are very easy to put together/take apart, and the kids treat it like a big puzzle.

Then we start building tunnels and other stuff out of Legos, and things really start to get crazy....

[pseudohistorian]

I've always been a much bigger fan of Star Trek than Star Wars, but even I have to concede that the latter has the edge on being perceived as more fun and less earnest in terms of marketing and public perception. :/

That extends to toys along with everything else. There's a reason I could find action figures for the latest movie on sale for two bucks...

[daytonward]

Well, that...and the figures sucked. Seriously, those goofy toys from Burger King had better likenesses.