The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Toy Box & Games Cupboard => Topic started by: Leave a Whisper on April 28, 2019, 07:26:03 AM
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For the most part yes. My daughter and I played when she was younger and most of my little cousins are, for the most part, respectful of my rules.
1) Don't be rough
2) Ask first
3) Do not take any toy without permission
4) Certain toys are off limits i.e grand champions, breyers, customs, more complex transformers.
I have only had one cousin, and I have np saying he's a little turd, because he is such a turd in every way that counts, get banned from my toys.
I let him borrow some rescue bots to play with and he was fine. Later, he snuck into my room, grabbed two of my grand champions and when he saw me, threw them on the floor and ran. I picked up my horses, grabbed him, yelled at him and told him he was not allowed in my room anymore.
Before any of you say I was being too harsh, he had already been banned from playing with my daughter's toys for stealing and breaking them on purpose. As well as one of her boardgames and one of her dvds.
The other kids are fine. They wanna fire up skylanders, or play with my schleich, rescue bots or mlps, yeah. They can do that.
[moving to Toy Box ~ Kiwi]
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It's a hypothetical answer for me but I think I would probably only let kids play with later gen ponies. Though not for reasons of value or whatever. More because I don't know if the plastic degeneration might hurt them. And I have a lot of g3 and g4 ponies around who would like to be played with sometimes :)
I have sold ponies at carboot sales and I love seeing kids buy them.
I think it does depend though on kids treating toys properly. My sister is planning to buy her boyfriend's niece a pony for her birthday this year (she's three) and she's having fun deciding which one to get for her...I think kids should be allowed to enjoy ponies but also taught to take care of their property as it costs someone money and thus needs to be valued. That's an important lesson in itself. I see some really wrecked ponies at sales...I would've probably shaved my head as a kid before I thought of cutting the hair of my ponies, let alone scribbling on them :/
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Aww I'm sure she'll love her first mlp!
And I just realized I put this in the wrong forum. :redface:
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I don't flinch when my kid picks up the takaras so. :shrug:
As long as there's an understanding that some of the older stuff needs to be handled gently it's not a big deal.
None of the ponies are sticky, but I don't give them to her as a hand me down to always play with because I'm concerned about plastic leakage.
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It's a moot point for me (no reason for kids to ever come anywhere near my collections), but hypothetically? No, definitely not.
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I don’t let kids play with my toy collection, I told my friends grandson of when he picked up a custom doll head that was drying and he ruined the face. (Had to throw it away)
I never let him near my ponies because he thought my Shining Armour mini figure was a rubber and he ruined him (need to get another one).
Plus he broke one of my Lego Marvel sets and my fingerlings he held one wrong and it doesn’t move his head now.
I had to hide my fingerlings so that he doesn’t get his hands on them.
Plus he plays with my dog Honey’s toys
He got his blocks here and he should only play with them and not my collections.
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I choose "it depends". There have been kids that were allowed to borrow certain ponies from my collection for their visit but in general, im very reluctant to say I allow kids to play with my ponies.
I sadly have to say, after various negative experieces, one of my house rules is : NOBODY enters my ponyroom without me. Im fed up with others, especially kids, knocking down carefully set up displays, messing hair and accessories, stomping on things and so on. So, nobody is allowed to enter the room alone. Period. My close family may of course ;)
This sounds mean I know, but ... my collection holds things that are VERY important to me, things that are expensive and/or rare or carefully restored and or too delicate to be thrown around or played with. Some things I have searched years or even a decade for. And things with very personal meanings.
When kids come to visit I will always have other toys around that they can play with; toys that are kid safe by current standards and do not come from my collection. I will always have ponies for play <3 and plushies, tehe. And in the basement there are my daughters old toys (shes 15 now and if you ask nicely you may chose from toys like various toy horses, dolls, Barbies, Playmobil, toy cars, Schleich animals, kids books, board games..... ). So I think thats fine :)
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No, but it doesn't always get respected.
My niece and nephew came round the other day. They were looking at all of my toys. They started picking up the small accessories of my Shopkins display. And dropped them and knocked them over... I was dying inside.
Similarly. I used to collect ninja turtles. My nephews used to play with them. I would say "Don't open the shells because there are small accessories."
When I wasn't looking they took them all out and I don't know where they all went. I stopped collecting them.
My nephews still come round and do still sort of touch things. It's a nuisance.
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I hate to sound like an old coot (especially since I’m in my twenties), but... When I was a child, I would NEVER have played with something that didn’t belong to me at a friend’s or relative’s house without asking first. The behavior you guys are describing... is just plain horrifying. :shocked:
Leave a Whisper, did your Grand Champions survive the fall? I’m afraid to ask... T_T
Anyway... I have no kids of my own, but I do have a revolving door of younger relatives. With them, it depends on the individual. Quiet, respectful kid who just wants to hug a plushie or gently play with a pony? Sure. Hyperactive brat with no respect for anyone or anything? Not even coming in my home, lol. :P
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Yes unless it's MIB/MOC/NRFB and then those tiny things I worry about are up out of reach in our bedroom.
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Luckily it's not an issue I have to deal with, but if I had kids or young relatives absolutely No. It's an important lesson to teach kids; respecting others property, no means no, and boundries.
My collection is a collection now, no longer meant to play. And like Nemesis said why are kids nowadays just running around doing whatever they want to others property. I would've never!
With Basic Fun's retro ponies I see no need to give vintage toys to children. If they like the look of old ponies they can have their own.
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I don't have kids but even if I did I would never let them near my collection
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Absolutely not, I have some things that are ok to play with, but collection is out of bounds.
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Don't have kids, but I voted "no", regarding my nieces and nephew who sometimes come over.
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I wouldn't. I'd be nice and have toys they could play with if I knew in advance, but as it is right now, only one child even comes to our house ever (and not my room), and that is my nephew. He's the only child in my family. Not like my MLPs are displayed anywhere easy to find anyway... I've hid that interest for years.
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Depends upon the child.
My ponies are nearly all G1s and the ones on display are in cabinets so they look as if they are 'look but don't touch' in the same way as my collections of vintage china and horse figurines do.
I've got a few ponies in the workshop that they can have fun with as long as that doesn't include damaging them further - but I'm happy to play along to keep up some supervision.
Same as others I'd be more concerned about effects of old plastic on kids - but this is a country household with mud and animals etc hence we have very strict rules about washing hands after playing so that would be discussed with the parents.
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I'm sadly going to be one of those and say, No. I'm not a huge fan of children, I don't have any and honestly don't want one. I've had too many bad experiences where things that I treasured got ruined by children (mainly by my younger siblings and said friends)
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Don't have kids and would never let any play with my collection. There are some in it that I used to play with as a kid myself but they are retired as collection pieces now.
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This is why I keep schleich horses around even though I don't collect them. As far as I know those things could survive the apocalypse.
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Wow, I'm so surprised to read all those comments here.
Obviously, to me there is nothing better in the world than playing MLP again, and yes, with a child. Just staring at them and cleaning them up is just not the same as actually enjoying them in play.
My ex-bf's niece got her first G1 from me when she was barely a year old, a manky Cotton Candy and another, I forgot. Ever since then, she loved playing with me. As she got older, I especially took the PE out of storage when she came over to play with me, we had so much fun together, and she knew how to take care of my ponies. We played with all of them, even my Mountain Boys, and none of them got stained or destroyed. Now she is 13, and I think last December when I was back home was the last time we actually played, I think she is getting too old now. It made me very sad that those times are over.
However, I am having a little one myself in a few months, and I definitely plan on playing MLP together when he or she is old enough, and I honestly can't wait!!! I have waited to play with them again ever since I felt myself too old to play with toys.
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Wow, I'm so surprised to read all those comments here.
Obviously, to me there is nothing better in the world than playing MLP again, and yes, with a child. Just staring at them and cleaning them up is just not the same as actually enjoying them in play.
My ex-bf's niece got her first G1 from me when she was barely a year old, a manky Cotton Candy and another, I forgot. Ever since then, she loved playing with me. As she got older, I especially took the PE out of storage when she came over to play with me, we had so much fun together, and she knew how to take care of my ponies. We played with all of them, even my Mountain Boys, and none of them got stained or destroyed. Now she is 13, and I think last December when I was back home was the last time we actually played, I think she is getting too old now. It made me very sad that those times are over.
However, I am having a little one myself in a few months, and I definitely plan on playing MLP together when he or she is old enough, and I honestly can't wait!!! I have waited to play with them again ever since I felt myself too old to play with toys.
Aww... Those are my feelings exactly (granted that the child in question is as well-behaved as the one you describe!). :) When I was young, my mother would get out her old childhood toys and we’d play with them together (under her supervision; these were toys from the 1960’s!). Those are some of my happiest memories. If I ever have kids of my own, we’re going to have some epic playtimes with my vast toy collection. X3
Other people’s kids are a mixed bag, and I use my discretion to decide who plays with what. And kids who still put things in their mouth... Yeah, they don’t handle anything—for their safety as well as my collection’s.
(And if I may make a confession... I still play with ponies. XD I’m not terribly interested in things that just sit on shelves looking pretty (and giving me more things to dust), lol.
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I picked 'depends on the child'. I don't have any children in my life (I prefer cats :lol:), but, honestly, if I knew some nice not-wildly-destructive children I think I would let them play with my toys. I always had such fun playing with my parents' and grandmother's toys when I was little, I would want another child to experience that :).
I don't think I would bother to show my collection to children that I wasn't going to allow to play. Children don't really understand the idea of keeping toys and not playing with them (I remember I could never understand why you would shut a cuddly Ty beanie in a plastic case) and it's not an easy thing to explain. It seems unfair to say 'here's all these really cool toys....and you can't play with them!' I suppose some children might be happy just to look (again, depends on the child), but I think a lot of them would wonder why you were showing them so much toy goodness then denying them access to it. My grandmother used to say 'lead me not into temptation' i.e. if you don't want a child trying to play with something, don't show it to them! After all, to them it might seem like they are 'rescuing' the MIP pony from being shut away....
(And if I may make a confession... I still play with ponies. XD I’m not terribly interested in things that just sit on shelves looking pretty (and giving me more things to dust), lol.
Same here! Ponies are for playing with! My biggest problem with the idea of children playing with my toys is that they might want to play a different game from what I like to play :lol:.
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(And if I may make a confession... I still play with ponies. XD I’m not terribly interested in things that just sit on shelves looking pretty (and giving me more things to dust), lol.
Same here! Ponies are for playing with! My biggest problem with the idea of children playing with my toys is that they might want to play a different game from what I like to play :lol:.
This is what we’re all feeling, deep down. :haha:
On a related note, I sadly do not let my cats play with my collection at all. ;) They have a bad history of trying to steal my things and hide them, lol.
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Congratulations Honeycomb. :) Wishing you a healthy pregnancy and baby. :hug: :party: :hearts: :green:
To the group in general:
This was meant to be about toys period btw. Plushies, dolls, animal toys, Pokemon, whatever else one may collect.
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To the group in general:
This was meant to be about toys period btw. Plushies, dolls, animal toys, Pokemon, whatever else one may collect.
Ah. I thought for some reason this was in the corral and was pony related.
I'm still quite lax about someone playing with the toys/plushies in my collection. To me -- it isn't the age -- it's about how responsible someone else is.
I think the only thing off limits is the BJDs (only for now, because she isn't able to understand the amount of care they need. ) and the Sailor Moon star locket... (Though she plays with all of the other SM wands/lockets).
My grandmother used to say 'lead me not into temptation' i.e. if you don't want a child trying to play with something, don't show it to them! After all, to them it might seem like they are 'rescuing' the MIP pony from being shut away....
I like this. For the most part my collections are in my room -- in my closet. Generally open when no one is visiting (so I can see them!), and closed when visitors are here (house looks "cleaner" and not cluttered, lol).
But I also have things like a giant bulbasaur on couch, and there's certainly things intermingled in the kids playroom. lol.
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I let my niece and her friends play with my ponies. They were a little rough but it was heartwarming hearing them in another room having adventures. They didn't do anything as bad as I did when I was little.
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Depends on the kid but I cringe inside regardless lol. When my daughter is older, will have to follow some rules about my collection and I have toyed with the idea of placing a lock on the door. That way, no one goes in without my permission.
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i dont have any friends or family nearby with kids, but i think if i did it would be sweet to see a little one playing with some ponies like some of you have described! :-)
i think i'd pre-select a nice group of them thats okay to play with, and leave the more delicate ones at home on their shelves.
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I have no children around who will play with my collections, but it depends? My Unicornos are definitely a no-no, but as long as the ponies aren't being thrown they should be ok? Even outside is fine as dirt will just wash off...
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I put depends on the kids. I have a 4 year old girl, and she got my g4's for play. She PLAYS with her toys. Adventures, fun and exploring. But she has been taught to ask to see my special things I have and to be gentle and is the same way with my friends special items she lets her see. Kids can be taught, just know the kid. As a parent, I know my kid and know what and how to tell her. She is respectful. Other kids, well, it depends on how they are raised.
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When my niece was very small she was fascinated with my ponies. I kept a few spares around for her to play with, and some G3 playsets. We had a saying that was easy for her to remember: pony on the shelf, hands to yourself. Pony on the ground, party on down. If the pony was on a shelf, it was for looking at. If the pony was on the floor, it was there for her to play with.
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Ponies aside, I would probably let responsible kids play with monster high dolls. There are a few perhaps not, that I am a bit protective of, but not most of them. Just I would want them to be responsible since hands come off...
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Nope. When my niece and her friends were younger, I wouldn't even let them in my room. And if I had my own place, it'd be a childfree zone :P
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Yes, with the exceptions of customs one moc (for odvious reasons).
Given the contition I get most of mine in it is safe to say they have being rough much worse than kids playing with them :lol:. Plus at the end of the day they are toys (yes now collectors items) but toys none the less so are their to be enjoyed, I enjoy looking at them and kids enjoy playing with them. Otherwise what is the point of having them if who ever has them is not enjoying them.
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I'd generally say I wouldn't let a kid play with anything I actually collect, that's part of my collection. But I usually have a couple toys around in my trade box that are of the same brand (MLP, Transformers, whatever) and I would let a kid play with those.
Some kids are gentler than others, but even normal, gentle play can result in a toy getting broken. Many a gentle child ended up breaking flutter wings, scratching of Magic Message symbols, snapping off limbs from Transformers, etc. It's not intentional or "bad", but accidents happen. Don't let a kid play with a toy if you aren't okay with that possiblity, it's not fair to the kid.
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I don't have kids and am rarely around kids in general but I wouldn't want them to play with my collection. I try to keep everything in good condition and I don't want scuffs and other signs of damage added to my items. I would just keep a little group of things I don't consider part of my collection for kids to play with if I was around them alot.
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Depends on the kid. My niece is very rough with her toys and I doubt she'd take care of mine any better. But one of my close friends has a cousin who can play with my ponies just fine.
When I do let kids play with my ponies, it's G3 and G4 only, and only the ponies that are in less than okay condition. Most kids don't seem to care about playing with ponies with haircuts or ink stains.
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I wanted to add it also depends a lot on the toy too . . . A plush toy can take a lot of rough treatment compared to, say, a porcelain doll. ;)
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Not my more expensive toys, like the resin ones or Tonner dolls. But I'm ok with all the ones that were marketed to children. I was a kid too, I know how much joy it brings to play with toys.