Writer's Block: Toys In The Attic

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I don't believe I had a favorite toy. I preferred to read books and comics starting when I was 2. Any toy I had is currently up in the attic in the garage. Given the heat up there over the decades, everything has likely melted.

Due to my penchant for removing heads or removing their limbs and switching them around, we stuck with 99 Cent Store doll knock-offs, rather than Barbie dolls, the rare times I wanted something like that.

And on a fannish note for anyone that hasn't heard about it: Each morning, a special song is picked by the families of the astronauts on Space Shuttle Discovery, for them to wake up to. This time, for the final mission, instead of playing a song—William Shatner spoke to the crew as Captain Kirk.

He said this: “These have been the voyages of the space shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission: to seek out new science, to build new outposts, to bring nations together in the final frontier, to boldly go and do what no spacecraft has done before.” I love that he did that. And here is the footage of this taking place.

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My parents refused, stone cold refused to buy us barbies on philosohical grounds. But we usually got money for christmas or birthdays from our relatives and would layby them with that and our $1 a week of pocket money. (And Australian barbies were usually $40 or $50 in the '90's).

The end result of that was that we treasured those dolls, like the lego set we each had. We never lost a single piece of their accessories, damaged their clothes or hair... We were probably unusual in that. :)

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I was odd, in that I just liked to put the male heads on the female bodies, and vice versa. Or do that with one arm and one leg, so they looked like a Dr. Frankenstein experiment gone wrong. Or leave them without a head, and pretend they had been sent to the guillotine.

In the one toy store I went to, I remember seeing Barbie dolls for sale around $65-$70 in the late 80's. It was the cheapest I ever saw. Which is why we went to the 99 Cent Store.