What's the most pathetic /toy/ related things you did?
When I was a kid I was too poor for action figures so I drawn them on paper and cut out. I used paperclips to make points of articulation
haha so you're saying the whole of >>>/po/ are pathetic losers?
More /tg/ than /toy/, but my parents would never buy me YuGiOh cards, I guess they thought it was a flavor of the month that I would grow out of (they were mostly right) but to compensate for not having the cards, I drew pictures of the monsters on paper so I could pretend I had them.
>>5310811
When I was a kid I bought YuGiOh shit all the time. I had the cards, one of the duel disk toys, and I watched the TV show every Saturday morning.
One day about 6 months into my collection I was at a flea market and I saw some rares that some guy was selling. I tried to convince my parents to pick me up some of them and they got to talking with the seller. He showed them the cards and pointed out the stars on each one (pic related). He actually managed to convince my parents that they were pentagrams and the game was a metaphor for summoning demons, and that the whole thing was demonic. After that I wasn't allowed to watch the TV show, all my cards were taken away (which pissed me off cause I had one of Exodia's limbs and one of the God Cards) and thrown out, and my duel disk was given away at a yard sale.
A few months after that I got into Pokemon, but even though it was petty and ultimately had no effect on my life, there's still a hint of disdain left in me for my parent's actions.
>>5310824
Damn, that's awful, sorry Anon. Why the fuck would someone do that? I mean, he's clearly trying to sell them, why would he try to turn parents away from buying them?
>>5310824
>Protestants
Sorry for that, anon.
At one point we were very poor. We couldn't afford anything other than the barest necessities, and even then we had to go to agencies for food and financial help.
One day at the food bank we got some toiletry supplies, and one item was a Spider-Man shampoo, where the bottle was a molded Spider-Man figurine.
I used to play with it and pretend it was a figure.
Things got much better of course, but I still have that old beat up bottle as a reminder of all the fun I had with it.
>>5310824
So...The guy basically talked himself out of a sale?
What a fucking moron.
"I'll sell ya these, but first, did you know they were Satanic? Wait. Where are you going? Come back. Stupid people don't want to pay my asking price."
>>5310824
Wait, wtf!? Lol!
>>5310787
I was not poor but I liked to make paper ''action figures'', mostly because I could make them loose limbs in fights and get new ''robotic''ones.
>>5310811
I also drew some Yu-Gi-Oh cards when I was a kid. The cartoon started airing a couple of months before the first decks showed up in my country. Used to play it with my friends at lunch break and all. Also, the rich kid of my class gave me 10 bucks to make him a deck.
>>5310787
We were too poor to buy ghostbusters toys. And we wanted haunted humans.
What I and my siblings did was to draw characters on cardboard and cut them up. By folding the head and arms, we could turn the human characters into monsters. Not really pathetic since it did help develop creativity. We learned to create our own toys from scratch.
>>5310871
>By folding the head and arms, we could turn the human characters into monsters
Thats actually cool
>>5310787
Any toy from a cereal box ofc
>>5310787
I did the same. I also made toys from clay.
I liked to draw faces on pencil top erasers and act out grand epics with them.
>>5310787
I didn't do this with action figures, but I did used to make my own board games out of cardboard.
>>5310787
Me too and eventually used Papier-mâché.
>>5310824
Now, you can get this.
When me and my neighbor were in elementary school we would "customize" our figures with Sharpies ("black repaints", random touch ups, red-eyed "evil" versions of some characters). Needless to say, they looked awful.
>>5311064
>scalpwiz
I'll pass
I used to make toys out of scraps of old shirts and other fabrics when I wanted a new toy and my parents couldn't buy me one
I had a ton of hacky sacks and stuffed super hero figures
>>5311123
I still have a toy that I actually took push-pins and dragged them across his chest so they looked like animal claw wounds.
As a kid I played with toys that were... out of scale with each other. I'm so ashamed...
Me and my friend were really into Zatch Bell when it was on Toonami. So we took index cards, colored the outside, and wrote spells on the inside.
>>5311132
>As a kid I played with toys that were... out of scale with each other
>>5310824
Reminds me when I was a kid I had a full Exodia in my set and I went to a tournament at a little shitty mall. I beat some kid and he got mad and latter stole my deck when I wasn't looking (I know it was him as he didn't even bother to take it out of the deck-box with the stickers I had on it).
I actually tried to confront him about it and he got his dad (who was big, mean looking, muscular and covered in tattoos) to threaten me not to go near his son and called me a "little retarded shit". Just imagine a fully grown adult fucking threatening a little kid over fucking card game.
ANYWAY I tried to tell the tournament organizers but they just told me that I didn't have proof that that was my deck (despite some friends actually backing me up on this).
Looking back I think that they must of been intimidated by the guy too.
As if I remember correctly the little prick got caught red handed pulling the same shit and got banned. I heard that the guy actually got banned from the mall after threatening the store owners that where hosting the thing.
In the end it was kinda a good thing. I ended up dropping the game, selling most my shit and getting out early before the whole thing stopped being a fad.
>>5310811
When me and my brother and cousin were getting really into Pokemon our moms saw how badly we wanted the rare cards so they decided to make some prints of the rare ones and attach them to the front of other cards so we could use them as placeholders. I remember specifically that the fake Zapdos was in my binder and I had to constantly tell kids it was fake because they were always trying to trade for it. I never understood how they could even think it was real since it wasn't even holographic.
My brother and I had a friend who was a bad influence. We would all get our Joes together and dig underground army bases and tunnels into the soil, populate them with GI Joes, and stuff that motherfucker to the brim with fireworks (the kid ALWAYS had tons of fireworks laying around for some reason). Many a Joe died a horrible explosive death.
>>5310787
I did that when characters didn't have figures.
>>5311132
Fucking spoiler that shit next time!
>>5311123
You can find it at Wal-mart.
When I was 13 years old, I had a small collection of Battle Beasts. I ended up displaying them in a toy castle for a while in my room.
But here's the kicker, this display was right by my windowsill. After a few months when I decided to pick up a few of the figures to mess with, I noticed that several of them had what looked like someone lightly hacked at a few of them with an exacto knife. I was not a happy camper when I discovered this. Needless to say, though, it did teach me to -never- leave figures in the sunlight, and how destructive the uv rays can be to figures.
>>5310824
They were just trying to save your soul, anon.
>>5311064
And summon satan? Fuck you, anon.
>>5311123
You can get it at Amazon for 29. The fact that it has the 5 Exodia pieces is great now that Exodia finally has support.
>>5311340
I still do this with my MOTUC
>>5310787
I would take the instructions books from bionicle sets and take to school to read
>>5311132
You must have been one sick fuck of a child.
>>5311579
First time on 4chan?
No matter, have a nice vacation.
>>5310824
>>5310846
I know this pain all too well. Thankfully they've mellowed out a little nowadays but my parents were massive Protestantards when I was a child.
>Wasn't allowed to have Power Rangers, Transformers, etc - anything from Japan, basically they regarded as cheap heathen junk
>Wasn't allowed to look at Chaos Space Marines in Games Workshop stores
>Wasn't allowed to read HP Lovecraft
>Anything with any mention of 'magic' in any context was banned
>Wasn't allowed to see The Mask, the cartoon series thereof or have any of the toys because it had Loki in it
>Wasn't allowed to have Attack Pack because they thought the cars looked like demons
List goes on. Pretty much the only toys they were happy to buy me was Lego, Action Man and old wooden toys that would have been boring in the Victorian era.
>>5312365
Oh, and also:
>Hated me watching the X-Men cartoon because mutants were 'against god'
>Tried to stop me from watching Power Rangers on television because the villain was a witch
>Wasn't allowed to play any of the Final Fantasy games, etc because they had 'magic and demon summoning' in them
>Wasn't allowed to listen to rock or metal music
The list goes on.
Now, as a horribly dysfunctional adult I'm an atheist who spends most of my spare earnings every month on Japanese robot toys, Hot Toys, ThreeA figures of Jesus, King Diamond albums and video games involving magic and demons.
Let my life serve as a terrible example to other parents who would do this to their children.
>>5312371
On the plus side you're making enough money to spend on this shit and still live comfortably, could be worse.
>>5312371
>mutants were against God
Funny, the Nightcrawler episode of the 90s X-Men even had Wolverine praying to God at the end asking for forgiveness for his sins.
>>5312378
Man, your autism is off the charts.
Used to play with Beyblades in class whenever we'd have like a break to fuck around and so whatever.
Teacher made my boys and I stop. Fuckin' bitch, she's the reason we never made it to the fucking world championships!
>>5310964
That's fantastic! Please recreate your adventures and upload them to YouTube for us.
>>5312702
>implying
>>5312701
>Protestant parents
>Listenining to reason and facts
>>5310810
I forgot that board even existed
>>5310787
I could never find the constructicons as a kid, so I tried stacking vehicles on top of each other to make my own. It only kinda sorta barely worked when he was up against a wall.
I was not happy.
>>5313063
>>implying
Naw. Pretty much stating fact.
>>5310787
I did that too
I drew a bunch of them and made up stories with my sibilings. Don't think it was pathetic, we were having our fun.
Anyway the only thing that comes to mind is
pretending I was buying a Bayblade for my little brother when in reality I was buying it for myself (pretty fucking stupid on my part because I look/ed like a kid anyway, was just starting middle school, but at that point I was "supposed" to grow out of toys).
When I was younger my friends and I didn't know how to play the Pokemon card game, so instead we would throw the cards on the table and then whoever we were versing would throw their card on top of the first, and so on, thus making a pile, all while making explosion sound effects. It often led to us arguing who's card was who's when it was time to clean up, but we eventually started putting our initials on them.
I got given a bunch of transformers from my Best friends Autistic step bro, basically his mom made him get rid of them....they were all the ones he had left from growing up + leader prime from the second movie. Took it apart because it was fucking dumb. Wish I didn't, the truck was nice.
I was playing too rough with my older brother's Metroplex with broke right at the waist. To be fair, it was a design flaw which from what I heard the reissue fixed.
>>5310787
I used to have mad autisim fits, if anyone played eith both hotwheels and matchbox toyys at the same time, little did i know they were from the same company!
>>5310787
holy shit OP, are you me? I was inspired by that Major Glory episode! I also had scrap wood then paint them thinking those were sci fi cars and mach 5 but eventually I cut my nails. I was 8
>>5311132
the horror man...
My parents bought me a set of mega bloks as a kid. I mixed them with my Lego and to this day have never bothered to remove them.
>>5310787
I would actually do that a lot, too. It was once a "oh, that kid's sad" kind of thing until I upgraded it from "sad action figures" to "cool papercraft" and by middleschool the stuff I could do with paper would impress my classmates. I remember once finding a pattern to make chaos emeralds and someone paid me 5 bucks to make all 7 and draw a sonic character for him. It was kind of nice being validated.
>>5313494
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
>>5311132
I did that on purpose. Giant monsters versus tiny heroes, it was awesome.
>>5310824
Shit I know a guy that exchanged his Exodia for a gamecube game to his friend who had a pretty good deck.
The the christian mother of his friend burned all of his cards because they were "from el Diablo"
>>5313555
>little did i know they were from the same company!
WHAT
>>5313474
I did that recently because I was impatient while waiting for my Combiners War Devastator in the mail...
>>5313253
>some threads are over a year old
damn
>>5311553
kek
>>5313576
>holy shit OP, are you me? I was inspired by that Major Glory episode!
Me too, such a great episode. Also I made Paper Bag Max from Sam and Max
Most of the things kids did in this thread were awesome and creative, not cringe worthy. Don't be so hard on yourselves!
I was also too poor for actual toys a lot of the time, unless they came from Goodwill or a yard sale. Highlights include:
>drawing faces on spoons and making clothes for them out of napkins
>crappy OC DONUT STEEL!!11! plushes made out of fabric scraps once I turned 10 and learned what anime was
>paper "action figures"
>little jointed dolls I made out of clay, I tried to give them all different gimmicks, like one was made from glow-in-the-dark clay and I gave another a hollow head so it would stand up underwater
>any of my toys that were broken, somehow it became part of my "story" for that toy, like a Barbie with a head that liked to fall off became a zombie that had been killed by her obsessive ex-husband, etc. (I was a strange child.)
>Anything and everything was anthropomorphized, like rocks or seashells or leaves, whatever...I'd play with them and act out these intricate little dramas
>>5314252
One the one hand, that's super creative and you should be proud of yourself for not needing a manufacturer to put the spark of humanity into what you do.
On the other hand, based on what you've written you would have almost certainly been viewed as a witch and killed in basically almost any other era of western civilization.
>>5313505
>versing
oh fuck you anon
>>5310787
That's not pathetic though.
I used to build shit all the time with only 1 set of lego that I owned.
Eventually I got more but the more I got the less I played with it because for some reason the less you have the more you build.
>>5311142
Shit senpai I did the same with binders
>>5311184
That was nice of them
>>5310787
Holy fuck i would do the same, but i would model them and detail them after world war 2 countries, mostly Germany.
i remember my mom never wanting to buy me toys. i would always take stuff from my dads, because they were divorced, and bringing it to her house. but i never had toy guns, like nerf or whatever, so i just broke sticks and used them instead. saved on toy darts thats for sure.
A friend who had very strict religious parents got a powermaster optimus.
One time as I was taking it out of the styro case, the fucking trailer peg broke. I returned it and acted like nothing happened. We then went out to another kid's house and the kid showed us his older brother's porn mags. When we got back to my friend's house, he got powermaster optimus and saw the broken trailer peg. He was convinced that Jesus broke it because we looked at a dirty magazine. Did not tell him the truth.
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>>5310787
I had toys, but I also made my own with paper. I used paper fasteners for the joints, though.
>>5312365
>attack pack
that was my jam, back in the day
I used to play with my sister with Digimon adventures figures made out of papper, then we made monsters out of clay. Now adays, I think I appreciate figures a lot, I go to flea markets and buy brocken figures or incomplete, I customize them and give them a home, I mostly do that with transformers.
>>5310787
I hit puberty early. I put a lego spear in my urethra. It felt good...but I never cleaned it and threw it back in my lego box.
The thought of inside out dick germs in my old lego boxes in my attic scares me.
>>5313555
When the Pokemon vs Digimon debates happened in school I chose teh side of Digimon and destroyed literally all of my Pokemon toys. I have so much regret. Those guys are hard to find now (or maybe I didn't look much) and the new toys don't have that shading that emulates the old Ken Sugimori watercolours which was the best part about the official art.
Because I have legit autism I disassembled literally all of my transformers because it was interesting but I never put them back together.
I used to draw anime faces on my erasers.
My eraser was a block. A character. I had 20 erasers in a huge pencil case. Pencil case was a space ship. I always upgraded. And kept it tidy.
Pen was like drilling for mines and shit
I self inserted a character and did polygamy. I had kids.
Fun thing is that a few others slowly joined shortly after and we came up with this elaborate table top game with the erasers during study hall.
Shit started getting way out of fucking hand but it was the most satisfying play experience ever
>>5313505
>versing
God damn, you're a fucking idiot.
I used to play plush with plastic
>>5310787
Holy shit, I used to do this too. Nintendo characters didn't have good figures, so I basically made my own.
>>5313505
Thanks for making me laugh. This is such a little kid kind of thing to do.
>>5316125
I'll take your dicklegos anon
>>5316444
>TFW copying official art from the Paper Mario guidebook and making literal Paper versions of the characters
>making giant Blooper actually be giant
>>5310787
I made plenty of just single sheet paper/cardboard figures for stuff that wasn't available yet or easily available. Made plenty of mario/link/donkey kong paper figures myself.
Also made foil figures.. but was stupid enough to tape certain sections together so it never reall worked out.
I was too shy to ask for boy toys when I was a kid, so I played Beast Wars with beanie babies and the McDonald's toys.
>>5318228
That reminds me of a stupid thing my aunt did with Beast Wars toys. I spoke about really wanting this one toy as a kid for Christmas or my birthday or something, and she gifted the figure to my younger brother instead, who didn't care about Beast Wars. I was so pissed.
>>5310787
Another poorfag here. Used to make a lot of paper toys as a kid. Specially Transformers and Beast Wars toys. I was creative enought to make them transform by folding certain parts. I still can remember how I did most of them, since they usually didn't last long and I had to remade them.
Would spend hours and hours making them and then playing with them.
>>5310824
religious people are trully the worst
this
>>5323245
Whatever, my father was an near atheistic MD ("maybe something like Supreme Mind exists, but there's no reason to care") and I had lots of the nicest kid books although I didn't see A SINGLE Pokemon/Sailor Moon/etc episode. Now I think how was it even possible?
>>5310787
Anon, I'm not saying this to be rude, but you might legitimately be autistic. My friend's older, autistic brother used to do this, my youngest brother that is diagnosed with asperger's does this, and my other younger brother that was never diagnosed with asperger's does this, but my youngest brother is basically him 2.0, but worse.
>>5323709
>You might be autistic because of a thing a lot of children do, and I know this because I know people who are autistic
I think you might be the one with autism here. That was such a confusing post. You know 2 people with autism who did it as a kid, so only autistic people have done it? That's like seeing autistic kids color, then saying only autistic children color.
>>5323532
Oh, fuck. I remember that thread.
I tried it, too, but the damn thing was too tight to be comfortable.
>>5310787
I stole toys from my friends.
>>5323709
i know 2 autistic kids who are 15 and like to drink chocolate milk. they LOVE chocolate milk. i like chocolate milk, so i must be autistic. my neigbor who is 55 loves chocolate milk. he is also autistic i suppose.
my cousin kinda likes chocolate milk but not as much as strawberry milk, so i guess hes somewhere in the autistic spectrum.
i knew a guy who grew up and now has schizophrenia and when he was little he had a labrador. dont get your kids labradors cause then they will be schizo
>>5324478
I like chocolate milk...and I'm autistic. Holy shit.
>>5324482
oh FUCK!
DO YOU HAVE A LABRADOR?!
>>5324489
No, my family had a poodle.
>>5324502
Every kid I knew with a poddle ended up being gay.
So enjoy sucking cock, I guess.
>>5324478
I don´t like chocolate milk, that mean I'm no longer Autistic, oh wait nvm, I'm still posting in a vietnamese cartoon imageboard, I still have autism.
>>5324303
you know you have to lube it, right?
>>5318228
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>>5310824
Did it bother anyone that the game was called Yu-Gi-Oh and not Duel Monsters?
I think I was 12 when it came out? I loved the idea of playing the same game as the characters from the show, but the name of the game prevented me from pretending I was in their world.
Fun game at the time though, I think, I don't really remember much of it. Is it still played?
>>5329991
Both in real life and online and the video games
>>5310787
Holy shit, I used to do the same thing. Every halloween as a kid I would draw out skeleton bones on a piece of paper. I'd cut them out and staple the joints together to hang them from my window
>>5311123
>talking shit about Toywiz
nigger mcnignog, google that shit up you dumbfag
>>5311584
>posts Tumblrtale
>gets a dude b&
wow, either you or mods are gay today
>>5312371
>I'm a atheist
I traced action figures from ads, cut them and glued them to popsicle sticks
...I even brought them to school
>>5337818
At least something good came out of it.
Surely I'm not the only one. Please tell me I'm not the only one.
I remember trying to make toys of all the bosses from Ocarina of Time. Had a general spider and lizard of Gohma and Dodongo, but when it came time for Bongo Bongo I used Batman's cape for his body, shoved a squishy eye from a quarter machine in the neck hole, and I had the hands from some toy that had broken. It sat on my shelf for a few days before I disassembled it in shame.
>>5310787
>had the old Jazwares Megaman X figures
>wanted an armored X figure so fuckin badly
>>ended up drawing the armor on lined paper and taping it to the figure
Good thing based D-Arts came around.
