Greetings, everyone. Merry Christmas
Hope you had a great weekend. I'm coming late to the meeting, but I just wanted to add my two cents. In my town there was this sort of implied rule of thumb that children got presents from el niño Jesús (baby Jesus) up to about age 9. I had some cool toys that I can remember, including a bike and a very realistic machine gun (it glittered in the dark and sounded like a "real" one). One toy (or a series of them to be more precise) that I always wanted, even though I never knew for certain if they existed, was the action figures of my favorite cartoons.
From left to right: Super Magnetrón, El Vengador, Galactico, and El Gladiador
To this group, whose action figures I've never seen anywhere, we'd have to add Mazinger Z, on ethat I actually have seen in many stores, including a hardware store in downtown Cumaná.
I asume these toys wee commercialized in big cities, especially in Japan, but I never bother to find out once the Internet made it possible to do that. Growing up in a small rural town, no cable, only one national TV station, there was little to see. These cartoons were an amazing window to fantasy and science fiction. Since the local stores had a very limmited variety of cheap toys, I used to "build" the ones I fantasized about with playdough.
The only porblem was that our town's high temperatures made it impossible for those home-made action figures to last much. I used to make them, put them in the freezer, take them out to play a bit and when they were about to melt, i'd put them back in the freezer (until mom or dad found them and freaked out).
These things remind me of a cross between PowerRangers and Transformers and I dig their names! Galactico! Who wouldn't want to be called that!
I've not heard of these guys before though, maybe they're specific to your country. I like your ingenuity though, freezing your Play Doh versions so they could be played with longer...Smart.
I think the games and toys we came up with fr our imagination were often the best and had a learning benefit also...You know, exploring creativity.
Thanks for joining in this week.
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