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| bassman21 wrote: chokeslam wrote: Yes! I totally watched cartoons secretly until I was well into my teens also. I mean this was the era of such shows as Duck Tales, Anamaniacs, Dark Wing Duck and Batman TAS. No way I was going to miss out on that just because someone thought it was "uncool." I watched Ducktales too among others. For me TMNT was a big one. I started watching it in 1989 when they started showing them weekdays. I was already 13 years when most kids were getting away from watching cartoons. I continued to watch it until around 1993. I remember watching a show called James Bond JR after school when I was 15 as well. I was still in middle school (behind 2 years) and I didn't get home until 4:30 pm as middle school had a late start/end time. Because of this I missed most of the afternoon lineup. Come to think of it that might have been the only animated show on at that time. When I was 16 I usually had other things going on after school and only watched cartoons on weekends. Yes, TNMT was the first cartoon I remember having to watch in secret. I think I was about 13 or 14 when it came out. |
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| I think for most of us giving up toys was not something that we wanted to do but something we did because of social pressure. Or in other words it just was not considered cool anymore. I remember my older brother played with toys much later than I did, until he was about 15. He had a good system going, whenever his friends came over he simply told them that the toys were mine and since I was still young enough for toys to be socially acceptable I was ok with that arrangement. it worked out well because about the time I stated feeling the social pressure to give up toys he was truly beginning to lose interest in them. |
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| I think when I was about 15, after that playing with toys just seemed too childish. Another thing that killed it for me was when I was in 8th grade the three geekiest guys in school still played with GI Joes and they even brought the damn things to class with them. That just screamed out "lame" at the top of it's lungs. I think I ended up giving a lot of them to a kid that lived down the street from us before we moved. |
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| DirtyD1979 wrote: I think when I was about 15, after that playing with toys just seemed too childish. Another thing that killed it for me was when I was in 8th grade the three geekiest guys in school still played with GI Joes and they even brought the damn things to class with them. That just screamed out "lame" at the top of it's lungs. I think I ended up giving a lot of them to a kid that lived down the street from us before we moved. Wow! I was never one to conform to the standards of "cool" but even I find that incredibly lame. If you chose to play with toys in your post pubic years more power to ya, but have the decency to do it behind closed doors with the curtains pulled tight. |
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