About
Us?
Who are "we"?
We are the
Playset Addicts. We are grown men (mostly) whose childhoods
were interrupted by adulthood, but somehow made it at least part way
back again.
We are those who
could never quite forget that a boundless world of imagination
really does exist...and that once upon a time we could enter that
world through a box or a bag of plastic figures and
accessories.
We are those who
still taste the residue of that long ago pre-Christmas longing that
would capture our young souls as we turned the pages of the Sears
Wishbook or gazed open mouthed at the glorious array of Demonstrator
Boards displayed on shelves way up high at the local Toy
Store.
We are those
whose earliest experiences of delayed gratification wonderfully
satisfied took place on the floor under a Christmas tree as we tore
open the wrapping on that huge box and found the playset we had been
hoping and praying for at last in our hands.
We are those who
yearned after more playsets than our parents financial resources
could provide us as kids and who somehow, later in life, discovered
that those great old Marx Playsets are still out there, like hidden
treasure to be sought and found.
We are those who
love history and old movies and TV shows in ways that few others do,
because as children, we entered into their storylines and acted on
their stages using our little plastic men.
We are those who
have long mourned the passing of the "Era of the Playsets" only to
wake up in the late 90s to discover a new Golden Age of Playsets
dawning.
We are the
Playset Addicts.
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