I put this in my cart Saturday because the ME-262 is an amazing aircraft (world’s 1st operational jet-powered fighter aircraft), but then I put it back because I felt uncomfortable about buying my kid a Nazi toy.

Is that weird?

Just like his dad 38 years before..  he thinks that if he can just turn the crank fast enough the helicopter WILL take off.

*Fisher-Price airport #996, circa 1972

This is a picture from the toy area at one of our local consignment shops.  It just looks like a huge pile of plastic junk..  yuck!

I think I’ll stick with our wooden toys and especially our vintage Fisher-Price toys when they used such beautiful colors and graphics.

The stuffed critters from Blabla got their hands on some real fire power for Christmas..

(my son and his famous train jump)

In cleaning out my office to make it my daughter’s room I was a little embarrassed of how dusty the shelves where I displayed my toy collection was. This one was for my Micronauts and had not been cleaned in 6-7 years..

(yikes)

I was really confused by this at our local playground.

A steering wheel on a train?  I’m not sure the designer of this feature understands how trains work..

Pretty soon I will have to sew pucks on the knees of his jeans so that he can start dragging them in the corners.

This “14N DRINK N WET DOL” stopped me in my tracks the other day.  Part of the “Lots to love babies” (whatever that is) looks like it is going to kill and devour you the second you unstrap it from the box.

I can’t imagine why it was in the clearance bin?

We received this little finger puppet as a gift last year about this time and yesterday I found him at the bottom of the toy chest.  I thought I would get it out and give it to my son to play with.

My wife walked in and said “oh god, I thought I hid that thing?  It looks like a KKK ghost and I can’t even look at it”

Now of course I can’t un-see it.  Oh well, back to the bottom of the toy chest with you..