How old were you when you stopped playing w/ toys?

[toys2cool]

11 but played a few times from 13-15

[LonnieFisher]

I think I stopped around 12.

[johnmiic]

Collecting comic books and building model kits replaced buying toys for me. So around, 11 or 12 I guess. As the Comic Book industry declined after the bubble burst in the 1990's I wandered into a toy store and bought a Captain America Toy Biz figure and toy collecting built up steam again.

[MIB41]

I would say around 5th or 6th grade I quit playing with them and started just posing them. Never got over that stage.

[Gorn Captain]

If by "playing" you mean "acting out adventures", I'd say 14. Then my best friend left, and I kind of lost my taste for toy adventures, being all by myself.
I never stopped trying out the features, posing them, getting them displayed just right...

But the kid inside me is still very much alive. This may sound really stupid, and it probably is, but a lot of times when I'm going up some stairs in my house, I just cannot resist going into full SAS mode, invisible rifle in hand, and checking all the corners for monsters and zombies that might be lurking there.
Do you think I need to see a doctor about this?

[jds1911a1]

I never stoped playing with my toys. My twin brother and I kept on playing with Star wars, then gijoe and when superpowers hit the shelves watch out but that said at 14 we tried to hide collecting and playing with toys like a junkie hiding an addiction in the 80's. I would sneak into toy aisles or TRU look to make sure no one I knew was nearby etc

Luckily one day when I was 16, in the GIjoe aisle I ran into a kid from down the street who was a couple years older than me and was the coolest kid I knew. Oh no I thought I'm busted. he asked if I was buying a gijoe I stammered and stubmled some lame excuse. turns out he was a joe collector too and openly said oh I'm looking for myself. What a relief - we may have been geeks but we weren't alone
that night he showed us his toy room of vintage 60 's joes it was like a glimpse into heaven (10 years before the timeless collection reissues). it re-iginted my love of 12" joes and made me pull our last remaining vintage joe (lifelike body talker) from the attic and get him repaired.

I then knew it was ok to buy and play with my toys as well as be proud of it. Changed my life for the better

[livnxxxl]

Reading thru this thread kind of reminds me of the Dark Helmet scene in Space Balls.

[PNGwynne]

Stopped?

SC

Yeah, I wen straight from playing to collecting (& then customizing, too!).

[Brue]

I never really stopped, just found new ways to play. Like customizing.

i did put my toys away in eighth grade and denied myself the fun for the next 17 years.


then
i would say the second part Raydeen1's answer is true for me as well

now that i have kids - we play again!


and i think we are all talkin TOYS here -not jet skis, electronics and guns (or whatever big boy toys you like)

[BOTZWANA]

I am 38 years old and have always played with toys. Writing out adventures for my Marvel and DC heroes....Writing down matches for my WWE guys. I would play out MANY times Sentinels killing off the X-men etc. Now with Marvel universe...It is a whole nother dimension for me. I am attractive and a bodybuilder. But man am I NERD underneath it all. I own my Monster Cafe so I am deep into nerd dom. Just in case no one has seen it...Incompatible Browser | Facebook

I am married to a great woman who doesn´t mind at all.

[Goblin19]

I stopped pretty young. Probably around 8 or 9. I know I had no real interest in Returnof the Jedi toys and I would have been 9-10 when they came out.

[bobws]

I was supposed to stop playing with toys?

UH OHHHHHHHH!

[EmergencyIan]

Maybe 13 or 14.

- Ian

[megoscott]

I'd say I gave up toys to play with girls, but there was a sad, long, lonely gap between those two events.

[cjefferys]

Stopped? I mostly went from playing to collecting with no gap in between, but I was definitely well into my teens and I was still playing with them sometimes. Glad to see I wasn't alone.