Kids in toy shops crack me up!

[Zanki]

I find it funny. When I went into the toy store here today, I went straight over to the Power Ranger stuff to see if the Megaforce line had come in. As I did, this woman stepped between me and the toys and wouldn't let me near because her kid was looking at it. I was pretty annoyed, but walked on since it was still Super Samurai. Very strange reaction to a girl wanting to look at toys.

I went to the Lego isle where a kid was complaining to his mum that he didn't want the little Friends sets because it was for girls. Poor little boy, his mum just didn't get it and told him to point out the boys stuff. He just said Friends was for girls, the rest for boys. The kid ended up with a little police set.

I have randomly helped kids find minifigures they wanted. A poor older boy, maybe 12/13, he really wanted one and complained he kept getting cheerleaders and hated them. I had found the figure he wanted already. I told the kid that the pack I had was the one he wanted and gave it to him, his mum asked me how I knew, so I explained it to her. The kid opened it as soon as he bought it and was so happy.

[Laservampire]

I went to the Lego isle where a kid was complaining to his mum that he didn't want the little Friends sets because it was for girls. Poor little boy, his mum just didn't get it and told him to point out the boys stuff. He just said Friends was for girls, the rest for boys. The kid ended up with a little police set.

I saw the opposite of that situation last week.

*young boy (around 10) heads straight for the Friends section and picks up the Pet Salon*

Mum: "honey, those sets are for girls. How about this one?" *Holds up Fire Truck*

Kid: "mum... putting out fires is boring, anyone can do that. These pets need makeovers."

[Artanis I]

Kid: "mum... putting out fires is boring, anyone can do that. These pets need makeovers."

That is hilarious.

I remember being a kid in a toy shop. Ogling all the Lego & Transformers I was never going to have. I knew the stock intimately...

[TheLegoDr]

Yeah, I wonder why everything had to be so black and white. Not all boys like police/fire and not all girls like salons, but why do people have to continue the gender roles. My daughter loves hospitals, salons, castles, and pirates...

As far as kids in a toy aisle, parents do get over protective. It isn't that I don't keep an eye on my kid, but I watch closely enough to prevent something from happening, but enough space to let her have her own freedom.

[jonwil]

With the recent picture of the Series 11 welder and the new mask and welding gear, I forsee yet another variant of the BOC Gas & Gear in your future :)

[burlogh]

Why do parents even take kids to toy shops if they're just going to be pissy the entire time lol.

And why someome who hate children works in a toy shop?! My 4yo little son was banned from local toy shop because he picked LEGO box. Well, it is their loss, I've spreaded the story a bit and none of my friends go to that shop since then. Sweet revenge.

[Capt.JohnPaul]

This thread is hilarious. Here is a transcript of what I heard once:

Boy: Mom! I want this one! (whatever set it was, City or something.)

Mom: Really: You sure you don't want that one? (points to Friends) [ ]

Boy: No, that's a girl toy.

Mom: It's alright. It's fine for boys to play with girl toys and for girls to play with boy toys.

I'm shocked at the hypocrisy. She just tried to be anti-sexist, but just insisted on toys belonging to either boys or girls.

[Tariq j]

What really annoys me is when kids are looking at a set through a cabinet and your trying to look at it as well but you cant move forwards and the kid is just standing there not moving.

Tariq j

[Im a brickmaster.]

Heh, usually kids flee in terror when Im in a aisle! I try to seem inconspicuous 'cause tall teenagers

with long coats make employees nervous for some reason!

[Lordofdragonss]

I love seeing how kids try to "sell" the lego set for their parents.

"Mom, but this set have very unique minifigure, See?" *points at Yoda in the Blue walker set*

"Dad, when you get me this big set I will allow me to help me!"

And all that old grannies that have no idea what Lego to buy for their kids. Their reactions... Oh my:

"...and there is only this car in this set?"

"No miss you can build many diferent stuff from this- that's building set made of bricks"

"Bricks? But that a car not a house..."

"I'm looking for a set *Tries to read a starwars set number name from the sheet of paper* "

"Yes here you are *hands the box of the big spaceship"

Granny looks at the box. "No thank you. I wanted Star wars set not a Space ship set."

[Capt.JohnPaul]

Heh, usually kids flee in terror when Im in a aisle! I try to seem inconspicuous 'cause tall teenagers

with long coats make employees nervous for some reason!

Oh man, you're brave. I don't think I could ever do that and act calm.

@Lordofdragonss- That's classic.

[Legogal]

On another forum, I once made an innocent statement (concerning kids in toy shops) that unintentionally upset some folks, who tried annihilating me online. So I won't repeat what I said here.

But I will say that I did not take my kids in toy stores when they were young, and they did not see TV in our home...to avoid the problem of demanding all the toys they saw in ads. Most children have way too many toys and don't appreciate them. SO why make the problem worse by taking them in the toy store, especially when they already are tired and whiny, and set the stage for them to meltdown in the toy aisles.

It is better and more relaxing to look at a catalog or online listing to discuss toys and see what they like, and then make the decision as a parent as to what you think is the best toy after taking many factors into consideration.

I rarely enter toy stores, and would never go on a weekend. Our LEGO store is about the only place I go now unless I need to buy something else in a store that happens to carry LEGO, like Target where I buy groceries. The amount of plastic junk passed off as "toys" in US stores is enough to gag a horse. Most of it is trashed within a month or so and ends up in our bursting landfills.

[TheLegoDr]

I hear non-FOLs ask about certain sets all the time, my mom included. She will look for sets and come back story handed even though the set may be there. It is good to be an informed consumer, but how much do they really care?

As for kids, I haven't heard anything funny lately, but I haven't been in a toy aisle for a little while.

[The Legonater]

Heh, I've got a few good stories for this thread. The following in particular has become an in-joke among my family and I - a few years ago, I was looking through the LEGO aisle when this kid came buy with his mom, saying "Ooh, I wish I wanted that. Oh, I wish I wanted that! Oh, I really wish I wanted that!"

About a year ago now, I remember seeing a little kid gushing over the Jabaa's Palace set, his mother showing a little concern.

Me: Hey, if that set looks cool now, I know in a couple months they're coming out with a rancor pit set which attaches underneath it.

Mother: Really?

Me: Oh yeah, it's really cool.

Mother: ...*Points kid to the Palace again* Hey, let's talk to Dad about getting this one, okay?

[Im a brickmaster.]

That's hilarious! No way it would work on my dad! Edited June 22, 2013 by Im a brickmaster.

[adotnamedstud]

I felt pretty bad one time, as I was getting a haul from The LEGO Store and this one kid kept following me.

I turn around and his eyes widen as he sees all the LEGO, he grabs his mom as I'm walking away and says "Mom why can't I get what he is getting! All I got was this little Ninjago set!"

I procced to turn around one eyebrow cocked up I look at the mom and she is giving me the stink eye. So I put all the LEGO away and met up with my family elsewhere in the mall.

That is why I order LEGO online now...

Not trying to be mean in anyway but really? Just because what YOUR kid did is making you make me feel gulity and putting all my LEGO back to make your child happy!?

It's hard being a TFOL/AFOL

[MikroMan]

For TFOLs and AFOLs, the phrase ''happy like a kid in a toy store'' usually takes on a whole new level of meaning

[TheLegoDr]

I would have said to the kid, "one day." And I would have bought the sets I wanted anyway. The last time I made a big purchase at the LEGO store, I bought the entire lone ranger line. I don't recall getting any weird looks though.

[Capt.JohnPaul]

I felt pretty bad one time, as I was getting a haul from The LEGO Store and this one kid kept following me.

I turn around and his eyes widen as he sees all the LEGO, he grabs his mom as I'm walking away and says "Mom why can't I get what he is getting! All I got was this little Ninjago set!"

I procced to turn around one eyebrow cocked up I look at the mom and she is giving me the stink eye. So I put all the LEGO away and met up with my family elsewhere in the mall.

That is why I order LEGO online now...

Not trying to be mean in anyway but really? Just because what YOUR kid did is making you make me feel gulity and putting all my LEGO back to make your child happy!?

It's hard being a TFOL/AFOL

I hate that. It's like going to a grocery store and you can't walk in without feeling guilty because everyone's asking if you want to donate some charity or something. Anyways, I'd never feel guilty about buying LEGO. I would've just bought it anyways. Putting them away wouldn't make the kid be gracious for what he got.

[N-4K0]

It would be like going to a car dealer, e.g. a Mercedes-Benz importer, and buy a brand new C-class AMG because you had just won a lot of money in the Lottery and could afford your dream car, and then getting bad looks from people around you because they wanted that car, but couldn't afford it. Why should you walk away without getting your dream car, just because other people couldn't get the same car?