Disney Adults

wahooskipper...proud nerd since well before Revenge of the Nerds.

Well, not "well before" since I was only 14 at the time.

Hate to poke the bear...but I will. Is collecting animation art/cells/etc a kids' activity or an adult activity? I love going to the art store at Disney Springs and only spousal guilt has kept me from buying a couple of pieces I've had my eye on for a while now.

Unless those kids have their own trust fund, it's probably not a kid thing.

Tommytheduck:

Side note: I'm secretly happy that the new $999.99 Death Star kit is so stupid.

Fun fact, because I have nothing else to add to this discussion: In my banking days one of the lawyers I worked with had a (large) Lego Death Star in his (large) office. I asked him about it and he said, "Well, when we were meeting with the regulators in 2008 they said to me 'You guys are the Death Star,' and I love Legos, so when I saw this I had to have it."

So if a highly paid bank lawyer negotiating to keep his employer from being liquidated can love Legos, who the heck is anyone else to judge you?

"Lego" or "Lego bricks." The kids of all ages do not permit "Legos" because it's not a word. (The Danish meaning roughly translates to "play well," and you wouldn't "play wells.")

Legos.

Lepin

Ask Lassie what happens when little Timmy played in wells.

(yes, I know...)

Alright, I'm confused. In the cedar flags thread, we are all griping about the park not attracting a wide enough audience. It this thread we are griping about Disney attracting too wide of an audience?

Can someone help me out here....

This goes decades back, but when Cal Ripken broke the record for consecutive baseball games played, I remember seeing a political cartoon whining about how much media attention he was getting for "playing a children's game." And even as a teenager I thought, so anything children do automatically makes it theirs? Professionals get paid millions to play baseball; just because kids can also play some version of it doesn't make it a "children's game." Is the Tour de France a children's race just because kids can ride bikes too?

And that's kinda how I feel when adults get mocked for going to amusement parks without kids, or building Lego sets, or playing video games, or any number of other things mentioned in this thread. I don't agree with the sentiment, but I'll admit it's there if you were to ask a rando on the street what they thought. Kinda like how I might tell someone I do a lot of piano gigs as a side hustle, but depending who I'm talking to, I might leave out that I'm music directing community theatre...

Anyone who mocks community theater lives an impoverished life.

Also, I suspect baseball was not originally a children’s game at all. Certainly it was popular among Civil War soldiers.

Our local old-timey but legit baseball team is the Muffins. They play by the old, original rules- for instance, to throw a runner out they actually throw the ball at him and hit him with it. That sounds a little ouchy for children.

Pointbuzz cross-over post...

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While Cedar Point often gets cited as the birthplace of the forward pass in football with Knute Rockne and Gus Dorias playing on the beach, a lesser-known bit of history is that it is also the birthplace of the "bunt" in the game of baseball. In 1910 The Wabash Mashers were in town to battle the Sandusky Martins (pictured below), with the game held where the RV campground now sits.

As the story goes, it was the bottom of the 3rd inning, and the Sandusky hurlers had kept the bats of the Mashers quiet all day. With the home crowd smelling victory, Thomas "Hoofer" O'Brien of the visiting team stunned the onlookers and his fellow players by simply extending his bat at a hurl, just making contact with the ball causing it to roll gently towards the 3rd base line. With a tug of his mustache Thomas "hoofed" it down the first base line while the confused Martins scrambled towards the ball. O'Brien was thrown out at first by a bootstrap, but a legend was born. Initially teased for not swinging the bat with all his might (and getting thrown out at first), "Hoofer" perfected this maneuver (initially known as the "Tommy Tap") over the years.

His great grandson became famous for other reasons.

Where’s the ‘Lego Adults’ thread?

hambone:

So if a highly paid bank lawyer negotiating to keep his employer from being liquidated can love Legos, who the heck is anyone else to judge you?

Its not often that an interest of a bank attorney is discussed in terms of being normal or acceptable. :) He probably ordered a few of them and wrote them off as deal toys. And had a borrower of the bank pay for them. LOL

I collect Masters of the Universe action figures. And I enjoy a good playground swing. And play video games. And wear Spider-man PJs. Adults can be kids too.

LostKause:

Adults can be kids too

Ew.

I'm holding out my hand. I think you know where the lunch money goes.

Do you have a race car bed?

A race car bed is OK as long as their is no seat belt.

This guy stopped a burglar from taking stuff from his neighbor's house (all while wearing batman PJs). Comics just for kids?