First, these are not “toys,” they are action figures, handmade collectables, LEGO, Bionicles, cosplays, fandoms and whatnot, and they all have a special place reserved in our hearts. Second—Pew Pew Pew!, ‘cause grown-ass men and women do indeed make sounds while playing with them. And third, in case you’re wondering, this is attractive and why shouldn’t it be?!
This is how the internet reacted after Twitter user @ABfield mocked grown men for playing with toys: “What’s with the sudden trend of grown men playing with children’s toys? Do these ‘men’ also make space-shippy sounds when playing with them??” The critic also added a #ManChild hashtag, sparking an immediate aversion on Twitter, with people debunking every bit of his flawed argument.
Let’s see the thread right below which will inspire us all to own our hobbies and be totally proud of them!
This guy has mocked grown men who play with children’s toys on Twitter recently
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He also shared this photo from LEGO that was supposed to illustrate his point
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Figurines, stamps, vinyl, butterflies, it’s no secret that many grown-up men catch the collector’s bug while others also play with them. But this geeky stuff so many grown-ups are so into is not only all fun and games since more and more people are making a fortune out of them. In fact, some geeky collectibles the tweet’s author belittled as ‘toys’ that caused a stir online may even bring their owners big bucks at auctions.
Back in April, this year, a rare Pokémon card featuring the ever-popular Charizard sold for $183,812 at auction, Cardhop reported. The sale made history as the highest known price paid for this particular card. And for the critics who were wondering who was the ultimate geek who made the record purchase, we have a surprise—the vintage trading card was bought by the rapper Logic.
The rapper wrote on Instagram about his purchase: “When I was a kid I absolutely loved Pokémon but couldn’t afford the cards. I remember even trying to trade food stamps for theirs and now, as an adult who has saved every penny he has made, being able to enjoy something that I’ve loved since childhood now as a grown man is like buying back a piece of something I could never have, it’s not about the material, it’s about the experience.”
Rare comic books are also incredible collectibles. In fact, a 1938 copy of Action Comics #1 sold in 2014 for a mind-boggling $3.21 million on eBay. In contrast, the copy costed only 10 cents when it was first published.
But people on Twitter were totally not into the criticism and shut the guy down with some very great arguments
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I play with LEGO. Building my own designs.
I make Plastic Models of Tanks and Other military stuff.
I am a historical Re-Enactor. I dress as a Roman soldier and go on events, a living history where we live as Romans and educate people.
I am 43 years old, and for me, it is therapy and fun. My job is stressful as f**k. Anyone having a problem with it can suck it. HMS-Mybuil...00dfd7.jpg 
I just started playing with Lego again. I make some pretty basic stuff but they're my own designs and it's really gratifying when I solve a new engineering problem.
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His hobbies are "watching the news and checking Twitter"?? Oh my days...
Sounds pretty tedious. I, OTOH, have been leaping for joy with new Harry Potter Lego sets!
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How do they even do that? The sound effects are reflexive.
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Even hardcore economists will argue that joy is probably the greatest motivator. Why should people not do what offers joy, and be it that adults run around with ill-built lego starships screaming "pew pew"? Besides, it are creativity, tinkering-prowess and curiosity that advance mankind through invention. These traits are mastered by children yet lost by too many adults. Keeping them by enjoying "children stuff" seems like a very desirable outcome to me.
And finally, keep the "grown men" idiology out. Would it be any different for "grown women", or "half-grown men", or whoever? Do you want to imply children ought to "man up" and swallow the seriosity of life, eradicating joy for it merely weakens? Ridiculous! (I have a sudden urge to get out a box of lego bricks.)
Load More Replies... "I don't really have the time for hobbies" is probably the worst response possible. Unless your life is a struggle to survive – as it unfortunately is for many on our planet – it is merely about priorities. Putting it like the OP makes it sound as if hobbies would be something inferior to the job. Why would they?
But he has time to follow the news and browse social media
Load More Replies... My brother just got back into Warhammer 40k. He is making new friends and it gives him a good outlet from his job and texts me all sorts of stories about and pics of his orks. I do mind when he forgets the concept of "time zones" and sends me ork pics at 3 am, but otherwise it gives us something to chat about.
I just came from having a month off being between jobs. I did the whole house husband thing, school run, cleaning and cooking ect. Once the work was done rather than catch up on Netflix or waste time on the internet I made Mechs and spaceships out of lego for my 7yo. I didn’t buy any sets just used what Lego we had and left it up to my creativity to make something. It was so therapeutic especially since I was coming out of working for a soul sucking corporate with terrible leadership that had completely burnt me out. Sure I would have loved to worked on a car or something like I did when I was young I just don’t have the space or the tools at my disposal to do so right now.
I've been struggling with mental illness for a couple of decades and about five years ago I was referred to occupational therapy. I reluctantly went along - everything is difficult at times - and we were going to be model kit building. I sat for an hour every week gluing my little plastic car, painting it and adding the decals. I found it SO beneficial. Just zoning out and focusing hard on my project was such a relief. I arrived early for every session after that. Eventually, it lost funding which is a terrible shame, I feel really bad for those that would have benefited had it kept running. Anyway, I regularly build plastic models at home now and, as the benefit for me is in the making, I sell the completed ones on ebay for a couple of pounds. It helps pay for the new kits. Looking forward to my Millennium Falcon next! Never too old!
I’m 35 and still play video games. I have stuffed animals I still cuddle with. I also work, pay my bills, and have a baby on the way. He seems like a dull individual. Does he even play with his kids?
The My Little Pony collection is probably one of the most valuable things I own...
That idiot cant even tweet without typos and grammatical errors. Sounds like he should play with a Speak N Spell.
Wait until he discovers that some adults enjoy colouring in! I have more colouring books now than I did as a child.
I mean, my dad paints minis. What's wrong with loving art?
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My partner and I got into Minecraft last year during lockdown. As we don't live together and couldn't meet up, we created our own world and would go on adventures together. We still do it now as it's fun and in creative mode it's like playing with lego.
I'm 49 and I collect neca, Mcfarlane, hasbro, Eaglemoss and De agostini figures and models plus other brands. I don't play, just display. i don't build lego unless it's with my daughter as she likes Lego Harry Potter sets. I do build starships and other craft in the game Space engineers. I don't need to make any sounds whilst playing with the things i've built as they all make their own sounds. This is some of what I built during Lockdown. Everything functions, all the buildings are furnished and all the vehicles can be boarded and flown or driven. I've been through a lot in my life and this stuff helps me cope and gives me joy, so that guy can go and do one. :) 2020071220...7ec696.jpg 
I still get together with other 50+ men and play D&D, Pathfinder, Video games, Board games (Gloomhaven FTW) etc... I have a huge Star Wars collection and I have a fantastic career training technicians how to troubleshoot, overhaul and repair Light Rail Trains.... yup, I get paid to play with trains. I can also do all my own house and car repairs, put a new roof on my house by myself, rewired my home, raised successful and thriving adult children, etc... If giving up all the things that make my life enjoyable is required to "Grow up" then I will die before adulthood.
37 and still having fun building Lego's, gaming , playing with my rc's and building/riding minibikes... Why wouldn't I enjoy things that I loved to do true out my life?
It's not a sudden trend. They just don't hide it anymore because why should they?
It's extremely heartbreaking to know that so many of us have been taught at a very early age. That we are supposed to work out butts of from sun up to sun down. Expected to do nothing but work and stay focused on making money to survive and eat. We are so brainwashed that we work ourselves to death never being able to enjoy other things or life. To think people see it as odd to have fun or somehow find it unusual. It just goes to show you how messed up it all is. Our main focus is working just to survive. Not enjoying all this world has to offer. That we don't truly live and enjoy it. It's just wrong and sad how engrained in us it is to work work work. While the 1% enjoy it all and when we regular folks do find some enjoyments. Our own people think it's absurd.
Not just grown men - 55 year old female here who has 19 Harry Potter Lego sets - 17 completed and working on Diagon Alley right now. And yes I play with them during and after they are done.
This is another, random troll says a thing, INTERNET BLOWS UP.... I think we all need a little more fresh air
Nothing can change my mind-Change my mind! I think it was a LEGO-Ad from the beginning..grüße
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Making and playing with toys and models. Ridiculous. Real men, adult men spend their spare time watching 22 other grown men running around a field in shorts, kicking a bag of air.
If making space-shippy sounds doesn’t bring you joy, I am judging you right now.
I just bought a dinosaur skeleton lego set with my brother a couple weeks ago and it was the most fun I've had in a while haha
I regularly destroy my students' believes of adult life. Yes, I have a gaming PC and use it for games. Yes, I do have a limited edition Chucky in a very prominent place in my living room. Yes, I know what twitch is,I just don't like the people you like. Stuff like that, it blows their minds.
My stressed-out CFO fiancé just finished building his first Star Wars Lego set last night (Boba Fett helmet) and it makes me so happy to see him so excited (plus it means I get to play with Lego as well. Win-win).
First of all, please find something else to put by your picture other than our flag. As a Canadian, this is embarrassing. Model trains. The entire set up can be quite sophisticated. How many dads have gotten close to their child, or children because they share that interest? Lego? It's not just putting the little blocks together to make buildings like when I was a kid. It's also quite sophisticated. It teaches planning.A necessary skill the kids learn while having FUN with their dads.There are so many men who share these interests😱 & you meet people, make friends in this isolated world. Even before covid. I love coloring books. I doubt you've looked at those. There are men who enjoy that. How sophisticated that can get, well. It's actually a form of art. It relieves stress. Helps concentration & it's FUN. You gave up reading (probably serious stuff, )because you have kids? But you can go on Twitter? You read that you know. Try replacing it with a book. A FUN book. It might help you lighten up.
Obviously the only many hobby is watching men play a game that is part catch, part tag, and part Red Rover. I think it was CS Lewis who wrote than when Paul said “when I became an adult, I set aside childish things,” those “childish things” include “worrying that others will judge me for enjoying other childish things.”
I honestly feel bad for him. he sounds bitter like he lost someone he cared for by doing this. I hope he learns its ok to like stuff and pull the stick out of his a**e.
Wonderwaffle93 has a G1 Optimus Prime and it looks in mint condition.
The key to proper adulting: (1) Take care of your responsibilities. After that, (2) do whatever TF you want! As a 56yo woman who plays video games, I'd be a little sus of a man who didn't have toys.
I have many collectible figures, metal bands, film characters, retro stuff like Mr-T and He-Man etc, It's all displayed nicely in my "man-cave" and I love it and it brings me joy to look at it. If I pick up a He-Man figure you think I'm not humming the theme song at the same time, get to f**k.
Hey Pandas, I need your help! Does anyone of you know anything about the picture/painting behind Joe Manganiello? Seems like arabic calligraphy to me but the circles are irritating. I would be happy if someone of you could share some informations. Thank you! By the way, could this all just be a LEGO-ad? And if I won't play sometimes, this whole adulting adultness as an adult would TO-TA-LLY suck!!
This is just outrage porn for the nerdy millennial set. Nobody ON EARTH should care what some random - truly RANDOM - common-as-fûck old guy from Twitter has to say about hobbies. Bored Panda literally zoomed in on one person out of like a billion Twitter users, and highlighted their stupid opinion like it matters. Bored Panda MUST NECESSARILY AGREE WITH HIM or why would they post a random person’s thoughts like this, and allow it a platform? Like that person isn’t a troll. I know we talk about social stuff here a lot but get real. Draw the line somewhere. DUH people have dumb garbage opinions, most people are dumb garbage just like that Twitter guy. He doesn’t run shît and you don’t have to defend yourself against his opinion just like you don’t have to defend yourself against the millions of other instigating trolls out there in real life and online. Get a grip.
I am a grown woman and I like to collect Funko POP Figures, Living Dead Dolls and Bishoujo Horror figures. I also like to play video games :)
They aren't "toys"... they are action figures, scale models, collectable replicas, etc.
How do I say I'm a joyless, fun sucking, asshole without actually saying it?
That is in no way an equivalent to what this feed is talking about guys doing.
Load More Replies... I play with LEGO. Building my own designs.
I make Plastic Models of Tanks and Other military stuff.
I am a historical Re-Enactor. I dress as a Roman soldier and go on events, a living history where we live as Romans and educate people.
I am 43 years old, and for me, it is therapy and fun. My job is stressful as f**k. Anyone having a problem with it can suck it. HMS-Mybuil...00dfd7.jpg
I just started playing with Lego again. I make some pretty basic stuff but they're my own designs and it's really gratifying when I solve a new engineering problem.
Load More Replies... His hobbies are "watching the news and checking Twitter"?? Oh my days...
Sounds pretty tedious. I, OTOH, have been leaping for joy with new Harry Potter Lego sets!
Load More Replies... How do they even do that? The sound effects are reflexive.
Load More Replies... Even hardcore economists will argue that joy is probably the greatest motivator. Why should people not do what offers joy, and be it that adults run around with ill-built lego starships screaming "pew pew"? Besides, it are creativity, tinkering-prowess and curiosity that advance mankind through invention. These traits are mastered by children yet lost by too many adults. Keeping them by enjoying "children stuff" seems like a very desirable outcome to me.
And finally, keep the "grown men" idiology out. Would it be any different for "grown women", or "half-grown men", or whoever? Do you want to imply children ought to "man up" and swallow the seriosity of life, eradicating joy for it merely weakens? Ridiculous! (I have a sudden urge to get out a box of lego bricks.)
Load More Replies... "I don't really have the time for hobbies" is probably the worst response possible. Unless your life is a struggle to survive – as it unfortunately is for many on our planet – it is merely about priorities. Putting it like the OP makes it sound as if hobbies would be something inferior to the job. Why would they?
But he has time to follow the news and browse social media
Load More Replies... My brother just got back into Warhammer 40k. He is making new friends and it gives him a good outlet from his job and texts me all sorts of stories about and pics of his orks. I do mind when he forgets the concept of "time zones" and sends me ork pics at 3 am, but otherwise it gives us something to chat about.
I just came from having a month off being between jobs. I did the whole house husband thing, school run, cleaning and cooking ect. Once the work was done rather than catch up on Netflix or waste time on the internet I made Mechs and spaceships out of lego for my 7yo. I didn’t buy any sets just used what Lego we had and left it up to my creativity to make something. It was so therapeutic especially since I was coming out of working for a soul sucking corporate with terrible leadership that had completely burnt me out. Sure I would have loved to worked on a car or something like I did when I was young I just don’t have the space or the tools at my disposal to do so right now.
I've been struggling with mental illness for a couple of decades and about five years ago I was referred to occupational therapy. I reluctantly went along - everything is difficult at times - and we were going to be model kit building. I sat for an hour every week gluing my little plastic car, painting it and adding the decals. I found it SO beneficial. Just zoning out and focusing hard on my project was such a relief. I arrived early for every session after that. Eventually, it lost funding which is a terrible shame, I feel really bad for those that would have benefited had it kept running. Anyway, I regularly build plastic models at home now and, as the benefit for me is in the making, I sell the completed ones on ebay for a couple of pounds. It helps pay for the new kits. Looking forward to my Millennium Falcon next! Never too old!
I’m 35 and still play video games. I have stuffed animals I still cuddle with. I also work, pay my bills, and have a baby on the way. He seems like a dull individual. Does he even play with his kids?
The My Little Pony collection is probably one of the most valuable things I own...
That idiot cant even tweet without typos and grammatical errors. Sounds like he should play with a Speak N Spell.
Wait until he discovers that some adults enjoy colouring in! I have more colouring books now than I did as a child.
I mean, my dad paints minis. What's wrong with loving art?
Load More Replies... My partner and I got into Minecraft last year during lockdown. As we don't live together and couldn't meet up, we created our own world and would go on adventures together. We still do it now as it's fun and in creative mode it's like playing with lego.
I'm 49 and I collect neca, Mcfarlane, hasbro, Eaglemoss and De agostini figures and models plus other brands. I don't play, just display. i don't build lego unless it's with my daughter as she likes Lego Harry Potter sets. I do build starships and other craft in the game Space engineers. I don't need to make any sounds whilst playing with the things i've built as they all make their own sounds. This is some of what I built during Lockdown. Everything functions, all the buildings are furnished and all the vehicles can be boarded and flown or driven. I've been through a lot in my life and this stuff helps me cope and gives me joy, so that guy can go and do one. :) 2020071220...7ec696.jpg
I still get together with other 50+ men and play D&D, Pathfinder, Video games, Board games (Gloomhaven FTW) etc... I have a huge Star Wars collection and I have a fantastic career training technicians how to troubleshoot, overhaul and repair Light Rail Trains.... yup, I get paid to play with trains. I can also do all my own house and car repairs, put a new roof on my house by myself, rewired my home, raised successful and thriving adult children, etc... If giving up all the things that make my life enjoyable is required to "Grow up" then I will die before adulthood.
37 and still having fun building Lego's, gaming , playing with my rc's and building/riding minibikes... Why wouldn't I enjoy things that I loved to do true out my life?
It's not a sudden trend. They just don't hide it anymore because why should they?
It's extremely heartbreaking to know that so many of us have been taught at a very early age. That we are supposed to work out butts of from sun up to sun down. Expected to do nothing but work and stay focused on making money to survive and eat. We are so brainwashed that we work ourselves to death never being able to enjoy other things or life. To think people see it as odd to have fun or somehow find it unusual. It just goes to show you how messed up it all is. Our main focus is working just to survive. Not enjoying all this world has to offer. That we don't truly live and enjoy it. It's just wrong and sad how engrained in us it is to work work work. While the 1% enjoy it all and when we regular folks do find some enjoyments. Our own people think it's absurd.
Not just grown men - 55 year old female here who has 19 Harry Potter Lego sets - 17 completed and working on Diagon Alley right now. And yes I play with them during and after they are done.
This is another, random troll says a thing, INTERNET BLOWS UP.... I think we all need a little more fresh air
Nothing can change my mind-Change my mind! I think it was a LEGO-Ad from the beginning..grüße
Load More Replies... Making and playing with toys and models. Ridiculous. Real men, adult men spend their spare time watching 22 other grown men running around a field in shorts, kicking a bag of air.
If making space-shippy sounds doesn’t bring you joy, I am judging you right now.
I just bought a dinosaur skeleton lego set with my brother a couple weeks ago and it was the most fun I've had in a while haha
I regularly destroy my students' believes of adult life. Yes, I have a gaming PC and use it for games. Yes, I do have a limited edition Chucky in a very prominent place in my living room. Yes, I know what twitch is,I just don't like the people you like. Stuff like that, it blows their minds.
My stressed-out CFO fiancé just finished building his first Star Wars Lego set last night (Boba Fett helmet) and it makes me so happy to see him so excited (plus it means I get to play with Lego as well. Win-win).
First of all, please find something else to put by your picture other than our flag. As a Canadian, this is embarrassing. Model trains. The entire set up can be quite sophisticated. How many dads have gotten close to their child, or children because they share that interest? Lego? It's not just putting the little blocks together to make buildings like when I was a kid. It's also quite sophisticated. It teaches planning.A necessary skill the kids learn while having FUN with their dads.There are so many men who share these interests😱 & you meet people, make friends in this isolated world. Even before covid. I love coloring books. I doubt you've looked at those. There are men who enjoy that. How sophisticated that can get, well. It's actually a form of art. It relieves stress. Helps concentration & it's FUN. You gave up reading (probably serious stuff, )because you have kids? But you can go on Twitter? You read that you know. Try replacing it with a book. A FUN book. It might help you lighten up.
Obviously the only many hobby is watching men play a game that is part catch, part tag, and part Red Rover. I think it was CS Lewis who wrote than when Paul said “when I became an adult, I set aside childish things,” those “childish things” include “worrying that others will judge me for enjoying other childish things.”
I honestly feel bad for him. he sounds bitter like he lost someone he cared for by doing this. I hope he learns its ok to like stuff and pull the stick out of his a**e.
Wonderwaffle93 has a G1 Optimus Prime and it looks in mint condition.
The key to proper adulting: (1) Take care of your responsibilities. After that, (2) do whatever TF you want! As a 56yo woman who plays video games, I'd be a little sus of a man who didn't have toys.
I have many collectible figures, metal bands, film characters, retro stuff like Mr-T and He-Man etc, It's all displayed nicely in my "man-cave" and I love it and it brings me joy to look at it. If I pick up a He-Man figure you think I'm not humming the theme song at the same time, get to f**k.
Hey Pandas, I need your help! Does anyone of you know anything about the picture/painting behind Joe Manganiello? Seems like arabic calligraphy to me but the circles are irritating. I would be happy if someone of you could share some informations. Thank you! By the way, could this all just be a LEGO-ad? And if I won't play sometimes, this whole adulting adultness as an adult would TO-TA-LLY suck!!
This is just outrage porn for the nerdy millennial set. Nobody ON EARTH should care what some random - truly RANDOM - common-as-fûck old guy from Twitter has to say about hobbies. Bored Panda literally zoomed in on one person out of like a billion Twitter users, and highlighted their stupid opinion like it matters. Bored Panda MUST NECESSARILY AGREE WITH HIM or why would they post a random person’s thoughts like this, and allow it a platform? Like that person isn’t a troll. I know we talk about social stuff here a lot but get real. Draw the line somewhere. DUH people have dumb garbage opinions, most people are dumb garbage just like that Twitter guy. He doesn’t run shît and you don’t have to defend yourself against his opinion just like you don’t have to defend yourself against the millions of other instigating trolls out there in real life and online. Get a grip.
I am a grown woman and I like to collect Funko POP Figures, Living Dead Dolls and Bishoujo Horror figures. I also like to play video games :)
They aren't "toys"... they are action figures, scale models, collectable replicas, etc.
How do I say I'm a joyless, fun sucking, asshole without actually saying it?
That is in no way an equivalent to what this feed is talking about guys doing.
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