I love toys.
It's true. I never really grew out of playing with toys... or accumulating them. I'm pretty sure that almost every geek in the world can identify with my condition. We're a bunch of postmodern Peter Pans and if growing up meant that it would be beneath our dignity to collect or play with toys, then we would just refuse to grow up.
"Where does he get those wonderful toys."Except that we did grow up. We just kept our toys. We also replaced them with newer, flashier, more expensive toys. We traded in our toy cars for real cars filled with more toys, like GPS systems, satellite radio, integrated hands-free communication, and docking stations for our iPhones. Some of us have traded in the bicycles of our youth for Harley-Davidson motorcycles (also with lots of onboard gadgets). We buy (or build) the best computers we can find. We graduated from our NES or N64 to a Playstation 3 or an XBox 360. We are suckers for the latest and greatest gadgetry. As soon as we find out about that new game or gadget is being released, we reserve it. We stand in line at midnight to be among the first to own it (or some of us wait until the second or third generation is released and all of the bugs are fixed). I'm not ashamed of this. I revel in it. I love the feeling of having a new toy and the anticipation I feel as I bring it home to set-up, plug in, or slip into my drive tray. Go ahead, admit it. You love it too.
- The Joker, Batman (1989)
