I won't lie, when my wife told me that she was pregnant with our first child I immediately went online and bought the Ecto-1 I saw on the Playmobil website. Naturally my wife teased me when she realized what I bought and how much it cost me, "Are you buying this for our child? Or are you buying this for you?" I kept it (with a few other Playmobil Ghostbusters toys) in the closet of the nursery until this past fall when my son began exuding an affinity for cars. As I predicted, he immediately fell in love with it and it became one of his absolute favorite toys. This also led to subsequent trips to Target to buy other versions of the Ecto-1 produced by Hot Wheels. However, none of these held a candle to his coveted Playmobil Ecto-1. This past Christmas, when Santa was debating what to get him for Christmas he happened to come across their latest addition to their Ghostbusters line, the most wicked version of the Ecto-1A I have ever laid eyeson. At the time it had retailed at $49.99 before skyrocketing to the $99.99 price tag resellers are now putting on it. It haunts me honestly....it was right there, within my grasp and I let it slip through my fingers. Alright, so there is probably a modicum of truth to my wife's initial inquiry about the motive behind buying these toys for my kid. Let's be real though, I was born in 1987 so I was a glorified child of the early 90s. If you come from this era, do you remember what our toys looked like? There is a reason we're probably the last imaginative generation because our Ecto-1A looked like this. Hey, I LOVED my plethora of The Real Ghostbusters action figures, vehicles, and accessories but COME ON! Don't EVEN get me started on the authentically scaled toy wrestling rings they make today, and the toy ring my mother bought for me in the early 90s (Note: I apologize for the obnoxious overuse of hyperlinks but I don't want to utilize photos that don't belong to me and step on anyone's toes copyright wise). If you were/are a wrestling fan who grew up when I did, have you seen the Mattel Elite WWE figures they make today? The detail, the accessories, the cool ass title belts they come with...compared to our toys that literally had the ability to lift arms up and back down. Sorry, this little soapbox rant has turned into one VERY directionless rant. The point is...its hard NOT to get excited about buying these toys for my kid. More so, when he falls completely in love with them.
I would love for one day when I can show him the only form of the DeLorean I could get my hands on at his age...
Needless to say, when I spotted one of the Playmobil versions of the iconic 80s time machine out in the wild this past weekend I didn't hesitate to snatch it up. Along with a slimer from Hasbro's nostalgic The Real Ghostbusters toy line and the Wal-Mart exclusive Ghost Trap and PKE Meter. On one hand I am so jealous that my kid gets to grow up in a timeline where the happy meal version of that car isn't the only toy version he can own, then again? I think he enjoys the gusto I have when he wants me to play with him and his toys. Parenthood is literally getting to relive your childhood only a cooler and more refined version where you can share passions, enjoy their own cultivated passions, but still feel like a kid all the same. If this pandemic has done nothing else for me? I'm taking solace and enjoyment out of the tiniest and maybe dumbest of things. I was probably more excited to buy that toy for him than he was about me buying it, but he hasn't stopped playing with it since we went home with it. So, that's pretty rad.
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