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For all of you who are out there dealing with the guilt of Ack! It's only the third day of the new year and already I've broken all my New Years Resolutions!, this FAILblog is for you, in the hopes that you will be comforted by the fact that you are not alone. Or something.
OK, fine, but toy trains??? How are toy trains a FAIL??? Everybody loves toy trains!
And therein lies the problem: everybody loves toy trains but nobody ever thinks to give them as presents to grrrls.
Every Christmas is going to be a blue Christmas until I get my toy train...
I tried for days to get a good photo of this house for the Blue Christmas collection, but the lights were turned off, or I didn't have the camera with me, or the batteries ran down. So when I did finally get a photo, it was all blurry.
Speaking of blue, and not all that visible:
Who doesn't love snow globes with glittering snow flakes falling softly down on Frosty the Snowman? Except that it's not bright enough to see the darn thing [for once this can't be blamed on my substandard camera] and the glittering "snow flakes" look more like the showers of sparks that came shooting out of my apartment building when they finally turned the electricity two weeks after Hurricane Ivan. Chalk this one up to cool idea but major manufacturer FAIL.
Speaking of Frosty the Snowman, why are he and Santa Claus telling me who to vote for for sheriff? Great, now even our beloved, if sometimes annoying, mythical Christmas figures are shilling for the police state.
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I STILL want a toy train
darn it! They look like so much fun. There must be a whole bunch of us who never got them because we're grrrlz.
Guess it's time to just buy one for my own self, since it seems no one is getting the message.
and legos
i've always loved legos too. and lincoln logs.
N-scale is the way to go
If you want a train and can deal with the small, N-scale are really nice [but not safe in a cat-filled environment].
I don't understand why trains or Legos are 'boys toys', but then, I bought my niece the R2D2 robot back when Star Wars was new, and a train set when she was a bit older. No one told me that they 'weren't appropriate for girls'.
r2d2!
my favorite! and everybody knows that robots are for grrrls. your niece is one lucky kid [or former kid, given how long ago the original star wars came out].
NOTHING is safe in a cat-filled environment.
I love trains!
But N scale is too small.
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There's a paper to be written on the changes in American Society as exhibited in Model Railroader magazines from the 50s, 70s, and 90s onward.
Today, for example, one can actually purchase a model railroad built by a professional. Weird.
making a living building
making a living building model railroads strikes me as a pretty cool idea, actually.
It does...
But it's a huge shift from the 70s, and in some ways is a reflection of the death of manufacturing.