Whenever the issue of gendered toys comes up, I always start to giggle about my own youthful fascination with fishing worms (the rubber kind). They were brightly coloured! They often contained glitter! They had long trailing tails! And they were worms. Squishy worms. *giggling* I spent hours playing with them. The best toys are the ones nobody has created a marketing campaign for. :D
I was a big Lego fan as a kid, though -- we had a bucket or three (including one off-brand "girly" set with purple and pink and white bricks, intended for building 'dream houses'... sounds familiar!), and I mostly used them to build sets for other toys: Ninja turtles, rubber snakes, and once my neighbour's hamster. :D Oh, yes -- and the Lego people and their horses, both of which I liked just fine, despite the lack of distinguishing features. (In fact, I enjoyed that they were interchangeable -- I put white cylinders in place of heads when I wanted ghosts, stuck the little flowers on top of heads when I wanted aliens, and cheerfully mixed heads, torsos, wigs, and legs to make a variety of ad-hoc characters, most of whom were subsequently eaten by the rubber snakes.)
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I was a big Lego fan as a kid, though -- we had a bucket or three (including one off-brand "girly" set with purple and pink and white bricks, intended for building 'dream houses'... sounds familiar!), and I mostly used them to build sets for other toys: Ninja turtles, rubber snakes, and once my neighbour's hamster. :D Oh, yes -- and the Lego people and their horses, both of which I liked just fine, despite the lack of distinguishing features. (In fact, I enjoyed that they were interchangeable -- I put white cylinders in place of heads when I wanted ghosts, stuck the little flowers on top of heads when I wanted aliens, and cheerfully mixed heads, torsos, wigs, and legs to make a variety of ad-hoc characters, most of whom were subsequently eaten by the rubber snakes.)