Blogcember: Favourite Childhood Toy

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springheel_jack asked about my favourite childhood toy.

As suggested by my previous post, I don’t actually remember my childhood all that clearly, and much of what I do remember involves other people retelling anecdotes about it. I don’t, for example, remember playing with toys for very long, though it’s entirely possible that I did, and I definitely had quite a lot of them because when I finally moved out of the house, there was a lot to get rid of. I know I wasn’t keen on dolls, and that I was keen on LEGO (back when LEGO was about creativity and building stuff and not Star Wars and gender essentialism).

The one childhood toy I do remember being very attached to was a ratty stuffed elephant that I named, oh-so-creatively, Dumbo. I used it to reenact the scenes where Dumbo was separated, then reunited, with his mother. Interpret away.