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Excellent item,thanks for posting.

Rob
 
Hi Guys,

What a great article! Its fun to see a person like Max Hastings write about a walk down memory lane. I am tempted to post a comment about the kids playing with video as opposed to playing with Toy Soldiers. My son (7) plays with the Toy Soldiers and Star Wars and Transformers figures which I see as a off shoot of Toy Soldiers and isnt allowed to play with Video Games because i want him to use his very vivid imagination so I guess its a matter of parenting and setting the stage properly for the kids. Not that video games are the spawn of the devil or anything because I do play a few once in a while but I think that kids need to read and play with things in the yard like we did so they can develop the ability to imagine and enjoy games they make up verses games they have to follow or they never get to the end of the level...

Dave
 
Good article, but a bit of an open question about the ultimate future of the hobby. -- lancer
 
DMNamiot said:
Hi Guys,

What a great article! Its fun to see a person like Max Hastings write about a walk down memory lane. I am tempted to post a comment about the kids playing with video as opposed to playing with Toy Soldiers. My son (7) plays with the Toy Soldiers and Star Wars and Transformers figures which I see as a off shoot of Toy Soldiers and isnt allowed to play with Video Games because i want him to use his very vivid imagination so I guess its a matter of parenting and setting the stage properly for the kids. Not that video games are the spawn of the devil or anything because I do play a few once in a while but I think that kids need to read and play with things in the yard like we did so they can develop the ability to imagine and enjoy games they make up verses games they have to follow or they never get to the end of the level...

Dave
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lancer said:
Good article, but a bit of an open question about the ultimate future of the hobby. -- lancer
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Dave and Lancer,

The concern for the future of the hobby stems from the assumption that the kids of the digital age will not find collecting military miniatures appealing when they reach adulthood, having not even played with toy soldiers as kids.

Extract:

"There was a pathos about the white-haired old men gathered at Bonhams, cultivating a hobby that has no message for the young, for whom all those tiny figures were originally created.

Maybe schools would today find it less difficult to teach history to children, if their enthusiasm was roused, as was that of so many boys from earliest times until the Seventies, by our playroom arrays of Waterloo Redcoats and Victorian cavalry."

If the age distribution of collectors in this Forum is anything to go by, the hobby may be "safe" for at least the next 30-40 years or so.

What can be done to address the challenge to the hobby beyond this time.... I honestly do not have the answer yet.

Best, Raymond.

:)
 
Just to add to this, just because kids don't play with toy soldiers now doesn't mean they will not collect them in later life. I am prime example I was never interested in toy soldiers as a kid. Now I find them amazing and have learned quite a bit more history on different wars since delving in about 5 years ago.
 
thebritfarmer said:
Just to add to this, just because kids don't play with toy soldiers now doesn't mean they will not collect them in later life. I am prime example I was never interested in toy soldiers as a kid. Now I find them amazing and have learned quite a bit more history on different wars since delving in about 5 years ago.
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Hello Scott,

Thanks very much for your perspective which provides balance to the subject.

As a passionate collector, I am loathe to believe that this fine hobby will ever slowly fade away.

Best, Raymond.

:)
 
This is indeed a great article! Thanks for sharing. Now wrt whether X-gen kids will be interested in this hobby, I don't have the answer but I think like with every hobby, activity, you have to be ready for it. We cannot force any collecting hobby in one's mind and it has to come naturally from a combination of many influencing factors: age/maturity, personnal interest, family, friends, means, etc. As long as manufacturers will produce fine collectible items and there is a core set of worldwide buyers (remember this is now a global economy and the internet helps evangelizing this hobby) I am not too worried!;)
 
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I still have hope for this hobby. Definitely, we will see some turbulent times ahead. Maybe, the influence of video games will wane and people will want to collect real objects again be it trains or soldiers or something else. I personally have no interest in computer games even though, the computer industry is my career. One thing I do read through this forum and elsewhere is that the hobby seems to be spreading out internationally which is a positive. I still believe it will remain an eclectic hobby no matter what happens.
 
Many thanks for posting, excellent artccle.

I sent the link to Mrs Evzone.
 
Excellent article and Hastings knew the questions to ask The set of 23 Australians sold for a low price.
Regards
Brett
PS Redhugh - hope all going well over there.
 
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