Dear God, what have I done!!!!@@@
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Dear God, what have I done!!!!@@@
| Sat, 09-23-2006 - 7:28pm |
I was soooo sick and tired of hearing about Star Wars this and Darg thingy that, (be 2 years this December), after I saw how thrilled Liam was with his bionicle McDonalds toy today I had the brilliant idea of getting him a couple of the new Bionicle yokeys.

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ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only cause I have been there. I have to say as Mike gets older and there are more and more obsession worthy things he realizes is out there, the obsession periods get shorter and less intense.
On the Bionicle thing though, let me warn you. They typically come out with a new movie every flipping fall. I can be sureof very challenging behavior and times the entire week before it is released until mike has it in his hot little hands and obsesses insanely for the first few days. (Obsession continues but thankfully the behavior evens back out)
Come to think of it, it is high time for his fall bionicle obsession. Are they NOT releasing a movie this year or has he just not started the countdown yet (mom, Bionicle 5 is out in 16 days). He would definitely know, he reads his lego magazines until they fall apart.
Lego obsession for Mike has always been an underlying theme which comes and goes. When he doesn't have another new movie or game obsession, he goes back to lego but I don't mind that one as much because there is lots of learning and development that can be done with legos.
Renee
So maybe that's Desiree's answer to changing her daughter's obsession: "Just get her a bionicle! Works every time!"
...until you want it to, of course.
Well, I am ROFL as well. You should have listened to Evelyn. Where have you been these past couple of years? Bionicles =death to your sanity. You have no-one to blame but yourself...
And watch out for those flying circle yokimajigims. Peter used to lie in wait for me, and "fire" as I walked out of the kitchen (the little bugger)
-Paula
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Ah, Bionicles.
Good mother, you are.
Regards,
Yoda
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oh man! you have done it now! We live in the Bionicle world-- probably not quite as much as Evelyn's family-- Weston reads the books, makes the figures, fights them, makes up new stories, etc. Warren (15 today) has out grown them, but still will play w/ Weston and Owen. Owen (4 1/2) is starting to get into them as well. sigh.
Betsy
Let me express my deepest sympathy... lol
My ds is 7.5 and also has a bionicle obsession. Oh god, he's been into these things since he was about 4 or 5.. to be honest they were the first toys he really seemed to play with sort of correctly.. he followed the directions himself and put them together..made them fly through the air and fight each other, we were so happy.. little did we know what we were in for!
Actually, Ryan is a huge lego guy in general.. he started with bionicles and then moved to the star wars legos sets, alpha team, spiderman, dino something.. but recently went back to bionicles, because of the new Toa Inika. Like Evelyn, at one time I knew all the Toa names, now there are too many.
Evelyn is also right about the lego website, it is a big marketing thing. It's there to encourage kids to ask their parents to buy stuff. Also, there is a lego club that you can join.. that basically means you get catalogs, comic books, and the Brickmaster magazine. We don't do the movies, but we do the club and the Bionicle books.
The hardest part for me is that Ryan takes these things apart to put them together in a different way (which I don't mind) but there are always spare parts left over. So our house looks like a bionicle graveyard, actually a huge lego graveyard. I've been able to get ds to let me keep the parts in big bins in his room. But some how parts magically appear in the family room, kitchen, in my car, sofa cushions, bathroom, and I return them upstairs to his room as part of my daily exercise regimen. Bionicle parts really hurt when you walk on them barefoot in the dark, ouch.
The other day ds was making a list of Toa/Bionicle stuff he wanted, and he said to me "Mom, I think I'm obsessed with this stuff". I just had to laugh.
Good luck.. Play well!
Kate
Hehehehe...my 9 y/o has never been even remotely interested in them! :-P
Amy
Not weapons....Toa Tools!!!!
And baby they are FLYING!!!!!!
Just so you know what you are getting yourself into. This is thier current project (part star wars legos, part something else) and thier toy shelves. Notice how there is only lego. Nothing else. LOL. There is a box of k'nex on the floor that is too big for the shelves but other than lego, star wars lightsabers and stuff, music and books. That is is.
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This is picked up and organized btw and right this moment. You should see Mike's bureau, desk and floor on any given day. And you can't touch his legos or it is death. The only reason all the toys from this AM made in onto the coffee tablewithout arguement is because our elderly dog got ill and needs to be able to maneuver easily.
Renee
As long as we're sharing, here's a little glimpse of our living room.
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