Where did you buy your Star Wars action figures? Your Lego sets? Or did you not play with toys as a kid?

As a kid I never bought my toys... My parents sometimes bought them while we were shopping in the toy department of a store like Fred Meyer or Walmart, occasionally other random places like gas stations or movie rental stores, but the general department store is where we'd go when I needed a toy-gift for a friend/relative (unless it was something more specific like some packs of pokemon cards where then I'd go to the card store). Usually I'd only get toys wrapped up on holidays like Birthday/Christmas/Easter and it didn't matter where they came from.

This is true for me too. My parents never took me to a toy shop. They bought what they thought was good and gave it to me. I had a lot of toys.

I never needed to go to one of these stores to know what I wanted, they just happened to be the most convenient place to get them. I now shop at Lego.com for Lego's for me and my children and Amazon for most other things. Avoiding toy stores and advertisement heavy entertainment has given me and my spouse great control over the toys that we introduce to our children and household.

In my day, the Sears X-mas catalog was awesome for that. It was like Amazon in paper form, and I'll always remember the Star Wars or GI Joe figurine scenes nostalgicly.

Man, screw Legos.

It was K'Nex all the way for me.

you can buy the same stuff from Amazon... or Walmart...