Toys for tots

Posted in Action Figure Chatter

Well with the holiday season coming up it got me thinking I'm a adult (at least in years)who has tens of thousands dollars of toys in his room (heck my mom has already gotten me 1k+ in toys for me for christmas this year) but sadly there is a absurd amount of small children who will wake up to nothing or next to nothing this holiday season.

I know the economy is bad I haven't even finished shopping for my family but I really do want to do something this year rather its pick up a 5$ gi joe or give away one of the hundreds of worthless (to me to the little ones the can mean the world) MIP toys I have lying around my room.

So do any realmers give to toys for tots? Do you plan to start?

Over on the fwoosh a few members were discussing buying up and donating all of stores excess stuff like captain colds and a lot of these ROTF transformers so not only do they get to make a kid happy but also force stores to put out newer waves of toys.

I have shared my thought with a few friends and they said but I won't really be able to buy enough to make a difference so they don't buy anything I replied to them with a story. There was once a massive storm the morning after the storm millions of starfish washed up on the beach a single little girl walked the beach tossing the starfish back into the ocean a old man watched her for a hour and saw she wasn't putting a dent in the number of starfish on the beach. The old man looked at the young girl and asked her "what are you doing you'll never save enough you'll never make a difference" the young girl picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean she looked at the old man and replied "to that one I did".