The recent advert for a Play Assistant got me thinking: I quite fancy the idea of playing with real toys and stuff. Porsches and Playstations just don't cut it any more

How do the toys given to the kids here differ from elsewhere in the world ? I remember seeing youngsters riding those little horses on wheels that are strictly two dimensional and must be incredibly uncomfortable to ride...

dave

Back in China, a toy is a dirty piece of wood, which looked like a pistol or an auto.
Back in Cambodia, a toy is a piece of unexploded grenade picked up from the field.
Back in Afghanistan, it is a barbie Daniel whose head was disembowelled by a bomb aimed at a military camp, but hit a civilian building.

Here, it is Tyco, Mattel, Lego, Nikkor, Tamiya, Porsches, PS2, Xbox, Wii, handphones, PSP, Toys R Us, Carrerra....

lucky b**tards...we are.


HAT