Do your toys “come to life”?

What I mean is that - do you feel that some, or all of your toys give you this unexplained impression that they seem to have “personalities” of their own, as if they are living entities?  Let’s forget what the non-toy collector laymen think for now (non-imaginative people call this state of mind “crazy”). 

When I look at certain toys in my collection, I somehow feel that they could spring to life, even in my presence at times.  Take Zoom the Super Pony on the left for example.  From the moment I removed her from her box packaging, she ‘lept about’ excitedly on my hands and told me she’s a Super Hero Pony, and that she’s out to ’save the world’ from the “Super Villains”, etc. and all that familiar comic book stuff.  

I would ‘play along’ with her and agree, though in my heart I knew there aren’t any “Super Villains” for her to fight with.  I wouldn’t let any of my toys ‘fight’ one another, lest they get damaged and become ‘unsuited’ for my toy collections, LOL!  Anyway at times, I still imagine Zoom going on her adventures to stop the evil “Super Villains” from conquering and enslaving the world with their wicked schemes.  Each and every time, Zoom will be there to stop them, and the cycle goes over and over again.

I do see that several of my fellow bloggers also have such imaginative minds and they take “photo evidence” of their toys engaged in various adventures via photo comic strip style postings on their blogs.  For me, the toy adventures just happen too fast for me to capture any photo or video evidence.  Besides, some of my toys are a bit “shy” and refuse to have their antics posted online.

As a toy collector whose personal living space is often surrounded by your favourite collectible toys, do you feel that your toys are somehow able to bring out the creativity and imaginative parts of your minds to the real world?  Looking at other inanimate objects won’t give you the same inspirations like your toys do.  For instance, a calculator is just a calculator on its own.  But with an action figure next to it, the calculator can ‘tuen into’ a ”doomsday machine” where once your “Super Villain” action figure presses a button, he can literally ‘take over’ the world!

The list of imaginations can go and go.  Why is it that toys have this ability to bring out the imagination of some people (usually these people are already attracted to the toys in the first place)?  Do toys have certain unknown ”powers” in them that allow them to do what they do to our minds?  Or is it because the toys themselves usually represent some fictional characters that we’re familiar with, such that our minds seem to think that the toys can come to life? 

What about you?  What do you think of the above toy observations?  I would love to read your comments here.  Feel free to share them!