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I can relate to this a great deal. When I was a kid and Marvel introduced The Beyonder, I kept reading this word "omnipotent" over and over again. I finally looked it up in the dictionary and understood, it really blew my mind that the Beyonder was "omnipotent"....it was so beyond anything I understood at that time. Examples like this bring me back to how toys shaped my view of the world, opened it up more specifically.

I try to encourage toy playing with my girls to foster the same qualities; imagination, curiousity, engagement in a larger world, etc. Even though I know they won't necessarily carry on my collection (that would be a bit weird I admit) I know I will have done my part in expanding their minds in the way I did back in the day.