Do you still like stuff from your childhood?

freshpopcorn

In the past week Miriam Margolyes who stared in Harry Potter said adult fans should be over it by now and she faced some backlash for it.

Whilst I might enjoy the odd thing from time to time I wouldn't be obsessed with things from my childhood.

Do you still like stuff from your childhood?

Strumms

Margolyes from her appearances on panel shows and as a talking head and ‘personality’ on various other programs is a kind of rent a wind up and a lot really that is conveyed by her is done so quite dramatically and tongue in cheek, she’s a bit of a career ‘wink wink WUM’ just seeking a reaction and of course that lot, they are everywhere nowadays…id take whatever comes out of her mouth with a pinch of salt…

from my childhood I still enjoy..gaming… a lot less inclined these days but as a teen the megadrive was never switched off hardly..still give the PS5 the odd spin…

sports… soccer, cricket I still enjoy as much… or probably more……used to like athletics, swimming and tennis but I dunno, not the same pull these days..the endemic nature of doping is kinda taking the shine away, still enjoy Gaelic football, a good hurling match is enjoyable too..

Reading, I buy books and download them… could go months reading nothing, but then get into something…always procuring and enjoying music..

tom traubert

Yes.

The Muppet Show.

Question asked, question answered 😁.

Mehaffey1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058341216/do-you-still-like-stuff-from-your-childhood

Chief Windup Merchant is that lady's role. I loved the first Harry Potter film which took me into the books and I got ahead of the movies. I was having a hard time at school as an overweight 11 year old boy and the excitement of the escape when the newest Harry Potter book came out is unforgettable to this day 2 decades later. Read it in two days as was the case for every book till the series was finished.

Year or two later I got into road cycling. Work and family commitments mean I don't get out on two wheels that often nowadays. Confident in saying that I'm the only adult that didnt race with me in my adolescence that will tune into the Tour de France or Paris Roubaix. There is certainly nothing wrong with holding onto your obsessions as a child/teen into your later years.

freshpopcorn

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I could watch an episode of Scooby-Doo.

There was one mini movie called Zombie-Island that petrified me as a seven year old.

Mehaffey1

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Scooby Doo is fantastic. I still try and introduce it to the kids in the family along with Tom and Jerry.

Had great success with The Fellowship of the Ring movie with the 5 year olds in the family until the Black Riders turned up 20 minutes into the movie and terrified them haha.

The new Wonka movie is pretty damn good, 4 out of 4 children loved it here and I thought it did Roald Dahl justice.

silliussoddius

Coyote and Road Runner.

whisky_galore

Bit part actress who whinges about not being paid more in cry for attention.

Not into HP but if it makes grown adults who cosplay as schoolchildren happy, let them off.

kowloonkev

I still like a bit of colouring in from time to time.

taxAHcruel

Heh the adult coloring seriously annoys at least one Boards User who springs to mind :) So much so he invented "research" against it but when asked to cite said research he spent many a long post dodging the request in vaious and steadily funnier ways.

As for liking things from childhood - having kids means a good excuse to go back and do things from childhood again with them. Some things I have done this with have been great. Lego and other toys (I sourced some old Starcom toys for them when they were young). Certain TV shows I remember. Games. Movies.

Sometimes though its a disaster. You can have a great memory of something and when you repeat it as an adult its awful and you ruin the memory. So it's quite a lottery.

I still enjoy climbing trees.

I tried getting into rock climbing as a respectable alternative but it's just not the same.

Oscar_Madison

Top Cat - one of the great cartoon series - never gets old

Ash.J.Williams

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New wonka is brilliant

Ash.J.Williams

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She should go back to whackin off homeless people or whatever hilarious anecdote she reveals on every Norton show

SupaCat95

Oh where to begin?

Ullysses 31

Mysterious cities of Gold

Battle Action Force

GI Joe

Reilly Ace of Spies

halkar

Hmm the childhood, our TVs were black and white but our life was colourful. I miss everything

Alonzo Mosley

Yes - Battle of the Planets

No - Radiomulsion

suvigirl

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I love a bit of colouring in!

And actual kids colouring books, none of your adult nonsense. I want to colour tractors and fields and huge butterflies😁

SupaCat95

@Alonzo Mosley I@alonzI can barely remember Battle of the Planets but I remember Mark Tiny and KeyOp.

Last summer had a find. A nicely boxed italian set of DVDs.

gym_imposter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058341216/do-you-still-like-stuff-from-your-childhood

She most likely said that about harry potter as a way of taking a pop at JK Rowling, she's the woke mafia type

gym_imposter

I still like

The Goonies

The Sinbad movies ( granted they were made years before I was born)

Alonzo Mosley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121900396#Comment_121900396

And 7 zark 7

Class !!!

Oscar_Madison

Packs of sweet cigarettes - nothing cooler 😀

Tork

Maybe people should be over Miriam Margoyles by now? She's a professional attention-seeker who's not half as edgy or hilarious as she thinks she is.

Definitely some things I’d still enjoy from when I was a young wan.

SupaCat95

Battle of the planets in Japanese and Italien

z80CPU

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On holidays in a seaside town in the north west of ireland. Me, 9 and my younger sister with my parents.

Well, the weather was 5hyte, incessant rain. All guest house residents either stuck in the lounge or their bedrooms.

And Then....

Shouted in the foyer and up the stairs by the Waitress -

"The MUPPET SHOW is NOW ON in the LOUNGE!!!"

kids come runnin from the bedrooms.

SupaCat95

Now that was family entertainment for everyone. Kids got to see Kermit the frog and Ms Piggy. The adults got to see their favourite film stars and singers.

It was wholesome fun and not dumb stuff like Ant and dec and the Xfactor. That is paraded before us as family viewing.

Times were happier back then.

SupaCat95

Why is she doing it is the question? I know Harry Potter is over but there is a next generation of Fans who would love to see her at conventions. Well there was... Silly bint cut off her own nose to spite her face.

For God sake Dirk Benedict (Face ateam/ Starbuck Battle star Gallactica) and Mr T are still dining out on 40 year old shows. Wasnt Dirk on Podge and Rodge a few years back?

Airfix airplanes and cars, Freeform Lego that I could create stuff with out of my imagination, model cars, planes, Hornby trains that I never got. Anything to do with model making.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121900821#Comment_121900821

I can taste them now and feel the texture as I bite through with my incisors.

SupaCat95

Airfix and Hornby are the one company. Would have love to have had them as toys as a child.

pjohnson

Robbie Coltrane hit the nail on the head imo.

https://youtu.be/pudHrUqy2I0?si=olYkYN-QJ6lIV-g8

Rubberchikken

Comics. I absolutely adored them.

Don't see them much nowadays but if I come across one, joy😁

I suppose magazines are a poor substitute 😉

Never get margolyes. That woman is carrying a lot of emotional baggage. Has to come out somewhere.

laketreeroger

i agree with what she said and don’t think it’s particularly outrageous, I was obsessed with Harry Potter and I now still like it , but the type to have a Harry Potter themed wedding, that’s odd. It’s a free country and all that but people are also entitled think that’s odd. Video games are okay now but I loved them as a child , same with any tv show, movie I loved, still like them but it’s diluted.

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I was given Airfix kits, one visiting in-law relative used always bring them to me, lived even she visited. Had terrific collection at one time.

However my mother said Hornby trains were waaay too expensive. I loved the detail in them. She knew if I got one or two pieces I’d want lots and it would eat away from the tight family budget. I have a relative who has collected Hornby since young, use to send him a few bits at Christmas etc. As an adult he is a serious collector, and can drive vintage trains.

Ger Roe

Many of the Gerry Anderson Sci-Fi productions are still watchable for me :

Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet (original puppet version), Joe 90 and then the live action series UFO and Space 1999 - absolute classics from childhood that bring back happy memories.

Archeron

If sugar puffs were still around in their original incarnation, I'd eat my bodyweight in them every week.

Vote4Squirrels

I’ve just spent two hours chuckling at Scooby Doo!!!

Tork

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Did you happen to be partaking in the same refreshments as the characters in the cartoon?

Vote4Squirrels

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Sadly just beer lol!!!!

castletownman

I still find myself looking at Attitude Era WWE videos on youtube.

Especially when Stone Cold Steve Austin returns to save them from the invasion. Chills.

Poor Uncle Tom

Strange flavour off the dodi these days, but we'll worth the trot out.....

bmc58

A roast potato on a slice of bread with lots of butter and salt before the dinner is ready.

csirl

I still eat fish fingers for dinner somerimes. Handy when you need to make a quick meal. Even my own kids arw starting to grow out of them.

appledrop

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Don't forget about the licorice pipes aswell, I used to adore them!

iamstop

Lego

Technics Lego

Remote Controlled vehicles

Cycling

Pitch n Putt

Older Jackie Chan movies

Terminator 1 and 2

Mint Aero

Nerds, Runts, Dweebs

Crisp sandwiches

Beans on toast

Space Cadet Pinball (Windows) and real pinball

Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat

Doom 2 and Quake 1, 2, and 3.

Railroad Tycoon (There is a free opensource download now)

Command And Conquer (also a free version available)

Grayson

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To be fair, most of those don't count as childish things. Terminator movies came with an 18's cert :)

I think the Doom games did too :)

I think the OP was talking about stuff specifically aimed at kids. I still play loads of computer games. But I don't play games aimed at kids. I might play Call of Duty but I'm not playing Paw Patrol.

I think Lego is the only thing in your list that's for kids but Lego also make kits aimed at adults. My sister bought me Van Gogh's Starry night lego kit. I can't imagine many kids being happy to get that for xmas.

But to get to what the Op said. I was never into Harry Potter. And I never understood adults who were. It always seemed weird queuing for books at midnight. But to each their own. I once went to a midnight launch of a COD game which a lot of people might find weird.

I am trying to get back into stuff that I did as a kid. It's all part of an effort to spend more time away from a screen. So I bought a small lego kit of flowers. I'm currently building a LED light cube from a kit I bought on amazon. I used to to miniature painting for Warhammer games. So I'm going to start painting miniatures again. If anyone has suggestions for other things to try that's they're getting back into, please stick them here.

witchgirl26

I think what she was referring to was possibly the level of obsession some people have with Harry Potter as adults in like having their wedding fully themed or something along those lines. I would find that a bit strange, no matter what it was in regards.

As for childish things I still do - I also love colouring & while I like some of the more intricate stuff aimed at adults, simple pictures are sometimes nicer & more freeing to do as they don't take as much time or effort. I also still make Lego.

Some of my hobbies are probably the same around crafting but maybe just the complexity of the project has increased with age.

Eoinbmw

I'm drawn to lots of things from my youth.

Big collection of graphic novels 2000 ad mainly.

Lego mainly starwars

Retro gaming Sega Nintendo PlayStation

Love watching 80,90s cartoons.

Jesus I need to grow up !

taxAHcruel

I guess people who have such themed wedding can have all kinds of reasons for doing so. Some reasons are weird. Some less so. For example one less weird reason for it is wanting to celebrate who you are, and what made you who you are. And the Harry Potter books were transformative for quite a lot of children. They got more from it than merely a story about magic wands and fantasy battles. It taught them about friendships, acceptance of being an "other", loyalty, and more. The foundations for your personal identity and values today can have all kinds of sources.

I myself was strongly transformed by Frank Herbert's book Dune. I like to acknowledge that in small ways in my life. I also had a Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy themed party for my 42nd birthday. Though slightly delayed because of Covid Times.

But when you really think about it - is a wedding theme around Harry Potter any less (or more) ridiculous than a theme around a bronze aged Zombie who wants you to celebrate him by eating his flesh and drinking his blood? :)

I think Adult Coloring is a great option though. While I took a nostalgic side swipe at a Boards User who was very comically irate about it and saw it as infantalism and arrested adult development and so forth - being more serious it can be an access to mindfulness, flow, relaxation, play and more in adults and can have great benefits. Benefits that are not going to be open to the kind of closed mind that assumes that anything that is predominantly done by children must by definition therefore be childish or immature - or show that your development has been arrested in some way.

Play is a wonderful thing. Even in adults. Because it allows you to experiment and, more importantly perhaps, to fail. Failure is a big part of well being and the creative process and more. And play of all kinds can harness that. Coloring and lego are great examples.