what’s the best toy ever hi I’m Jonathan from Gilbert Arizona let’s talk about that good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by the rhettandlink community a place to join and create and share and connect lots of amazing things are being created over there we have a lot of renderings of spaghetti fingers and butter hands thank you people for featuring those they’re the community an adrenaline calm down have fun so we’re tackling the weightiest of Witte issues what is the best toy ever thank you for commenting and letting your voice be heard people I’ve written down some of your voices here in text forms convenient so first I’m going to talk about would you transcribe voicemails no I just I just copied and pasted from an email comments that was sent to me that had comments in it Oh gotcha that actually Jason looked at gotcha we look in comments to them because they’re all special yes they are you’re special don’t think you’re not special proceed nope one person still okay now they just switch they think they’re special all right that group of people that were holding out okay so I’m gonna go through a couple of these toys you don’t even have to look at this just enjoy yourself a couple of toys that people voted for and then we’re gonna we’re gonna reveal what I think we all know to be the best we have the best the west Injil 667 says best toy ever Hot Wheels now can you you ride yourself no Hot Wheels are the little toys right but when I read this that for the first time I thought big wheels yeah and I was like yes big Hot Wheels are the best toy ever because I was thinking big wheel she means magic matchbox our story yes I remember I’m talking that come too crazy yeah please all do that big wheels I’m kind of that’s my second vote big grills ham lover 1:7 says best toy ever is nerf guns you can shoot people legally without any chance of murder I think there’s still a slim chance of murder it has happened my uncle was killed by a nerf gun oh sorry sorry to bring that one up then Jade are six to six says teddy bears you can’t sleep with the Lego at night when you are sick and having bad dreams you could well I’m just not sure if the standard by which we should judge the greatness of toys is whether or not you can sleep yeah that’s a good point yeah that’s uh that’s not where we’re going my first toy ever was a teddy bear though it was first first toy that stuffed animals to me I don’t even consider him a toy yeah just friends so you and because you’ve got different Sarah Lynn said I’m a child of the night so I’d have to say Tickle Me Elmo ha ha I love that stupid doll I’m sure it must have drove my parents crazy : P I think that’s like her sticking out her tongue yeah thanks I’ll read the next yeah girl we want to talk about I don’t know me Elmo no I want to talk about the best toy ever all right I’ll get through these in extra 350 the best toy ever hands-down would be imagination this must be a kid I grew up in not only can you create a toy out of anything using imagination without imagination all of the toys would be useless hmm that gives us something to think about okay kingdon says the best toy ever is a lightsaber until you hit someone they start to cry and it’s taken away and put on top of the refrigerator must have happened this person hmm sir watts gives it it’s a great and final argument in a ball consider how many hours of our youth we spent playing with or coveting balls plus grown-ups including it Jason Slatter come on man were you laughing – no I was just going like you laughing inside grown-ups including some of the best paid grownups on the planet still play with balls this is true many many sports revolve around some sort of ball yeah there’s people who make a living playing toys all right the best toy ever according to the comments as we move along Legos Legos fart away the winner miss we says Legos are the best toys if you don’t count I phones which is a good point first class digital says the best toy ever is Legos because you can create anything’s anything or any any amount of things okay Danny and Jackie’s has Legos because not only is it the possibility of creation endless but they also have a Legoland pretty freakin awesome first of all just before we move on you kind of you out it discovered a couple years ago uh when we went to Legoland with our families yeah which is pretty freakin awesome you caught it Legoland lego land like hell yeah why geo I’ve been trying not to say that because I mean your point that you’re kind of still saying it’s Lego like leg like I have a leg I’m to let it go I think of Legos as a kid and I caught him Legos let me like a lay like LA why go well know what maybe like the Hawaiian necklace of flowers but a lot of here lot is too leg goes it’s not Legos its Legos Jerri Jamal feat leggo my eggo Lego yeah he says everyone is saying Legos but in Australia we call it collectively just Lego Legos or Legos is a brand of pasta sauce actually maybe that’s what everyone’s talking about no it’s not we’re talking well in Australia that’s pasta so you got to call it Lego so everybody says in the comments that’s the best toy ever it spans Ghent the generations yeah as a kid I play with Legos and our kids play with Legos yeah and and it’s inert nor not any less cool than they were they’re not any less engaging that than they were back then they’re more cool and more engaging in yummy now there’s the Lego store there’s the Legoland we didn’t have that we just had womp we didn’t have Walmart we had roses you go to roses or brindle’s even brindle’s and you get the lego thing and now they’ve got all the places just dedicated specifically to Legos kids are spoiled rotten and all the different themes we didn’t have Star Wars Legos like my kids now but you can’t but the great thing about Legos is that anything that exists any property that exists out there in the world whether it be Star Wars or Harry Potter or whatever that people are in love with the franchise if they work out some kind of legal deal all of a sudden there could be a lego representation of that thing so it’s like Legos are so versatile they piggyback on other amazing things that people are into you can’t do that with the Rubik’s Cube in it kind of like the Rubik’s Cube it has this illusion of educational value Oh my son is gonna be an engineer because he’s playing worth away go mm-hmm Bill Cosby all I’ve got I’ve got an engineering degree on it because I used to play oh my go yeah I’m trying to do it hey good hey beauty Rudy wanna come floating levels Monday you can play a doctor that’s pretty good length yeah let’s do that another bit it’s almost if there’s a little Owen Wilson in there to slash I thought Cosby and Owen Wilson oh no can’t continue yeah good Phil can I get then you yes uh I think that not only are they so versatile but you do have this sense that you’re accomplishing something you know I couldn’t you build something say look at this I made this yeah with a slinky for instance which is a popular toy it’s just like you used it for a day and then it got one of those little turns in it kinks and you just like screw this and you got rid of it linkie becomes the king Klee you’re right and then with Rubik’s Cube you’re like I’m not a genius and you just throw it and start using it as something else right and a weapon and then but with Legos anybody can create anything and you can accomplish something and and this is where there’s you know we’ve already established there’s a lot of differences between the two of us but I think the way that we engaged with Legos as kids highlights a major difference I don’t even remember you haven’t Legos exactly I had them but they were just kind of strong around my room and sometimes like people would I never got like the packs and if I was given like an actual set you were hand-me-downs from your brother I would just like take it and create something totally original this is what my kids do like grandparents buy our kids sets the set and they never finish them they like might do like one little bag and then they just all get put together and then lock like starts and he like created a Happy Mother’s Day Lego thing from my wife that was pretty awesome but it was just like completely original it was like 17 different sets when I go when I would go over to your house as a kid you would have like the pristine like spaceships everything was perfectly put together in like display button next to the box like a caddy quarter to the bikes like here’s the box here’s the Lego set and here’s what it looks like he was like a store it was like your house was a lego store but I wouldn’t let you talk to even let me play with them no here’s like no I’ve already done that one no no don’t touch that one I was like he was very good playing spaghetti fingers man yeah you break my stuff and you know with my kids I wanted to make a point to break the cycle because I do recognize it was something wrong with you know just building it and putting on the display toys are made to be played with to be to be touched in and destroyed and rebuilt I never did that so I actually when my kids build a set after they go to sleep at night I go in there and I just male you don’t well I have some that have been up there a while do they know this like on a shelf I’ve taken them down and said oh they don’t need I think the Lego monster comes in there and takes him apart if they forget about it that’s the point I don’t even know it’s there but the bigger sets some sets now you can build three different things so I at least make him take it apart okay you’ve had that one now play wither on do something else with it or and then I’ve got the Big Bend and I never had it had all Allegra’s notes just thrown in there and they supposed to create their own masterpieces yeah but then I destroy once they go to sleep I like that because there’s teaching that because first of all I think there’s a compromise I think that the way that I did it which was you didn’t even build the set I didn’t finish the set so I think kids need the satisfaction of having a plan and a goal in getting through and being able to say I accomplished this but not just to put it up on some shelf and just display it they need they need to take a picture of it whatever to save the memory they need to take it apart and build something original because I need to learn how to create original things at the same time I mean there’s people more extreme than I was as a child I’ve heard of parents super gluing these sets together I tried that you try what with one set about two years ago I told Locke I was like I’m tired of these Legos being all over the place you’ve got so many extra Legos let’s build a set and let’s glue it as we go and I got on like page seven and I did it wrong and you glitter all that totaled the Lego maybe spit on but it’s like working on a car and like breaking something that you can’t fix it’s like I was like oh well let’s just that’s why they don’t give superglued with this set I don’t recommend gluing Legos unless you’re really good no make mistakes well I think that’s funny but I think it’s even more funny that you couldn’t even build a set correct oh yeah I could I couldn’t even do you have an engineering degree just like I don’t have an engineering degree in Legos well point taken okay lesson this episode ah break out your Legos people if you have something sitting on your shop and it’s gathering does go in at night when people are sleeping and just you know break it apart break it apart next week we’re doing something a little bit different we’re gonna be doing a show on location we’ll tell you where we’re gonna be we might even get some of you guys to come out and watch just depends on how some things fall into place but we’re not gonna be asking you to vote on something this week just leave a comment about Legos and then next week we’ll have something very special on Friday 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