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Yeah, she heard a radio commercial talking about adult toys. How do you explain that to a 6 year old? Warhammer models... So then she's like "my daddy plays with adult toys and leaves them on the table". So... Yeah, better think of another explanation to explain what an adult toy is to a 6 year old lol because they will go right to their grand parents to tell them about your adult toys, your adult toy table, and your adult toy bags full of toys...

I just laughed and rolled with it...we don't listen to the radio as much anymore either now.

When my 6 or 7 year old cousin asked what my Warmachine was I said they were "adult toys". And I mind-facepalmed at myself, because I actually used that word.

ROFL! My 6 year old paints and plays a bit too. Always the "good guys" though aka GK/BA.

With a six year old there is no easy way to out of it. Just hope she doesn't tell her teacher that haha!

You mean your slaneesh army?

Kids aren't they great, some times it hard to keep form laughing. Just hope he never tells anyone about how his daddy gets togather with all his friends and plays with there adult toys.

Well done Kal-El, this has made me chuckle at 6am and set me up nicely for the day.

Call them 'toy soldiers' where she can hear.

Or dollies.

The Auld Grump - daddy's playing with his dolls again....

Noir wrote:
Kids aren't they great, some times it hard to keep form laughing. Just hope he never tells anyone about how his daddy gets togather with all his friends and plays with there adult toys.

Careful! There are children on this website!

 TheAuldGrump wrote:
Call them 'toy soldiers' where she can hear.

Or dollies.

The Auld Grump - daddy's playing with his dolls again....

Ahem. Man dollies dear boy, Man Dollies.

We wouldn't want anyone to think they're not serioz budniz now would we.

My 4yo calls them Toy Soldiers, I'm happy with that as it's entirely accurate.

I had to read that a couple of times before I "got it".

For what it's worth, with a some imagination, ingenuity, and the slightest bit of force, you should be able to make your 'adult toys' work both ways.

At least they didn't call your adult toys, Minatures...

I've got my 2 year old calling my Wargaming Miniatures "Daddy's Toys". There's always room for misinterpretation, but much less so with this phrase.

Plus, it's the truth. I'm not self-deceived enough to try and convince anyone that they aren't simply grown-up toys that happen to require assembly and painting.

That is really quite funny. We don't have radio ads in Aus that I have heard about adult toys, luckily, so I will hopefully never have this problem!

Noir wrote:
Just hope he never tells anyone about how his daddy gets togather with all his friends and plays with there adult toys.

You just need to tactfully explain the difference, so she can tell people what you are actually playing with and then nobody will think either you or her are strange.

Think about it, after a proper explanation, instead she will say to her teacher...

"My Daddy plays with highly detailed miniature figurines. Yes, they are a kind of grown up toy, not anything silly like..... spiky double ended dildos, gimp-masks, ass-less chaps, nipple clamps..... "

This just made my morning. Thanks.

Ahem. Man dollies dear boy, Man Dollies.

WRONG! WAR DOLLIES! That is the ONLY acceptable name ... WAR DOLLIES!

To the OP, that's hilarious and also a prime reason why I do not have kids. By 6 they would already be sooooooo screwed up. lol

Since a thread asking for terms for wargaming, it's been Mandollies from my Missus, and nothing but.

Part of the reason I'll never have the OP's problem. With the pair of us this silly, we'd have no hope bringing a sprog into the world, with any change of being normal.

 mattyrm wrote:
You just need to tactfully explain the difference, so she can tell people what you are actually playing with and then nobody will think either you or her are strange.

Think about it, after a proper explanation, instead she will say to her teacher...

"My Daddy plays with highly detailed miniature figurines. Yes, they are a kind of grown up toy, not anything silly like..... spiky double ended dildos, gimp-masks, ass-less chaps, nipple clamps..... "

*ahem* Dark Eldar. Slaanesh Marines. Chaos Daemons. That is all.

I think "adult toys" would obvious confuse the connotation since that could mean something very raunchy indeed. Maybe "Daddy's/Mommy's hobby toys" would be a bit more clearer on that, and would sound less strange.

10/10 for making me laugh this morning with this.

 Fafnir wrote:
For what it's worth, with a some imagination, ingenuity, and the slightest bit of force, you should be able to make your 'adult toys' work both ways.

Is this a veiled reference to Kaladrax and his Wehrkind Sponginess Factor?

You mean I'm not supposed to put them up... but it felt... I enjoyed... bit spiky sometimes, but... slightly tight fit perhaps... wouldn't recommend CSM.

My toddler is fascinated with my mini's. The first time she saw them she said "OOoo toys!". I corrected her "Daddy/s toys"

Now whenever i paint or model upstairs shes comes and is happy to watch daddy play with :daddy toys"


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A friend of mine is a commission painter. His wife, after getting a new job, was asked by her co-workers what her husband did, to which she replied, "He paints toys."

"Like, toy trains?" they asked.

"No, like, toys for grown-ups," she said.

Her manager went all pale, leaned in, and whispered, "You mean dildos?!"

I've never gotten the "daddy's toys" treatment.

When my kids refer to my minis, they always explain them to others or refer to them as "daddy's monsters."

Then again they've grown up with piles of Ultraman and all his kaiju buddies, so having piles of lizards, skaven, and tyranids lounging around along with all the Hordes monsters I've been painting is a pretty natural extension of Daddy's particular taste in his hobbies.

The hundreds of Gundams though? Those are Daddy's toys. And Daddy doesn't share!

 Jimsolo wrote:
A friend of mine is a commission painter. His wife, after getting a new job, was asked by her co-workers what her husband did, to which she replied, "He paints toys."

"Like, toy trains?" they asked.

"No, like, toys for grown-ups," she said.

Her manager went all pale, leaned in, and whispered, "You mean dildos?!"

I'm sure there are allot of train enthusiasts that would go apoplectic about that, suggesting that their dil...er i mean trains were toys!

Thanks for sharing.

This is hilarious.

Now I know that if I ever do slip up and bring a miniature MrMoustaffa into this world, I will call my models "toy soldiers" and not "adult toys"