when does it stop being a toy?
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when does it stop being a toy?
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_25.../anchor/tm.htm if you look at the lower right corner of the pic posted on that thread, it says 'the performer sprint car is a race car, not a toy' ... this got me thinking, when does RC stop becoming toys and becomes something else...?
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RE: when does it stop being a toy?
I think it stops being a toy when you can either make money with it or it serves a practical purpose. If you have a bow and arrow for target practice it is a toy, if you use it to hunt it is a weapon. If you have a car that you drive for pleasure only on Sunday it is a toy, if you use it to go to work it is a vehicle. Our RC models are toys because we play with them.
If you are insecure about your hobby and want to call it a sport and get upset when people call your turbine aircraft a toy, you need to grow a set.
If you are insecure about your hobby and want to call it a sport and get upset when people call your turbine aircraft a toy, you need to grow a set.
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RE: when does it stop being a toy?
yep, a toy is something that you can use without any precautions really, if it requires saftey precautions, and or can hurt someone or yourself then it is not longer a "toy"
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RE: when does it stop being a toy?
YO YO Waterball, Squeeze Toy
Price: $1.29; Ages: 4+
Product Warnings: "Use only as instructed for fun and safe play. Misuse of this product can lead to eye, face or bodily injury."
Price: $1.29; Ages: 4+
Product Warnings: "Use only as instructed for fun and safe play. Misuse of this product can lead to eye, face or bodily injury."
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Basin Bum, great answer!! I like to think of them as toys that keep me young. Would that make them a tool? Or a healthy elixer of life? Or simply something I love, good enuff'??
Philosophical tonight, eh?
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Philosophical tonight, eh?
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RE: when does it stop being a toy?
common guys we are [well a lot of us grown men] that play with toys....but thats ok these toys are heller fun cost a boat load of cash and just too darn cool to give up.....besides just look at the cool toys my little guys gonna have when he older....wish my dad played with toys....ya know
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I just know that this is gonna start World War III, but I think they stop being toys when you actually build them. Not just assemble them. I think there is probably a law against spending that meny hours on a, "TOY".
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RE: when does it stop being a toy?
When you are paid to play with them, and hopefully the amount of the pay covers the cost, then and only then are they not toys. They become tools of your trade.
So long as the operating expense, the maintenance and acquisition cost comes out of your pocket they are, by definition, toys.
Manufacturer's warning labels ("This is not a toy") notwithstanding.
Currently my most expensive flying toy is about $2K, and I'm working on one that will end up around $5K. Others have spent a lot more.
And your Cessna 150 that you fly for pleasure, well, that's a toy also.
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So long as the operating expense, the maintenance and acquisition cost comes out of your pocket they are, by definition, toys.
Manufacturer's warning labels ("This is not a toy") notwithstanding.
Currently my most expensive flying toy is about $2K, and I'm working on one that will end up around $5K. Others have spent a lot more.
And your Cessna 150 that you fly for pleasure, well, that's a toy also.
Bill.
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ORIGINAL: BasinBum
I think it stops being a toy when you can either make money with it or it serves a practical purpose.
I think it stops being a toy when you can either make money with it or it serves a practical purpose.
These discussions always pop up and some very reasonable people will start talking about "public image", "credibility", "potential for injury", "need for acting responsibly". All valid points of view, but I still think I can incorporate those things into a toy.
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RE: when does it stop being a toy?
Quoted straight from the dic.
An amusement; a pastime: thought of the business as a toy.
To amuse oneself idly; trifle: a cat toying with a mouse.
miniature: copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size
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An amusement; a pastime: thought of the business as a toy.
To amuse oneself idly; trifle: a cat toying with a mouse.
miniature: copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size
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RE: when does it stop being a toy?
Whwen you spend $500K on a full IFR/Aerobatic SM-260 just for the pleasure of flying, it's still a toy. Price has no bearing.
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