Little boys are enamoured with toy castles, it’s no secret. If you’ve ever seen a small boy or a couple of boys together playing with castle toys you’ll see what I mean. They are enthralled with the little toy cannons, mesmerised with the drawbridge, raising it up and lowering it again and again. They love to have things fall from the battlements, little men jumping from the parapets to land on some unsuspecting character or battering ram.
They role-play with the little toy knights and the little kings and queens and other miniature characters. They make the knights do battle with the dragon toys and weave fantastic tales of heroism and sacrifice while they play. It’s amazing to watch them play like this, their imagination is absorbing.
I must admit when I was a boy anything to do with castles or dragons, knights and paladin’s all those sorts of things really grabbed my attention. Thinking about it now it was a very romantic allure, for me I think it was the mystery of that era. Medieval times hold my interest even to this day but it seemed more than that; there was an air of the magical, the lure of something secret, something unknown and desired. Maybe it was the deep, indwelling desire to battle that dragon and win the princess. Who knows?
I am not sure why I felt the way I did but I know if I had of come down the stairs on Christmas morning, my whole family watching me tear open the paper on my very own castle playset, like a Playmobil castle or a Fisher Price castle, I would have been the happiest little boy on earth.
Tags: castle toys, dragon toys, toy knights
