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Sir Edward:

--- Quote from: James Anderson III on 2012-02-25, 18:40:44 ---Dad had an Atari. So the babysitter got wrapped up in that, while I apparently took the couch cushions to build a castle. Castles need cement, right? I somehow got my hands on baby powder, and had dumped the whole bottle on the cushions to hold my "castle" together. Then dad got back, said something (probably "colorful"), and *then* the babysitter realized what I did. :D

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Hah! Sounds like something I might have done at that age. I once chased the cat around the entire lower floor with scoops of powdered laundry detergent. Left trails everywhere. :)

Sir Ulrich:
I watched Excalibur and Robin Hood from a young age and always desired to be a knight. Personally I used to use costume armor and self made cardboard plate armor after my costume armor broke. It worked well but I had few people to play with due to being the target of bullying as a kid thanks to all my role playing which weirded people out. Don't really care cause I always fought back against bullying so it didn't last long, though I still was hated. Then came Zelda and I role played that for long hours with the few friends I had along with my brother. For some reason historical medieval stuff always appealed more to me than fantasy stuff. Later I was given tons of books on medieval arms and armor and generally my interest in it was rather large, mainly due to my WW2 interest being deemed as "unacceptable" by schools as "violent and bad" yet they tolerated medieval stuff which made no sense to me. If only there was LARPing when I was a kid I probably would of had a blast. Age 16 I started my first medieval faire days which were enjoyable but I didnt desire to be a knight as I was too obsessed with celtic/viking stuff at the time. Now I basically do mainly due to my interest in the crusader era.

Sir William:
My father was never one for flights of fancy; he didn't (and still does not) read and had no interest in such things.  As far as I know, he still doesn't- my guess is, it doesn't make sense to him so he's got no interest.  Ask him anything about cars or boxing and he can enthrall you.   Having said that, I'm really thankful for my Mom- she's the reason the interest started when I was 10; she'd given Bulfinch's Mythology for my 10th birthday; my favorites were the Tales of Charlemagne, and Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.  I used to draw knights fighting on foot (easier than drawing horses, I sucked at animals then, still do) and dream that I could be one of them, but I guess I wasn't creative enough to try my hand at crafting armor or swords of any kind.  I'd usually pick up a stick about the right size and start wacking at stuff but that was the extent of it.  I didn't do Halloween after I turned 14 or 15...was generally discouraged from anything too outrageous.  I would've loved to have been that kid in Role Models but they didn't have anything like that where I grew up.

I have no regrets...I grew up a big enough nerd w/out needing any help.  lol

Ian:
It really all started for me when I was about 4 or 5 and my mom introduced me to the Hobbit cartoon and the Robin Hood cartoon where Robin Hood is played by a fox!  I got hooked, started watching the cartoons weekly.  I still remember sitting there watching the Hobbit over and over eating nutter butters and drinking cranberry juice (an awesome combination by the way which I will have now 25 years later just for that nostalgic feeling).

We lived in Staten Island, NY, so not too far from the city, and my parents took me to the Met at a young age, and once I saw the Arms and Armor collection there, that's it, I was done... hooked for life!  I'm very thankful that my parents were extremely supportive of my interests and exposed me to a lot of different things when I was kid.

I still know bits and pieces of the Hobbit songs by heart thanks to that cartoon...  'Down down to goblin town!!!' (that one used to scare me, ha!)

Sir James A:
Ian, was that Robin Hood cartoon a series or a movie? I remember a disney version of Robin Hood where he's played by a fox, and I believe the king is a lion? Maid Marian is another fox, or rabbit, or some kind of animal?

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