flea

I suspect boys are a lot rougher on their toys than girls. My brothers and I certainly were. For one thing, so many of them are so much fun to crash into each other. Then there are the first experiments with fire crackers and old model airplanes. And kids who make models usually have paints on hand, and are comfortable with the concept of painting and modifying their toys because of it. I know I painted some of our blocks (metallic blue!) when we briefly used them for bridges on our Lionel train layout.