Thank you guys for all your comments and suggestions! I've been thinking for a while about the "take outdoors indoors solution"... and learning from what all of you do in that area, I will start exploring that avenue.

It's also interesting (couldn't find a better word in my non-native english ), to see how in different countries, we share basically the same feelings concerning our kids, our hobby, and how we make both worlds interact.

I also tend to think that we are a generation that it's special in the fact that we were the target of the "3 3/4 action figures explosion" of the 80s, with powerful licenses (Star Wars, Joes), and that we grew up and most of us are on our 30s or late 20s, and have kids growing up that will be exposed to our hobby... I think this will generate an effect not seen before. Well, for one, we have all the action figures collections right now, that are not oriented to kids, but to our target group (Mc Farlane "action figures" [more figure than action actually] for example...).

I was very glad to see that companies (Hasbro) saw interesting to invest in new toy lines based in strong properties (Indiana Jones), hope this will continue. I tend to think that it would be cool (at least for me) if there were more lines coming out in the same scale, so a kid (and us ) can make different collections interact, instead of releasing 6", 8", etc figures. I read somewhere in a joe forum, where somebody made the same comment, that it was due to increasing costs (thanks petroleum!), companies would not invest into playsets and big vehicles, which they say, was the reason why the figures were made into 3 3/4".

What do you think??