Littlest Pet Shop (The Original!) · 8:19pm Jul 24th, 2020
As in the toys back in the 80s/90s that were good, not like the modern ones that are....y'know 
I still have a box-full of those toys, though I've long since lost the pieces that came with them, and I'm all kinds of tempted to play with them now and again. Then life happens and I get too busy to do so. And yes, I know I'm older, but darn it, sometimes you just want to dive head-first into a box of nostalgia and stay there for a while, because you want to remember when things were at their best and try to recreate it in Present Day.
Lately, for the last year or so, I've been having dreams of my old Littlest Pet Shop toys, the ones that I still have and the ones that got lost between moving from one house to another. I dream of collecting every single one, finding their pens and play pieces, their backdrops and, if they had them, their names. Finding what I lost and building upon it: when I was little, I used to act out stories with those toys and would play with them just about everywhere to do so. And then there's the dreams, where I seek out dioramas, landscapes that I can set up and use to emulate a scene or a setting; I collect and collect and collect, a variety from plains to mountains to swamps to caves to oceans, even weird stuff like lava pits and the Moon.
It's so weird, especially in my latest dreams, where I take my LPS toys and dioramas and....and chart boats to keep them in, to set them up and play with. When I run out of room in one boat, I would find another and make it into a play boat, to the point where I got my hands on a flipping battleship to gut and play with. And I was happy. So very, very happy and satisfied and I didn't want to wake up. I just wanted to keep going, keep collecting and building and making stories with my LPS toys 
It'd be easy to take them out of my box, easy to find dioramas, and I wake up after every LPS dream with the urge getting stronger and stronger. But I don't have a ship to buy and my room is full. I can always make room, I suppose, but it wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't be a whole world, just a continent, at least. I'm still tempted to try it, but....
Is that what my dream is really trying to tell me?
