>>5448348Yeah, it takes a while for something to be considered "normal"
Sorta like how playing video games is a normative behavior, now that those of us who grew up with them continue playing them into adulthood.
The collectors toy market really didn't exist until the mid-90s, so it's making headway. Pre-90s, it was very normal to have a hobby of building models. I don't know if you're old enough to remember or even be born, but models used to be sold in just about every drug store in America. There used to be an entire aisle just for them until around the early 90s. It was considered normal for an adult to build models and used to be discussed about on radio. Hobby mags used to be really common as well.
And this isn't getting into female hobbies like quilting and sewing shit. How many magazines for these still exist? How many yarn/fabric stores can you find in your town (More than there are comic stores, i bet)? This used to be considered a necessity until the 50s, when clothes started to be cheaply made, and of course, the rise of the middle class, who could just buy something new instead of repairing it.
Yet, sewing and quilting continued on and became a hobby, because it was something they enjoyed doing.
Anyway, it's only the extremes of these hobbies that seen as weird... usually.
