First seen in the spring, the new in-house
branding of Funworkz or Fun Workz as it is here has now featured three times in
these pages I think? Aimed at kids it's really an executive 'desk toy' and as
such; just the sort of thing we can give ourselves permission to buy -
especially at a quid a pop! Mr Trump seems determined to end the world early,
so enjoy what you can while you can . . .
. . . with a little kickabout on the desk
or coffee table! The four traffic cones supplied with the set allow for a
penalty shoot-out with a mate, offspring or partner, while a bit of chicanery
is the solo opption. A bit of practice might allow for keepie-uppie using the
player as a bat?
Having only recently qualified in CAD
myself, I can tell you that this is all the money in the bag as far as
development costs go, and it's a beautiful solution to the problem posed;
wanting the black hexagons and white pentagons to be made out of the different two
colours rather than painted on or hinted-at in the moulding (like old gum-ball
or Subbuteo balls), it's basically an
'Iwako eraser' married to a
jig-toy/puzzle!
While complicated to CAD-up, it's a simple
exercise in geometry, but it would take a day or two (like that bloody Dalek's
head!) to get right as you have to build it out of polygonal-cones, then work
out which ones will be white, which black, the subtract or union the two groups
into the main five final-sections, then deal with the unseen interior, cutting-up
and awarding that space to the different sections and then work out how to hold
them all together with the two plugs - I would have loved to watch this going
through its development!
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