Hi Woodsy,
Not sure if you've covered this on your site, these hexbugs have been around for a while but the whole space thing literally adds another dimension!
The idea that these little insect dudes operate various functions on the base quite randomly means hours of fun, checkout the advert!!
Ziplines, moon buggy's and shuttle's too!
Regards
Mark J
Southcoast base
Ok, THAT is one of the coolest new toys I have seen
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty amazing Ran. Reminds me of an old Imai Moon Base Set with new life! Thanks to Mark J in his sci-fi barber shop for this.
DeleteNice, but personally I dislike when they make "rigid" objects beheave as they were "organic" ones, as, e.g., in the Lego ads. Nevermind the Lego Movies, those are a different story, IMO, but ads spots as the above ones seems borderline misleading advertising to me...
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Hi Steelrust! My daughter has the hexbugs- "Bugs in the Kitchen" game, it truly is a random-action game!! Not like let's say ALL the Evel Kenevel toys ever made, they were good likenesses of the man himself cos they ALWAYS crashed! but they never did what they did in the advert! Adverts for toys are misleading in their very nature but it's always assumed that a child's imagination is part of it too- Mark J
DeleteI suppose toy makers have been trying to simulate life for decades in kids' toys. Just think of Sea Monkeys. the adverts at the back of comics showed entire families enjoying underwater life with ski jumps and some living like royals with crowns and thrones! Iconic ads now but I'm sure the 'toy' wasn't like that, full of daphnia larvae or whatever they were. As for rigid objects looking live I suspect that's the goal of all robot makers, to make the most convincingly animate inanimate machine maybe. I saw some footage of a huge robotic spider and it was so so convincing I would have run a mile if I'd been there! ha ha
DeleteGreat post, Mark. I've never seen these before :)
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