I found these tall plastic and heavy jet thingies in a charity shop last year going for a song.
Turns out they're Laserstrike Jet Combat by Vivid Tech, which is pretty hard to find any info on online.
Here's the box I found a pic of.
Its a sort of gloved jet battle, where the jets gyrate - is that called yaw? - around the hand. I got mine working and its very a strange feeling! How did they manage to get it to spin motorised around the hand to about 180 degrees, whilst the hand stays in position?
Its an intriguing design for a toy and the mechanics must be complicated. It says on the toy it was designed by Stefan Knox 2002 and its unusual to be able to pin down an actual designer's name.
As it happens Stefan Knox has his own website!
https://www.stefanknox.co.uk/case-studies/toys/
What do you think readers? A good idea for a toy?
Yaw is movement side to side; pitch is up and down; roll is rotating about its axis.
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Cheers Paul, this toy rolls then! Its hardly present at all on the net!
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