Thursday, February 15, 2007

Lisa MacDonald - Toy Concepts





3 comments:

CJBlake said...

Hey Lisa, thanks for the comments!

Here are mine:

Toy 1: mixing coloured water. I was actually going to suggest on elike this, so it's definitely got a fun quality to it. I couldn't figure out how to refill the water. And personally, for me, the actual dyeing of the water is what's fun for me, not neccessarily the colour mixing. So, the concept is good but I would make it so you can dye the water yourself.

Toy 2 - personalized plant. I like the cut out stamps but plants take a long time to grow and cutting the leaves would damage them. Having the plant involved makes this a long process for a small amoutn of fun. If you just made the cut-out stamps, this would be a cool idea.

Toy 3 - tornado machine. This one looked pretty cool to me. I guess if you can build it, i'd be interested in playing with it. Multiple lasers would be cool too.

Toy 4 - balloon inflator. Balloons are wicked but the fun factor for this one seems low. More need to be involved in this one.

Toy 5 - marble pyramid. I like this idea but i was fuzzy on how you planned on making it. If it was genuinely challenging, i think this one would be great.

Toy 6 - magnet thief. This toy looked sorta fun but the reward of getting the thief to the jewel is arbitrary. It's just a green light. Maybe if there was some wat it made you start over if you hit one of the alarms, then it would be more challenging and fun.

Toy 7 - Fishing. I used to do this when i was young and i really liked it. So, from experience, I know this one is fun and engaging. Maybe if you could compete with another "fisherman" it would be like a game.

Toy 8 - sticky environment. This one is an alright idea but it didn't look that fun to me. And it seems like a lot of work for a mediocre outcome.

Toy 9 - gardening. Pretty self exlpainatory. This toy is not a toy, it's gardening and it takes a long time for plants to grow.

Toy 10 - Colour wheel tops - I LOVE this one. you choose the colours and you spin them together. I liked doing this when i was younger too. This one has strong fun sustainablilty and it involves experimentation.

My picks are ( in order of funness): Colour wheels, fishing, fog machine

Taj said...

1) this is pretty unique but as a kid i used to hate toys that you needed to buy more accessories for (food coloring maybe for yours?) like the easy bake oven or those spider man toys that had web cartridges but once the supplies ran out you had to go buy new ones...

2) This one is awesome, I like it a lot, i remember when i got a stamp set as a kid i would use it everywhere, this could be really fun if you made the whole alphabet, and some shapes. Really destructive though, haha imagine if a kid started doing this to his moms plants.

3) Fog machine is really cool. Heck i wanna play with it right now! good luck building it!

4) very cool, i might steal this for my rocket toy if that gets built haha. It seems like konly part of a toy though, it's really missing the fun part, not interactive enough.

5) Oh man i remember something liek this as a kid where you would build a large tower and drop a marble down it to see if your tower was successful, it was based on tubes not pyramids like yours but it was fantastic. I love this one.

6) This looks like a lot of fun but the lasers would have to be adjustable because if you set them to one place it will be really boring and once the kid masters it, the games over.

7) I think your ideas are really smart. The only problem with this one is it will be hard to get the fans to work with water around them i think. If you can get that to work, lots of fun here also, to many fans could make the game frustrating though and to little can do the same, be careful with this one.

8) Im not sure i understand how this works, kinda boring though, just give a kid some stickers and some paper and they'll entertain themselves.

9) boring, haha watching stuff grow isnt fun lisa.

10) this looks interesting. If you make this put a bunch of colors with the toy so that its not only a bunch of red circles.

Vanished said...

Comment my toys or you'll regret it in your sleep.

Toy 1 - colours are flurry fantasious. But I think that the ink should be hurled into the water with substantial force it would look mad snazzy.

Toy 2 - Personalized plant!? What were you thinking nature hater. This gives kids the wrong notion and I don't get how it could be fun.

Toy 3 - Tornado machine...Yeah this owns my life. However, I think it would be better if it were in a longer tank and the child could set up a small town. Then turn on the tornado and create havoc. I know as a kid I wished that i could one day be a tornado. In fact I used to pretend with my cats.

Toy 4 - Balloon Alka Seltzer? Definitely not feasible.

Toy 5 - I think this is supreme. I'm stoked to help you build it, just to figure out how it will work.

Toy 6 - No way! Yeah I like this one alot. But maybe you need more moving parts. Like maybe the trip wires can move up, down and across. You could also incorporate fog into this one. Plot development is key though. Make sure that the jewel thief is Sean Connery.

Toy 7 – I Love this. End.

Toy 8 – I think if you could get the sponge palm trees to grow it could be good times.

Toy 9 – Spinning ink apparatus, Glorious. Enough said.

Toy 10 – I really like the top with interchangeable colours. It could be educational and fun. Kids could learn about colour theory.

I would say that you strongest three would be:

Toy 5
Toy 6
Toy 7 <- This arrow is not influencing you to choose this over the others.

Ps. I heart your genes.