Toy Design - Prototype 01

2-3 months ago I was indirectly introduced by a new friend, Jon, to a website called "Patch Together" - http://www.patchtogether.com. This website is mainly for designers to come out their own creative toy designs and they will be turned into real toys if certain designs are majority voted.

And that is how I get to know about this interesting website, my friend asked me to vote for his toy design. So I did vote for his, but not just because he requested so, I really thought that his design was great and creative. Check out his work, I thought it is really impressive. And he did get the highest votes and his toy has been processing and on the way to the Toy Market now.
http://patchtogether.com/?Designs_Details&Id=101
http://patchtogether.com/?Gallery_Details&Id=105

His works and other people's passionate participations also made my heart itchy, so I thought I just gave it a shot and try to come out something. Below is one of the prototypes I have come out and properly outlined on Flash. The rest of my designs are still on drawing paper, well, I will post up others once i'm done with some clean-up outline on Flash later. =)

Still headache with the colors and type of paint... well, lazy to think now, will update once I have time again..muahahaha... lazy me again.. =P



* Just in case you are wondering what it does. It is actually a normal walking/crawling toy triggered by the "twisting key?" (what do you call it in English? Pardon my bad English) . But, instead of using traditional "twisting key" design, I incorporate it with Mouse's Roller Button on top of the head. Same way of how you usually use your mouse with your computer. Roll down the roller with your index finger while you are holding the toy body. Then the toy will be triggered and start crawling. Another function of this toy is actually a Clip. Which means, the mouth is able to clip on somewhere (table, chair, latop etc) which roughly has the same width with the mouth. The mouth area has flexible soft sponge which enable to clip/stuck with some other wider objects when you are not playing it. The toy comes with few types of coloring and paste-on designs.
That's why in the above prototype I roughly came out some idea like Marine , Porcupine, Native type. Ideas are stuck so far. Need more inspirations later, if I have. hahahaa...

Well, once everything is finalised and colored, I will then post on the PatchTogether website and see if the world can accept my sucky ideas. hahahhaa....

Oh, I almost forgot, I have come out a sucky name for this toy too, I call it "Clipomice"! Why? Coz it's a combination of Clip + Mouse (Mice) = Clipomice! Muahahahahaa..... I know it's lame. kakakaa... XD

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