Lifeforce – An Environmental awareness raising, (possibly solar powered) action figure idea
By well-wisher
Sun, 15 Jun 2014
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- Backstory: In a far flung region of the Cosmos; Arcadia, a sentient planet inhabited by a peaceful, kind, nature loving people is threatened by The Necronauts; a race of robots and cyborgs whose giant Artificially Intelligent spaceship, The Deathshead, is powered by draining the life force out of living organic things. The Necronauts want to drain the life force out of Arcadia. Fortunately, Arcadia assembles a team of heroic warriors called the Organauts, each one possessing the power of a different Animal, bird, aquatic life form; reptile or amphibian; insect; arachnid or arthropod, plant, mineral; force of nature or astronomical feature. It is a battle between Nature and the Machine; between life and death; good and evil.
- Educational aspect: I think that this Toy Idea will a) teach children that Nature is as cool and awe inspiring as machines and artificial things. b) Not only promote a love of nature but a curiosity and interest in the natural world.
- The Good Organauts can be separated into different groups- The Animen: Those possessing animal powers (including bats and flying animals); The Aeronauts: Those with feathered wings and bird powers; The Aquanauts: Those with the powers of seacreatures; The Reptomen: Those possessing Reptile and Amphibian powers: The Sectonaunts: Those possessing insect; arachnid and arthropod powers; The Plantmen- Those possessing plant and fungus powers; The Rockmen- Those possessing the powers of minerals; crystals and jewels; The Elementals: Those possessing the powers of the natural meteorological forces of wind, fire, water, Earth and lightning and The Astromen: Those possessing the powers of Natural Astronomical Features such as Meteors; The Sun and moon.
- The Evil Necronauts – Necronauts are a combination of machinery and death and so they are all both robotic and monster like. They are separated into these groups. Reaperbots- Part robot and part zombie/skeleton; Garghouls- Deformed unnatural, gargoyle like cyborgs with mythological features like one eye or multiple limbs; Ravagers – Necronauts that look like diggers and heavy industrial machines; Warmongers – Armoured Necronauts that look like the machinery of war past and present; Illusionoids- (Representing the virtual artificial reality side of technology) Illusionoids are either ghostlike and holographic or, like transforming robot toys, transform from something innocent and harmless, like a clown, into an evil robot; Toxix – (Representing industrial pollution): Toxix have powers of Smog; poison and chemical/radioactive mutation.
- Accessories/Vehicles/Weapons – The Organaut vehicles and weapons are Green Energy powered; they are all powered by some natural renewable source and incorporated into their design are the shapes and forms of nature; some are walking vehicles or webbed footed hopping vehicles or vehicles with flapping wings. The Necronauts vessels are supposed to, like vampires, drain the energy out of life and they are like gothic architecture or medieval armour or skeletons and horror.
- Optional idea: Solar powered toys – Perhaps the figures and vehicles could also have solar panels in them that could power movement or light or sound as a way of promoting Green energy.
- Optional idea: a)The toys could have colour liquid crystal display screens in their chests like the screens used in digital watches (perhaps powered by watch batteries or solar powered) which could play animated sequences when a button on the figure is pressed, for example, when a figure is being charged with ‘Life force’, an animated crackling ball of energy could be seen on the LCD screen b) or perhaps they could have colour liquid crystal display screens for faces so that their faces could be animated; make facial gestures, laugh and speak phrases. c) or perhaps the LCD screen in their chest could display the figures vital signs: heart rate, blood pressure etcetera
- Optional idea: The toys could have optical fibres incorporated into their body armour that would glow, carrying the light of a bulb inside the figure, to represent the life force surging through them.
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