Puzzle Dolls – Doll Idea Inspired by Japanese Puzzle Boxes/Also: QuizMonster/ Also: Minotaur/ Also: Magnobats - Magnetic balancing figurines/ or (Also: Build-A-Robot game) Also: Toy Ideas - (Galactic Gladiators; Anna’s Ancestors; Junkbots; The Castaways)

Puzzle Dolls – Doll Idea Inspired by Japanese Puzzle Boxes

1. Puzzle Dolls are dolls with a secret compartment in them that only opens when a certain part of the doll is turned in a certain way.
2. Every doll will have a different method for opening it; for example- One doll might open its secret compartment when the head is rotated 180 degrees while another might have a button hidden somewhere on it (for example its belly button) that you push to open the compartment.
3. Within the secret compartment of every doll is a toy ring or other toy piece of jewellery.

 

 

QuizMonster – "A monsterously good game".

1. Quizmonster is a game that uses a crawling clockwork monster as a timer.
2. Player A winds up the quizmonster while asking Player B a question from the Quiznomicon; a book that comes with the Quizmonster which is filled with amazing trivia questions on all subjects (the cover of the Quiznomicon should resemble an ancient occult,mystical tome).
3. Then player A sets the quizmonster down on the floor and Player B has to answer the question before the Quizmonster reaches him.
4. If he can answer the question in time then he gets to ask the question and to wind up the quizmonster and send it back in the other direction.
5. This goes on, the Quizmonster being sent back and forth until a player is caught by the Quizmonster (because they can’t answer the question in time).
6. Note: A battery operated Quizmonster with glowing eyes and a growling voice might be more fun and easier/quicker to turn around and send back.

 

The Game Of Minotaur (for  1 player)

1. The player wears a blindfold. He has a piece called The Minotaur.
2. He has to, wearing the blindfold, move the Minotaur piece through a toy labyrinth from its entrance to its centre.
3. The player must use their hands and fingers to feel the labyrinth and work out a route through it; at no time during the game are they allowed to look at the labyrinth.
4. Furthermore, they may never lift the Minotaur piece over a wall; this is cheating. The minotaur must move through the labyrinth just like a person in a maze, bumping up against dead ends and having to turn back.
5. The player wins when they have successfully moved the minotaur to the centre of the labyrinth.

 

Magnobats - Magnetic balancing figurines/ ornaments/toys

1. Magnobats are sets of magnetic figurines shaped like acrobats (or possibly clowns or some animal like a monkey) that come with a magnetic circus ring like base to stand on.
2. Because the figurines are magnetic it means that you can stick them on top of each other, so that they look as if they are balancing like acrobats, and they won’t fall down.
3. The fun is in posing the figurines in different impossible balancing positions.
4. Perhaps a steel ball like a circus balancing ball could be included, if this is placed on the magnetic circus ring base then a tower of magnobats should easily be able to balance on top of it.
5. Steel objects might even be included for balancing on the heads of magnobats

 

Build- A- Robot – Action figure building board game

1. Build-a-robot is a game for two players involving both travelling round a board and the building of a plastic action figure.
2. On the board is an illustration of a factory assembly line; the assembly line is made up of numbered squares.
3. The players have 1 dice and each has a plastic counter, 1 black and 1 white
4. The players take turns rolling the dice and moving their counters along the assembly line.
5. At various stages along the assembly line there are squares containing illustrations of the pieces of a robot; a Head, a torso; a right arm; a left arm; a right leg and a left leg.
6. Also contained within the game box is a heap of plastic robot limbs; Two green heads; two blue torsos; two red right arms; two yellow left arms; two pink right legs and two orange left legs.
7. These plastic limbs are designed to click together to make a plastic robot action figure.
8. Each time a player lands upon an illustration of a robot limb they collect another robot limb from the pile.
9. The first player who has successfully collected all the robot limbs and constructed a robot out of them is the winner
10. However, also upon the conveyor belt are various squares with the word REJECT printed upon them and whenever a player lands upon a REJECT square they have to go back to the beginning of the conveyor belt and start again.

 

Toy Ideas (The Galactic Gladiators; Anna’s Ancestors; Junkbots; The Castaways)

 

The Galactic Gladiators (Toy Idea)

1. Galactic Gladiators would be a series of action figures that were alien, robot, cyborg, supernatural and human gladiators in a futuristic space arena.
2. There would unlimited potential for different types of super powered characters and designs and weapons.
3. Accessories would be the Star Arena Playset and Star Chariots (Mechanised rolling or flying or aquatic or space chariots) in which Galactic Gladiators could have chariot races.
4. Gladiators would battle for a trophy called the Star of the Galaxy.
5. Possibly, the villains could be a group of space pirates that want to steal the Star of the Galaxy trophy rather than compete for it and who the Galactic Gladiators, usually fierce rivals, team up to defend their Space city against
6. Backstory: Galaxis is a floating city among the stars; a space city built by an ancient, mysteriouscivilization aeons ago. It is also home to the Star Arena, the giant hi-tech colusseum in which the greatest and fiercest athletes in all the universe do battle for the Star of the Galaxy trophy. Unfortunately, the Evil Blackhook and his band of villainous space marauders also want the trophy which would allow them to seize power over the city. Only the Galactic Gladiators by teaming up and using their amazing super powers can stop them.

 

The Castaways – Toy Idea

1.            The castaways are a series of both human and animal two inch tall doll figures that are played with upon a plastic island playset .

2.            The plastic island looks like the archetypal desert island with palm trees on it. It has secret compartments with buried plastic treasure inside them. It also had metal inside the plastic which the magnetic feet of figures and buildings can stick to.

3.            So that they can stand upright upon the island playset; Castaway figures have magnets in their feet and castaway log buildings also have magnets at the bottom.

4.            Castaway accessories include a Castaway Raft; cast away log Crusoe house; Castaway Professor Sandrock’s laboratory; Chief Fridays Hut and Captain Keg’s Pirate ship.

5.            Example of some possible Castaway Figures –

1.            Mrs Crusoe – The mother of the Crusoe family

2.            Mr Crusoe – The father of the Crusoe Family

3.            Jenna Crusoe – Mrs Crusoe’s daughter

4.            Jamie Crusoe – Mrs Crusoe Son

5.            Mickey the Monkey – Monkey that lives in a tree on the island and is Jamies best friend

6.            Paulina the parrot – Parrot that lives on the island and is Jenna’s best friend

7.            Professor Sandrock – Inventor/Professor on the island

8.            Captain Keg – Wooden Legged Pirate who wants the island (Comes with pirate treasure map)

9.            Bosun Bill – Captain Kegs side kick

10.          Maria the Mermaid – Mermaid that lives on the shore of the island.

11.          Chief Friday – Chief of the Friday tribe that live on the island

12.          Frida Friday – Daughter of Chief Friday; princess of the Friday tribe and friend of Jenna and Jamie

 

Anna’s  Ancestors – A genealogy/ Doll/ part work magazine idea

1.            Every Anna doll is an ancestor on the family tree of the Present day Anna Doll dressed in period clothing.

2.            With the first issue of the magazine readers get a fold out poster of Anna’s family tree as well as a 21st Century Anna Doll.

3.            With every following magazine a reader gets one of Anna’s Ancestors.

4.            In the first magazine are articles about genealogy.

5.            In each of the following magazines are articles about the period in which the doll ancestor lived as well as a fictional, but historically realistic, account of the life of each dolls.

 

Junkbots – A toy idea of Low-Tech Robots Versus Hi-Tech Robots

1. Junkbots are robots made out of bits and pieces of old junk by a human, rebel alliance to fight against an army of sophisticated modern robots.
2. Their base is a scrapyard.
3. All of their accessories and vehicles are made out of bits of junk aswell.

Professor Harriet Dearborne – Human head and founder of the Junkbot programme who works for the rebel alliance. It was her idea to try and give the Junkbots human personalities, emotions and even character flaws so that they would empathise with the humans they are helping to protect.

Heroic Junkbots – 1. Lance (the heroic and idealistic leader of the Junkbots who looks like a knight in armour and is programmed with romantic myths of human heroes); 2. Hacker (A junkbot computer specialist made out of old computer parts who is also a technopath, able to read the minds of other robots and is programmed with knowledge of human scientists and pioneers); 3. Crash – (A Headstrong  but superfast Junkbot made from bits of old racing cars and motor bikes. Is programmed with the achievements of human athletes); 4. Kong- A Cyborg that is part robot and part genetically engineered and enhanced gorilla, possessing incredible strength and  programmed with animal like skill and intelligence and to empathise more with animals than machines but his programming brings him into conflict with human beings who he sees as the oppressors of animals and nature  5. Anarchy- A spiky, slightly over agressive punk like Junkbot who is an explosives and sabotage expert. Has been programmed with information about great human rebels and non-conformists. 6. Renegade – A brooding camouflage painted Junkbot; an expert in guerrilla warfare with a power of invisibility, made out of old military vehicles; has a computer brain taken from an old military robot and has flashbacks of the atrocity of war. Is unsure whether men are good or bad. 7. Shaman; Peaceful, nature loving, mystical robot prone to sitting and meditating, programmed with knowledge about human world religions but also an expert in robot martial arts. Believes that robots have an immortal soul.

 

Dr Adrian Stormchild – Transhuman leader of an elite group of oligarchs who believe that Humans are obsolete and must make way for Transhumans to take over the earth.

 

Evil Manhunters  - 1. General Blitzkrieg (Evil, fanatical, nazi – german type leader of the evil manhunters. Believes his creators propaganda than human beings are obsolete and must be replaced by Transhumans); 2. Black Ops – Mysterious vampire like robot that has powers of illusion and invisibility; 3. Ravage – A strongman robot that looks like an excavator with a drill for a hand and a head like a digger; 4. Darkseer – An intelligence gathering robot with lots of eyes that is connected up to observation satellites in space; can see and hear over enormous distances aswell as send out little pet crawling and flying listening devices called Bugs; 5. Psyren – Female Banshee/Pied Piper like robot that can destroy as well as hypnotize with sound 6. Reptoid– Cyborg half genetically engineered dragon and half robot that breathes fire and has metal wings 7. Cyclotron – Spinning robot that turns itself into a cyclone.

 

Backstory: In the year 3113; robot workers have replaced human workers in almost every occupation resulting in mass global unemployment. To the capitalist, fascist ruling, cyborg elite, the billions of human beings left out of work are viewed as nothing more than an annoying drain upon global resources and completely expendable and so an army of robots, called Manhunters is constructed to exterminate humans. Fortunately, an opposing army of left wing, guerrilla freedom fighters emerges, constructing the Junkbots to fight against the manhunters. Will they defeat the evil manhunters and save human beings from becoming an endangered species? The future is in your hands.