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Gyroscope
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
2" flywheel in well made metal frame. The trick is the same as it has been for 100 years. Wind the string through the spindle, pull it firmly to set the flywheel spinning, and perform effortless balancing magic on pencil tips, string tightropes, and the like. We tend to forget that bicycles and aircraft navigation both rely heavily on gyroscopic principles. It's never too early to tell the kids. Besides, it's fun.
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3804 METAL GYROSCOPE |
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How About A Little Card Game?
Well, alrighty then. Here are some little cards, just 2-1/8" x 1-1/2" in a standard 52-card deck with a pair of jokers. In a little plastic box. Perfect for solitaire at work if they take your computer away again.
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39390 LITTLE CARDS |
Make Two Dozen Paper Airplanes
Plus, of course, the one you already know how to make, but imagine how sick your kids are of that one. This highly origamian, 120pp book has the plans for (25) ingenious paper airplanes, including some stunt fliers. Our favorite is The Flying Pig because you can make "when pigs fly" jokes at meetings and then use the agenda to construct it. Written by David Mitchell for PRC Publishing.
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93160 PAPER AIRPLANES |
Both its Heads Spin!
Our VP for Portable Light-Show Testing called this "strangely compelling." Imagine a chrome-finish, 11" long cylinder with plastic propellers on the ends. The 6" dia, LED-filled props spin and light up as they morph through (32) different enchanting patterns in 5 colors. Sort of an electric disco dumbbell that won't tax your triceps. Takes (4) "AA" batteries, but we're including them. We'd buy one of these for each hand.
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93746 LIGHT WAND |
Ga-Booooiiiiiinnngggg!
The manufacturer calls it the Thunder Tube". We call it indispensable for the amateur Foley operator. It's a 7" long x 2-1/2" dia PVC tube with a resonant head at one end attached to a 17" long x 3/16" dia extension spring. Shake it, scrape it, wiggle it, use your palm to muffle it and you generate creaks, deep warbles, rumbles, weird heterodyne-ish gong effects, wa-wa's, rude noises, and, yes, realistic thunder. A perfect musical companion to your cuica and rain stick--and good, clean fun around the house. Don't make a sound-track without it.
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92686 THUNDER TUBE |
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Magnetic Geometry Made Fun
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Creativity tool or just plain geometric fun? Yes. From the ever-fertile mind of creativity guru Roger von Oech come the Ball of Whacks® and the X-Ball®, perfect for anyone with a 3-dimensional mind, from a precocious child to a bored nonagenarian, including your favorite artist, mathematician, designer, engineer, or whatever. The little red Ball of Whacks, 3-1/4" dia, comprises (30) magnetized right golden rhombic pyramids that will fit together in endless shapes, from a rhombic triacontahedron, to stars, wreaths, animals, sunbursts, and more. The X-Ball is a collection of (30) convex magnetic Xs which will grab onto each other to make nearly endless geometric forms, including a skeletal icosodecahedron. Combine the Xs with the Ball of Whacks’ pyramids to create even more permutations. Each comes with a 96pp booklet of creativity exercises. Plenty of desktop noodling fun, but a lot more than just a toy.
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93333 BALL OF WHACKS | |
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93718 X-BALL |
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Feel Like Punching Something?
Start with our selection of punches from Paper Shapers®. We'll pick (5) different paper punches, with cutouts approx 3/8" to 1/2" across, from a staggering variety of shapes, including hammers, leaves, horseshoes, birds, state outlines, animals, fish, tools, geometric shapes and many, many others. The punches themselves are 2-1/2" x 1-1/4" ovals with a thumb press.
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39277 PAPER PUNCHES |
Cymbalic Monkey
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
You know the one-big stupid grin, chatters, jumps up and down, pounds really annoying cymbals together and won't stop…an American classic. The originals from the '50s bring $75 or so on Ebay, but you can get your own brand-new, latter-day cymbal-clanging primate in a little red hat for a fraction of that. Approx 7-1/2" tall, runs on (2) "AA" batteries (not included) with a power switch under his monkey bottom.
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92814 MAGIC MONKEY |
Defective or Unique?
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-This toy is or contains a marble. Not for children under 3 yrs.
You decide when you get a bag of these clear glass marbles. They've all got inner defects-air bubbles, mostly-and some have indented veins on the surface. That just means you're getting a selection of one-of-a-kinds. Most are 3/4" dia, some are a touch larger. (15) marbles per order.
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27494 GLASS MARBLE, 3/4" DIA |
Food-Free Fish
With nicely flowing lines and big fins, these glass fish have all the charm of real tropical fish without the constant nagging for food flakes. They'll stand up alone outside the tank, or happily sit at the bottom of the aquarium. Assorted color highlights, about 4" long x 2-1/2" tall, with substantial tails.
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38911 GLASS FISH |
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Piano Roll-up
CJ is the resident musician at A.S.&S., and he can play this roll-up keyboard to a fare-thee-well. "It sounds great," he says, "and it doesn't get any more portable than this." About nine steps beyond nifty, this extremely cool electronic keyboard unrolls to 25-1/4" long x 5-1/4" but the 1/8"-thick rubber-membrane keyboard rolls up around the sound module to become the exact size of healthy ham and cheese sandwich. It has (26) different tones, (99) rhythms, (10) demo songs, a (3) octave range and it runs on (3) "AAA" batteries (Not included.). The business end has volume, power, function, start and stop controls, a built-in 1-3/4" speaker, headphone output and jacks for a 6VDC 300mA adapter 3.5mm plug (not included). And if you let the cat play on it, we bet you'll get Phillip Glass tunes.
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92810 ROLL A PIANO |
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