The picture is from www.Tintoyarcade.com, which is one of the places that sells this unique item that my spouse purchased at a brick and mortar store on impulse, and has so far given him three days of actual pleasure. If not joy.
Joy. That is a rare quantity for a toy to provide, especially for an adult. But this thing is pretty neat.
Okay--it lights up and it flies like a helicopter. That is all it needs to do to be really cool. It operates by way of eight AA batteries, but it seems to hold a good charge, and if you are under the propellers, it feels like a fan on the "High" setting. It makes some noise, and there is no way to control the direction of it (there have been nail-biting moments as it drifted near the ceiling fan in the kitchen, or threatened to dip somewhere over a sink full of dishes and washing-up water) but there's something innately thrilling in that unpredictability. It behaves like a thing with personality. I haven't played with it myself: first of all, it's his toy, not mine, and second, if I played with it, it totally would get stuck behind the fridge, or end up in the sink, or get smooshed. So I just watch. But that's fun, too.
And this is just an example of the sorts of things we are doing on our summer vacation.
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