14
2011
posted by
Gisela Voss
Sometimes toy making is a treat. Other times tricky.
Where does the year go? Halloween is in two weeks!?!
I'll have a vampire, Cinderella, and a teen too cool for costumes. How about you?
Eyelights, our brand-new feline fun flashlights will light up the night as our kids trick or treat. And while they were a treat to design, it got pretty tricky, too. We tried a lot of things to get power-crank light working.
First we wanted the tail to be a twirling crank. That failed miserably (you can see a video below). After countless attempts and playtests with kids, we decided the hand-crank mechanism would feel most natural to children as a simple rolling function.
Can't you just see these eyes lighting the way door to door?
We wish you a happy, B.OO filled Halloween!
-Gisela






