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Typical components of an outdoor playset include: Towers. In a playset, a tower is a vertical structure with one or more decks placed at various levels. A deck is essentially a horizontal play surface contained within or attached to a tower. Bridges. Towers may be connected to one another via fixed bridges or chain bridges for children to walk ...
The Girder and Panel Building Set construction kits enabled a child to build plastic models of mid-twentieth century style buildings. Vertical plastic columns were placed in the holes of a Masonite base board and horizontal girders were then locked into the vertical columns to create the skeletal structure of a model building. Brightly coloured ...
Playsets, or play sets, are themed collections of similar toys designed to work together to enact some action or event. The most common toy playsets involve plastic figures, accessories, and possibly buildings or scenery, purchased together in a common box.
Gilbert cloud chamber, assembled An alternative view of kit contents. The lab contained a cloud chamber allowing the viewer to watch alpha particles traveling at 12,000 miles per second (19,000,000 m/s), a spinthariscope showing the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen, and an electroscope measuring the radioactivity of different substances in the set.
WarioWare D.I.Y. allows players to design their own microgames, creating their own graphics and music, and designing a 'cartridge' for them. The game features five sections in its main menu: D.I.Y. Studio, where the player designs microgames; WarioWare Inc., the tutorial; D.I.Y Shop, where the player makes microgame cartridges; Options Garage, where players edit preferences and names; and ...
The car's design, described as "a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and Fred Flintstone's vehicle", was created by Jim Mariol of Cincinnati-based Design Alliance, who had worked as a designer at Chrysler starting in 1952 and engineered by Shirish Patel, Little Tikes' Vice President of Engineering and Product Engineer John Fawcett.
These, and many more, are available for free online on the Bully Pulpit Games website, [8] with many fan-made playsets available online, as well. [9] [10] [11] The Fiasco Companion provides additional advice on creating playsets. [12] Each playset consists of a basic description of the setting and:
In late 1990, Kentucky Kingdom announced plans to build a water park, projected to open by either the summer of 1991 or spring of 1992. [27] In 1991, the park revealed more details about the proposed water park, notably that it would span six acres (2.43 ha), be named ‘Ocean Avenue’, open in 1992, and require a separate admission cost of $4 ...