Journal FortKnox's Journal: Need help finding a toy... 12
Joey's third birthday is coming up and I'd like to get him a whole set of navy boats for his bath (battleships, maybe an aircraft carrier, etc...). Just plastic toys that float is all I'm hoping for. I'd like them to be sizable not little tiny things...
I'm having the hardest time trying to find something like that. Anyone have any ideas??
I'm having the hardest time trying to find something like that. Anyone have any ideas??
Well... (Score:2)
1) building things
2) small parts (big problem with baby!)
3) an absolute mess
if you can't find what you're looking for, you might get one of those model battleship or aircraft carrier kits (you can often find them for $13-20) at the hobby shop. A lot of those ships are hollow and so you might be able to get some styrofoam and shape it and place it inside the boat, and weigh the bottom of the boat down with pennies or something (to keep it right-side-up), and seal everything else with RTV
AHA! (Score:3, Informative)
(Sounds like they might have small parts)
AHA! This [gagworks.com] isn't very realistic but it's cheap and a battleship and floats! And no small parts!
I will see what else I can find.
Other online stores (Score:3, Informative)
If not, I must say that my search results were much improved in trying to find something the size you want when I stopped looking for bath tub toys, bath toys, floating somethingoranother, etc. and started looking for pool toys instead. Might hel
That's a toughie (Score:2)
I don't even see that many boats around anymore.
The closest thing I can think of are model kits -- and you don't want to give one of those to a 3-y.o.
I hate to be such a spoilsport, but even someone (who has looked at LOTS of toys!) saying that she hasn't seen anything close might be useful. In this case, I think "bathtub" "toy" "battleship" "aircraft carrier" and google may
Re:That's a toughie (Score:1)
No kidding. So what that means is Joe gets to learn to shoot a real
That's the goal, isn't it?
BTW, they can be found. I was shocked last Xmas working at TRU to find that they still exist. You just have to look for them. And not dayglo orange. Yes, the tip of the barrel is orange (CPSC decision??), but the rest is black. Also, if you want to spend a little bit more money, you
Re:That's a toughie (Score:3, Interesting)
Growing up my step dad had tons of guns, was ex Marine, and believed strongly in gun safety. They were locked up somewhere and frankly us kids (three total) didn't care where. We never had "gun looking" toy guns as he didn't believe that we should belittle the power of a real gun by having something that might teach us to not respect their true power. We were annoyed at this for a while (like ten minutes or so, but a long time for one in the 1st
Re:That's a toughie (Score:2)
Took me a while to find little green soldiers (but I did, eventually)... you'd think the whole 'support our troops' thing would get some more toy military on the shelves... shrug...
Try the Dollar Tree (Score:2)
My wife got a bunch of those things for our kids a while back, and I think she got them at the Dollar Tree. Little cheap plastic things that kept them very happy in the tub, nothing special. She finds all kinds of weird goodies in there all the time.
I hope that helps.
And by the way, I never said "Thanks" for all your work on the PhotoKon. So I'll say it now - Thanks, that was fun!
No help, but an anecdote... (Score:2)
Re:No help, but an anecdote... (Score:2)
;-)
An idea (Score:1)
As a bonus, you'd become a dictator.
Have fun storming the castle.