No, I 'm not talking about toys that vibrate... naughty. :p
I'm talking about a toy, so simple, you'd go " Why didn't I think about it before...?!"
Multi-award winning, designer stuff here I'm talking 'bout.
A design so simple, so inspirational, absolutely an ingenious concept.
And no, Ikea didn't buy the manufacturing rights to it to make it mass-market cheap.
It's a toy for the kid and the child in all of us.
Our kids are our future so let's focus on them here.
The Bilibo looks like an ancient troglodyte; those sea-bottom dwelling giant shell fish not too disimilar to our horse-shoe crabs. Then imagine two put together like they are mating.... LOL ... and wah lah ! You get a smiling alien-head!
It's not a toy that comes with disclaimers and instructions on the 'how to's' and 'how not to's' .
It's a toy for the imagination. A toy for the 'free-and-easy'. A toy to do ANYTHING with.
In the makers own words:
A young swiss designer,
Alex Hochstrasser,
created Bilibo with the help of expert professors of the world of childhood. The design of Bilibo is the result of research deepened on the behavior of play of the young children. Bilibo does not use any electronics which often involves the child artificial behaviors. Bilibo encourages the child to create, invent and not only to consume. ...
Nuff talk ! Let's Play ! But How???
-You can sit in it like a designer floor sit.
-You can rock yourself silly in it.
-You can sit on it like a fancy stool and use the other as a footie.
-You can hide under it and pretend to be the world's cutest turtle.
-You can scoop water/sand/soil with it
-You can carry or contain your barang barangs
-You can make sand-castle mounds with it
-You can play toy-ship with it (yes, it floats)
-You can slide down the snowy hillside during winter, in it.
-You can huge-scoop-water indulge yourself during hot summer.
-You can spin in it like a manic top.
- You can stand on it to reach for that yummy jar of choc-chip-cookies.
- You can play cave with your toy cars/trains
-You can play hide-and-seek with your pet rabbit/Chu Hua Hua/ Guinea Pig/ Hammie etc.
-You can stack'em like buidling blocks
-You can wear it as a Darth Vader mask.... and go " WHOSE MY FATHER....? " hahahaa
-YOU CAN , YOU CAN , YOU CAN .
Getit? Your imagination is your own limit.
On top of that, its 100% Recyclable. So its perfect for the environmental-conscious-beings in us.
It's virtually indestructable so no mad kid ( or fat adult) can lay claim to having played
Toy-Titanic at the pool.
It's no wonder it is the hottest selling toy in Japan and Europe right now. And is fast gaining a huge following else where too.
The catch?
Well, of course, when something heralds such designer indulgence , with all the hype and hoopla surrounding it, it doesn't come cheap.
(Thus, will we see fake Bilibos popping up in the market in time to come? shucks)
Be prepared to pay over a 160 bucks for a simple set-pair.
And lemme remind you that the Bilibo ain't some high tech gizmo. It, in fact, looks more like a glamorized plastic container.
Ah, see, another use! A colorful and fun salad bowl when the pals come over for Caesars.
Just don't tell them that Junior, pooped in it a week earlier.... his fanciest potty sit ever.
Woops. :p
