Living Between Wednesdays Holiday Gift Guide Part 4: 2-3 Kids!
Part 4: Big Enough for 2-3 Kids!
Everyone knows someone with two to three kids. Why not give them a break this year by providing their progeny with an enclosed space to hide out in, hopefully quietly, for hours at a time?
Frontier Cabin
Here you have your basic polyethelene Frontier Cabin, complete with rustic youth and nameplate. Note the ease with which one can purchase multiple such buildings – you can buy for multiple enchilded families at once or provide some lucky child with a village all their own.
Jet “Rocket” Space Ship
Missile Firing Tank
Polaris Nuclear Sub
I really don’t have anything to say about the other three, except that I’m jealous of the kids who got to play with these things, even if they were made of corrugated cardboard.
Why is one of those kids in the tank pretending to be an old-timey football player?
I’m completley drawing a blank on who or where it was, but I remember reading a comic involving the author as a child sending away for that log cabin kit. He spent the 4-6 weeks dreaming about the thing, only to be totally crushed when it finally arrives and it turns out to be not much more than a garbage bag with the pattern of the cabin printed onto it. Not even corrugated cardboard, just a flimsy brown plastic sheet.
Not surprised. Saddened, though. Why can’t kids get a square deal?
We could use those cheap log cabins to solve our homelessness problem.
Well, they all have a free trial of sorts. You can use the Polaris Nuclear Sub for ten full days and “if you don’t think it’s the greatest ever—the best toy you ever had” you can send it back. Not bad!
I think the author who wrote about the “log” cabin being a sheet of plastic was Michael Chabon…but I could be mistaken.