Junk:
This is a tough one, and what got me in trouble at Rust Spot in the Winter of 2013. Bigfoot, again, seems to provide answers; acts as a beacon into the future.
The junk supported the train track, and seems directly tied. Spool Table (seemingly also known as Brian Head) was central, but Big Chair remained separate.
Marble Race:
- Longer train track; I could have extended Bigfoot’s track toward or around the swamp but decided against it.
- More established marble pedigree for racing, like I had in childhood with Bob Underston, Big Blue Eye, etc. Greenilochs, by itself, isn’t enough. I need to think of recreating the old groups of Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow & Odd. Maybe I can somehow *build* around Greenilochs, a new character. Not too big, not too small. Just right, and mirroring the “just right” size of Bigfoot itself in microcosm.
But interesting still the new idea of “irregular” marbles as the females of the species (see: Diamondia below), beautiful in a very different way from the male racers.
Toy Avatars:
Marbles that use the train track are technically toys. But what I’m talking about mainly here is the human, humanoid, or animal character toys you can buy, for example, at flea markets, perhaps preferably bought in volume to bring in a randomizing effect. This was the case with the toys at Bigfoot. I found one vendor at the main Mythopolis flea market that sold little ziplock bags of toys for a dollar, perhaps containing 5-10 toys each. I visited him several times, and I believe always bought 5 bags apiece from him. I looked for him again this past weekend, but he wasn’t there.
Billy J. Thornberry was instead purchased at a local dollar store (Dollar Tree), along with a number of my other toys I have presently. One advantage there: you can buy several duplicates of the same toy (like I did with Thornberry).
http://www.dollartree.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=332627
Cool! I’ll have to think about getting the related toys around Thornberry (lower right corner) in the above picture.
We also must talk about the *souls* of the toy avatars. After all, we’re dubbing them avatars and not mere soulless toys. They have personalities. Toy avatar ensoulment is a large subject in itself, and relates to the souls of Second Life avatars like Baker Bloch and Hucka Doobie.
A new Dollar Tree product: I must have them!
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