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Outrageous Steve’s Review:
DOO DOO DARTS (aka Toilet Turds) – A Bathroom Game
A
PrankPlace.com/Big Mouth Toys Original
For several years we have
sold the Potty
Putter Game, it’s a silly game that would allow someone to sit on
the putty and hit a golf ball on a miniature putting green. I doubt anyone actually uses it
more than once, really it’s just a gag gift, and without the funny
picture on the box, it would not even be that.
I had wanted to come up with a funny game having
something to do with mini-poop and a a mini-toilet. Jay (Our Creative Director) and
I had toyed with a Velcro dart board type of gag a few years back, something
along the lines of ways to kill time at work, with little spaces for Search
the Web, Check out Porn, Make Stupid Xerox Copies, etc. I ran the idea by some friends,
who thought it was just ok, and the idea quickly lost momentum.
Next, I mocked up a Mr. Mouth type of game,
where users would flick little tiny turds into a revolving toilet, with the
top going up and down, but nixed it after getting some preliminary mold costs
back from our factory in China.
That’s when the
great turd hit me on my head, and the Toilet Doos Game was born. I actually had imagined it in
college dorm rooms, it was Jay who pointed out that it was a bathroom
game. Something to do while
sitting on the commode. He
was dumbstruck that I had not intended that when I came up with the idea.
The game play is simple,
you get three very realistic little piles of turd, and a cloth covered
toilet. (It was easier to
describe the shape and feel to my factory in China, since they had just
completed the Poop Bank a month prior). You toss the tiny turds which
are wrapped in Velcro, at the toilet, and score various points for your
aim. Really just like any
Velcro darts game, but with a poop twist on ours.
Our first design had a
negative value for hitting the seat with your turd, you actually lost points,
and we changed that after testing of the prototype. When I brought the game home to my
kids, who were not at all interested (I bring a lot of poop stuff home), they
soon started playing it and having a good time. My wife Lisa was not happy that I had
removed a picture from our bathroom wall to expose a nail, so I could hang
the game. The game remains in our first floor bathroom, but Lisa
always takes it down when we have company for some reason.
By the way, the guy on
the package who is seen tossing the turds, is our COO (and my brother in
law), Tom Tedesco.
Outrageous Steve
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