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Outrageous Steve's Review:
DOO DOO DARTS (Toilet Turds)
A Bathroom Game
A PrankPlace/Big Mouth Toys OriginalFor 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.
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