Mr. McGroovy's has agreed to give away three boxes of their wonderful box rivets, along with a rivet removal tool for each winner, in a quick contest on ZRecs, with entries accepted through Saturday evening.
Andy, inventor and entrepreneur behind McGroovy's box rivet empire, takes great pleasure in developing elaborate plans for cardboard forts, and shares them on his website - a castle, a spaceship, a horse-drawn carriage, Santa's sleigh - and the list gets stranger and more exciting from there.
Our challenge to you is this: Glance at the list of current fort-building plans and pitch suggestions for McGroovy's next cardboard fort design. You can post them in the comments to this post, or post them on your own blog and post a comment alerting us to its location. Your comment timestamp will be considered your time of entry in the contest.
As long as your comment or your blog leads to an email address you can be reached at, we'll consider you entered. Pitch us anything you'd love to see in cardboard form that you think can be designed using appliance boxes and box rivets. We'll accept up to three ideas per person; if you have more, the first three will be your entries.
Entries can be submitted until 11:59 p.m. Saturday, Central Standard Time. Andy will go through the suggestions on Sunday, and we will announce three winners on ZRecs on Monday.
Andy will select his top three favorites based on their originality, practicality and fun factor and will send each winner a box of 50 rivets and a rivet removal tool. Even better, he has committed to creating design specs for his #1 pick within a week of our contest, which he will post to his website for the cardboard fort-building community to share. Talk about fort-building bragging rights!
So take a look at the current plans, and then shoot us your first few great ideas, via a blog posting on your own blog or a traceable note in this post's comments. (If the latter, use [at] instead of "@" in your email address to avoid spambots.)
You can read our review of Mr. McGroovy's Box Rivets here.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Mr. McGroovy's Box Rivets Giveaway
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Airplane!
Geodesic dome !
Bus (VW or School)
I thought I rocket ship might be fun and a little out of the ordinary!
OOps, I missed the "space ship" - how about a race car? Or roller coaster cars? My 3 year old loves the roller coasters!
I really love these. They are great!
Shelly beat me to racecar! How about animals fo you can build your own zoo? I would LOVE to make a giraffe.
"fo" should be "so"
I can imagine a whole line of city buildings: hospital, school, restaurant, fire house, auto repair garage/gas station.
An airplane would be neat, too.
Here goes:
1. A dragon with wings and everything. Use the rivets to make hinges for the mouth so it can open and close. If it is big enough and someone to get inside, run some string so they can operate the mouth from inside.
2. A giant Anaconda snake with a bulge in the center (because snakes get bulges when they eat stuff) Kids can enter through the (hinged?) mouth and hang out in the bulge.
3. Jabba the Hut. Star wars is big, you know. Plus, you could use hinges to open the mouth and or pose the tail and/or arms.
Can you see a theme here? From Jeremiah's example, it seems like you could build some pretty cool poseable or semi-animated and interactive creations.
One more thought....this is my last one. An excavator. My son is nuts for them. I could see how making that big arm would be challenging, but kids would LOVE it!!!!
My 4 year old daughter has been begging for a play barn. She rarely pretends to be anything human, and all the animals she is pretending to be (as of today she has already been: a bat, a cat, a puppy, a cow and a worm) need a home.
k_remen at yahoo.com
Igloo
Tree house - don't know quite how that would work. Cardboard Tree with a house at the bottom?
submarine
My first thought (for older kids, and not fort-ish) was a lemonade stand. Mr. McGroovy could partner with Alex's Lemonade Stand (the charity).
Boys would probably like a jailhouse (do kids still play cowboys any more?)
I will reserve my last idea for later, since I can't come up with anything at the moment...
Great Brian, just make sure to give us a way to contact you for your pertinent info if you win!
How about a tractor? My cousin's son is obsessed with them. This could be extended to other farm equipment as well - combines, balers, etc.
Or maybe a haunted house.
A steam boat! Even better if the paddle could go round and round.
Canoe with oars
Cable car.
Ok, so here are my top 3 choices...
1. Hum V -- I live near where they make them...and my son LOVES them!
2. A church with steeples -- what little girl wouldn't love having a church to "get married in"?
3. A Big Rig/Semi Truck -- Again, what little boy doesn't love trucks? The bigger the better!
Other ideas I brainstormed are: Trojan Horse type animal that kids could play in, a Submarine, A race car with a trunk that opens please, a grandfather clock (to act out fairy tales in), a bridge, the Sydney Opera house cause it's a cool building, Hogwarts, a traditional sailboat, and a teddy bear
by the way, in case you can't get a hold of me off my blog, my email address is crunchypenguin (at) gmail (dot) com
I would like to see a back yard baseball type stadium.
It could include some or all of the following:
- A small scale back stop
- Dugouts and bleachers (use folding chairs to sit on) you could make family based advertisements for the front of the bleachers
- A Scoreboard with changeable cardboard numbers or a chalkboard.
You could easily make your yard a scale replica of your favorite ballpark
My email is
vincedotcom "at" yahoo.com
I would love to see plans for a kitchen from cardboard...
A helicopter. Although I can see my son trying to lug it up into the barn loft just to "see if it will really fly"
Any sort of construction equipment would be a huge hit at our house.... dozer, dump trucks, cement mixer.....
I would like to see an igloo. That would be neat.
How about super lego blocks? or giant chess pieces? ...for a design challenge maybe a real Transforming Optimus Prime!!! he he!!
dlfok "at" hotmail "dot" com
Man... not an entry but sheesh I really want to see the play kitchen plans... even if she doesn't win it would be a HUGE hit for many, many parents and kids. Talk about a great way to decide if it is worth investing in a nice wooden one... see how much use the cardboard on gets first... or just keep making them over and over as needed. Totally in love with the playkitchen idea.
In honor of the 2008 elections- the White House I might have to take my Bush family paper dolls inside for some "mommy is politically irritated" playtime.
A double decker bus
A walk-in Elephant (trunk raised for good luck)
Crud. The 3 above ideas are mine- NOT Jim's. I didn't realize he was still logged into blogger on this computer.
sorry-
adrienne
Shoot, I see most of the ideas I had have already been mentioned.
Here's a couple more:
Gingerbread house.
Maybe not too difficult structurally, but the decorations would be scrumptous.
Puppet Theatre.
Hinged shutters and a drop down stage?
A dog house.
Big enough to play being a pooch, and can store all their stuffed animals inside when it's not in use.
If you're feeling historical, you might consider a log cabin, tepee, or old west saloon (can you see the swinging doors?)
Linda
theblondeghost-at-yahoo-dot-com
Not my entry but want to see if it is possible (cluttering up the place ) Lincoln Logs style building blocks... cardboard folded into the log shape and held by the rivets, grooves cut out so the kidlets can stack them up into say... a log cabin like Linda suggested....
1. Play office with plans on how to make little computers and printers
2. Cardboard tent
3. Cardboard dinosaurs! Giant dinosaurs you can hide in.
4. Cardboard tv
skeeter_93atyahoo.com
submarine
jungle or forest (sort of like the skyscrapers)
race car
bulldozer
moon base
airplane
tank
zoo cages (for stuffies)
volcano
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