Word: spacewarp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Editor Jose Ferrer, who edited the toys stories, claims he was too busy to play, but he acknowledges that he would like to try a newfangled gun called Lazer Tag: "I was also intrigued by one toy, Spacewarp, which looks like a high-toned version of a marble game I used to love." When he was a boy, recalls Ferrer, toys were less exotic. He and his brother constructed raceways from blocks for marbles to slide down, and would play with them for hours, until their sister toddled in and knocked everything over...
Grab an eggnog and (anticipating technical problems) a few elementary tools, then sit down with Spacewarp. Picture on the box looks great. Grinning boys watching steel marbles roll over course that resembles a Disney World ride for reckless ball bearings. Open the instruction book. And -- the horror! the horror! -- it looks like something from J. Robert Oppenheimer's sketchbook. Maybe the words of Johann Stonehouse, national sales and distribution manager for Bandai America, will soothe: "You're not getting your money's worth if it's not hard. It's a challenge. It's a good item for a family...
...wrap Spacewarp, settle down with another eggnog and consider the bounty under the tree. The regenerating myths of toys may have as many classical permutations as the collective unconscious, but the listings in most contemporary toy catalogs can be reduced to three basics. Spacewarp, for example, falls into a category that could be called . . . build...
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