March 22, 2004

Department of Poorly-Designed Toys

For whatever reason, I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about Frisbees -- I used to play a fair bit of ultimate back in high school, but hardly thrown one since. So when the weather hit a surprising 49°F on Sunday, we set out to obtain one at the Toys R Us near Fresh Pond Park.
It turns out that this Toys R Us didn't stock Frisbees. What they did stock was something called Tec Disc, a translucent knock-off with a floppy rubber rim, the whole thing done up in outlandish fluorescents. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and since these measures only cost 3 dollars, we grabbed one and took it out for a test.
After some experimentation, we concluded that the Tec Disc has two unusual features for a flying disc. First, it generates almost no lift when thrown. Second, the top and outer edge of the rubber rim is, to quote the marketing literature, "textured": covered in tiny, hard rubber cones; cones that managed, after a half hour of play, to cut open one of my fingers. That's right, the good people at Tec Disc have invented a spiked Frisbee.

Posted by tingley at March 22, 2004 11:09 AM
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I was surprised a few years back to learn that frisbees (even here in sunny California) are officially a seasonal item; various places I looked for them didn't have them during the winter but did during the summer (and maybe spring).

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