Posted September 23, 2009 

One fortuitous day we wondered what extreme laughter would look like. The world has all kinds of other extreme things, extreme sports, etc. So why not extreme laughter?  

We combined Baby Go Boom with Baby Get Up and Go, mashing them up with several of our other mechanisms and actions into one version of a red furry famous plush character, and it was indeed pretty cool and very funny. Not immediately, but after a while, they loved it.

            

It had every laugh action from every slapstick movie and Saturday morning cartoon that I had ever seen, almost. Belly laughs, bend over laughs, falling down on the ground laughs. But not thigh-slapping laughs. As I recall, the toy company wanted us to add the hand slapping the thigh - a very nice touch. Then we were challenged to make it work with a simpler and less expensive mechanism, which we thought was impossible, but we went ahead and did it anyway. The result was spectacular, and laughter was heard ‘round the world. 

  

It took years of study, experimentation, and a good dose of luck to create this mechanical mystery. 

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