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For those of you who agonize about saving the instructions from your kids' toys and games, or who've stumbled onto vintage toys at garage sales, the folks behind Z Recommends have create a new site: Toyinstructions. This is site is a wiki -- anyone can contribute content and links -- the idea being Toyinstructions will eventually become a comprehensive repository of instructions for a vast number of toys and games...fascinating.
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» Toy instructions on a wiki from Boing Boing
Marylin points us to ToyInstructions, a wiki for operating details of commercial toys -- how to make them go after you LTFM ("lose the fine manual") and how to hack them to get the most ludens for your lira. Welcome to toyinstructions, a collaborative ... [Read More]
» Toy instructions on a wiki from Boing Boing
Marylin points us to ToyInstructions, a wiki for operating details of commercial toys -- how to make them go after you LTFM ("lose the fine manual") and how to hack them to get the most ludens for your lira. Welcome to toyinstructions, a collaborative ... [Read More]
You'll also need www.boardgamegeek.com
The centre of the boardgame universe, it will have thousands of rules you've lost or forgotten.
Posted by: jon | Mar 5, 2007 3:27:19 PM
We're trying to declutter our home and make it more manor than hovel, but I'm a total packrat.
When I stood holding a pile of toy instructions, and Jim said- Jeremiah has those covered on toyinstructions.net, the papers started their journey to reincarnation via our recycling bin. I think Jim did a little happy dance to see me relinquish them so easily.
Now if only someone would make a similar repository for baby gear instructions...
Posted by: Adrienne | Mar 6, 2007 8:09:02 AM