Good afternoon gentlemen, my name is Betty Morris. I must first start off by saying how proud I am to be showing you, the board of directors for Milton Bradley, this creation of mine. Well mine and Kathryn’s, but really all she ever did for the project was to color the plastic. And let us just be honest for a moment, my sweet little boys manage to do better, and one of them (bless his heart) has a touch of the epilepsy. But regardless of who contributed the most to this endeavor, I would like to present to you: Shrinky Dinks!
What’s that Kathryn? Don’t be silly, we loved the name and you seemed very agreeable to it last night. And you can’t keep using your drinking as an excuse to not honor a contract agreement. A verbal contract still counts in a number of place darling.
She does have a taste for the liquor, which is why I’ll gladly be the face of the product.
Now to continue, and I certainly hope you all know how to hold questions till the end, you start with a sheet of our special plastic. Then you can just draw whatever the heck you could want on them. Simple enough, right? I’ve had my own little artists make some examples. Let me just take them out of this folder and… Hmm. It appears both Billy and Sammy have grown an interest in human anatomy. A vivid interest. A vivd interest and generous imagination. No matter, we’re all adults here, and I’m sure all you gentlemen have seen your own share of… these.
Taking this one here, you can see it is already drawn and filled with color. Next, we’ll just cut along the edges, like so. The beauty of this is that you can really make your own toys customized to each child. My goodness, I’ll just keep a couple extra inches on that end, it would be embarrassing to have such a small bit. Sir, I wish you would stop squirming, you’ll want to watch what happens next.
So we put the cut-out on this tray, which we can put it into this oven, and bake it. Why we could even ship them with those things the little girls make the goodies with. You know those small ovens, right? Oh that is such a clever idea, a tiny oven for tiny toys! I’ll have to jot that down for later. Don’t even try to weasel credit on that one Kathryn, there are witnesses here who saw how quickly that idea evolved and from whom.
Oh yes, there is a slight burning smell. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, the parents may not like it, but the children won’t even mind. Heck I know for a fact that, most children have a scent of rancid milk and body odor about them so they will hardly even notice that burnt plastic smell.
Oh and there is the ding! Let me take them out of there. Oh my yes that smell is just a tad strong but you know what else doesn’t smell so good. Money. And I’m sure you won’t mind rolling in that, would you?
But if I could draw your attention away from the other drawings from my boys, and focus on something other than the smell, you’ll notice the... toys have all shrunk to about one-third of their size! Isn't that just marvelous? Here let me hand that around so you can look at and feel the weight of it. It grows thicker as it shrinks, but also the coloring get more vibrant. Why it almost looks like the real thing! No thanks sir, I’ll let you all keep that, as you seemed to handle it in such a fond manner just now.
So now that you’ve seen it in action, I would like to thank you again for this opportunity present my… "our" idea. I think this will present many children and parents the opportunity to bond, draw and create images of almost startling clarity. Good day!
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