Rubber Duckies go APE for Bathtub-Racing Board Game

5/5/08

Advanced Primate Entertainment (APE Games) has a preview of a new and as-yet-unreleased board game about bathtub-racing rubber ducks, created by game designer Kevin G. Nunn. The game, titled “duck! duck! GO!,” is recommended for two to six players ages eight and up and lists playing time as 20-40 minutes. The advertising blurb correctly asserts that “bathtub rubber ducky [sic] racing has long been a popular sport.” In this board game version of a bathtub race, each player uses movement cards from their hand to race their duckie around the tub, trying to be the first to touch all the buoys and and return to the “finish drain.”

The game box will include 16 two-sided game board tiles which can be arranged in different patterns (shown in the beautifully illustrated full color rulebook) for various levels of play. The set also contains movement cards, tokens, one “random rubber bird dog” and six “random rubber duckies.” The rubber bird dog shown in the rule book and on the box illustration looks like a rubber duck crossed with a beagle. The game description listed on APE Games’ web site says “each game comes with six REAL rubber duckies, chosen at random from a set of over 100 different duckies” but further in the description indicates that you can order from their online store and “select your own set of duckies to put in the game.” Examples shown in the rule book and on the web site include rubber ducks “dressed” as a fire fighter, a sailor, a pirate and a ninja.  According to the FAQ posted on the game forum, the duckies do not squeak and of course they are all bathtub-safe. The FAQ also notes that the game will be making its debut at GenCon in August 2008 and will be available for pre-order in early July 2008. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available! 

 

 

 

Remote Control Rubber Duck

3/28/08

Many of our bathtime friends are content to rest in the tub and enjoy the bubbles.  Not so with the new remote control duck from i want one of those.  This duck will make waves in your tub by piloting circles around the rest of your collection.  It's a good thing rubber ducks don't usually get jealous because the twin props on this duck can definitely push through the bubbles.  Oh and the two best points:

• The controller is waterproof.
• 5 minute charges.

Yes, definitely, we want one of those.

 

Rubber Ducks Go Pink for a Good Cause

10/22/07

 

An inspired student at Merrimack College in Connecticut is working hard for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), with help from a batch of pink rubber ducks.  Nichole Baldwin is selling these special ducks with plans to float them in the college library’s reflecting pool from October 22nd to November 1st.  Her goal is to sell and float 500 ducks.  She is selling the ducks for $1 each, numbering them, and writing the names of "Breast Cancer Heroes" on the ducks.  Explaining her terminology, Baldwin was quoted: “I don’t like to say a ‘cancer survivor’ or ‘someone who died of cancer,’”   All proceeds will go to the "Monica Cooper Children of Breast Cancer Fund" scholarship, which benefits children who have lost a parent to breast cancer.

 

Baldwin hopes the Mendel Pond pink duck float will become an annual event.  If you'd like to contact Nicole, you can email her at BaldwinN@merrimack.edu.  Go, Nichole, go!