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This is a paper-padded paperboard tube
filled with candy that has a punctured
weakness around the middle designed to
fail after one great hit or a series of
smaller hits. Each participant is given one
of these. They battle each other hitting
tube to tube until one fails. Cheers and
then
the candy is collected from the
ground by everyone. The next participant
steps up to the current champion and
starts the battle over again.
Actually these reverse piñatas could take
the shapes of hammers, axes, clubs or
animals, each with their own designed
weak points to allow for the most candy to
fall out during failure.
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are you familiar with christmas crackers? not in the biblical sense obviously :) |
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Yes, christmas crackers are fun. |
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I wuld have thought a reverse pinata would involve trying to whack candies and other goodies back *into* a brightly colored papier mache shell. |
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No, [DrCurry], it would be a piñata, armed with a stick, vigorously laying into a group of children. Worth seeing, that. |
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[gardnertoo] I thought the same thing. All the more interesting when the kids know that there is candy inside the assaulter. Given that, I wouldn't sign up to be the piñata! |
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I've never been very happy with something that teaches children to associate mob violence with rewards. I'm not too keen on [gardnertoo]'s alternative either, since I don't want my children to get beaten up either. |
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I have no objection to play violence, provided that it's fair-ish and not too dangerous, so what about piñata shields and rigid weapons (and body padding and face masks)? You get your reward by landing solid blows on someone's shield or, at your own risk, you duck in underneath another battling pair to snatch up what they've been too busy to notice. |
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Or, it could be a group of blindfolded kids hanging from a tree attempting to break a piñata that's sitting on the ground by throwing candy at it. |
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In Soviet Russa, piñata hits YOU! |
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Though I understand everyone's comments, I still don't understand how your pinata is designed. Could you elaborate further? |
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It's a cardboard tube filled with candy, with a perforated middle section. When you whack it against things, the perforation tears and the candy falls out. Simple. |
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Surely this is basically the same as a normal piñata but without the amusing shape or slightly more rigid structure?.. pardon the ignorance, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong. |
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"When you whack it against things" |
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"When you whack things against it" |
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Maybe not a revolution in design, but certainly application. |
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[gardnertoo], if I could give you a bun
for your version, I would. |
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[apocalyps956] would get a bun, too,
for your vision of suspended kiddies
pelting a piñata with candy. Of course,
the whole thing would come to a halt
when one of the kids realizes that she
can just hang there and _eat_ the candy. |
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Finally, there's the "Uñata", which only
gives up its candy if you _don't_ hit it.
Kiddies just stand around it until it
spontaneously explodes, showering
them with candy. |
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ah, chocolate fireworks, land. that sounds familiar. |
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[5th earth]- thank you for clearing that up. |
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This is a much better idea than the spider-like machine I envisioned that would beat candy back out of children... |
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I challenge you to a duel! |
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OR .... fill tubes with raw green beans, peas, and broccoli. |
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The loser has to eat the veggies, before the birthday cake is served. |
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