For a PhP 170 pack of Tender Juicy you get a toy freebie. Don't get the one with the blah pencils though; get the other freebie, the one with the red and blue plastic pieces you snap on a la railway tracks and two plastic discs with holes in them.
It's called a spirograph.
Your ballpen tip, preferably colored, goes in any hole on either disc. Then you carefully run the disc along the inside of the railway tracks, like cogs and wheels, faithfully following the entire circumference of the racks. And in the process produce beautiful geometric circles and blooms. If you're patient you'll get perfect patterns each time. If, however, you"ve got tremor of the hands, or have bad eye and hand coordination, or just plain careless, you get sloppy drawings of course such as this and this.
So the Spirograph discs by Tender Juicy still have Captain America's mighty shield going for them, at least in terms of the sticker on them, plus the red and blue color. Anyway, a shield able to create artworks is better, I think, than the real shield of Captain America which just ricochets and boomerangs off walls and enemies' foreheads.
Okay, the freebie isn't an original toy anymore, which is why I'm filing this post under Classic Toys. The spirograph has been around since the 60's, invented by one Denys Fisher, who, not surprisingly is an engineer. Really, beneath all the smooth seemingly mindless fun of creating wonderful geometric patterns is an actual mathematical curve.
Originally, Fisher intended the contraption to be a tool for draftsmen (move over boring compass), but he thought it best to market it as a toy. And sure enough, it won Toy of the Year and was the best selling toy in 1967.
At the grounds of Quiapo church they sell spirographs too, for 20 bucks. No hotdogs included, but for 20 bucks you have about 5 or 6 or even 7 discs of different sizes, so there's a wider variety of geometric blooms possible.
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