Model Forum / General / Models / February 2008

The thing that hits me is that by hiring just one native English
speaker-writer, these companies could completely eliminate these
problems, the way a American company could hand over their translation
of English into Japanese to someone who grew up in Tokyo and solve their
problems also.
Meanwhile, off to the zoo:

"BEIJING ZOO
Pandas and other miserable animals in cages."

Shanghai Zoo:
"Edible
Fur Can Be used
Evil Animal."

Pat

Oh, that one gets bookmarked - thanks! :-)

Pat

And it's one word: "cowcomes".
I've been trying to figure out what this toy is like, and as a guess I
think it's something that is attached to the ceiling, and has some sort
of  things that are suspended from it and fly around it in circles at
the end of lines.
Translated, it might read like this:
1. Attach the spinner unit to the ceiling using either a strong screw on
a strong ceiling, or the double-sided adhesive pad, after cleaning the
ceiling of any dust or dirt for a weaker ceiling.
2. Attach a fairly long pieces of string to the ceiling spinner unit.
3. Install the batteries correctly in the toys.
4. Attach the strings from the ceiling spinner unit to the toys by
placing the  hooks on the ends of the lines into the holes in the  toys.
5. Make sure the direction of rotation of the toys is in the direction
of the arrows on the spinner unit.
Get ready to start the motors on the toys by standing clear of the toys
and making sure the control switch on the remote control is in the off
position until everyone is clear of the toys and spinner unit. Start the
toys via their remote controls and let them fly around the ceiling
spinner unit.
(I think the ceiling spinner unit has the lines to the toys mounted one
above the other so they can race around it at different altitudes under
individual control. Whether the spinner unit also can do things is a
open question, although battery replacement on it would be difficult.)
* Don't try to crash the toys into people, don't try to wrap the toys
around peoples hands as the strings can cut off blood circulation.
* Ask an adult to show you how the game works.
* Play all day but watch out for rope burns if you contact the
suspension lines.
* When opening or closing the battery hatch on the toys, make sure not
to drop the batteries as they may rupture causing a fire or leaking
chemicals (these are obviously some sort of high-powered rechargeable  
battery packs).
* Make sure to be careful while removing the batteries from the plug-in
charger unit.
* If the batteries fall into water they can short, causing a fire.
* Don't use defective batteries; their contents are corrosive and can
cause skin burns; if exposed to their contents seek medical aid  from a
doctor (pill roller) immediately and follow his orders.
* Have fun with your toy!!! (?)
If the strings attaching the toys to the ceiling unit retract into it
when they are not turned on and spinning and come out from it under
centrifugal force, this could be one hell of a wild thing to see in
action; as the toys (they must be aircraft of some sort, but knowing the
Japanese they could be just about anything) begin to spin up to speed,
they extend from the ceiling unit to different distances depending on
their speed of rotation. Then you can race them, one above the other,
around the unit...slowing down to pull in close for speed, or
accelerating briefly to pull ahead of your opponent, using some pretty
clever extrapolations of Kepler's laws regarding rotating bodies and how
much distance they cover in a given time period.
Of course they could just spin around the central unit in fixed relation
to one another at the same level, just moving in and out as their speed
changed. But that wouldn't keep kids happy till cowcomes home. ;-)

Pat