Comments on: Fly Jumpers Junior

Fly Jumpers Junior

hnnrs — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:26:02 -0800

Fly Jumpers Junior are a new product that give the wearer near-superhuman abilities, according to the promotional video on this amazon UK page. The vid also includes a surprising, albeit hilarious gory ending. The problem? These are Fly Jumpers Junior, aimed at kids. As one reviewer has already noted, isn't this a bit too much for advertising a product aimed at children?

By: Poolio

Poolio — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:36:25 -0800

Fantastic.

By: CaptMcalister

CaptMcalister — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:40:43 -0800

the amazon page also links to the adult version of the product, which has the same add, so i suspect the add is actually for the adult product.

By: unclemonty

unclemonty — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:42:59 -0800

Would it be more acceptable for an Amazon page aimed at adults to show a video displaying a thief escaping police with a bag full of stolen swag before meeting an uncompromisingly bloody demise?

By: furtive

furtive — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:49:24 -0800

Children shop on Amazon?

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:05:04 -0800

The Mythbusters have already covered this: Ceiling Fan of Death Can a ceiling fan chop your head off? The tested two different approaches: jumping up into a fan, and coming in from the side. The build team built rather disgusting dummy heads/necks for this, filling a Adam's ballistic head mold with a pig's spine and skull. They picked up one household ceiling fan (~20+mph) and one industrial strength fan (~50+mph) from House of Fans and rigged the dummy heads to hit the fans from the two approach angles. Unsurprisingly (if you've ever put your hand up into a ceiling fan), the household fan did nothing to the dummy head. The industrial fan managed a bit more damage, perhaps doing enough to break the skull or cutting the neck. In order to "replicate the myth," Tory and Scottie rigged up a lawn mower motor to a custom blade of death. The contraption absolutely annhiliated the dummy head, ripping the head/neck to shreds, though not actually doing enough damage to decapitate. The dummy heads were perhaps a bit too realistic because it seemed that they were hesitant to show some of the footage of the dummy head being hit. busted

By: kaseijin

kaseijin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:15:59 -0800

Who needs MythBusters? It's a long story, but I have actually had my head raised directly into a ceiling fan. A bit of a scary *thwapp* upside the head, and a small knot... and that's really all it did. Since then, i reach my hand into them to stop them all the time.

By: woodblock100

woodblock100 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:20:19 -0800

Forget the fan business ... is it actually possible that a company can make and sell a product like this without being sued to death as a result of the 'accidents' that are inevitable? If you were an insurance company, would you sell them any insurance?

By: DU

DU — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:27:51 -0800

Mythbusters already covered using extreme gore to sell toys to children? I think I missed that one.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:45:45 -0800

Mythbusters already covered using extreme gore to sell toys to children? Now you're being silly. Using violence to sell toys isn't a myth!

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:49:15 -0800

Are you not also tired of FPP's always asking you questions? For Channel 7 News, I'm Brocktoon.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:26:39 -0800

This was not the post to read during breakfast. *holds weak stomach*

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:28:23 -0800

MY GOD WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE HEADLESS CHILDREN?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:29:01 -0800

On the other hand, "Decapitan Marvel" would be an awesome superhero.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:31:41 -0800

Yeah, that's a bizarre ad. Disturbing. Guess old fashioned fun with regular joy is out and now fun means stealing, running from the cops though urban blight and dying an untimely, gory death. huh.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:40:03 -0800

The Mythbusters have already covered this... No product that uses a large spinning open blade is going to be fast and sharp enough to chop you up, because no manufacturer would want to kill maim and clients and none would be able to afford the lawsuits and bad publicity. But that's way beside the point. The decap and kids? Kids are used to seeing cartoonish spattery death. If only it were shocking to them. What I really want to know is whether these goofy springy shoe things are actually any good. Or is the decapitation ad equally misleading about the effectiveness of the springy thingies? Has someone out there used them?

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:47:05 -0800

... is it actually possible that a company can make and sell a product like this without being sued to death as a result of the 'accidents' that are inevitable? See: trampoline

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:53:55 -0800

pracowity, IIRC there is a pro runner out there who uses something like them because of a amputation... I think these toys are roughly based on that design. *googles* Oscar Pistorius runs on carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs. His legs were amputated when he was a year old. Now Oscar Pistorius is on track to make the South African Olympic team. Is he an engineering marvel — or just one hell of a sprinter? In other news, Google is still made of win.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:21:11 -0800

Products like this have been around for some years (I've heard of them under the brand name Power Riser), and they're great fun. People who know what they're doing with them can do some crazy tricks.

By: DU

DU — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:37:14 -0800

No product that uses a large spinning open blade is going to be fast and sharp enough to chop you up, because no manufacturer would want to kill maim and clients and none would be able to afford the lawsuits and bad publicity. Is that like: No product that puts chemicals into a human body is going to be harmful, because no manufacturer would want to sicken or kill clients and none would be able to afford the lawsuits and bad publicity. ?

By: worker_bee

worker_bee — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:40:52 -0800

Yes, but can you really rob a bank and get away from two fat rent-a-cops with these things? If there's no written guarantees then I ain't buying.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:22:26 -0800

> a new product that give the wearer near-superhuman abilities This is new? When I was very small I wore a one-piece fuzzy jumper pajama with footies, a pair of contrasting little-guy track shorts over that, and a towel pinned to my shoulders, and it gave me near-superhuman abilities.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:59:22 -0800

Run as fast as a car? ...they do know cars have variable speeds, right? Well, I suppose kids have to fight crime too.

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:01:59 -0800

My uncontrollable comic geekery forces me to cite Jack-in-the-Box and Stilt-Man as precursors.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:34:56 -0800

There was a guy with a pair of these at Playa del Fuego this past weekend. He wasn't quite as gymnastical as the guy in the ad, but, yeah, the running sequences were pretty accurate. And I saw a guy on Letterman jump over a car with them. One odd thing--it's impossible to stand still while wearing them.