Does anyone remember Colorforms?
Do they still make Colorforms?
I wish I could go back in time & watch myself play with Colorforms. I have memories of entire stories unfolding on that two dimensional space, with the strange plastic shapes ("forms") moved around like terrible animation by me, often mixing in some other Colorforms characters from different sets. I remember sometimes continuing stories over the course of days. Me, all by myself in a room, making a movie with my hands, my little brain & a couple of Colorforms stages.
I know that kids today get used to having constant stimulation & find such immobile things dull. A friend of my wife tells me his kids find Mister Rogers boring. Imagine! I have no illusions that any child would have the same experience I had with Colorforms.
What I would like to hear were the stories I acted out. I am a terrible storyteller - a failed writer - which I think is obvious - & I have no sense of plot or character development - & the adventures I was enacting were probably cliched & dull, whole narratives lifted from comic books or cartoons.
But what if they weren't? I think it wouldn't hurt for me to find out.
Though I never will.
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