IMO the people who design children's play areas are generally not that great at it. I say that as a preschool teacher.
it would be a good idea to let the children design their play areas. you'd probably need to guide them a bit though
For starters, we're gonna need at least three T-Rexes...
Are you implying they didn't run this idea of 3 concentric hoops, and a random ~~stake~~ pipe sticking vertical in front of kids first?!
that is a fine idea, and also totally a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_playground
Yes and you forgot the best part. The community must come together to build it.
They aren't just hiring some random out of the Home Depot parking lot.
Full video about these
wow that's so cool, I would've loved that as a kid
Yeah, me too. I visited one in London a few years back, and it looked like a ton of fun
Looks like they thought they were doing an art installation. I'm sure lots of meetings and work-lunches occurred.
You were allowed to leave your parents side at the airport?
It was a different time before 9/11....
So I looked this up. It's the viewing/sitting/fidgeting area for an interactive art installation at the San Francisco airport called the Butterfly Wall. As a kids area, yeah it's still a bit sterile and eye-rollingly "sophisticated," but they left out the actual attraction, a tank-like thing with very satisfying-looking hand cranks that raise little goassamer-winged mechanical butterflies that than then descend like fancy versions of the parachute men you'd get from the dentist because he won't keep candy. I've seen tonally similar things at a dozen different parks, museums, and botanical gardens, and this one is actually kinda nice in that being indoors it can be a little more delicate.
pics
As others have said, most kids areas I've seen are much less ST:TNG-coded, and even SFO has others that are "better." My kid is through the "every random play area must be experienced" phase, but she's traveled a lot, and we've seen tons of aviation themed mini-playgrounds and open spaces with primary-colored benches along the walls.
Pet peeve time: this kind of cherry-picked observation is weaponized laziness, the social media equivalent of stand-ups thinking it's clever to muse, "why isn't the whole plane made of the black box stuff?!"
his kind of cherry-picked observation is weaponized laziness, the social media equivalent of stand-ups thinking it’s clever to muse, “why isn’t the whole plane made of the black box stuff?!”
It's attention chum.
Hence, the blue checkmark.
It's mind boggling to me that blue checkmark Tweets are the most upvoted/commented things on Lemmy. Didn't we come here to escape that?
Thank you for sharing this, it's cool!
I think that's a bike stand.
Are you kidding? That looks pretty similar to the Enterprise bridge in TNG. I absolutely did star trek make believe.
All they need is a giant LCD in front of me showing random images of Romulan ships and I'd make due with this sort of design.
If this is Star Trek, then it is Odo's room from DS9.
They even have a carpet and all and it's made of Sisko jr's jumper.
That carpet looks… not so clean.
children.
Any part of an airport can be a play area if you're creative enough.
Or for that matter, any part of the plane!
That's what I tried to tell the security as well, when they pulled me off a wing
creative enough = not afraid of getting arrested
Any. Part.
Brb, gonna squeeze into the underground avgas pump
what even is that thing on the left? gravity coil???
Seat checker.
If you can fit through the 3 concentric rings then you don't have to purchase a second ticket.
No, you walk them in and it locks their heads in place so you can re-shod them before releasing them back into the wild.
Isn't shod past tense? I'd write it "...can get them re-shod..."
I used to work with a guy named Reshod.
Sounds pretty past tense to me!
I'm more concerned about the thing on the right.
Hey kids, you can either swing around on the gravity coils on the left or you can go to the right and impale yourself!
Ig you didnt look closer. Its actually fairly high and has a sphere at the top. Can't impale on it but it does look rather dangerous, a shitty merry go round perhaps.
Ahh you're right. It kinda blended in with the cushion behind it and just looked like it ended there with a really sharp tip
“Ensign Crusher, engage”
I'm sure they have to work within ridiculous bureaucratic constraints
One of the airports in Warsaw has fidget spinners bolted to the wall 😭 even that’s outdone this.
Ngl, that would have amused my ADHD ass for hours
They know how much children love sharp angles.
I've seen a few airports with children's play areas and none of them looked like whatever this is.
Either way I wouldn't want to touch them, guaranteed corona
There’s actually a good one in St. Louis. It even has a cockpit that you can explore too, and a control tower.
Some do OK
The monkey-bar wings idea is a pretty nice touch, actually, as is figuring out a way for it to be outside, or maybe just accepting that it COULD be.
The one at Boston Logan is pretty good. All soft padded surfaces and everything.
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
