Toy Fair 2009, Unitech Toys, Fun-Fly-Stick, Giant Flying Toys

"Is it air? Magnet? What? Static Electricity?! Really? I thought that was air." - This was the most common conversation at the Unitech Toys booth at the Toys Fair.
How can you inflate a giant shape that made nearly as a spider web, has holes all over and no defined body? Air would not help! It is not a balloon after all.

Here are the secrets of levitation shown on the video:

1. To inflate the shape I had to make a contact between the flyer and the FunFlyStick. The best way is to hang a giant shape on to the control tube and press the button instantly transferring static charge onto the flyer. The flyer expands and it is important to prevent the flyer from touching anything including the plastic part of the FunFlyStick.
2. To take the inflated flyer off the wand I had to literally blow it off the wand into the air. Otherwise, the flyer would touch something and lose the charge. With one regular FunFlyStick (not FunFlyStick XL) you cannot rapidly create a static field strong enough to lift up large and relatively heavy object.
3. FunFlyStick is intended for smaller floaters thus the trick is to help the flying toy to take off and then to keep it up in the air with at least two wands. The flying toys tend to loose static which requires adding more static by touching the flying toy with the charged wand. Thus, from time to time I had to touch the flyers with charged Fun-Fly-Sticks.
4. The last segment is a treat! It shows a prototype of FunFlyStick XL charging me with static. The charge gets transferred onto the flying toy and the flying toy expands in my hands. XL generates static fast and is absolute fun to play with but IT IS NOT A CHILDREN'S TOY!

Feel free to ask any questions.

This time comments are allowed.

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[mrgurth1]

what is this thing made out of.

[UnitechToys]

It made of extremely thin mylar film

[PuertoricanDude6114]

When exactly are you going to release the Fun-Fly-Stick XL, and where will people be able to buy it from?

[UnitechToys]

Estimated launch time is March 2010.

[scare2ccc2magic0]

it is not a children,s toy so what is it? Nice vid

[UnitechToys]

It is a plaything for ages 13+.

[ChristianAcademyCEP]

is there a way to buy sheets of this film? I was wanting to cut out children's names and let those float....but apparently 1mil mylar is still too thick.

[1boredom2strikes3]

i got one and im keepign them in the book do i have to meticulously make them flat or if i put in book relativetly flat buta lil tangled will they stay the same shape

[iLevitation]

The same forces (static electricity) that make people's hair stand up when touching a vandegraaf generator are what make this work. It's very cool. Nice invention.

[UnitechToys]

These shapes are prototypes of the construction set that we are planning to release a few months after superpowerful Fun-Fly-Stick XL is out.

Small FunFlyStick cannot levitate them on its own.

Advanced Set shapes are the largest flying toys available for small FunFlyStick. Check out our video demonstration of Advanced flyers.