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Great blog post, totally agree with it... except, "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go" condescending? If you think Richard Scarry is trying to keep kids engaged

Great blog post, totally agree with it... except, "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go" condescending? If you think Richard Scarry is trying to keep kids engaged with "the false novelty of a carrot car" (!!!) you do NOT understand the appeal of that book to kids, despite the claim to the contrary.

bluGill 1y ago
If I had more time I'd make myself a bananamobile. Sure it would only be useful for driving in the city parade, but I WANT one. (anyone want to fund my mid-life crisis? You get to see a bananamobile out of the deal)
- sfpotter 1y ago
  I guarantee you if you build that bananamobile you will find plenty of uses for it! Don't hold back!
  - bluGill 1y ago
    I have 3000 years worth of projecs in the queue. I'm not holding back.
- xyzzy_plugh 1y ago
  You would not be the first: https://bigbananacar.com/ https://bigbananacar.com/
  - deleted 1y ago
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  - bluGill 1y ago
    That probably isn't the first either... Cool car, but I'm envisioning something that is more like the books show (and thus even more impractical as anything other than a parade vehicle)
- Waterluvian 1y ago
  Maybe you can buy a used wiener mobile and unlock the banana skin for it.
  - quickthrowman 1y ago
    A yellow vinyl wrap plus fabricating a couple of cones for the ends of the wiener to morph it into a banana sounds a heck of a lot cheaper than fabricating a fiberglass banana shell from scratch, I think you’re onto something here! I’ll start the GoFundMe and work on procuring a lightly used wiener mobile, GP will be cruising in a banana mobile by next summer :)
    - potato3732842 1y ago
      Class A motorhome, trash the motorhome, relocate driver station, build a bannana or a weiner or broccoli or whatever body to go on top. This is basically how they built the wienermobiles except they were starting with stripped chassis not a "ran when parked, free if you haul" tier winnebago. Speaking of wienermobiles, I think it's a travesty they never made Heinz ketchup bottles to tow behind them.
- rascul 1y ago
  Get a weibermobile and paint it yellow? They're literally street legal race cars and probably not too dissimilar in shape to what a bananamobile would be.
  - toast0 1y ago
    > They're literally street legal race cars They ran them at the Indy 500 this year... probably set a record for longest lap time under green.
mauvehaus 1y ago
Kids, shit. I'm 42 and any time I run across a copy, I re-read it just for the sheer pleasure of seeing what all's happening on every page!
- russdill 1y ago
  There's a special edition that includes the creation process in the back along with some copies of the intermediate stories. Quite a bit of story telling a well.

bluGill 1y ago

If I had more time I'd make myself a bananamobile. Sure it would only be useful for driving in the city parade, but I WANT one. (anyone want to fund my mid-life crisis? You get to see a bananamobile out of the deal)

sfpotter 1y ago
I guarantee you if you build that bananamobile you will find plenty of uses for it! Don't hold back!
- bluGill 1y ago
  I have 3000 years worth of projecs in the queue. I'm not holding back.
xyzzy_plugh 1y ago
You would not be the first: https://bigbananacar.com/ https://bigbananacar.com/
- deleted 1y ago
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- bluGill 1y ago
  That probably isn't the first either... Cool car, but I'm envisioning something that is more like the books show (and thus even more impractical as anything other than a parade vehicle)
Waterluvian 1y ago
Maybe you can buy a used wiener mobile and unlock the banana skin for it.
- quickthrowman 1y ago
  A yellow vinyl wrap plus fabricating a couple of cones for the ends of the wiener to morph it into a banana sounds a heck of a lot cheaper than fabricating a fiberglass banana shell from scratch, I think you’re onto something here! I’ll start the GoFundMe and work on procuring a lightly used wiener mobile, GP will be cruising in a banana mobile by next summer :)
  - potato3732842 1y ago
    Class A motorhome, trash the motorhome, relocate driver station, build a bannana or a weiner or broccoli or whatever body to go on top. This is basically how they built the wienermobiles except they were starting with stripped chassis not a "ran when parked, free if you haul" tier winnebago. Speaking of wienermobiles, I think it's a travesty they never made Heinz ketchup bottles to tow behind them.
rascul 1y ago
Get a weibermobile and paint it yellow? They're literally street legal race cars and probably not too dissimilar in shape to what a bananamobile would be.
- toast0 1y ago
  > They're literally street legal race cars They ran them at the Indy 500 this year... probably set a record for longest lap time under green.

mauvehaus 1y ago

Kids, shit. I'm 42 and any time I run across a copy, I re-read it just for the sheer pleasure of seeing what all's happening on every page!

russdill 1y ago
There's a special edition that includes the creation process in the back along with some copies of the intermediate stories. Quite a bit of story telling a well.