Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 55 mm — 1/30 sec, f/5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Large-Scale Construction
with a bunch of small wooden planks
One of the rooms at the “Otsu Yumekko” (a nearby playland we visited in February) is set aside for playing with Kapla planks. They have thousands of them, and the space is large, so it was like a mini Dubai with all the various construction going on...
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1/100 sec, f/2.8, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lots Going On
Each big box holds 1,000 pieces, and runs about 400 bucks! They had plenty.
One guy was making a tall tower with a little boy...
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1/40 sec, f/5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 48 mm — 1/60 sec, f/3.5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
You Know It's Just a Matter of Time
Knowing that a kid that young severely shortens the life span of anything built with balance, I kept one eye on them prepared to catch the inevitable collapse.
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 40 mm — 1/125 sec, f/3.2, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Getting Their Picture
I felt relieved for the guy when he finally got his own picture, and sure enough, 20 seconds later the kid bumped the thing, tried to catch it (which is like trying to hold back the tide), and it all came crashing down...
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 55 mm — 1/80 sec, f/3.2, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
In The Blink of an Eye
Fun stuff.
Kapla:
literally means success, in Klingon…
“Kapla” (used before battle)
I’m pretty sure this is a sneaky way to allow adults to play mega jenga 🙂
This looks too much fun!
You know, I just saw (and played with) Kapla planks for the first time yesterday! I took the kids to the local Children’s museum. And though we’ve been there dozens of times, we discovered a new little room yesterday for the first time. They had a table with a few hundred kapla planks on it. Fun! (Though a few thousand planks would be more fun!) Funny that you should blog about them the very next day.
Wow! This kapla room would be heaven for Jace!
Hey, nice to see this. I remember that back in kindergarten we also had a room like that and I remember that my gang constructed several buildings twice the size of the small boys building them at that time. One looked like the Colliseum in Rome.
Another classic we played with our kapla stones was of course domino. And with the combination of both domino and the architecture thing you could have a wonderful time for weeks and weeks. This room is actually the only positive and remarkable thing I remember from kindergarten 😉