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re: The Vision
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When my sister and I were about 10-11 years old, we were hanging out with Dad and we were walking through a store and discovered Koosh balls. The whole family got them; they were super fun.
Sister came up with the idea to make Dinosaur Koosh balls. She is an amazing artist and drew up hyper-realistic Koosh balls that had dinosaurs inside them.
This doesn’t sound so crazy today because there are Koosh animals. All sorts of animals, fish, even an Alligator was made by the company. However to this day, as far as I am aware of, there has never been a Dinosaur Koosh and you can thank my sister for that. Dad encouraged her to send her drawings to the company and they sent them back with a letter stating they would never make such a product. Roughly about 5 years later, Koosh Animals came out.
Nothing can protect an idea forever. My sister was only 11 or 12 at the time if memory serves. We didn’t know anything about copyrights, utility patents, or whatever. Her and I just wanted Dino Koosh balls and could not ever conceive of a way to make them ourselves, so we made a suggestion. That suggestion back-fired and here we are today with all manner of things shoved into the center of a Koosh creation, but nothing of the prehistoric sort to share with OUR children.
The lesson I learned there is, don’t make suggestions, just do it. If you want it, go get it.
If my kid wanted a Dinosaur Koosh today, I’d start looking into injection molding and do it myself. Personally, the letter they sent back made me so mad I never bought another one of their products again.
When my sister and I were about 10-11 years old, we were hanging out with Dad and we were walking through a store and discovered Koosh balls. The whole family got them; they were super fun.
Sister came up with the idea to make Dinosaur Koosh balls. She is an amazing artist and drew up hyper-realistic Koosh balls that had dinosaurs inside them.
This doesn’t sound so crazy today because there are Koosh animals. All sorts of animals, fish, even an Alligator was made by the company. However to this day, as far as I am aware of, there has never been a Dinosaur Koosh and you can thank my sister for that. Dad encouraged her to send her drawings to the company and they sent them back with a letter stating they would never make such a product. Roughly about 5 years later, Koosh Animals came out.
Nothing can protect an idea forever. My sister was only 11 or 12 at the time if memory serves. We didn’t know anything about copyrights, utility patents, or whatever. Her and I just wanted Dino Koosh balls and could not ever conceive of a way to make them ourselves, so we made a suggestion. That suggestion back-fired and here we are today with all manner of things shoved into the center of a Koosh creation, but nothing of the prehistoric sort to share with OUR children.
The lesson I learned there is, don’t make suggestions, just do it. If you want it, go get it.
If my kid wanted a Dinosaur Koosh today, I’d start looking into injection molding and do it myself. Personally, the letter they sent back made me so mad I never bought another one of their products again.
