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- ieataquacrayons, on 11/28/2007, -0/+25They need to make one for adults.
- SpaceRibs, on 11/28/2007, -1/+17Does it really take children to tell us that Open Source is better than Closed?
- etsa, on 11/28/2007, -2/+15children-built, children play is fun to watch and participate. it excercising their imagination and creativity. i am still like that..
- Tyrghast, on 11/28/2007, -0/+13in elementary school the town was putting in a new playground and the kids were allowed to suggest ideas. The playground resulted in being a large fort with a dragon and robot outside, both of which you could climb and slide down. IT WAS AMAZING!
- RyeBrye, on 11/28/2007, -4/+14That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
- suxmonkey, on 11/28/2007, -0/+10Yeah, they are all the rage in Japan and Europe, but in America they've only caught on in a few places so far for the most part - everyone's too (sadly) worried about getting sued if some idiot kid injures him/herself.
- jaredpariah, on 11/28/2007, -0/+10Getting tetanus is part of the adventure
- drknownothing, on 11/28/2007, -0/+9My friends and I would of had a blast with those playgrounds. We always got bored with the traditional ones, so we used to spice things up a bit until the mayor of the neighbor put a ban on what we were doing.
- Daiken, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5I had a park near my house where I grew up and I have to admit, a lot of those structures were pretty unsafe and dangerous for a kid as young as me. Oddly enough, I never got hurt though and I loved playing there. Until they converted all the metal and wood to round plastic.
- artsgraphic, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4My kids would love to take a tour of these!
- robschraer, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4When i was in grade school we had one that looked like the one in the top left picture put it didnt have the crows nest we used to play "shark". Thinking back it was a hell of alot of fun i wish i could play now. Get all my old friends together and go to the play ground.... but now we can bring a keg... oh yeah!
- Sixcolors, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3I'll believe that when they build a slide into the BART station... that sucker would be loooong.
- merreborn, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3"The mayor of the neighbor"?
Reverend Spooner, is that you? - davidrools, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3That's awesome. I had a similar experience growing up in a more rural area with tons of scrap materials that my dad would bring home from his construction jobs. I think the neighbors might complain about the less-than-beautiful aesthetic of the place, though.
Completely different but another awesome place to play is http://www.jumpskyhigh.com/ - Sixcolors, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3So wrong, but I laughed anyway.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3I guess kids will never able to be kids because of greedy parents wanting to sue for a papercut....
WTF is wrong with you people? Let kids build a damn tree house if they want and maybe one day they'll want to become an architect.
I''ll sign a waiver and let my son play there and i'll be responsible for what happens dammit! - nintendomaniac, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2There's this one epic wooden playground in Stow, OH. I'm not sure of the name, but I believe it's called SKIP park. There doesn't seem to really be any images of it on the internet though...
The only bit of info I could find on it is about 3/4 down this page: http://preview.tinyurl.com/3986qh - wastedyouth02, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2back when i was a kid living in orange county they had a thing like this but it also had a mud pit where they had giant tug of wars and mud fights and all crazy stuff, but seriously in America today how would that ever exist..if not form all the frivolous lawsuits then the insurance cost must kill them.
- kickelephant, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Come to Saint Louis
http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp
for children and adults, it is open until 1a.m. with cocktails! - teamgwho, on 11/28/2007, -2/+4Holy crap that is insanely awesome. perfect for kids whose parents tivo half the progrmaming on the science channel/discovery channel/history channel. Like me. My 9 year old and I just watch a mega structures episode about sinking a large naval vessel to be used as an artifcial reef and he was fascinated. I completely believe a place like this is safer and less prone to "playground conflict" then your average playground. Unfortunately I bet a lot of parents would see this as a potential i8njury and keep their kids away, to the kids detriment.
My only complaint: they're only in Cali-*****-fornia. - theDevilsDue, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Those things look like what my friends and I used to play with when we were young. Sometimes I try and imagine my nine year old daughter doing what I used to do at that age and I cringe. It amazes me that all of us survived into adulthood.
- Chubs879, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1In a park near my house, there used to be a giant slide, it was HUGE. Pretty dangerous. I was really upset when they decided to take it down. Apparently, some kid fell off and broke his arm.
- bradleyland, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1When I was a kid, they had these programs called "creative playgrounds." Students were selected to participate in the design and construction of the playgrounds, which looked a lot like these.
- Sixcolors, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Too bad it's so massive that you don't see as many people these days.
- flarn2006, on 11/28/2007, -1/+2Dugg for the part at the bottom, although I'm sure they're in other places as well.
- lemorex, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1They have on of those where I grew up, in Berlin (Germany) it was mostly made of old cars and unused building materials.
- RedHairedMan, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Yeah, in America talk about giving kids scrap building materials and trashy bits to build their own stuff and you get parents fretting over whether little Johnny is dumb enough to try and hammer a nail into his nose.
I miss my childhood, when no one gave a ***** and we had a blast. :( - ElMoustache, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1the first pic is a playground in the Nashville Zoo, the one with the snake mouth.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -1/+2"when children’s play has an element of danger it is strangely more healthy than safe play."
Gosh, those lucky kids in Iraq... - sock2828, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Actually I used to play in a playground that looks almost exactly like the one with the giant snake.
minus the snake ) :
it had a built in xylophone and everything.
it even had a suspension bridge!
it also had small kid sized tunnel's to crawl around in under the castle
It was awesome! - Sixcolors, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1What doesn't kill you...
- bunki8, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1All I can think of is how a simple aluminum slide was removed from the playground I grew up with because kids were able to slide down it too fast....
- jibii, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1I think old boards, mud, and sticks are essential play things for kids. They really should build as many of these as possible, or at least knock off the habit of wrapping kids in wool and just let them be kids.
Picking gravel out of your knee or getting some stitches is character building! - toekneebullard, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1How the hell do you have a story like this, and not link to larger photos? Those pics are tiny.
- tmc1, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1we used to smoke and drink beer at the playground where I used to hang.
- nightmar3, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1An open-source playground is simpler terms.
- Subvexer, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Looks like the kids version of Sona.
- offwithyourtv, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Back in about 1994 near the end of elementary school for me, our school had one of those "safe" plastic playground things added to our otherwise wood-and-metal fun playground. No one would play on it because we thought it was for the "special" kids. Last time I saw the playground while visiting my mother a year or so ago (she's a first grade teacher) the entire playground was plastic and lame.
- tuntcickle, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1When I was a kid I used to go to an adventure playground in Berkeley, CA. It was certainly a step beyond Legos.
We'd also get additional building supplies in exchange for picking up trash around the area. - firebird07, on 11/28/2007, -0/+0I've been to the one on the right in the first picture... the one with the snake. It's at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere.
- fightforyou, on 11/28/2007, -0/+0i miss those days...
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -1/+1I can see some bully kid taking one of those 2 by 4s and beating the snot out of all the other kids..
- motheroats, on 11/28/2007, -1/+1i though having a king size pillow in ur fort was cool when i was little, but i guess they didnt invent razrs back then either.
- ihatecookiies, on 11/28/2007, -0/+0Sounds like fun!
- flarn2006, on 11/28/2007, -2/+2http://www.secondlife.com (teens also allowed)
- tuntcickle, on 11/28/2007, -2/+1while you were watching ***** tv shows i was constructing castles
- nelziq, on 11/28/2007, -2/+1It exists. Its called IRL.
- Hoxie, on 11/28/2007, -5/+1Anyone see the spongebob squarepant episode "crabbyland"?
Yeah, I thought it looked like that too.
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