Ever since reading that you can change the startup screen on the Toyota minivan console I have been meaning to. I just love that kind of stuff.
Yesterday I was finally ready to do it and realized I didn’t know what I wanted my custom image to look like?, then I thought, hey why not photoshop up a minvan-copter? The kids will love it!
Of course the idea of adding some sort of aeronautical device to the minivan is almost as old as this blog, but for whatever reason, Luke has been talking about it a lot recently.
The original concept was wooden wings, but Luke soon confessed he felt they would be too cumbersome. The recent version is a helicopter prop, so I put both ideas together and came up with this:
I loaded into the car, I go get Luke from school, he sees it instantly and goes:
“What’s that?”
I explain it was something I did.
“That looks pretty good, Dad, good idea. If that is your finished plan then all I think I need to add is some polyurethane.”
Sounds great Luke.
A day later he comes up to me and states very matter of factually:
“I’m going to have to see the gas tank. I need to see if there is enough room for a super charger?”
Ok, Luke, sounds good.
“The super charger will allow the minivan to go 120,000 miles an hour” he says with raised eye brows.
“It will only take two minutes to get to Legoland!”
I do some quick math out loud and discover it will take closer to 2 seconds at that speed to get to Legoland and Luke is now REALLY impressed.
The other part of the equation is how much is NOT on his radar and I believe it is linked to access to media. My example is this. Luke loves Lego’s, Luke will stroll down the Lego aisle at Target and study the boxes and point out all kinds of detailed thoughts. Luke has never seen a Lego movie. So why is it that he never ONCE has asked about the Lego movie posters that a strewn about the world, on the side of buses only inches from his face sometimes, never says a word. If we had seen a Lego movie I believe it would be otherwise.
Meanwhile a super charged mini-copter is TOTALLY on his radar, big time!