Fisher-Price Imaginext Blackbeard’s Lair

Designed with Big Monster Toys’ Brett Mich, Blackbeard’s Lair started off quite different than the final product. Due to an NDA, I can’t discuss the specifics. The bone arms swing when you turn the Power Pad and the mouth opens and closes. A really unique playset with a swinging jail and anchor, and a cannon that pops out from under the eyepatch of the giant skull.

This prototype was designed in tandem with Brett, while I worked out the bone arms and mouth mechanism, Brett designed the eyepatch cannon. Designed in Rhino, 3D printed on Makerbots (which were new at the time) and machine cut on a Roland CNC machine, Brett and I designed, built and fine tuned the prototype. I shot and edited the pitch video shown to Fisher-Price.