are we there yeti?
(1)You are in the market for a diversion for your children, ages seven and ten to watch on a *shudder* seven hour car trip. You find yourself in the DVD aisle. A wall of fictional faces stare at you from beneath shrinkwrap. You've got your Harry Potter Series, your Pixar films, your Toon Disney compilations, your Choose Your Own Adventure. Wait, Choose Your own Adventure? Like the books that you checked out of your elementary school library over and over again because you were the main character, and there was a different plot and ending every time you read it? The books where you were in charge of making decisions about what to do at every exciting turn of events? You fondly recall frantically flipping pages to discover the outcomes of your decisions. There it is in DVD format.
You have a decision to make:
(2)If you decide to Purchase the DVD of Choose Your Own Adventure, skip down to paragraph 6 of this post.
(3)If you decide not purchase any DVDs because you're going to go old school (hey, if you had to deal with playing the license plate game, road sign bingo, and thumb wrestling so should your kids...it'll build character)then skip down to paragraph 5 of this post.
(4)Goldhil Entertainment released it's first in a series of Choose Your Own Adventure interactive DVDs on July 25th. The first installment is The Abominable Snowman in which three siblings venture to Nepal in search of their uncle who went missing while on a Yeti hunt. The kids need to contend with airplane mechanical difficulties, avalanches, and tigers. Steering them through these obstacles is the viewer. During climactic moments in the plot, the DVD prompts the viewer to choose a course of action by clicking on one choice or another with the remote. There are eleven possible outcomes to this story. Bonus features include a thirty minute film about the people and culture of Nepal, a music video, some behind-the-scene clips, and an insert which is a mini travel journal.
(5)You find yourself white knuckling the steering wheel two hours into your trip, trying unsuccessfully to block out the whining, moaning, the shrieks of, "She's touching me" and the laments of, "How much looooonger?" You may want to consider reading paragraph 4 of this post.
(6)You have reached your destination. The journey was peaceful and quiet because your children have been so engrossed by this DVD throwback to your favorite childhood pastime, and they still have five more possible endings to watch on your return trip. But why not read paragraph four of this post anyway?
You have a decision to make:
(2)If you decide to Purchase the DVD of Choose Your Own Adventure, skip down to paragraph 6 of this post.
(3)If you decide not purchase any DVDs because you're going to go old school (hey, if you had to deal with playing the license plate game, road sign bingo, and thumb wrestling so should your kids...it'll build character)then skip down to paragraph 5 of this post.
(4)Goldhil Entertainment released it's first in a series of Choose Your Own Adventure interactive DVDs on July 25th. The first installment is The Abominable Snowman in which three siblings venture to Nepal in search of their uncle who went missing while on a Yeti hunt. The kids need to contend with airplane mechanical difficulties, avalanches, and tigers. Steering them through these obstacles is the viewer. During climactic moments in the plot, the DVD prompts the viewer to choose a course of action by clicking on one choice or another with the remote. There are eleven possible outcomes to this story. Bonus features include a thirty minute film about the people and culture of Nepal, a music video, some behind-the-scene clips, and an insert which is a mini travel journal.
(5)You find yourself white knuckling the steering wheel two hours into your trip, trying unsuccessfully to block out the whining, moaning, the shrieks of, "She's touching me" and the laments of, "How much looooonger?" You may want to consider reading paragraph 4 of this post.
(6)You have reached your destination. The journey was peaceful and quiet because your children have been so engrossed by this DVD throwback to your favorite childhood pastime, and they still have five more possible endings to watch on your return trip. But why not read paragraph four of this post anyway?
posted by Kathleen Ryan at 8:36 PM
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