The Worst Playgrounds in the World — Part 5

“Uncle Colin, can you take us to the waterpark?”

“Let me just check to see if its been raining. Why yes! Yes I can”

Imagine turning up at work in such a disillusioned state that you and your colleagues set about engineering something less safe for a child’s testicles. What sort of a monster…?

Welcome back to the Worst Playgrounds in the World. The series which serves as a reminder that adults are not responsible and you probably spent the majority of your childhood supervised by morons.

Some designers take inspiration from the natural world. You’ll see them try to incorporate majestic beasts into their work, often to highlight the struggles and indignities these creatures now suffer at the hands of humans. Just not like this.

What cheers me up most about this image is the tearful kid in the background apparently wiping his feet clean of imaginary elephant shit on the carpet. God but it’s glorious!

A question that is rarely comes up in post-build meetings is “why does this rusty hellbeast wield 3 industrial mallets instead of arms?” An even less-heard answer in those meetings…