Welcome to Awesome Time.
This is the show where I tell you
about all the new stuff happening at VAT19.
And stick around.
This is a dual episode, Kara.
We've got Stupid Science and the Golden Gummy Challenge.
[MUSIC]
Welcome to Episode 118.
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You know, subscribe and then hit the bell.
I want to give you a great reason to do it.
Episode 119, we're going to be giving away some of these.
It's one pound of magnetic thinking putty.
Look at this beautiful gold putty.
There's so much of it and it comes
with this enormous magnet.
And the only way you can get it is that have your notifications
turned on.
Because the information is going to be
in the description of our next episode for the first hour
the video is out.
OK.
This is the first product.
Toss it.
This is Aqua Illusions.
You can create floating art with this kit.
Super cool.
It comes with this tray that you put water in along
with this magic powder.
So let's just do it.
Whoa.
I'm just going super random.
I got nothing really in mind.
I'm just enjoying the process.
You also get this little toothpick thing
that you can use to kind of pull and drag it.
You can sort of mix some and swirl stuff.
Once you've kind of laid this all out,
you can transfer it to paper so you get to keep it forever.
OK.
So I'm just going to set my piece of paper in here.
Got to let it sit for a few seconds.
Special tweezers here.
Slowly pull it out of the water.
Make whatever kind of pattern design you want.
It's just about having fun and creating stuff.
Here are some examples of some other ones that we've created.
That's a lot more beautiful than the one I did.
Folks, that's Aqua Illusions.
Buy your set now at Vat19.com.
We're still tabletopping.
Hit me with the next product, Kara.
Oh.
This, folks, is Maze Racers.
This is an awesome game.
It's two plus players.
The object is to create a maze that takes your opponent longer
to finish than the one they make for you.
Let's actually play this and make this the Golden Gummy
Challenge.
Come on, Eric.
I challenge you.
Oh, OK.
Hi.
All right.
Nice to see you again, Eric.
You ready for some Maze Racers?
Yes.
You ever done this before?
No.
I feel like you've played all of these things before and I
haven't.
Let me break it down for you.
All right.
You've got this board with all these magnetic walls on it.
Build a maze.
Now there's a twist to this whole thing.
Whoever is done building their maze first
starts a one minute timer.
After that minute is over, you start racing.
Do you have a technique in mind?
No.
Did you research--
I've never built a maze before?
--techniques for building a maze?
You did now that you say that.
Building a maze seems tricky.
It does.
This seems tricky.
Yeah.
I have no idea where to start.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
We're going.
I feel like I'm not making this very difficult.
(LAUGHING) I feel like I'm not either.
[LAUGHTER]
Don't look at my maze.
I did the best I could.
All right.
Should we sort of show our mazes to the--
because it's magnetic, we can sort of show them off.
Stop looking.
[LAUGHTER]
Switch them.
And ready?
Yeah.
I'm ready.
Oh, this is a tough one, dude.
Very good maze.
Oh, you made yours impossible to solve.
I feel like I win.
I can't get through that.
It must have moved.
I checked it.
I'm just, I'm just going to move that.
Ah.
Eric wins?
But you made yours impossible to solve.
It must have moved.
I checked it.
It's just such sadness that I have right now.
Fine.
Eric wins.
Fine, fine, fine.
Woo.
Oh boy.
It's just going to be something spicy.
I hope Kara's come up with something different.
No.
[LAUGHTER]
No.
It says winner waxes is the loser with Joe's.
Joe's Sticky Stuff.
Also available at VAT19.
Buy it now for all your waxing--
Not for waxing though.
Did it say your lip or just anything?
All right.
Fine, Eric.
Let me rip it off.
I don't think you get to rip it off.
Hold on.
We got--
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, I don't want this to have to happen.
You're going to mess this up.
I just know you're going to mess this up.
How am I going to mess it up?
Cause you're not going to get it off.
You're going to-- it's just going to be just the slowest
band-aid rip ever.
I won't go slow.
No.
I won't go slow.
I'm not going to torture you, Jamie.
All right.
Ready?
All right.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
So we'll be giving away this strip of Jamie's hair also
next week along with the Golden Putty.
Turn on your notification bell, folks.
Bye.
[LAUGHTER]
Sometimes I hate him.
Hey, folks.
This is the Q-Ba Maze.
It's a really cool marble run construction kit.
Main building block is this guy right here.
And there are three different styles of these modular cubes.
You've got ones where the ball falls down
through the bottom, one where there is just one exit,
and one where there's two possible exits.
So you can design these mazes to go in a particular way
or you can use a lot of the double exit.
The marble will run in a random way,
so you can use them over and over.
Let's just show it.
There we go.
[MARBLE ROLLING]
Cool.
Look.
They go through these cool tubes.
There's a trampoline stunt over there.
Pretty cool.
It's a ton of fun.
We've got the Mega Stunt kit and the Ultimate Stunt Set.
They both have over 100 pieces in them.
For those of you who like building stuff,
this is a ton of fun.
It's totally modular.
Q-Ba Maze is also going to be this episode's Stupid Science.
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Stupid Science.
So we know the marbles can go down the maze.
We do.
We just witnessed with our own two science-y eyes.
To do some science, we need a hypothesis.
A hypothalamus, if you will.
Which is a question that can be tested.
So let's test with three other things we sell at VAT19.
Ghost Pepper Jellybeans, the Sriracha Peanuts,
and the Mega Nano Dots.
I don't know if Mega Nano Dots magnets
are attracted to plastic.
But this is science.
Yeah.
Huh.
Let's give it a little--
Nope.
Drop it in.
How does that not fit?
They're close to the same size?
Newton's law states that anything close to the same size
should fit.
Peanuts.
Originally called Nature's Marble.
All right.
I have a good round peanut there.
Now the sriracha might interfere with it.
What is your thought?
I think I should taste one.
Here we go.
Oh.
There it goes.
It doesn't have as much rolling action as the ball.
There's a little more shaking you've got to do it.
I wonder if it's too spicy to get through.
Yeah.
Oh I just ate, like, four of them.
That's going to be spicy.
All right.
Last one up.
I think that's going to work.
The Ghost Pepper Jelly Bean.
There it goes.
Oh.
So the Ghost Pepper made the run with some tapping.
I hope you learned something today.
I didn't.
Table Topping for the L3D Cube.
This thing is awesome.
Yeah.
We don't want to throw this one.
OK.
This, my friends, is filled with 216 color changing LEDs.
It's fully programmable if you want.
It's also got preloaded 10 animations in this thing.
But why am I just talking about it when I can show it to you?
Let's turn off the lights.
What?
How cool is this thing?
It's just sort of cycling through its demo mode.
Right now it's reacting to your voice.
Oh, is it?
Oh, it's on music mode right now.
I didn't even realize that.
Let me put on some hot tracks then.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
When you get the L3D Cube, it comes
with an app for your computer where
you can switch between different visualizations.
The L3D cube comes to you flat and you
get to assemble it yourself.
It only takes a couple of minutes.
But it's still kind of fun to put this thing together
and then plug it in and watch it go.
Let's try this one, Color Collision.
Oh.
So that's like two different colors
kind of meeting and changing.
All right, folks.
That's the L3D Cube.
It's amazing.
You can get yours now at VAT19.com.
All right.
We're tabletopping for Mission to Space right here.
Right here.
Ah, almost got it.
This is Mission to Space.
It is a charmingly low tech maze game.
The board has this rocket on it.
Your goal is to get your little cargo here
from start to finish using these pulleys
right here to navigate your ship.
Let me just see if I can do it.
Do you see this right here?
This is the pathway.
And I have to avoid all these holes so my cargo doesn't
drop through.
So I'm going to give this thing a try
and see if I can follow the maze here.
We know how you are with mazes.
Dude, I'm crushing it.
I'm crushing it.
Yeah?
Uh huh.
I think.
About to drop off that payload, bro?
Not yet.
No.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Got a timer?
It's a a lot harder than you think, Eric.
You don't have a timer?
It seems a little easy if there's no timer.
Three, two, one.
Dude, you don't even know where I am.
You can't just make up a timer--
[SHOUTS BUZZER]
In the middle of it.
[BUZZER]
You can't make up a timer.
Come on.
Ah, sh-- I hate you.
You almost cursed.
Man.
I got like halfway.
It's not bad.
It's double sided.
So you've got two mazes.
And you get two boards.
It's a ton of fun when you don't have some no-talent clown
behind you yelling at you.
You know what?
Who has never played a day of professional Mission
to Space in his life.
Right?
Why don't you come up here and try, bro?
I have piano recitals.
Yeah.
Get out of here.
I gotta go.
(SINGING) Mama's little baby loves shortening, shortening.
Yeah, I gotta learn that one.
That was Mission to Space, folks.
All right.
It's time for fan art.
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Wow, that was a great collection of fan art.
Thank you so much for sending it in.
If you want to send in your own fan art, here's the address.
And you'll see it on a future episode of Awesome Time.
Because it's a new year, we cleared out
the wall and all of the new fan art you're sending us in,
put up on that wall.
But don't worry, we never throw it away.
We move it to other parts of the building.
I think it's about time to wrap this episode up.
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