Happy Meal Design Project
Define a problem
Team Norms: Piper and I decided that we would work together on most things of the project. We are both equally talented in inventor even if we are not amazing at making things on it. We obviously have each others phone numbers to keep in contact during the project so if we have trouble we can ask each other for help. Piper is going to do most of the inventor things and I will work on weebly and anything else that needs to be done. Our imagination for our happy meal design will help us hopefully finish with a functional product. We have put together a gantt chart below to prepare how much time will be spent on each step of the design process.
Generate concepts
Existing Products:
The Happy Meal toys have changed very frequently almost every week! Lots of different characters have appeared as a happy meal toy including Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Aladdin, Simba, Nemo and many others. There has also been lots of famously known characters and toys such as Transformers, Hello Kitty, Barbie, and Legos. They mostly use the latest new characters from TV shows or movies so the kid wants to buy a happy meal to get the toy.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1986073,00.html
The Happy Meal toys have changed very frequently almost every week! Lots of different characters have appeared as a happy meal toy including Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Aladdin, Simba, Nemo and many others. There has also been lots of famously known characters and toys such as Transformers, Hello Kitty, Barbie, and Legos. They mostly use the latest new characters from TV shows or movies so the kid wants to buy a happy meal to get the toy.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1986073,00.html
Logo Usage:
If you are designing a product you can use logos but there are rules that come with it. If you want to use a logo that's not yours you have to use different symbols including the TM and ®. When you place the symbol on the logo you also have to make sure that the trademark symbol is visible and able to be read.
http://opensource.org/logo-usage-guidelines#Logo_Usage
If you are designing a product you can use logos but there are rules that come with it. If you want to use a logo that's not yours you have to use different symbols including the TM and ®. When you place the symbol on the logo you also have to make sure that the trademark symbol is visible and able to be read.
http://opensource.org/logo-usage-guidelines#Logo_Usage
Safety Regulations:
Our product does not have any small parts that detach so there are not many warnings that need to be placed on the happy meal toy. But if your product did have small parts that could be dangerous for kids, you would need to place a warning on the product. When designing toys this probably comes up a lot since the target customer is the kids and you don't want them choking on small pieces. If you don't have any small parts, there could be dangerous materials used while making the toy.
https://www.gov.uk/toy-manufacturers-and-their-responsibilities
Our product does not have any small parts that detach so there are not many warnings that need to be placed on the happy meal toy. But if your product did have small parts that could be dangerous for kids, you would need to place a warning on the product. When designing toys this probably comes up a lot since the target customer is the kids and you don't want them choking on small pieces. If you don't have any small parts, there could be dangerous materials used while making the toy.
https://www.gov.uk/toy-manufacturers-and-their-responsibilities
BRAINSTORMING LIST
DECISION MATRIX FOR MINION
We first decided using our decision matrix ( shown above) that we wanted to make a surfer minion. After figuring that out we put together another decision matrix ( shown below) to decide what accessory we were going to make with our surfer minion.
DECISION MATRIX FOR ACCESSORY
Develop a Solution
Exploded veiw
Go Pro accessory dimensioned
Construct & Test Prototype
I showed our minion happy meal toy to my father and he said he loved seeing it ride the wave and thought that was very neat. He also liked all the little details like the stickers on the surf board and the go pro.
I then showed it to my mother and she really liked the swim trunks with the flowers on it because she thought they looked very realistic. She loves the movie Despicable Me so she thought our design was really clever.
I then showed it to my mother and she really liked the swim trunks with the flowers on it because she thought they looked very realistic. She loves the movie Despicable Me so she thought our design was really clever.
Evaluate Solution
If there is one thing that we would change about our minion, it would be to make the minion more round. The minion we made looks pretty realistic but it could be more round. Other than that, I think our happy meal toy would be a big success.
This was by far my favorite project because we got to make a Despicable Me toy and I got to work with the partner of my choice. Piper and I worked very well together and we were always there to help each other out if we needed the help. If Piper needed help on inventor I could try and help her figure it out. We are both really creative with our ideas and my favorite part of our minion is defiantly the flower shorts. It was really fun thinking of the different minions we could make and all the different options we had. We added many different features that were not planned like the go pro which really made our minion stand out. We also added a wave for a animation of the minion so it had something to ride on. We worked very hard to finish on time and by the due date. In the end, I think our project turned out very successful and the target audience (little kids) would appreciate the happy meal toy.
This was by far my favorite project because we got to make a Despicable Me toy and I got to work with the partner of my choice. Piper and I worked very well together and we were always there to help each other out if we needed the help. If Piper needed help on inventor I could try and help her figure it out. We are both really creative with our ideas and my favorite part of our minion is defiantly the flower shorts. It was really fun thinking of the different minions we could make and all the different options we had. We added many different features that were not planned like the go pro which really made our minion stand out. We also added a wave for a animation of the minion so it had something to ride on. We worked very hard to finish on time and by the due date. In the end, I think our project turned out very successful and the target audience (little kids) would appreciate the happy meal toy.