The Teddy Bears’ Parachutes
IMABARI, Ehime [Japan] — A paint firm here is hoping to add color to wedding receptions in Japan with a new device it has jointly developed — a gun-shaped party [favor] that shoots out a teddy bear.
Sunamiya, a paint firm based in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, announced the development of the device, which blasts a teddy bear equipped with a parachute into the air. The teddy bear parachutes down afterwards.
Developers hit on the idea after noticing that it had become a trend for people to throw teddy bears into the air instead of bouquets at wedding receptions.
From Gun-shaped teddy bear crackers ready to liven up wedding receptions [link to http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060429p2a00m0na032000c.html no longer works], via BoingBoing [link to http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/02/gun_that_fires_teddy.html no longer works].
I can already see the Bond villain at the wedding with an exploding set of airborne teddy bears.