Each colour's a different piece of plastic, instead of being one piece with paint on, so the colouring has to be simplified, and the beak is low-hanging fruit as it's obviously a beak even if it's not as colourful as it should be. The shapes seem to be relatively detailed, though, and the beak shape is closer to that of a puffin than any penguin I can think of.
Oh man that is a throwback for me. I remember my dad had one just like the penguin but I think it was a duck head instead. I don’t remember the tripod feet, but that is such a good idea for an umbrella and cute with birds.
Maybe a contradiction between the animal shape and the design requirements for the handle. If they had given the parrot a long neck, it would have looked like an overly stretched out parrot.
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Zahille7@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 243d
I'm interested in those tripod feet things
MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 240d
Matching with these avian themes
th3dogcow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Man I saw this just yesterday in the same arrangement. I thought it was cool, too.
oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 243d
Which country?
th3dogcow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Japan
oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 242d
Naha?
th3dogcow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d
Nope! But the store, Nico and …, is all over the country. I assume they all have the same things on display.
oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 242d
Makes sense, would have been fun if we had seen it at the same place.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
I think that might possibly be a puffin, not a penguin.
oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 242d
Missing colors on the beak, could be a royal penguin too.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d
Each colour's a different piece of plastic, instead of being one piece with paint on, so the colouring has to be simplified, and the beak is low-hanging fruit as it's obviously a beak even if it's not as colourful as it should be. The shapes seem to be relatively detailed, though, and the beak shape is closer to that of a puffin than any penguin I can think of.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 242d
And the red one is actually a Macaw
oce@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 242d
Macaws are parrots.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com · 3 pts · 243d
Oh man that is a throwback for me. I remember my dad had one just like the penguin but I think it was a duck head instead. I don’t remember the tripod feet, but that is such a good idea for an umbrella and cute with birds.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 242d
Why is the penguin the whole umbrella (handle is the head), but the parrot is only on top of the other umbrella?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 242d
The penguin is so much better for this reason...
oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 242d
Maybe a contradiction between the animal shape and the design requirements for the handle. If they had given the parrot a long neck, it would have looked like an overly stretched out parrot.