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Searching for FAMILY FUN, as I've been wont to do of late, I Googled my way to Delta Play - manufacturers of those play complexes you see at some shopping malls, restaurants, airports, movies, resorts, cruise ships...

My chief complaint about these structures has always been that I can't go on them. And it irks me. Because it seems to me that the best kind of play available to adults is the kind of play that includes everyone - even kids. And vice versa.

Well, I am irked no longer. Take a look at this:



See those adult-looking people?

And look at those mothers play!



OK, it looks like it's all about getting to shoot things. Which, in fact, it is. Which, in additional fact, proves to be a most funworthy experience. But it's also a kind of dry water park, crowded with a cornucopia of cunningly air-powered foam-ball launching devices that lend themselves to discovery, exploration, and other forms of politically correct softplay, like, for example, as listed on their website, these:

Master Blaster
Features: Button-Activated Compressed Air Blast, Automatic Delay, Easy-Load Ball Insert. .

Ball Fountain
Features: Button-Activated Compressed Air Blast, Automatic Delay, Ball Loading Tray, Multi-Ball Blast.

Cannon Blaster
Features: Button-Activated Compressed Air Blast, Automatic Delay, Easy-Load Chamber, Multi-Ball Blast.

Ball Dump
Features: Tipping Basket, Mechanical Action, Auto-Retract, Dumps When Full.

Ball Levitator
Features: Mult-Port Continuous Air Blower, Visual & Scientific Ball Floater Activities.

Hyper Blower
Features: Multi-Ball Air Blower, Continuous Run, Easy-Load Ball Insert, 8" Ball Tubes.

Ball Vacuum
Features: Multi-Ball Air Blower, Continuous Run, Easy-Load Ball Funnel, 4" Ball Tubes.