2023
Rolypoly’s are slaters. They live in old fallen logs. Rolypolys have a very busy job to chew old leaves into pulp. They live with Tily’s who help to transform leaf pulp into forest food.
Rolypoly’s have a mouth punch so children can make leaf confetti from fallen leaves. Rolypolys have a soft belly and glow-in-the-dark scales.
Rolypolys are slaters and are crucial to breaking down matter in the ecosystem. The Wiggle Rolypoly toy is also a second-quarter toy with Tily, a bacteria-inspired character. Wiggle has an articulated body, movable legs and a soft felt belly. The combination of textures and movement was appealing to children during playtesting. Wiggle has a punch mechanism in its mouth that turns fed leaves into confetti.
The confetti shapes can be stored in Tily, who rides on Wiggle’s back. These two characters work in a symbiotic relationship where the bacteria that forms on the edges of nibbled leaves helps them to decompose faster. Tily would be manufactured in soft vinyl, so the nodules on the back can help affix it to branches. Wiggle is painted in Hydrochromic paint that reacts to water, with the edges painted with glow-in-the-dark paint so Wiggle can glow when placed in tree hollows.
