Wouldn’t it be nice if the real implements of war were more like today’s USB Missile Launcher: too weak, squishy, and small to do any real damage? A society where all disputes – between nation and nation, between worker and co-worker, between husband and wife, between plaintiff and defendant – were settled by recourse to toy combat would be a more humane society. More to the point, it would be a more entertaining one. That’s what we’re hoping, anyway. Your challenge:

Show us people resolving their differences by fighting with toys.

Obvious ideas suggest themselves, but remember, inventiveness pays. We’re not really looking for water guns full of acid or eyeballs impaled on jacks, but we’re sure a lot of you will come up with that sort of thing anyway. Vault over the vulgar herd on a pole made of cleverness and wit, and riches will find you.

Post your entry here by 11:59 PM CDT on Sunday, June 17, 2007.
Prizes are $40/$100/$200 for 3rd/2nd/1st (rolled over from Contest 126). The rules and criteria for
winning: our panel of geniuses can and will make stuff up as it goes
along. Use Photoshop, pen and ink, collage, MSPaint, scrimshaw carving,
tattoos, ice sculpture, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s
visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. As we are fond of saying, try to keep your maximum
width to 450px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com.
We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use.
And if you want us to be sure your entry was indeed your work, post
links to your source images. The more sure we are that you did your own
work, the more likely we are to consider it for a prize.

Past money winners:
If you’d like to nominate any entries from this week’s contest, email
your selections (with links to each individual post) to Jason Toon at [email protected] by noon CDT on Monday, June 18.