ToyVoyagers
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ToyVoyagers are travelling toys which get around by being passed from person to person. Their travels and adventures are tracked on the ToyVoyagers.com website.
Each ToyVoyager carries a unique identification number on a tag. A message on the tag encourages anyone who comes into contact with the ToyVoyager to go to the website and update its Travelog, including photographs of where it has been. To continue its journey, the ToyVoyager is then either passed on to somebody else directly or released into the wild for somebody to find.
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[edit] History
Taking inspiration from the travelling gnome in the film Amélie, the website was created to see if it would be possible for toys to travel 'by themselves'. [1] It was designed as an internet object tracking website where the objects would become travel companions - able to go places, do things, meet people and have their adventures captured in photographs. With more than a thousand members from all over the world, ToyVoyagers.com has become an international community in its own right. More than one thousand ToyVoyagers have been registered since the website began.
[edit] Forum
The website has an official forum which allows members to discuss many aspects of the ToyVoyagers concept with other members, as well as offer themselves up as hosts, request hosts for their ToyVoyagers or send them on ToyVoyager Trails
[edit] Hosts
Many members of the website make themselves available as hosts, offering ToyVoyagers a place to stay. Hosts will show ToyVoyagers around and update their travelogs with stories and photographs about their adventures. In the forum members can also create travel itineraries for their ToyVoyagers by asking people to sign up if they are willing to be a host. The ToyVoyager is then posted to each person on the list.
[edit] ToyVoyager Trails
Trails[2] are made up of hosts who have grouped themselves together to provide an itinerary of travel destinations for a ToyVoyager. If you send your ToyVoyager on a Trail, it will be passed around all of the Trail members who will each update its Travelog, plotting its adventures. Trails offer people the chance to send their ToyVoyager on a trip without having to look for individual hosts.
