Oldman eventually discovered them in Los Angeles, a thick-framed plastic set similar to the ones Guinness used 30 years earlier.
It's a sleek, motorized medley of finely machined rods, screens, perforated disks, and springs in metal, glass, wood, and plastic, set in a box with a circular cut in one side.
The Plastiki, a boat made entirely out recyclable plastics, set sail this Saturday from Sausalito Bay, near San Francisco.
There are glass sets, plastic sets, paper sets, a set made from Lego blocks.
The plastic set, made by the Imperial Toy Corporation, includes a baby bottle, a dish and utensils.
Mrs. Sarisohn said the collection began with a simple plastic set with a Renaissance theme that she gave to Mr. Sarisohn 53 years ago when they were engaged.
Hernando Campo, a ninth grader, gripped a cricket bat and crouched before a plastic set of wickets in the Russell Sage Junior High School gym on Tuesday.
But, when they arrive, they find their offices colonized by a roving game show called "You Fired Me!" A garish plastic set has been hurriedly constructed in the middle of the common area, the coffee-machine or copier room, whatever.
Fenelon's is a plastic set of parallel vertical tracks with teeth.
"Over time, plastic sets," says Downey.
He added dabs of modern and simply weird materials, spiking lamps with clear plastic spheres, setting resin pagodas on coffee tables and framing mirrors with antlers.
