After many years of prototyping...

...the Swingy Clickety-Click Stand is finally ready. While our Smart Doll girls n boys can stand on their own two feet, posing them for a photo and then stepping away can be scary, especially if they are standing on uneven surfaces or during windy conditions. Windy conditions as in after a night of spicy food. 

I nearly decided on calling this the "Turbo Stand" but realized that I kept calling it "Turbo Joint" which was actually a previous product. So I opted for the easy-to-pronounce "Swingy Clickety-Click Stand" or SCCS.

Each Smart Doll comes with a telescopic stand to aid stability, but for folks who want to have more flexibility when posing for street or nature photography, the Swingy Clickety-Click Stand could be a useful ally - but before you decide, read on.

I love nature and still try to get some travel in during the pandemic - wifey and I manage to seek out places that have as few humans as possible. The surfaces I take photos on are naturally rugged. The default stand only extends straight downwards. While it can swing left and right to hide behind the leg, I wanted a joint that could also swing up and down to better support my Smart Doll girls on rugged terrain.

I also didn't want to keep removing the stand every time I finished taking photos.

The Swingy Clickety-Click Stand can not only swing left and right, up and down, but can also retract to fold by the thigh when not in use.

The Swingy Clickety-Click Stand comes with a built-in spring washer that pushes both halves of the joint together to offer more stability if you need to swing the stand back n forth.

You can use the joint to scare humans like a Clicker in the Last Of Us, which I never completed as it got too scary.

If you need a tighter joint or want to fix the joint dead at a certain angle, you can take a plus screwdriver and tighten the screw.

If you get two Swingy Clickety-Click Stands, you can pull out the telescopic rod on one of them and chain the joints together for some high level posing.

Getting two of the Swingy Clickety-Click Stand's will mean that you can use them as chopsticks. But you should not use them to eat food after posing your Smart Doll in grass that is often visited by dogs.

The joint does not need to be pushed in all the way into the Support Socket on the Smart Doll.

I chose orange so that I could easily find it if dropped while traveling. The color is also taken from the movie Chappie.

Make sure that your Smart Doll is not leaning back too much as the stand will not support the full weight of the doll. The feet should be tilted slightly forwards but not like a ballerina.

The metal parts are stainless steel, but rust likes shiny stuff so dry off if the stand gets wet.

Choosing the right place and time to pose your Smart Doll for photos is important. You should generally avoid places like on top of a speeding train or during volcano eruptions.

If you are buying a Smart Doll for the first time, you won't need this stand on your first purchase unless you can visualize scenarios of yourself using it.

REASONS NOT TO BUY

OK, now for the reasons why you may not want/need this.

1. The stand is not designed to support the full weight of a Smart Doll and is only designed for additional support. The stand may retract if too much weight is put on it.
2. The stand will not work effectively if you want to pose the feet ballerina style pointed sharply forwards.
3. Just like the default telescopic stand, the Swingy Clickety-Click Stand does not guarantee that your Smart Doll won't fall flat on their face - it will depend on your mana skills in setting up a pose and the butterfly effect.
4. Just like Smart Doll, the Swingy Clickety-Click Stand was designed and optimized for my personal use, which means you may not get the same mileage as I do - I personally love it, which is why I approved production ;-)
5. When attached to a Smart Doll, the joint size means that it may not fit beneath apparel items that do not have a slit for the support socket.
6. Some folks will feel that this should come free with a Smart Doll - that was the plan but not at this moment in time. We need to overcome some injection molding and wo/man power issues before that can happen but that may be a while out.
7. Some folks may feel that the extra cost is not worth the functionality that this stand provides over the default stand which is already good enough.
8. Some folks may be able to make something better and cheaper.
9. The rod part is the same component as the default stand. Folks who feel that the default stand retracts too easily should not buy this product.
10. The stand does not have any GPS tracking device installed - if you lose it, we won't replace it. You may want to hang an AirTag off it somehow.
11. The joint makes a "Clickety-Click" sound which may scare folks who have played The Last Of Us.
12. It costs more than 6 Costco Hamburgers.

Did I manage to talk you out of buying a Swingy Clickety-Click Stand? If so then great! 

If not then welcome to the club ;-)

TAKE NOTE

Photos of the joint disassembled are just for you to look at the Clickety-Click mechanism - the joint is assembled upon shipping.

Some of the photos show two joints linked together as an example - you only get one joint with the inserted telescopic rod. Any Smart Doll's, walls, floor or roofs shown in photos are not included.

Please do not poke yourself or anybody or any animal with the rod.

VIDEOS

Check out the videos we made on the stand.

写真では二つのジョイントが連結ごっこしている様子が写っていますが、この商品では1本しかついていません。