Whats the deal with the levitating beach-ball?
The Hovering FunBall was among the first toys ever manufactured by the Epsilon Eridani Toy Corporation, and its very first big hit. The line was continued for many years, and fostered many innovations. This particular StarBall has been down on the planet for quite some time before Spacebird’s fiery descent. His first adventure concerned a family of underwater star-shaped blobs, examples of the planet’s aboriginal life; next, he turned out to have been inside of my trunk during Die Abenteuer von Gunther das Fliegenauto. How he got from the Isle of the Dogpeople to the catacombs and caves seen in The Adventures of Spacebird is completely open to speculation. I have no idea. I do know this much: StarBall is a pretty nice guy — and a real cut-up, if you soak him in beer a bit.
