Figure Rush: Arrow Crush

A sunlit toy room. Pale wooden shelving, jars of loose pieces, pastel blocks nobody put away. In the middle of it, on a mint and cream turntable, stands your collectible, waiting for you to decide what it looks like today. Start with the face This is the drawer people lose time in. Dozens of expressions, almost none of them neutral. Gritted teeth. A flat, unimpressed stare. Watery eyes on the verge of crying. A scrunched grin with every tooth showing. Hearts instead of pupils. Pick one and the whole toy changes character before you have chosen anything else. A furious little face on a soft pastel body is funnier than it has any right to be, and it is where most sessions start. The boards in between Away from the stand, there are boards to untangle. Each one is a knot of coloured arrows laid out as looping paths, red doubling back on itself, green cutting across the middle, cyan sliding…