His plans are big, and when his neighbors dismiss them with the words, "When pigs fly," they grow bigger still. Dubbed mechanimals, these beasts fill many of the same niches (and take many similar shapes) as flesh and bone animals on Earth and other organic planets. Snug and safe in my little i-cot, I crossed mighty oceans, slipped through hidden portals into other worlds and floated between glittering galaxies.

A marriage of the Renaissance with the Industrial Revolution reflected in the tuck case and in a handful of imaginative and surprising characters, with a slight steampunk style. His book Don't Eat The Teacher has sold over a million copies and his alter-ego Charlie Small has written twelve volumes of unbelievable but completely true adventurous memoirs.Then the three factions: Blue City, Red Hall, and Black Reef, try to collect the Mecardimals for their own purposes. With such an amazing background, how could Will be anything else other than an inventor, and as for his inventions – wow! The rights of Nick Ward to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Interestingly, though they can be wild or tamed as with organic animals, mechanimals, due to their mechanical nature can also be easily upgraded, altered, or even granted sentience. Will Jakemen is an inventor, perhaps the best there has ever been, and renowned for his 'Mechanimals' - incredible machines with uses that are out of this world. They are mechanical pets who you need to wind up to make go, and they have their own skills and personalities.

To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Nick Ward was born in the late Jurassic period, and since then has written over sixty books for children, from picture books to young fiction.

At the ripe old age of 99 and three quarters, Will decides he must try to discover the whereabouts of Ureker, the lost planet of his birth invaded by Reptoids, a gang of merciless Space Pirates, when he was still a little baby. He has worked in design studios and converted school buildings, but now works from a little wooden studio (shed) at the bottom of his leafy garden. Four cycles into the Grand Uprising, Megatron noticed mechanimals could metabolise their own energon. Shooters will also be included (Shooters are devices you roll Mecardimals through, causing the shooter to transform.Let me introduce myself – my name is Will Jakeman and I’m an inventor, perhaps the best inventor there has ever been. Will Jakeman is the inventor of the world-famous Marvellous Mechanimals - brilliant mechanical animals that defend people from all the dangerous creatures that inhabited their home. The illustrations are the star of the show though; each page features a monochromatic background with the action or character in question in full color. At the ripe old age of 99 and three quarters, Will Jakeman decides he must try to discover the whereabouts of the lost planet of his birth invaded by Reptoids, a gang of merciless Space Pirates, when he was still a little baby.

Description MECHANIMALS is a beautiful work of art conceived and designed by the artist Celsius Pictor, produced by Max Playing cards and masterfully printed by Legends Playing Cards. This makes the action standout and helps the reader focus the eye on the action going on in the text. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. In a desperate attempt to save me from certain doom, my quick-thinking mum bundled me into an intergalactic i-cot and sent me bobbing down the rushing waters of a nearby river and out onto the storm-tossed sea.