Here are a few ideas for things we haven't dealt with yet:
REALLY big balls (diameter more than twice as large as the largest permissible robot), octahedrons, dodecahedrons, isodecahedrons, solid/walled tetrahedrons, ellipsoids (either prolate or oblate), "very light" shapes (e.g. ping pong balls, whiffle balls, open-cell foam), stiff long cylinders (bats, batons, clubs, broomsticks, virges), and of course, familiar objects with irregular shapes: flat broom, mop, weed eater, boom box, brief cases, bungee cords, baloon animals, animal chew toys, books, component parts (e.g. what if we had to replace a laser printer cartridge with a robot?), dumbells, jingle bells, real bell-shaped bells, bottles (pick your size and shape; I'm thinking of 6.25 oz classic coke bottles), aerobies, model cars, teddy bears, Barbie/GI Joes, loaves of french bread, calculators, laptop computers, USB memory sticks (you have to plug them in and read data off of them to know what to do next), I-beams (or lengths of railroad tie), lincoln logs/tinker toys/erector set pieces, shoes (human, horse, or brake), mannequin parts, pillows, lengths of pipe, pipe fittings, skillets, strainters, Anderson Connectors (plug 'em in?), hammers, wrenches, pliers, wheels, and soma cube puzzle pieces.
This was the result of about 10 minutes of brainstorming by one guy, who intentionally didn't run any seam more than about three or four items (I could have gone on with kitchen stuff alone as long as the list above). The GDC won't run out of "new" game pieces anytime soon...
And on the OBTW front:
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Like Mini bots and Jar Jar Binks these things never happened in my mind. A significant amount of therapy was required for this, I can suggest a guy.
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I completely blocked my memory of having seen Star Trek V until about half an hour into seeing it for (presumably) the second time. Makes mini-bots and Jar Jar seem well-considered by comparison.