Sliding to EroSpain?

You design an electrode to fit nicely in the body. It also fits nicely in the hand. You spend hours getting the proportions right, the surface finish dialled in, the neck mechanism moving the way you want it to. You make it small enough to be practical and large enough to be interesting. You think about how it sits in the palm, how it connects, how it cleans. You don't, at any point, think about whether a 500% sized version of it will fit in a suitcase.

We're heading to EroSpain this weekend. Hall 1, Stand 349, 17 to 19 May. Fira de Barcelona. Wayne, Caz and Kay on the stand for three days of trade-floor conversations, demos and the European retail launch of the Slider.

The new Slider, in its actual size, is one of the nicer things we've made this year. CNC-machined in our own workshops here in Watford, bipolar, adjustable, fully disassemblable (that is a word?). The sort of electrode that quietly does its job and asks nothing of you except to enjoy it. The real one fits in your hand.

The version going to Spain does not fit in our hands. Or our suitcases. Or anybody's idea of "reasonable hand luggage." We could have a problem. At least we are not travelling with Ryan Air.

We decided to make an oversized display piece for trade shows because a stand needs presence, and we like to be different. One year we brought a pick'n'mix. Nobody walks past a giant version of something. You can see it from the back of the hall, the proportions read at a distance, you know exactly what it is. It's good showmanship. It's also genuinely fun to build.

The downside is you then have to get it to Barcelona.

So we're packing. Caz has had opinions about how reasonable any of this is, especially as we had to borrow one of her Disney suitcases for it. We have packed and repacked. We considered shipping options and rejected them on the grounds that we'd rather wrestle a giant electrode through Heathrow than trust it to an airline freight handler. Been there, done that.

If you are at EroSpain on the trade days, come and find us. Stand 349, Hall 1. You cannot really miss us with a giant Slider on the stand. We'll have the full Slider range there in the size it's meant to be, alongside some other new ideas we have in the pipeline. Show floor wholesale orders carry a ten percent discount across all three days.

And if you want to know what the giant one feels like in person, we'll be very happy to show you. We've already done the hardest bit, which was getting it there.

⚡ Wayne