Like so many other toys, the AquaStruct™ toy system is a by-product of real life parenting experiences.  As the parents of five children, AquaStruct, Inc. founders Jim and Lori Phipps faced a common dilemma: how to get their shower-age children into the shower.  Eventually, an insight came.  In the transition from bathing to showering something had changed: all of the toys had disappeared.  There was nothing to do in the shower, but get in, get clean and get out.  In a word, taking a shower was boring.  Jim and Lori searched for solutions to this problem in toy stores.  They found none.  Instead, they found an unaddressed niche: shower toys for tweens.  They found a bath toy industry focused on infants and toddlers, to the exclusion shower-age children.  Creative juices flowed and, Eureka!, the AquaStruct™ toy system was born.  The first prototypes were built from off-the-shelf items found at the hardware store.  Soon after these prototypes were installed the nature of the showering problem in the Phipps home changed: Before it was how to get them in there; now it was how to get them out.  From there, corporate arrangements were made, engineers, industrial designers and lawyers were retained, and the AquaStruct™ toy system began its journey to the market.  Jim and Lori are delighted to share their solution with parents and tweens everywhere.  The AquaStruct™ toy system premiered at Toy Fair 2007 in New York City and will be shipping to stores in Fall 2007!