Children today are spoiled. Many will never know what it’s like to have their parents answer the phone when their friends call, they’ll never know what it’s like to have to wait for a turn to use the dial-up internet on the computer when someone else is using it, and they’ll certainly never know what it’s like to sit in a vehicle in which you are responsible for warming or cooling off your own bottom because your seats simply do not provide that option to you.
Aside from the fact that kids today are almost always born with far more than they were in the past, parents are now purchasing their kids some of the world’s most magnificent (and ridiculous) items. The Golden Unicorn is just one of those over-the-top purchases. This is a 24-carat gold slide that features nothing more than the art of climbing three small stairs and sliding to the bottom before repeating. Many of our kids have the same slide, produced by Fischer-Price and sold for less than $200 with all the same fun sliding options.
This slide, however, is a German-engineered slide made of 24-carat leaf gold and manufactured by Jupiduu. Just one indoor-use slide retails for an unbelievable $12,600, and the company states there have already been numerous orders for slides, one in particular being a large order of four from Dubai. Of course, one buyer does not want his slide to be just like the other golden slides children use, so he’s commissioned a ruby to be placed on the slide to make it more expensive and more elaborate than the slides other wealthy children use in their own playrooms at home.
This is the most expensive child’s slide in the entire world, which simply opens up the market for someone else to create one even more elaborate and even more expensive.
Photo by Jupiduu
