Whale Of A Time is the 34th building and player-projectile ring-targeting mini-game in Stampy's Funland.
Appearance[]
Exterior[]
Almost the entire mini-game is set outside. At the front is an orca or a killer whale that contains the game's starting mechanism. The hoops are located in the lake and have different colors: Red, Lime Green, Yellow, Magenta, and the hardest, Black. A dispenser in front of the game determines the coloured zone the player has to land in.
Interior[]
The only interior portion of the mini-game is found inside the orca, which is a TNT launcher that flies the player up into the sky when activated, but in this game's case, it is made to look like the water blowing out the orca's blowhole.
Game rules[]
The player is randomly assigned one of 5 colours (red, lime, yellow, magenta, or black), determined by a dispenser where the player pushes a button to dispense coloured wool. The player then has to go inside the orca, surround themselves in a pool with TNT blocks, and activate them simultaneously with a push of a button. The starting area is, in fact, a launcher that allows the player to launch themselves into the sky. While above the sky, the player has to guide themselves to land on one of the hoops with their assigned colour. Among the colours mentioned earlier, black is the hardest target, placed the furthest from the orca. The player succeeds if they land on the correct target. If there are more players, it is a sudden-death challenge; one of the players will be out once they land in the wrong hoop or if they hit the ground too hard. The last person standing wins.
History[]
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Whale Of A Time began its construction in the episode "Orca", when the orca model was built. The player launcher and the coloured rings were then built in the following episode, "Player Launcher". During the tester-go session in the same episode, Stampy launched himself the proper way, using two rows of TNT blocks, but ended up dying underwater after he hit the ground too hard. This was when he realised that the lake was too shallow to accommodate such a landing from a distant height. Because of this, he and his helpers dug the lake one block lower before the recording of the tournament episode of the same name, making the mini-game much safer.
The tournament was held in the episode of the same name, with Stampy becoming the overall champion beating L for Leeeeee x, Sqaishey, and Choo Choo.
The mini-game initially got broken after he and his friends played it due to a later update that changed how TNT blocks work in Legacy console editions. With this, the launcher inside the orca did not launch the player as high as intended. Due to this issue, Whale Of A Time was ranked last in Stampy's Top 10 Mini-Games but led the list in his Top 10 Broken Mini-games, as it was the game that Stampy missed playing the most, and the one that he regularly checked after every update to see if the game worked again.
In Bedrock Edition, the Minecraft version that the Lovely World was last played on, the TNT blocks now work the way originally intended for the mini-game.[1]