This isn’t an app for your iPhone or Android tablet. Instead, this version of Angry Birds is much more like a traditional board game with real life pieces. It’s based on the best-selling app, of course, but it has been licensed by Mattel to let you fling real (plastic) birds to destroy the structures erected by real (plastic) pigs. I’m not sure you can replicate the zero gravity environment of space, but you even get a space helmet in the package.

I guess there is something to be said about using a real slingshot instead of simply swiping your finger across a touchscreen. It also helps that you can physically build the pigs’ protective structures, which should tap into the appeal of toys like LEGO and generic building blocks. Also included in the pack are 32 space mission cards and 8 points cards. The game can be played by 2-4 people.

The regular price for Angry Birds: Birds in Space is $21.99, but Amazon has it on sale for $8. That’s 65% off the list price and a pretty decent deal. Get it in time for the holidays and the kids will have a blast after turkey dinner at grandma’s.

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Getting bored with Angry Birds yet? Well, here’s a jump from virtual to “real.” Mattel has licensed the Rovio game and translated Angry Birds the mobile slinger game into Angry Birds Knock On Wood Game. This is not an app for your smartphone; I repeat, this is not an App. It’s the real deal. You get plastic birds and pigs along with the necessary building blocks to construct the egg-stealing hogs’ fortresses of solitude.

On display at CES of all places, the tabletop game is actually a multiplayer endeavor, quite unlike the single-player thing on your touchscreen phone. You pull a mission card, your opponent builds the structure on the card, and then you sling your bird into said structure. Yes, there’s a slingshot too. And no, you can’t tap the yellow bird for a speed boost.

I don’t know if this will really take off (no pun intended), but it shows the power of branding. Expect Mattel’s take on Angry Birds to launch this May for $14.99. Sound effects not included.

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