We at wish lantern, funnily enough, love making wishes, and like to do all sorts of things to ensure the best odds of them coming true. We keep them secret, we keep our fingers crossed, and we try and blow out all the candles at once. We also have various releases of Chinese lanterns to speed things along a bit if they don’t seem to be going according to plan.
Wishing on a star is also a popular method, first made famous by the wonderful animated film Pinocchio. If it was good enough for Jiminy Cricket, it’s good enough for us. It has got us thinking though, with all those stars being so far away, how can we guarantee that our hard wishing will actually amount to anything. We reckon that were Jiminy himself around in 2010, his preferred method or wishing would almost certainly be with Chinese lanterns- a much more practical and certain way of ensuring wealth, posterity, health, happiness, or whatever else you might like to wish for. Who knows, if there ever comes to be a remake of our favourite classic about a wooden boy, the small insect sidekick might have very different ideas about how to make your dreams come true…