By the way.. if you wondered why I was focusing on those spools: it took me like two days to work that out in my game until I liked it ^^
(but my game was only 2D, and my actual solution was just using different sprites and masks.... well I guess it always look easy in hindsight ;)
Regarding that fast-foward: I understood something with .... Katey ? (I simply cannot make out what it is supposed to say)