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Vintage childhood toy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone remember what the toy I'm going to describe is called or if there are any photos of one?

Its a thick wire that has a handle at the bottom and a little ball at the top. The wire/rod allows a monkey or other toy character to slide down from the top of the rod to the handle. The character has some sort of arm or tail composed of a small spring (like the ones in a click top pen) and the spring usually has a weight at the end like a plastic hand or a ball. To operate the toy, you move the monkey up to the top and then give the spring a little wack. The monkey then boings it's way as is claiming down from the rod. It makes a spring boinging noise.

Just wondering if anyone remembers those things.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I still have a similar one. It's a vertical metal rod on a wooden base and a wooden ball on top. There's a ring that can slide along the rod. The ring has a tiny woodpecker figure mounted on a spring. With the ring in the top position you pull the bird and it starts pecking on the rod, moving the ring downwards with each peck, making that boinging & ticking noise. I used to love it as a kid. I still do. But I used to, too.

EDIT found a video of this exact one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szhxh1eEEL4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh! I had one just like that when I was a kid!

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