A slinky, a slinky, a wonderful wonderful toy

Nemici

Does anyone still have "a slinky" you know those wire coils that you put at the top of the stairs and they went down every step.

have a look

http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/barrett/slinky/home.htm

ozpass

I currently own a 'latter day' slinky, but it's made out of plastic. It isn't nearly as tactile as the metal original for 'pouring' from one hand to another. I remember that any O.G. slinkies I had 'back in the day' always got buggered up by some plonker stretching it.

solice

remember when the plastic ones were called "ondemania". god, what a crap name.

Stark

never had a metal slinky, only the plastic ones. God they were crap.

Sandi

I have 2 plastic ones. One is multi-coloured and works well down the stairs. The other one is slightly smaller and is a bit too small to make it from step to step and can only manage about 3 steps before stopping...

Pugsley

I always wanted to see one which could go the whole way down the stairs, the many Ive had never made it down

Stark

Yeah I had one of those "only manage 3 steps" ones.

sceptre

Like Oz, I've a latter-day plastic one. I can remember getting my first metal slinky in Clery's before Christmas in 1980 though - much better