Were any of you ever able to make your Slinky go all the way down stairs? Mine would stop part way through, and then would flail about and get all tangled up when I picked it up.
shareIf I remember correctly, yes, I was indeed able to make a slinky go all the way down the stairs. This would've been in the early 90s when Slinkies were made of plastic; I don't think it was possible for them to get tangled. Not sure about that though. Also, I have a shit memory and might be misremembering things.
shareDon't recall. It would have been over a half century ago. I do recall that the Slinky was a toy we all got bored with rather quickly. Shuffle it from hand to hand. Make it go down stairs.
shareI've had a few Slinkys when I was a kid. It was fun until the Slinky got tangled up because it was almost impossible to untangle a Slinky.
shareNo. I had two slinky toys in grade school, and I never could get them to go all the way down the stairs to our basement (we had a 1-story ranch house with a finished basement in Wisconsin during this time). They would go down a few steps like in the commercials, and then they would flail and tumble off to the side and land in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, if I didn't catch them in time. The metal ones performed better than the colorful plastic ones, but only to a small degree.
shareIt sounds like I wasn't the only one to deal with repeated frustration trying to make a Slinky operate as demonstrated in the commercials.
You may remember in the commercial the song promised us this:
"It's Slinky, it's Slinky it's such a wonderful toy! It's fun for a girl and a boy!" đļ
After the word boy they should have added the additional phrase "as long as they have low expectations." đļ
If you sing it just right you can make the rhythm fit in.
One time I came soooo close...
https://youtu.be/ltwxC19s5u8?si=IuQ87TaTOtBsuhP8&t=28
If you mean the 3 or 4 steps we had at one of the places we lived growing up...no. That thing didn't get very far even with only a few steps, we were severely oversold on its abilities.
sharePerhaps the toymakers got together around a boardroom table and said "let's give these kids an early taste of shattered hopes".
I wonder how they made it go all the way down the stairs in the commercials? They probably had to do it over several takes.
Apparently there's a trick or several tricks to get it to work, but I was definitely not smart enough to figure it out: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xPE_xkdm-Kc But neither was anyone I knew, kid or adult, so I don't feel too bad about it. Maybe the toymakers were looking for the rare few, to hire for future projects, I don't know, but they got a full course meal when it came to tasting kids' shattered hopes.
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