Your channel is quite wonderful, and I believe it is also very important, as it is documenting forever some "obscure" toys, so that they will always exist in humanity's memory even if the physical toys themselves disappear. Thank you!

@ToyKingWonder

7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind comment. I totally agree with you. Many of the toys from the 50s, 60s and 70s are awesome, but there is a subset of these great toys which are not only obscure, but the engineering behind them is incredible. I felt the need, years back, to share my findings, rather than just keep them to myself. Such a toy like this would never be made today, for two reasons. One, is toys are no longer positioned for older children, but for younger ones. Two, no company is going to put this much engineering into something today, when an equivalent "experience" could be had in a video game. What strikes me as true fun is when things are physical. They are real. This thing is actually there, and you are manipulating it. Slot cars. Action figures. Erector sets. These things aren't some program. There are so many people who would rather sweat up their jammies playing a video game of flying vs. going out and flying a real RC plane....an experience that is thrilling and truly exciting. Toys tell us so much about the human experience--what was popular at the time, how kids played, how adults played!

What an interesting piece of toy history

Quite an ingenious design. Glad you restored it to make it work properly, and that gleeful laughter came straight out of the kid in you, as it should. :)

@ToyKingWonder

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you once again Sir!

You are the Uncle Doug of old toys.

@ToyKingWonder

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly....

Good to see you making videos again, so entertaining, you deserve so many thousands of views!

Very cool

Grease on plastic?? Plastic is oil. Grease will eat through the plastic.

@ToyKingWonder

2 жыл бұрын

I use a grease that is safe for plastics. All plastic toys with plastic gears were lubricated from the factory. I have been restoring toys for 30 years, and have never had any of the grease I use eat through plastic.

@seeer3240

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToyKingWonder Cool. Maybe it restores the plastic to keep it from getting too brittle with age too? I guess it depends on the plastic and how it's stored. I have bad experience with aged plastics and rubber.