I think one of the simplest toys has to be the slinky but despite this it is something that most people had as a child, well apart from my fiance who lived in a bungalow all his life. I had one when I was little, actually I think I had more than one and I'm pretty sure my mum and dad also had one, so it seems that the classic slinky is a part of most households. As I have said the slinky is a very simply invention. The original slinky's are a thin shiny piece of metal curled tightly into a spring, basically the slinky is just a big spring!!!! The idea of a slinky is to make it walk down the stairs on its own. To do this you simply place your slinky on ...  Read the complete review

I had one of these as a kid, both in original and a multi-coloured plastic. A friend picked me one up for Christmas as a retro gift which was quite cool, but I seemed to be far better at 'slinking' as a child! The Slinky was invented back in 1943, first marketed in 1945, and was an instant sell-out. It's become very popular and I think many people, myself included, would consider this a classic. When you think about what it really is and what it does, it's quite surprising at just how well-known and popular it's become, even now being re-marketed as retro chic. It's sold over 300 million since it was first launched, so I think it's fair to say it'll be a ...  Read the complete review

I love novelty items such as gadgets and toys and to be honest this slinky only ever appealed to me when I saw it in a film years ago. I was watching Ace Ventura and you saw the main character using a slinky down this huge set of steps and it missed the bottom one and all I noticed was how cool it was to me. I had seen them in the shops before but sometimes when you see something in a store it does not appeal unless you see it in action first. The slinky is a nice piece of metal which is thin in some ways and designed to be a spring and that is why it does what it does. In case people are unsure what they do the idea is that you put these on a set ...  Read the complete review

Yet another of my work tools, the original slinky is an asset to my bag. The children I work with love it and it's much more durable than the cheaper versions The Original Slinky is a strip of very thin metal coiled around to have appearance of a spring; it's not a spring though. The slinky is viewed at its best going downstairs, it does this by tipping itself from stair to stair. If you place it on the top stair and pull the end onto the next step the rest will follow, the last few coils will hit the rest of the slinky and bounce off again tipping it onto the next step down. It only works if your stairs are the right width. My stairs are too narrow and ...  Read the complete review

==Original Slinky== I used to laugh at my mum for keeping so much of my old "junk" as there were boxes and boxes of it stored up in the loft which moved with them when they moved from our family home into their new home. However just at this time I was expecting Jack and I was actually quite pleased to go through a lot of mine and my brothers "junk" and a lot of it turned out to be really interesting as it was both a blast from the past and also a lot of stuff that Jack finds really fun and interesting a few years on. One of the many items that came out of the tons of boxes in the loft was this Original Slinky which was ...  Read the complete review