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SLINKY-Original Slinky - Metal- SLINKY | 
 enlarge | Brand: Thumbs Up
Category: Toy
Buy New: £4.99
New (8) from £2.94
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 438
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 2.6 x 6.3 x 3.5
MPN: SL100
Model: SLINKY
UPC: 071547001003
EAN: 0071547001003
ASIN: B00000IZKX
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | All-time classic toy, the Slinky | | • | Invented over 60 years ago, the Slinky is still great fun | | • | Flip around, juggle, slide or walk down a flight of stairs | | • | A nostalgic gift for anyone who grew up playing with one | | • | Find out for yourself what makes a Slinky so much fun! |
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Product Description
Now here's a gadget with a real pedigree and a real story to tell. You might recall its use in exciting demonstrations about energy transfer when you were at school. But the truth is, it's much, much more deeply interesting than all that. Invented in 1943 by naval engineer Richard James and first marketed in Philadelphia in 1945 - selling-out all 400 of its first run in just 90 minutes - the slinky was destined for greatness that has since taken it into space on the Shuttle, to war in Vietnam, and, yes, into thousands of physics labs in schools across the world. Not only is it inspired in its invention (an accident), but it's equally inspired in terms of its brand name (the ramblings of a suburban housewife). Slinky. Brilliant. One just couldn't make it up. Now, as it approaches its 65th birthday, the slinky is Pennsylvania's official state toy. It has a guaranteed place in the official Toy Hall of Fame. Why? Because all you need is a slinky and a set of stairs, and a whole afternoon slips by. For sheer exuberant slinkability, there is only one original slinky. A 20th Century classic.
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| Customer Reviews:
 does not work March 14, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am sorry to say that this is not an orignal slinky. It does not do anything like the old classic. I would like my money back.
 It just doesn't work like the slinky of old September 27, 2007
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
They seem to have somehow spoiled the design of this toy. It looks identical to the slinky I used to have a few years ago but for some reason it just does not work anywhere near as good. Maybe it's a fractionally different weight or size, I really don't know but there is definately something marginally different about it because I haven't got it to the bottom of the stairs even once in about a hundred tries. As long as I got the technique correct the slinky I used to have worked every time on the same flight of stairs that I've being trying this one on. The imitation slinky called 'Springy' is maybe a tiny fraction better but it's still useless. Plastic ones are useless too, not heavy or flexible enough. In my quest to find a slinky that will actually walk down the whole flight of stairs the only one I have found which actually works is a dark metal collectors edition slinky in a brown manilla box. Unfortunately this one is tricky to find in the UK. I had to get mine from an american website, but I suppose one could occasionally crop up on auction sites.
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