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Proper interesting, detailed wind up toys as stocking fillers...help!

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TwinsAndTiramisu · 24/10/2022 22:47

Can anyone please help?

We have 3DC, and a tradition is to have a really interesting wind up toy in their stocking each year. Then after Christmas, we put them in the Christmas Eve box, ready for next year to get the load of them out on Christmas Eve, and have a laugh setting them all off, and now for DS (14) a bit of nostalgia ("Remember that one! That's from when I was about 3!) It's a really sweet part of our Christmas.

These aren't the boring normal ones, like the chattering teeth, or those racing santa/reindeer/snowman things, which just jitter or shuffle about. We've got monkeys riding bikes whilst clicking cymbals, dancing dinosaurs shaking tails and gnashing teeth in santa hats, shiny somersaulting penguins which flap one wing, then the other, then off they go!

I used to get them from a nearby independent toyshop...which closed during COVID. I struggled last year and got these tin affairs (frog, chicken, mouse etc) from Amazon, which weren't particularly special and broke within a couple of days. The ones on Amazon now, are all the bog standard ones, or more of the tin.

I've found what I used to get, but sods law they're in the US and can't find anything here.

These are the things I'm after, just that bit more special, they used to be about a tenner each from the toyshop:

are the ones I'm looking for www.tintoyarcade.com/z-wind-ups-collection

Anyone know of anything similar?

Thank you xx

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DazzlePaintedBattlePants · 14/11/2022 21:33

eshop.kovap.cz/about-the-brand

wind up vehicles here any good? They have a clockwork cable car!

TwinsAndTiramisu · 14/11/2022 21:37

I've got the ones I was after (link on prior page, but found a seller with a good variety on eBay) and they have just arrived.

They're great... definitely haven't been playing with them this morning while DC were at nursery Grin

Need to work out how to do clicky links so I can put on the bargain thread as they are really well priced too.

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Nanasmummy · 19/11/2022 03:34

ManefesationofConciousness · 07/11/2022 22:11

They are the 10 that I got in my box from the ebay seller who was listed previously

Enterprising reseller maybe?

These are so cute!! Did anyone else pick a box of 50 up and want to split them? My little ones would love them. It’s such a lovely tradition.

10in10 · 19/11/2022 03:55

TwinsAndTiramisu · 14/11/2022 21:37

I've got the ones I was after (link on prior page, but found a seller with a good variety on eBay) and they have just arrived.

They're great... definitely haven't been playing with them this morning while DC were at nursery Grin

Need to work out how to do clicky links so I can put on the bargain thread as they are really well priced too.

Could you link to the seller op?

supercatlady · 19/11/2022 03:57

www.jesters.com/tin-toys.html For future reference maybe

TwinsAndTiramisu · 19/11/2022 15:56

10in10 · 19/11/2022 03:55

Could you link to the seller op?

Are you on the bargain thread? I posted all of them on there and it took me about half an hour Grin

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Glasscup · 19/11/2022 16:12

TwinsAndTiramisu · 24/10/2022 23:24

Thank you, DC love it :)

A music box is a lovely idea, but too big for what we do. DS has accumulated 14 of these now, and DTwins will be on their third each this year. It's lovely when they all come tumbling out of the Christmas Eve box and all get set off at once whirling and somersaulting across the floor. Everyone grabs for the monkey (he's the best)

How do you manage that?

TwinsAndTiramisu · 19/11/2022 16:14

Um? We wind them up simultaneously.

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Glasscup · 19/11/2022 21:09

I'd thought of them exploding out of the box somehow.

TwinsAndTiramisu · 19/11/2022 22:33

Glasscup · 19/11/2022 21:09

I'd thought of them exploding out of the box somehow.

Exploding out of the box... self propelling?

Genuinely, that's the stuff of nightmares Grin

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Glasscup · 20/11/2022 00:41

TwinsAndTiramisu · 19/11/2022 22:33

Exploding out of the box... self propelling?

Genuinely, that's the stuff of nightmares Grin

Forgive me, it's been a very long day! Not sure quite what I thought but glad to hear they're not possessed!

Nanasmummy · 05/12/2022 11:50

Did anyone here buy one of the big boxes of 50 of these toys? If so & you have any doubles that you need to rehome please let me know & I’ll give you the money for them. Thanks

FetlocksBlowingInTheWind · 05/12/2022 12:00

Would love a link to the bargains thread with all the links!

TwinsAndTiramisu · 06/12/2022 19:20

FetlocksBlowingInTheWind · 05/12/2022 12:00

Would love a link to the bargains thread with all the links!

On page one of this thread x

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