proof positive of the brainwashing effects of TV advertising.

give three stars since they are still affordable. had one when I was a child and so did my kids. bad thing is It was rare for them to actually go all the way down the stairs. eventually they end up twisted like a string of christmas lights. awful quick to lose interest in.

I remember having a Slinky when I was a kid. Really enjoyed it at the time.

Mine always got tangled and it never did the stairs thing....

Couldnt do much with it, but it was very popular. Life with out video games lol

slow painful death loved it as a kid

especially down a huge flight of stairs, see if you could line it up just right, so it would crawl all the way down :D

com'on everyones had to have a slinky in their lifetime...

yea

Hey look... they go back and forth in my hands. Watch me tie my sister up with it.

Cute ads- but c'mon. . .who else thought this one was wildly overrated? It was a toy we were 'supposed' to have and after 30 minutes we moved on to something else- the bike, the football, dad's collection of underage Swedish porn. . .

Only metal slinky's for me. the plastic ones suck

Some people are like a slinky. They serve no real purpose, but they sure bring a smile to your face when someone pushes them down a flight of stairs.

I love that joke. 

its the worlds most marvelous toy that makes a slinkity sound and gets tangled so easily !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! theres an add for yah yet i ove them and the countless hours one can spend just to get them down a flight of stairs

Slinky, Slinky it's fun for a girl and a boy....=P

Anything I can put my penis in as a child was awesome

Loved it

those were da bomb

I loved my slinky, I miss my slinky SLINKKKKYYYYY!!!!!!

one of my favorites

love it

WOOT WOOT

the best toy....EVA!!!

Cool at first, but somehow they'd find a way to break. It would confuse me how they'd consistently get tangled up - you know, how a couple rings would get crooked and then the thing wouldn't go down the stairs right. Then you'd call your Dad over to bend it back but at that point the only thing you could do was buy another one.

Mine were always tangled up within days. By the time I was old enough to play with them responsibly, I found them boring.

slinky was boring. what fun is it to watch a spring walk down the stairs? the newness of that toy lasted about half a second.

they get into knots too fast.

When I was little (er, LITTLER) my sister's boyfriend got my slinky in a knot. I never forgave him for that!

I thought these were pretty fun as a kid, but looking back, I now realize these things only lasted like 5 minutes before being all tangled up.

After makeing it walk down the stairs once or twice, I was through with it. Never saw the excitement in it.

Slinkys were a big deal for awhile when I was a kid. Once you did the down the stairs thing it was pretty much all over. Eventually, they will twist the wrong direction, become warped and spend the rest of their toy life laying in the back of a closet or bottom of a toy box. That is until your mother decides to toss it out.

One time, when my physics teacher was out of the classroom. We builte a giant staircase out of books and chairs and raced slinkies down it. Great fun.

The simplest, pointless toys of them all. I had alot of fun with mine. I spent a good half hour on the stair with it.