# Anyone remember this 1960s Parker Bros spinning toy with a chimp in the commercial?

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**Created:** [October 3, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-1960s-parker-bros-spinning-toy-with-a-chimp-in-the-commercial/421323 "2007-10-03T00:59:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kannada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kannada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kannada)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-1960s-parker-bros-spinning-toy-with-a-chimp-in-the-commercial/421323/1 "2007-10-03T00:59:14Z")

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It was a flat thing that you balanced a coin in, and spun it around. The coin was held in place with centrifugal force. Not very entertaining, the commercial had the usual 1960s chimpanzee demonstrating it.

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**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-1960s-parker-bros-spinning-toy-with-a-chimp-in-the-commercial/421323/2 "2007-10-03T10:28:01Z")

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I think I remember a commercial alternating between views of the product spinning and a chimp spinning in apparent imitation of it.