Hi everybody!
I have been lurking here for years, but this is my first post… I am wondering if anyone can help me locate a toy from my son’s childhood. I’ve googled to the best of my abilities before it occurred to me that I have seen many, many threads on this message board where people asked for and received this type of help… Clearly dopers have superior technique!
It is a white sort of round/oval shaped licensed Pooh toy/game that has little windows that you can open and close and there are pictures behind the windows of Pooh characters and such.
It has a dial to turn (in the center I believe) that changes which picture is in which window. (I truly don’t remember the point of the game, just that my son loved it.)
It is all one piece, a toddler toy, it may have had a handle.
My son is twenty one, so it would have been new around 1993-1996.
It is not the Pooh toy tv, though it was roughly the same size and it did not make any sounds.
If anyone could help me figure out the name of this toy, I would love to be able to locate one for my grandson.
That’s not it, thank you so much for taking a crack at it… It is absolutely driving me crazy.
Clearly it was not a popular product, or perhaps it was discontinued.
The only things I can add is that it was made entirely of hard plastic, I think it had a tree on it, and that there were actual little door/windows (green with a leaf design?) that opened but when the doors were closed, you could not see what was behind them. It had a dial type thing to turn that would turn the images behind the door so there would be a different image behind the door after turning. Also, I can remember a couple of the pictures behind the little window/doors. One was a cloud, another sunshine, and possibly Eeyore.
Again, thank you so much for taking the time to look!
We are about forty years on and that song still annoys the hell out of me.
As a kid I pestered my parents to death asking what the toy was. They explained to me over and over that the song was a joke and the toy didn’t actually exist and there was no answer to my question. While I understood this intellectually, I still couldn’t shake the feeling of frustrated curiosity about what the heck the thing was.
It’s been pointed out that the description of the sounds and movements in “The Marvelous Toy” are similar to that of an electric typewriter. Tom Paxton, who wrote the song, was a typist in the Army. Incidentally, that song is more than fifty years old, not just forty years old:
Sorry I’ve been gone so long, my laptop passed away
I have found a pic of my son opening the toy I am looking for… unfortunately, the picture is very blurry and I am unsure as to exactly how to share it here.
The toy is indeed white, plastic, with tree on the front that has branches that open.
I do feel better, however, to know that this toy really does/did exist. I was beginning to question my sanity.
I also doubt very much that it will be possible to find this toy for my grandson since I can’t even find a picture of it online.
Also, the only readable printing on the box (in the picture I mentioned above) is "Peek A Pooh. Which got me really excited, until I googled it and discovered that “Peek A Pooh” is/was an entire line of toys and baby accessories.
Ugh
I just spent half an hour looking at Pooh toys on eBay on the off-chance that your mystery might be on there, but my brain eventually hiccupped from cute overload and now I have the phrase “heffalumpenproletariat” stuck in my head, demanding to be used somehow. Thanks so much.
