# Can you help me find this 1990's toy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503 "2013-02-06T17:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RetroDoll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retrodoll/32/18987_2.png) [@RetroDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroDoll)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/1 "2013-02-06T17:29:42Z")
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. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![FallFast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FallFast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallFast)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/2 "2013-02-06T20:07:27Z")
Was it this? > **[Winnie the Pooh View Master & View Master Carrying Case with Reels](https://www.listia.com/auction/1352405-winnie-the-pooh-view-master-view-master)** > > This is for a gently used...in excellent condition Winnie the Pooh View Master & A view Master carrier that holds up too 48 reels. This case come's with 5 Reels from Winnie the Pooh to I Spy Reel's & plenty of room for you to add more. > The... ---
**Author:** ![RetroDoll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retrodoll/32/18987_2.png) [@RetroDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroDoll)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/3 "2013-02-06T21:56:57Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/4 "2013-02-07T04:28:44Z")
Did it go “zip” when it moved and “bop” when it stopped and “Whirrr” when it stood still? ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/5 "2013-02-07T19:39:43Z")
try “pooh advent calendar” in google images. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/6 "2013-02-07T21:19:32Z")
Is it this Hide N Seek game? Maybe an older version of it? [http://www.neighborhoodvalues.com/nv/Toys-Games/TG3/377tg.htm](http://www.neighborhoodvalues.com/nv/Toys-Games/TG3/377tg.htm) ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/7 "2013-02-07T21:32:03Z")
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/WINNIE-THE-POOH-ADVENT-CALENDAR/dp/B001S2EK46](http://www.amazon.co.uk/WINNIE-THE-POOH-ADVENT-CALENDAR/dp/B001S2EK46) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/8 "2013-02-08T05:09:23Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Did it go “zip” when it moved and “bop” when it stopped and “Whirrr” when it stood still? 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. I still feel that way at some level. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/9 "2013-02-08T06:37:00Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > 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. Then you must be _really_ frustrated by “[The Thing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28song%29)” as recorded by Phil Harris (1950)! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/10 "2013-02-08T11:55:32Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Did it go “zip” when it moved and “bop” when it stopped and “Whirrr” when it stood still? > [@Princhester](#): > > 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. > > I still feel that way at some level. It was a prescient description of Windows 8. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/11 "2013-02-08T12:09:35Z")
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: > **[Tom Paxton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelous_Toy)** > > Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with new compositions. > Paxton's songs have been widely recorded, including modern standards such as "The Last Thing on My Mind", "Bottle of Wine", "Whose Garden Was This", "The Marvelous Toy", and "Ram... ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/12 "2013-02-08T21:28:28Z")
The song may be that old but I’m not, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/13 "2013-02-09T14:51:06Z")
You may not be that old, but I am. Now get off my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![RetroDoll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retrodoll/32/18987_2.png) [@RetroDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroDoll)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/14 "2013-03-26T19:59:55Z")
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. Thank you all! ---
**Author:** ![RetroDoll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retrodoll/32/18987_2.png) [@RetroDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroDoll)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/15 "2013-03-26T22:44:40Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/16 "2013-03-26T22:59:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-1990s-toy/649503/17 "2013-03-27T00:44:26Z")
“Heffalumpenproletariat” is a great word! Thanks!