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Submitted and Written by Rachael G
Who didn’t love these? The best part was figuring out how to make them dance and completely collapse. These seem to be pretty hard to find. I found some at a drug store recently but they aren’t very responsive and don’t dance or collapse.
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I loved those too. I used to be surprised when you made them lean down and then they sprang up again.
My hubbie and I have two that we were given when we moved into our new house. I guess they are a staple to his family. I LOVE THEM.
How many animals were there? I remember collapsing cows and pigs, but never deer like in the picture.
The best is telling kid not to play with and, when he eventually does and makes it collapse, watch them flip out.
I had a teddy bear one once…
They sell them at Cost Plus/World Market a lot. I liked to make the doggy’s leg twitch just a tiny bit.
Here in Finland,you sometimes find these from secondhand shops&marketplaces during summer.And my cousin had a naughty one,a man jumping out from a coffin with a qyuite a boner..
Nowadays, you only see cheap plastic versions.
These are sold at a historic town near my own town (I live in Texas) that has a lot of pioneer/cowboy-esque history. There are old houses made into shops and one of the shops is owned by some nice German-family people…and theses are sold her. I like to make them snap and make sounds.
In Frankfurt they sell them at the main trainstation, there’s some dude who’s got a lot of wooden toys for sale who sells them. I bought a few on my way back to the Netherlands after my job interview, I have since seen the guy again but since moving to Germany I don’t have the money to waste sadly enough
You can usually find the good ones in places like Frankenmuth, MI and other historic-type tourist towns. I know that you can get them in Frankenmuth and I’ve seen them other places like that recently.
http://www.oldcountrymarket.com/history.html This place always has tons of them…
i see these at craft fairs all the time, and i always buy them too! they’re just that fun.
In Englands a great shop called hawkins bazaar always has loads of them xxx
I work at a toy store in Vancouver and we have an assortment of the collapsing wooden toys
if you’re looking for them try toy stores and hobby shops or online 
crock,
do you have collapsing man toy?
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I just found these again! You can make your own, paint whatever you want. I was so excited!
http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=26922&category=1563
I have two of them. ^^
i’m frm ingland and these r sold erywere,i like thm,but seein dem so much can be rly anoin
u no wat else is rly anoin? typing liek ths.
Here in Ontario Canada you can get those, old fashioned and wooden at Dollarama stores! I see them all the time.
I saw them in the German village in Westminster or Santa Ana in So. California when I used to live near there, and they are in a school type store in the mall I live near now. also, I see them come up on Ebay once in a while.
as for shapes? I’ve seen lots of different ones. all the animals, many cartoon characters, some fantasy animals, people, you name it, it’s been created.
So can anyone tell me why my mom called these things “Filipino Fall-Aparts”???
Found a cat a few days ago in an antiques/collectibles shop. A little bit messed up but still works fine.
i had an collapsing giraffe, it was fun because i found out how to just let its tail collapse ^^
I’ve been collecting them from this site for a few years now. They are exact replicas of the old-school wooden ones, and they have hundreds of animals to choose from. Soo good!
http://www.sillyasstoys.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODGROUP&ID=80
I had tons of these as a kid. We’d sit on the floor in church and play with them for the hour-long church service– I think I still have some!
All I rem having are the plastic ones-one being a Mickey Mouse-and I’m 41 yrs old. Guess I just never got one of the good ones, but these were still fun.
they have those at cracker barrel [restaurant and gift shop]
and a lot of other old toys
i remember but what the hell was the purpose? lol
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I used to work in an arcade at a theme park in Scotland. They have them there in the prize box. And the little peel-back doodle pads.