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Classic Toys For Christmas?

Posted by Cliff on from the fourty-two-shopping-days-left dept.

waterwheel asks: "Christmas is coming, and it's time to start planning our online shopping list for future Slashdot readers. This year I'm having a look at some of the more classic toys - and am finding that not only are some of the classic toys still around - but they are still educational and fun. Two good examples of this are the Rubik's Cube and the time honored gyroscope. The cube has been around for about 20 years, the gyroscope it seems for almost a 100. Both will be under the tree this year. Both of these toys are able to compete with video games - a true test of staying power. This begs the question - what other classic toys do you remember from your youth that are still fun enough that kids will play with them today?"

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  1. Christmas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What is that? Some kind of gift exchange ritual? Is it a national thing, or part of some cult?

  2. pogs are back. by mcmonkey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This year's hot toy will be the Alf pog.

  3. Re:Classic toy by palutke · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Comparing a gun with cigarettes, booze, hookers and illegal drugs is just not valid. The above do not have many legitimate uses. Guns however can be a hobby.

    Cigarettes, booze, hookers, and illegal drugs are my hobbies, you insensitive clod!

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  4. Re:Ummm .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Most of the automated solutions I've seen even state, it will not work if the stickers have been rearranged, or if the cube was apart and put back together differently.

    So long as the stickers have not been removed and the cube is assembled so that all the faces are solid there is no way to put it back together "differently" or "incorrectly" as there is only one configuration possible.

    If the stickers were not removed and the cube was taken apart and then reassembled in a random configuration then it would be the same as taking the stickers off and reapplying them randomly. That is to say you'd probably end up with a configuration that the published solution methods would be unable to solve.

  5. Re:Gyroscopes don't last more than a day by Atario · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about yo-yos?

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