But as millions of children have found out since the 1940’s, once you roll your Slinky down the stairs a few times, you’ve basically hit the wall in terms of entertainment value. So what if we ...

Slinky is trying to turn over a new leaf. Slinky is taking the stairs. Slinky has had a long week and he's ready to go home. Slinky has been working for the weekend. Slink is a little perplexed at ...

"First thing I did was show my girls how to 'walk' these down the stairs," they said. "They are just like the ones from back in the day." A fellow fan called the Slinky "iconic," before adding ...

The Slinky got a TV jingle (a variation of which appears in the video above). "What walks down stairs, Alone or in pairs, And makes a slinkity sound? It's Slinky..." She was the one who finally ...

THE TOYBOX — When I was young, successfully getting a metal slinky to travel down the entire flight of stairs was a challenge I enjoyed, pretty much every time I encountered a good-quality slinky.

Today, 40 years after that first encounter, her quandary remains: Just how do you get a Slinky to step down the stairs? "On the commercials, I'd watch the Slinky walk down, but it never worked for ...

You know the Slinky, but have you ever wondered how it walks down stairs, or why it appears to hang in midair when dropped? Scientists have peered into these phenomena for decades, but now a ...