“What walks down stairs alone or in pairs and makes a slinkety sound? Everyone knows it’s Slinky!”
Daniel Konstanski, author of “The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks,” tells the tale of how a small Danish company developed the world’s most adored building toy.
!["In the 1970s, [Betty James] purchased an idea for a plastic slinky," recounted Michelle Parnett-Dwyer, curator at The Strong Museum National of Play. "And then in the 1990s she gets a call from Pixar, and they said, 'We would love to bring your Slinky dog into our movie Toy Story.'"](https://img.apmcdn.org/8155ed6454ba363c62a65aee1e2a2d3166a7fd47/widescreen/5dacbb-20251218-slinky-toy-history-of-toys-webp2000.webp)
