Fisher-Price Corn Popper
This corn popper is basically identical to the one that I played with in the early 1980s, and according to the internet, has not changed much since it was first sold in 1957. It's a pretty basic principle: when you push or pull the corn popper a disc in the middle moves up and down shooting the little balls to the top of the done and creating a banging sound (the website calls it a "popping" sound, but it is clearly a "bang").
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| Bang! Bang! Bang! |
My daughter loved it until she was about three, and now my 1.5 year old son loves to push it around. Sometimes he pretends it is a vacuum cleaner, sometimes it is a lawnmower, and sometimes he just wants to make a lot of noise.
My only complaint is that even though this toy was designed to be used by a toddler and have plastic balls hit the inside of the dome, it gets scratched and scuffed pretty easily. I remember this bring an issue when I was a kid, too (my daycare, as I recall, had a particularly scuffed up corn popper that was so scratched up the balls could barely be seen). Hopefully Fisher-Price will start using a more scratch resistant material before I buy one for my grandkids.
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| Not dirty, just well-loved |
Bottom line: this is the perfect present for a toddler.
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