Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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A hollow face illusion with Vincent Van Gogh, in full colour. Tim bought this around the year 1999/2000. Vincent is certainly looking at you!
A clever spinning top from the NAEF company. The base is a plastic hemisphere containing plastic balls. These normally sit at the bottom, but when you spin the top, they all migrate upwards, to the outer edge of the top.
A spinning top that consists of two hemispheres of different sizes, fastened together. Again, a product from the NAEF company of Switzerland.
Back in the days of audio and video tapes, there was sometimes a need to clean and even align the heads, certainly on professional equipment. And Tim has a professional Betacam SP video tape box, with the words 'Head Examining Kit' on the outside. However it is not so high tech when you open it up - it is a joke item! There is a tape measure for examining (measuring) your own head, and a wooden stick for checking your tongue.
Finally, an inflatable alien - Tim doesn't think he has actually pumped this up before now, even though he has had it for 20 years! It takes a while, but Tim ends up with an alien that is nearly as tall as he is!
Visit Tim's Toy Shop, at grand-illusions.com
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A hollow face illusion with Vincent Van Gogh, in full colour. Tim bought this around the year 1999/2000. Vincent is certainly looking at you!
A clever spinning top from the NAEF company. The base is a plastic hemisphere containing plastic balls. These normally sit at the bottom, but when you spin the top, they all migrate upwards, to the outer edge of the top.
A spinning top that consists of two hemispheres of different sizes, fastened together. Again, a product from the NAEF company of Switzerland.
Back in the days of audio and video tapes, there was sometimes a need to clean and even align the heads, certainly on professional equipment. And Tim has a professional Betacam SP video tape box, with the words 'Head Examining Kit' on the outside. However it is not so high tech when you open it up - it is a joke item! There is a tape measure for examining (measuring) your own head, and a wooden stick for checking your tongue.
Finally, an inflatable alien - Tim doesn't think he has actually pumped this up before now, even though he has had it for 20 years! It takes a while, but Tim ends up with an alien that is nearly as tall as he is!
