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The Great Wind-Up
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Category: Toy Stores [Edit]
Neighborhood: Downtown93 Pike St
Ste 201
(between 1st Ave & Post Aly)
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 621-9370
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8 reviews for The Great Wind-Up
Best selection of wind-ups in Seattle. Lots of great stuff and with new items arriving all the time.
Ask to see the dirty toys, it's extra disturbing.
Although, the most disturbing thing was the walking raccoon wind-up. It's evil face and tiny clutching claws will haunt my dreams.
Okay, this store is awesome... they have an amazingly cool and unique selection of wind up toys here! It's an adorable store, so check it out if you're ever there!
The toys are cool....but I love the novelty mints and such. If you're a bacon enthusiast, you can get bacon flavored toothpicks, bacon mints, and bacon gumballs! I could not help myself and got a tin of the bacon mints. Let just say that they are....interesting. Not into bacon? There are also mochaccino mints, monkey mints (banana flavor) and wasabi gumballs. Go on and feed your inner child.
This place specializes in one thing - the wind-up toy. They have a substantial collection of those and other goofy things - particularly catapults (chickens, ninjas, pigs) and action figures (Jesus, Blackbeard, Oscar Wilde). They also have the bacon adhesive bandages I've had my eye on.
The setting leaves a little to be desired. They definitely spend all their money on their merchandise and not on gussying up the store or making displays.
I wish I had the extra income to buy superfluous, fun things...and the extra space to store them. If I did, I would spend a ton at The Great Wind Up. For now I just go to browse, play a little and walk away with a huge smile.
This is one of those hidden gems of the market. If you're not looking for it, you may never stumble across it.
Tucked away in a corner of Pike Street Market is a fantastic place called The Great Wind-Up. Although it is relatively small they have at least 100 or more wind-up toys ranging from walking brains, hamburgers, fries and every type of mammal on earth; crabs that walk sideways; ladybugs that spin and turn somersaults, rabbits in carrot cars, instrument playing dogs and bunnies; and many, many more! They have old fashioned tin wind-up toys, robots, adult wind-up toys and other toys.
There is a whole demonstration table where you can try out the demo models of all the wind-ups. The wind-ups for sale are neatly sealed in plastic bags so you know your take home toys will be raring to go.
When we went there were about 12 grown-up kids in the store and definitely no one under 21! But everyone was having too much fun giggling at the antics of the wind-ups.
http://www.greatwindup.../
If you like wind up toys, this is the place for you. It's a small spot but carries tons and tons of different wind up toys (and you can buy them online from their website) from Nunzilla to hopping Lederhosen to a toaster (the toast pops out). Wind up toys are inexpensive and fun - so go and buy some. They even have a special section of "adult" toys. It would be difficult to leave this place empty handed. I bought the Lederhosen toy and some wind-up noodle soup (one is ramen) bowls. Love my noodle soup toys!
There's an area for the display toys - a place where you can wind up the display toys and see them jump, waddle, hop, etc.
My dear friend Alan owns this store and he told me that Rose McGowan and one of the Ramones have shopped there. Mention Lolia and he might be impressed.
I have a slightly disturbing weakness for wind-up toys. Wind-up walking sushi sit on my desk and, well, it's not quite an obsession yet, but this toy store could well be my downfall. Plastic wind-up walking brains for cyring out loud! Wind-up skulls and golf balls and french fries and pigs and skiing alligators and nuns. Then there are the old fashioned wind-up tin robots and spaceships and lots and lots of other tin toys. There are a few other related types of toys and things here, but they get nary a glance from me once I find a good wind-up to play with. This is the reason my daughter thinks I'm a freak who will never grow up. This is a gem of a toy store.
