10 GERMAN-LOVED TOYS YOU'RE GOING TO WISH YOU HAD AS A KID
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- Kids toys in Canada aren’t what they are in Germany! You’ll understand what I mean when you watch this video about all the awesome German toys my son gets the opportunity to play with while living here in Germany!
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Hey, you Must MOVIONG the AUSGBURGER Puppenkiste.
It`s very good and all children like this.
URMEL aus dem Eis, Don Blech or Robby and Tobby und das Fliwatüt.
In primary school we weren’t allowed to go by bike til we got our „bike driver license“ in the fourth grade, so we hade some other ways to go.
Children love Schleich-figurenes because they look realistic and are so detailed.
and better 1 from schleich than 10 cheap sht from china...^^ and a schleich kids can put in their mouth too, one from china and the kids are poisened later...
And you can't break them. Hudge plus.
Sadly far too expensive to give them to children.
And you can take them outside, to the bathtub, to snow and you can put them in the mouth but nothing can destroy them
My daughter used to collect Schleichtiere back then and when she was too grown up for them she really made half a fortune out of them.😊
I think die Sendung mit der Maus is also a german classic 😘
Ahhhh yes!! I thought about that RIGHT AFTER I filmed the video 😂 as my son begged me to watch it haha
Yes but it's not the same anymore since Armin Maiwald retired. His way to narrate the documentaries was one of a kind. 💛
@bademeister I guess you mean "after him"? 🤔
Well that's great. 🙂
@bademeister 😅
@@lifeingermany_ Is "Sesame Street" (German: "Sesamstraße") still on TV in Canada? In Germany the US-version (with German synchronization) startet in 1972 with Big Bird (in German: Bibo), Cookie Monster (Krümelmonster), Ernie & Bert, Grover (Grobi), Kermit etc.
Later Studio Hamburg invented own German characters. Samson (a bear), Tiffy (something like a bird), a nasty wiseguy named Herr von Bödefeld (Guinea Pig), Finchen (slug), who played together with German actors.
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I'm 67 and still have my Steiff Teddy. We both grew old and we look really a bit alike (OK - a lot)
Even grown ups use Bobby cars for racing.
Yeah, there are literally championships with reinforced (tuned up, pimped out; whatever you want to call it) bobby cars.
Each year at Karneval we have a teacher vs students Bobby Car Race at our school. It's hilarious
Playmobil is german too. When I was a kid they came up and I had a wide collection of knights and cowboys and horses. Good old times.
Am besten ist ja das Playmobil-Land in der Nähe von Nürnberg 👌da war ich als Kind glaub ich mindestens 1 Mal im Jahr 😊und wohne auch nur ca 50 km davon entfernt
Es gibt echt ein Playmobil Land? 😅
Und was gibt's dort?
Einfach Playmobil Sachen die rumstehen? Ich meine man kann ja nicht wirklich was großen bauen, da man mit Playmobil eben nichts bauen kann.
Muss ich mal googlen
@@svensnus1674 Da sind riesige Playmobilfiguren, Wassererlebnisspielplatz, Kletterspielplatz, Spiegellabyrinth und vieles mehr.. Ist in Zirndorf/Fürth bei Nürnberg;)
Playmobil was the main toy in my household growing up. My brothers had the cowboy sets and I had the old Victorian mansion. I live in Canada now and my daughter got my playmobil house when she was 7 years old. I often had family sent playmobil by mail, because I really wanted them for my kids too. In recent years playmobil has become more available in Canada as well.
@@svensnus1674 Es ist super cool! Es gibt eine Art Erlebnis-Kletterhalle, eine Halle mit playmobil überall verteilt und den riesen Außenbereich mit so coolen Spiel-Möglichkeiten! Man kann das garnicht erklären...es ist eine andere Welt. Ich würde jedem, der noch nie dort war, raten, sich ein Kind zu suchen und es als Ausrede zu nehmen, dort hin zu gehen😄
When I was a child (it was in the 1970ies! I am really old), we got a Christmas visit from two guys from Japan, which wanted to experience a real German christmas (they have even sung "Silent Night" with us, albeit in Japanese). My parents at the time were helping a local museum to build an exhibition of ceramics from Japan, so they were working with the two guys, of which one was the scientist curating the exhibition and the other the manager. At this christmas, I got a Stabilo Metallbaukasten (I guess, a brand more known in the Anglophone world is Meccano). The Japanese manager was so fascinated from the toy that he immediately went to the next toy store as soon as they opened after Christmas to get one for his son.
Safety hazards for kids?
You could pack kids in twenty layers of cotton wool, wrap them in triple bubble wrap, and they'd still find a way to hurt themselves.
Probably because they now believed themselves to be invincible, thus jumping out of the second floor window just for laughs.
So in Germany, playgrounds teach children (and their parents) that childhood has its fair share of risks, as well as quite a few bumps, bruises, and scrapes.
But you get tougher, more self-reliant, and aware of your own capabilities if you are allowed to make these mistakes on your own.
So while there certainly do exist helicopter parents in Germany, they are thankfully still fairly rare.
Children are still allowed to run around, bump into each other, slide, climb, and even fall from one of those wooden climbing towers, even if that might entail a broken wrist, arm, or leg.
Children are a lot tougher than most parents believe.
I was born in 1964 and as a little kid I watched the Maulwurf. I bought my wife a Maulwurf heat pad last year and a Maulwurf coffee cup. He's always been and still is the most adorable comic figure and beats Mickey Mouse by far. The Maulwurf's laughter puts a smile on everybody's face. Eastern European countries made some of the nicest very popular children shows there ever were. Lolek&Bolek, Pan Tau and so many more.
When your kid(s) is/ are a little bit older, maybe the Kettcar could be interesting. I loved it and I still do.
it´s sad that Kettler Products are gone. The Kettcar was my best Toy. Did my first welding with Grandpa together on it to have a hitch for a 2 axle trailer.
My father used to work for Kettler in the 70s, so I became a "test driver" for some Kettcar prototypes and bicycles.
One year, they asked their apprentices to devise ways to add a 50ccm motor (and better brakes) to the larger version of the kettcar, and had a gokart race around the plant. They wouldn't let me (a pre-schooler) take part, but it was sure fun to watch ;-)
Don't forget the "Sendung mit der Maus" in TV. Very informative!
And the BRIO Holzeisenbahn, it's a must have for every child!
I really loved it, when I wos little...
Und I had much of it. Self driving trains and much decoration.
Yes, Brio was fantastic. But it is not German. It is from Sweden.
There ist another wonderful TV-Series called "Die Augsburger Puppenkiste". Get the old original one on DVD or Blue-Ray. I loved it.
I actually was afraid of the puppets when I was little😬
In elementary school the kids aren't allowed to come by bike until 4th grade I think, when the made their "Fahrrad Führerschein", so if the way is to long to walk you have use a scooter. In higher classes (and so other schools) nearly everyone who can't walk or comes by bus will come by bike. (I don't know if it is in whole Germany like that but in Bavaria it is)
Ahhhhh that makes so much more sense then!! Such a cool little bit of info! Thanks so much!! 🥰
What i really liked when i was a Kid were These Laufdosen, basically cans or sth similar with ropes attached to them. You stood on the cans, ropes in hands for stability and walked as fast as possible. Also Tritträder. Those things were fun
Haha, the Sandman. I'm 58 now living in Ontario and I remember the Sandman. A classic. Great topic today. Your genuine enthusiasm really shines through.
Haha ♥️✊ such a classic! Thanks for the kind comment 🙂 it was a fun topic to chat about while not feeling guilty that my son would run in at any moment haha
This "socialist" Sandman was one of the few things, that outlasted the GDR. It was also successfully exported to Finland ("Nukkumatti") from the early 1970s on.
The Sandman, das Sandmännchen created in 1959 is a an old east German figure, the fascinating thing about him was the stuff he always had, the places he visited and the vehicle he came with.
A cute little man that made no differences.
The Maulwurf called Krtek was sometimes part of the east German Sandman with a little story, he was created in 1957 in Prag.
In west German he was and still is part of the kids show
Die Sendung mit der Maus.
A show i really like until today, also Das Sandmännchen.
Ich hasse den Ost-Sandmann! Unser Sandmann wurde einfach, ohne zu fragen, verbannt - nicht fair...
I still have my childhood bobby car that my son and daughter both used, it is over 38 years old, and the only thing we had to replace was the horn since the sun bleaching made it crack. Such great quality
Germany exports many different toys all over the world. Also equipment for playgrounds and kindergartens. Everything under the high safety requirements that apply to children's toys in Germany. Toys are a big thing here.
I've had my Steiff bear for 57 years now and he is still doing fine. ;-)
And I am very happy that "Der kleine Maulwurf" is still popular with kids today. I really loved him when I was a kid - in the 1960s!
As a mid 70s guy, I had a Bobby Car. I inherited my Steiff-Bär from my late mother. It's about 70 years old now. And I loved the "Sandmann" and the "kleine Mauwurf" who is called Krteček and whom I adored. I also still have my stuffed Krteček these days :o).
Jenna, thank you for this lovely video. One of my absolute earliest memories of childhood is of a German stamped-metal windup toy that I got, maybe in 1948. A windup train (a single car) would enter a tunnel. When it came out the other side, it had changed from black to white (or the reverse). Of course there were 2 trains and a mechanism in the tunnel that would stop the one and release the other. I was completely amazed that it changed colors. Greatest thing in my early childhood. Maybe sparked my interest in Germany.
Growing up I collected A LOT of Schleich pieces, from the smallest animals to knights to dragons and even a castle, some of which are still "made in germany" and hand-painted. I own pieces that have not been sold for over 10 years already. What can I say? They last longer than most other toys and they look way cooler.
I like Schleich figures. Nicely made, lots of fine details. So the price is okay. ☺️
I always loved Schleich Animals and now my daughter loved them as well
German Children Programming is certainly better than the American one. Granted, it's no longer quite was good as it used to be (I am really missing the Christmas multiple parter and the Czech/German productions), but it still has a great mix between educational and adventure shows geared towards children. Even a newsprogram geared towards them. Way better than a bunch of cartoons which are basically tox commercial.
Those are some cool toys for sure. When I was a child living in Germany (four years as a kid and also two years while serving in the US Army) I remember all of the wooden toys and also the awesome wooden playgrounds. I also remember my Kett-Cart that I had as a child and I even remember going with my parents to purchase the Kett -cart from Karstadts lol. Thanks for sharing. :).
Beautiful Video . Thank you ! :)
awesome, thanks for this
I loved the little Mole when I was a kid.
So sweet and funny :)
Im from the U.S. and back in Kindergarten and 1st grade the playground we had was 100% wood with a metal spend plastic slide and then another section was in construction that had a new plastic made playground. After that morning played on the wooden playground any more. Not to mention I was born in 2000 so it was an up to date school that was at it's infancy to create new ways for children entertainment.
When I was young I always wanted a "Kett-Car" I never got one but, I had a friend who had two.
Unfortunately Kett is out of business but we still call these kind of carts Kett-Car.
Thanks for the childhood memories.
Back in the eighties bicycles, particularly BMX and "Bonanzas", were the thing. Scooters were sort-of out, but made their comeback later, in their CNC-milled alloy variety with inline-skate wheels.
There was an old gravel-pit which offered skate-park like ways to ride bikes, as well as a corner with abandoned excavators and stuff. I remember a scrap conveyor-belt (with the actual belt missing) with two wheels in the middle, that dubbed as a scary and very noisy seesaw (I hope my mom doesn't read this and get a belated heart-attack). I was already grown-up, but still sad when that lot finally got scrapped.
And funny that Bobby-Cars have been around for fifty years with zero design-change.
I don‘t know if this changed, but when I was a kid, the Schleich figurenes were hand painted. So that‘s why they are so expensive. And they really last long! ☺️
A lot of the stuff is absolutely new to me. I wish we had that stuff when my son was a baby!
One big reason why you can find so many high quality toys in Germany: "Geprüfte Sicherheit"
If you want to make a follow-up video on the topic, you might want to look up the different German certification marks for product safety and the various agencies overseeing safety standards. The playgrounds for example get inspected by the TÜV.
I'd say the most amazing toy I had as a kid (aside from ... a football) was a whole bunch of QUADRO stuff. Mostly we build cars to crash down hills. I always thought that was a pretty cool thing for kids to have, but I'm not sure how popular it is these days.
Jenna, get Anker Steine! 😃 Made for generations. Made in Thuringia. You can build with these blocks. HQ, non toxic, build to last.
I’d never heard of these before, but just Google’d them! HOW COOL! 🤩🤩
The cutes thing about the tiny Maulwurf is his name: Grabowski (graben = to dig) + owski (part of a very common German/Polish last name) :-D
Your videos are just great. 🙂🙃👌
I am 58 years old now and I remember I had a Steiff bear when I was a little boy 😁
😀Ich glaube den Maulwurf habe ich schon selbst um 1970 im Fernsehen geschaut....
Don’t forget about Pixi Bücher and Playmobil :)
Great German Kids TV shows: Maus, Pumuckel and Augsburger Puppenkiste.
Toys you have to add are Playmobil and Siku (Good quality car and machine models)
Odd enough I still have my toy cat around that is no Steif but similar quality. No clue what brand but for sure no Chinese.
My son has got a „Teddy“ fro Käthe Kruse, also a very traditionell toy maker (mostly puppets) in Germany.
super cool 👌👌👌👍👍
Pucky is a Geraration bike most the older ones!
When I moved to a town near Bielefeld at the age of 7 in 1967 I found there was a HUGE playground with an old steam roller and a street car ! - plus a slide made of metal that was about 20 to 25 meters long !! Well some of the screws started to loosen and there were so many other opportunities to get injured but actually nothing ever happened... a few years later the tram and the steam roller were removed of course due to safety reasons....WTF
We had the forest, a small creek, sand dunes and almost no cars on the streets - paradise for children.
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those little bikes without pedals , are FAST!!! the mothes and fathers have to really run well to chatch them.... often I stop them and ask "wo ist deine Mama?" they get big eyes and look back to mama/papa. the poor mama/papa is usually running full speed to catch the wee one. smile
Playgrounds are now more regulated than they used to be. When I was a child (1970s), adventure playgrounds came up, where children built their own huts and scaffolding out of wood. Unthinkable today Wood and tools in the hands of children. 😱how did we survive our childhood?😉
as always a very nice film from you😊👍
In our town in Franken there's still a Hüttenbau for the kids to build their own wooden huts.
Ohh, yaass! Schleich-Tiere are the best! Very hard to destroy and they really look authentic. There is one brand that is even better (it's called Papo, I think. Not sure though.), but they cost a lot more. So Schleich is definately my go-to!
Das Bobby Car hat in Deutschland Kultstatus, es gibt sogar erwachsene die mit modifizierten Bobbycars rennen fahren ^^
Was den Maulwurf angeht, der ist seit ich denken kann fester Bestandteil der Sendung mit der Maus :) Und die gibt es
schon seit den 70er Jahren. Überhaupt hatten Kinderserien aus der Tschecheslowakei in den 70er Jahren einen hohen
Stellenwert im deutschen Fernsehen. Wer damals aufgewachsen ist wird sich sicher an das eine oder andere erinnern.
Ebenso Märchenfilme. Zeichentrickserien kamen zu der Zeit meistens aus Japan, man könnte also sagen das wir hier
schon sehr früh eine Animekultur hatten ^^
the Toniebox is great as I undestand it, you can record you own voice and link it to a character.... So, you parents can leave message for their grand kids like an answering machine
I had two versions of child monopoly games - the quality of the card board and the "ingredients" in the German version were of far better quality than in the American version. Atleast when things are not made in China I see that with a lot of the toys.
Haha, I had a book about the little mole myself when I was a child but I needed a Canadian to teach me 27 years later that there was also a TV show about it! 😂
Regarding Scheich I heard that they are so expensive not only because of their quality but also because they spend so much time and effort on research to make the figurines as similar to their real counterparts as possible 🤔
there is a very cute book about " the little mole that wondered who had pooped on its head" - my Norwegian grandkids had it when they were little, it's also available in German. The title might be slightly different but similar.
Oh yes, my Dad's Steiff-Teddybear still exists, is about 75 years old now, they really last very long
Thanks for this very interesting video. I wouldn't have thought that wooden toys were so uncommon in Canada. The first thing I think of about Canada is wood. Funny.😀
Hahaha right?!?
@@lifeingermany_ I got a souvenir from Canada: a beaver carved of wood. The fur is imitated by the wood grain slightly burned so it has turned to dark brown. A very elaborated piece. Bought it at Lake of the Woods. I think it was made by native Americans.
when I was a kid we also had wooden playground constructions (plus some metal ones), I remember sliding on a wooden part and getting a splinter just between my butt cheeks, removing it wasn't fun for 4 year old : D
And how can you have a full childhood experience without scorching your legs on a metal slide? Or without hitting your head on a metal bar playing? Right? ; D
I just looooove your channel - please
make sure you're cute little son picks up as much German as he possibly could. MATSCHHOSEN - can't get any better than this... children jumping in and bathing around in puddles - children's paradise, at least in Germany. You have been absolutely Germanised. You forgot to mention Lego however, my personal favorite, but it's Swedish.
I definitely should have mentioned lego too! 🥰 Duplo is my sons favorite at the moment! I mentioned Babboe (but it’s Dutch 🙈) so might need to rework my title haha!
Thanks so much for the sweet comment 🥰 my son will definitely pick up a ton of German (that’s the easy part haha - it’s the English he’s having a hard time with)
Matschhosen - a MUST HAVE im Waldkindergarten !
Lego was invented in Denmark and is a danish brand. But you are absolutely right about Lego and jumping in puddles. :) For older children i also recommend fischertechnik construction-sets.
Since Tonies and TipToi books are one the pricey side, you can also get them in public libraries. At least in the bigger cities.
Really?! How cool! I had no idea! Thanks for the tip!!
My dads steifbär is 56yrs old😂. we all have a steiftier in our family.
The most well known bobbycar is the red one but you can buy it in different colors. And you cand add a little car trailer at the bobbycar.
I had a matschhosen set as a child. My dad bought this because 20yrs ago snow was normal here😂. And in a big city like berlin, snow dont last long. So you need a kid covered up in weatherproof/ Wetterfeste clothes. You can buy those sets with a jacket and shoes.
We had a Kaufladen and the good for it where made out of wood. Nowadays they are super expensive, if you compare it to then.
And schleich(?) Is so expensive nowadays 😅
(I'm sorry for my bad english)
We lucked out and got a wooden Kaufladen second hand for like 20€ 🤩🤩🥰 we love it!! But prices are definitely going up!!!
I guess you need to redo this video or do an addon as your child grows up and the toys change, there are really specific toys for specific age groups :)
Another cool german brand for cuddly toys etc. is Sigikid. Very common is the Tripp Trapp children high chair. And not to forget the german Playmobil plastic figures.
Ahhhh how could I forget those 3?! 🤩🤩🤩
Ist Playmobil echt deutsch?
@@tschaytschay4555 jo-> Playmobil ist ein System-Spielzeug und eine Marke der deutschen geobra Brandstätter Stiftung & Co. KG (oder einfach Brandstätter-Gruppe) mit Sitz in Zirndorf bei Nürnberg.
@@manub.3847 Wow, das hätte ich ehrlich nie gedacht. Eine Kindheit ohne Playmobil oder ein Laden mit Spielwaren ohne Playmobilregal(e) ist wirklich unvorstellbar. ^^
@@tschaytschay4555 Playmobil is a line of toys produced by the Brandstätter Group (Geobra Brandstätter GmbH & Co KG), headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playmobil (ahhh, zu langsam)
great. hope you will make a II part after he become 6-12. You could introduce other brands which might be not so popular. like SIKU......
Ich wünschte, ich hätte das damals als Kind auch gehabt...
A couple of those i have never heard before, I had to google at least Toniebox and Matschhose because i have never seen them here in Hamburg.
No MATCHHOSEN in HAMBURG?! What?!?!!!? hahaha that cant be possible!
@@lifeingermany_ Yeah, our weather makes it the perfect environment for them yet i never heard of them, I might ask my brother if he heard about them since my nephew turned 1 in january and they could prove useful in the near future.
Supercute! And I never heard about the „Matschhosen“ (mud pants). Awesome 😊
Oh yes, my daughter had one when she was in Kindergarten - she's 44 now !
bei guten sendungen fürs - gelegentliche - fernsehprogramm fallen mir noch cajou und conny ein, außerdem lauras stern, lars der kleine eisbär und felix der hase. an spielzeug sind nachher interessant lego und playmobil, beide bieten tolle spielwelten, das eine ist mehr zum bauen, das andere mehr zum spielen, und obacht, vieles bekommt man heute sehr preiswert second hand und zu lego gibbet auch gute alternativen, die nicht so viel kosten und für kinder trotzdem toll sind.... beides hat übrigens auch eine spielewelt für sehr kleine kinder... :-)
Augsburger Puppenkiste nicht vergessen.
Kennst du Tiptoi? 😍 Sehr beliebtes Spielzeug! Grüße aus Wuppertal!
Ja! Ich habe meinem Sohn gerade einen zu Weihnachten gekauft! 🥰🤩🤗
Fischer Technik Baukästen waren toll.
Yes the Sandman ist a serias dir Childs BUT it's a littel Horror Booc too
Haha I was actually named after that Maulwurf
yes... "as a kid"
Das Video hättest du mit deinem Mann machen müssen für den richtig coolen Stuff :P Das is ja alles für Babys
Hahaha ich glaube ich muss ein 2. Video machen wann mein Sohn ein bisschen alter wird 🤩
Ich werde da sein ;)
And the there is of course Playmobil!
Meh. This is sold pretty much in every 1st world countries. I had Playmobil when I was a kid (born in 1990). Playmobil was introduced to USA in 1982. When I was small I thought Playmobil was a US company. I was 7 when I found out it was German. I only played with this baby stuff until I was 7. I moved onto the US brand K'nex. K'nex is still made in the US.
Wtf??? I am 47 and riding a bobby car down a hill is still fun. They are for kids? Not when I am around 😄
Hahaha I think I ride it around the house more often than my son 🤷🏽♀️
My brother is 7 and he always talked about his „Schleich-Tiere“ and I was confused as hell. Why would he call a Lion, Tiger, Dinosaur, etc. an „Stealth Animal“? Then my mum told me the company is called Schleich
Hahahah right?! I always wondered the same... makes so much more sense now that I have a child and spend more time in the toy isle 😂
Buy toys secondhand, Often there are markets where you can buy clothes and toys from private sellers. My sister used that facility a lot. Hardly ever buys anything new.
In Köln the last 2-3 years woom is more popular als puky.
maybe its a düsseldorf thing but here (neighbourcity of düsseldorf even) all kids are using bike xD i never see scooters xD
Really?!? Haha it must be a Düsseldorf thing then!! Crazy!
I lived in Munich and just recently moved into a small town south of Munich. Here and in Munich scooters are very popular, too. At least among elementary school kids. They are good for short distances, but are very tiring over longer distances (and really bad for the knees, I guess).
They became popular in the early 2000s, I think. I remember my youngest sibblings, who were 8 and 6 years younger than me, already had them. My son (9), although he loved riding his bike very early on and could do quite long distances, stopped riding altogether when he got a scooter at age 6 🤷♀️. I don't understand that craze 🙈.
Wo ist denn die Sendung mit der Maus? Ich wüsste ja gerne, wie du die findest und ob es sowas in Canada auch gibt. Oder sind deine Kinder noch zu jung?
Wir haben keine Sendung mit der Maus in Kanada - oder ähnliches! Aber mein sohn liebt es absolut, es hier in deutschland anzuschauen! Er ist 2, aber es ist ein tolles Programm für alle Kinder finde ich 🥰
@@lifeingermany_
Wenn er erst zwei ist, dann gibt es jetzt auch Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten. Die ist etwas kürzer und die Themen sind für die Kleinen besser aufbereitet.
Ach und der magische Sand vom Sandmand ist natürlich Schlafsand (do you really call it sleeping sand in english?). Weiß doch jeder, dass der Sandmann echt ist, wo sonst sollte der Schlafsand morgens immer herkommen? 😉
@@missis_jo1017 haha gute Frage! Meine Familie hat es immer “Sleep crusties” genannt 😂😂.
Sandmann was a stop-action children's TV show in the old DDR. It was thought to be a bit propagandistic because the Sandmann bore a resemblance to Walter Ulbricht, the head of the SED (East German Communist Party) in the 1950's and '60's. You can find some of the old shows on TH-cam.
Wow! How interesting, I had no idea!! Thanks for sharing. Always love learning these little bits of history.
Es gab das Sandmännchen auch im Westen, es war ein bisschen anders, auch ohne Propaganda ^^. Nach der Wende entschied man dann das man das Ost Sandmännchen übernimmt.
There are some great toys you just showed but the tonybox in my opinion is just an expensive and complicaded scam.
Can you tell with which toys you played in Canada as a kid?
Good question! It’s super different in Canada... we have a lot of toys and a lot of different brands, whereas in Germany I feel like there’s always one stronger brand than anything. We don’t have one brand bike for example. We played with TV show figurines or puzzles or plastic toys 🤣.
You are sooo right, so pretty offers Aldi, Lidl, Family and also Tedi. My Daughters, 21 and 31 have their Steiff Teddys since birth. I Always mixed priceless Clothes Klamotten?with good Shoes. Matschhosen bei Tschibo. At Kik, underwear, proofed Bio Cotton. Im from Düsseldorf Benrath. From Hell really good Shoes, Go to Kö! Sale. Prange.
😍🥰 Matschhosen from Tchibo! A classic! I also LOVE the wooden toys from LIDL and ALDI! 🥰
@@lifeingermany_ first music set for children from Lidl are very good. I'm a childminder (Tagesmutter), and I use thiswith the kids, this sets are really solid and good sounds.
@@brigittelacour5055 we have that one too! 🥰🤗
Bobbycars, apart from beeing a great kids toy, are ridiculous sturdy (at least the genuine ones).
So much that you can easily use them as adult Downhill racing gear. We did this a couple of times, throwing on full body armour and down the hill. They reach incredible speeds and are surpirisingly good to steer.
Professional racing:
th-cam.com/video/nS_fmfipy4A/w-d-xo.html
There are much much better toys than the ones you described here in America though I wish there were German versions.
Electronic toys are the big hits here. For example, the walking doll that sings songs as well as records and plays back what you say. Kids die for these electronic type of toys.
We have a yearly Bobby Car Fun Race Event for Adults here in Langerwehe,, nearby Düren: www.gaudicup-langerwehe.de/
One toy I’d recommend to everyone is Lego.
A short video about Anker Steine: th-cam.com/video/wVeITH-AVvA/w-d-xo.html
Well dear lady
I am an 60 year old german. When i was born we didnt have much.
Still my grandfather wanted me to have a christmas gift.
So he sat down and made with an old knife,from the wehrmacht, the Nazi german army, a dog out of wood.It took him weeks and some bloody fingers.
It was the best christmas present ever, and finally this Nazi shit did something good
And by the way Ich bin Düsseldorfer Jung
For u who are not native germans: Düsseldorf , my hometown, is famous for having the biggest parking lot in the world: Its called Köln ( Colonge)
ÄÄÄÄTSCH
Wenn Dein Junge größer wird, erfreut er sich bestimmt auch an Playmobil, Lego und Fischer Technik.
Das glaube ich auch 🥰🥰
Why did you keep your surname when you got married?
Maybe you don’t know that but children in the Grundschule primary school are not allowed to drive with a bicycle to the school, until they had in 3. Verkehrsunterricht and a bicycle exam! That’s why so many children go to school with scooters Roller! It’s actually a rule from the schools the parents Schuld have to Follow, but there are always a few examples of parents who don’t care about that rule and let their smaller kids drive to school with a bicycle and they are than also a bad example for all the other children, who that want the same, as most ride their bikes already in their free time. I just as my best friend why that rule exists he works in a school and his mother was for manny years a principal from an elementary school! She must know that. But it’s probably for safety reasons I think because the children should learn before the rules of the Traffic and the cars and who has the Right to go first, before they are allowed to drive to school probably driving over big streets. And you never know how good all parents prepare kids for the traffic. Considering there are many parents who sent their kids to school without breakfast or a lunch pack, ourschool now does provide lunch for all kids even the very poor families, who are on social care get the food for free I think.
I had NO idea until I published this video, a few others mentioned it! So interesting! And definitely explains the crazy amount of scooters around our cities haha
@@lifeingermany_ but as I said it’s the parents final decision, what they allow their child and what not and not the schools one in the end. My best friend is working in school as secretary and his mom was a principal on a primary school. So there are always parents who allow their kids to drive to school with biked early on, when they know the way good enough and can drive a bike good, so the parents are comfortable with letting the kids ride to school! But of course it can lead to discussions with the school or problems with the teaches, what many parents of course wanna avoid,
Sorry you are wrong about “ babboe” bike it’s not German thing but a Dutch bike.
Of course!! But German-loved for sure!!
@@lifeingermany_ No problem👍
Warum sprichst Du so schnell?
Entspanne Dich, mache es Dir gemütlich und sprich langsamer und ruhiger,
dann wirst Du und Deine Zuschauer Deine Videos sehr viel besser genießen können!
Danke für den Tipp! Ich versuche langsamer zu sprechen. Wir sprechen ja ziemlich schnell in Nordamerika 😝
I would never raise a child in Germany. In skandinavia yes but Germany no way!
1. Why?
2. Scandinavia isn't a Country. It's a subregion in Northern Europe.
Sry,but Babboe is Dutch.
It’s very popular in Germany though! For sure! And unique to childhoods here too I think - thought I’d throw it in! I think there’s a couple similar German brand ones though!
YO'U are just wonderful, but....... you´re talking to fast, for an old bavarian,, well, thats ok for me 🙋♂
First, you've got beautiful eyes.
-(An den Ehemann: "BrrBrrr. Ruuhig Brauner." Das kann man ruhig auch mal einer Ehefrau sagen. Das "Aber" kommt ja noch.😉)
But hell, some views while explaing something and being 100% into the topic frightens me, to put it mildly. Sorry, genetical german directness!
-And it's important to be informed about the paints, varnishes, glue and wood constituents. (And again stereotypical german).
-Me as a kid : Each pair of pants was a mud pants.😉
-Not in this vid, but sometimes audio and video are not perfectly matching? Only a little bit.
On the other hand it could also be a lack of my iq points.😁