Mechanical toy gift idea #3 - Modern wind-ups

No batteries? No problem! A company called Kikkerland offers a slew of interesting wind-up toys like the one shown here called Skidum. Like all of the Kikkerland wind-ups, it is part machine, part insect, part alien. Here's a gallery of some of the other cool spring-powered mechanical creatures in this series:

Here's a link to a bunch of Kikkerland wind-ups.

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