Tim's Cylindrical Spinning Tops

Spinning tops are very familiar toys. But these tops are unusual - they don't spin around a central axis. Instead they rotate around 2 axes, and can often show quite unusual behaviour.

[@calebm9000]

Tim has a more reliable upload schedule than the vast majority of KZbinrs

[@serialentertainment1405]

I love this channel because it’s just a happy and sweet man who just wants to show his collection to the world, no drama, no diss tracks or any of that rubbish, just a sweet guy who has a wonderful collection

[@darkfent]

Still waiting for that Beyblade collection...

[@staticeraticpinata2273]

anythingorz me too

[@waffleless]

Tim lets it rip.

[@greenolive1278]

anythingorz me too

[@Minoriscful]

He might refer that as a hebrew tradition that is modernized. like a dreidel made in the 21st century

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@Minoriscful i’m surprised that he doesn’t have dreidels in his collection

[@Berd]

god i love cylinders

[@ir7874]

Berd who doesn't

[@tajwashere]

um me my papa got killed by a cylinder muuahh

[@MrMaxtaco]

well well well look who we have here

[@Fallibleandflawed]

Hey what up berd !! Wtf lol

[@42ndsubject49]

What da heck berd. Just 10 mins ago?

[@jt1a]

New Items? Looks Excellent. Wonderfully Amusing Toys Effortlessly Rotating.

[@sascha_hammer]

Well played sir, well played.

[@ChiefAkatosh]

Ah, the ol' acrostic poem.

[@niks49]

Nile water

[@boneclawwalker3778]

We need one of the camera crew to follow Tim around the New York toy fair next year, I really want to see Tim free range in his natural habitat

[@Gears-rb2ox]

Roses are red I clean using mops Tim's Cylindrical Spinning Tops

[@gammoron]

"What we got here then"

[@Trund27]

The energy in this video is chaotic and it’s GOOD.

[@kummer45]

His explanations are simply epic and correct. One of the best channel I've seen in youtube. This guy is a true teacher.

[@LetsbeHonestOfficial]

After this he went on to teach at Hogwarts. He's of course the current headmaster there

[@levisenz9088]

Let's be Honest Official of course... of course..

[@bradameerbeg6422]

Let's be Honest Official I doubt it, Hogwarts is interesting.

[@GCurl]

He is collecting No-maj artifacts

[@legitcomments2978]

Let's be Honest Official He teaches a new class called History of Muggle toys

[@Jim1643]

The camera does t really pick up the illusion

[@letolz6275]

The refresh rate is different to that of the human eye.

[@ninjakivi2]

even if it does; the video was uploaded to youtube with less than 30 FPS, I think that's the problem.

[@jakkank]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn-5pYCjgdGhpac Camera have a hard time catching this kind of illusion because they don't work the same way as eyes. It's not the refresh rate/fps.

[@ninjakivi2]

You're right, but with fast enough camera FPS I'm sure you would still catch the illusion anyway; does anyone with a slow-motion camera wants to test that?

[@waffleless]

Poor cameraman.

[@DiabolicalButler]

only tim vid ive ever been disappointed in. i was hoping it was just me but guess not.... ps. dont think it was just the camera man the editor shouldnt have ever found this post worthy

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

_Recording Stress Level:_ *High!*

[@Joso997]

Well those cylinders are very random so you cant really expect better quality

[@JimSteinbrecher]

im pretty sure he didnt mean "poor" as in "bad", he meant "poor" as in "poor guy was having to follow those things all over the place".

[@Joso997]

Jim Steinbrecher ou lol

[@jarfo9663]

Lol, I remember doing that with glue sticks back in elementary.

[@richarddrahcir5529]

same but yet I still do it in college

[@bostonrailfan2427]

i got in trouble for doing that!

[@numbtee8478]

Thank you Tim once again.....

[@mallk238]

Oh no i think I've just come across the perfect channel to get distracted from homework by!

[@designanddirection]

A cylinder would be very handy for transporting something from the Nile.... let me think.... I wonder what?

[@andrewrobotbuilder]

Pyramids. No wait, Egyptians.

[@levisenz9088]

WAPEr stop the FiLe!!!???

[@vicentetemes5793]

Dio Brando.

[@stanleychaudoir3851]

Sand perhaps....

[@LGPanthers1]

The rains down in Africa?

[@jmrider6078]

My favourite KZbinr and person

[@celesefernal2490]

yay more tim edit: I typed that sub-consciously, but I realised that though I enjoy watching the toys, it is tim that really makes me happy

[@scarr3ll]

I used to do this with AA batteries when i was younger, fascinating

[@zanr6943]

Oooh, i used to play with my already short pencils like that... Didn't know there's actually toys based on that

[@mlwy45]

Ashens has his couch. Tim has his table.

[@greenolive1278]

I did the same thing with lids of markers in elementary school it was cool to see the ball form in the middle still do it sometimes when I’m bored and have a marker

[@Hadowsay019]

Oh man i used to use chapstick to play on my school desk like this. Great video!

[@justanothersandwich9307]

I can't be the only one who finds Tim's voice soothing

[@danforbes3573]

Wonderful stuff Tim! HEH!

[@KabooshkiHeat]

your videos always cheer me up

[@wishiwasabear]

It's the spinning that makes it pleasurable.

[@robertbrookes2000]

I wonder if Tim's ever heard of the puzzle solving video game series Professor Layton

[@vanessamccreadie5616]

😤 😚 💖 💖 💖 💖 💕 💕 💕 💖 💖 💖 I love you spinning top toys and all your other toys love from Vanessa

[@sbilldmilk]

I used to do this with marker caps all the time lol

[@draagonair]

I still do this with marker caps, and coins if I get it right.

[@mrshaneyt43]

Love the vids ..just couldn’t really see the effect of the hearts,words or the spider because of the camera angle. Still thanks👍🏻

[@poor-sun]

Super vidéo !

[@duncanurquhart5278]

Hmmm... unfortunately I think this might be one of those optical effects that works better in person than one camera. Still, an interesting idea and an interesting collection, as usual.

[@swudurshchurf2386]

Holy cow, I used to to take the caps off of mechanical pencils and shoot them away with that little snapdown technique you use to start the tops. They'd spin like tops if they landed on a table or the floor but they always flew through the air in about the same path, so if you were good enough with your aim you could send them right past a friend's head or land one in their hair.

[@iplateeverything8965]

An old man who plays with toys. That's probably gonna be me when I grow up!

[@adrianridgway4333]

Was Tim in a rush here or something? He seems quite panicked.

[@celesefernal2490]

Often when a scene is re-recorded multiple times, especially a particularly long one, usually the people in it tends to speed up. So I think he must have had to tried quite a lot of times for this particular video

[@tonk82]

I think this one was tough to show, he had to retry a lot of times for it to work, and the camera doesn't show it properly.

[@londheyash]

Tops from the Nile

[@sascha_hammer]

heh

[@SamiSheyi]

Tom struggling today! 😂 still love him tho!

[@sansnom5269]

Geez Tim, calm down The spin tops are not going anywhere.

[@Alchrat]

If I learned one thing from the Star Wars prequels, it's that spinning is always a good trick.

[@patrickdowney1455]

I love being this early for a Tim video

[@SC-zq6cu]

I was waiting for that 'heh'

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

Never came, sigh...

[@theshuman100]

Well this video kinda shows why they arent that many. Poor tim struggling with his tops

[@Heksu77]

Nice toy idea, easy to DIY! :-)

well, that was awesome!

[@rui_si]

I imagine this guy smells like a old sweet shop tobacconist. He sounds like Patrick Moore, enthusiastic about his topic.

[@everythingrockandmetal7643]

"HEH"

[@ValmisFilm]

I did this once with a AA battery - because of the mass it has it goes for a long time. Tyri it out! i did not know, there are actual toys like this at that point.

[@ihaveseenthings1339]

Kicking this weekend of with a SPIN

[@raykent3211]

Hope you won't mind me mentioning another channel for further info. Tadashi spinning tubes on numberphile. He suggests proportions for diy using a bit of plastic pipe, 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 ratio of length to diameter, if memory serves. Like many optical effects it works better live than on video, but a vertical viewpoint would have helped....

[@LasseHuhtala]

This episode could use a collaboration with the slo-mo guys.

[@Fummy007]

I dont think the effect works on camera because of the frame rate

[@YourWatchingKRSTV]

Just amazing videos

[@pm2007est]

We got along like a house on fire.

[@turtlekyo]

I didn’t know I needed this

[@VeggeMight]

When cameraman gives up.

[@webbugt]

lipstick or lip balm stick caps work great for this. Played all the time with that in high school. that was the og fidget spinner :P

[@nicklausbooks1593]

You spin me right round...

[@ryanleatigaga7596]

I saw top in the title and thought he was gonna show us his Beyblade collection

[@aizatori107]

The spider one is awesome

[@misadventurousguy3859]

How to summon Tim Rowett : Read this phrase out loud three times : "ELIN EHT MORF RETAW"

[@Bobbydog66]

4:39 Makes me think more of a bee.

[@relicvault1515]

reminds me of a modern toy like this

[@HAPPYPIGSTV]

Hello, we've been watching you for many years and we've made a movie with our collection too

[@Undeemiss]

I feel like the effect didn't translate to camera all that well...

[@rubiryu7020]

A "double spinning action" from the nile

[@kyleklassen3660]

I used to do this with glue sticks and chap stick in elementary school.

[@thecapone45]

This video stresses me out.

[@bayu901]

Cool illusions

[@gabrielbaez8034]

Good simple fun. Seems kids today dont know what they are missing.

[@Henry-bu9tz]

Gabriel Baez god I hate adults like you. Kids do have all types of fun and just because we have better technology doesn’t mean anything. I also would bet that you had game consoles too

[@draagonair]

well yeah, I'm 19 I grew up with a Sega Genesis but I loved to play with other toys. Now a days (at least in the area I live in) the children are more on their phones that playing with other things. sure they have toys but nothing more that plushies and dolls. however I want it noted that I am not a 100% sure what children do these days as I have come to know that that is called "borderline pedophilia".

[@gabrielbaez8034]

True. When you have kids it becomes more apparent.

[@rarbiart]

is this really a thing? it looks (and sounds) like a cat tumbling over a box of empty coke cans...

[@Mate397]

I wonder if Tim is aware of Beyblade, I think he'd like it, plus the anime might give him a chuckle.

[@bigfoot1158]

I love you channel and spin tops like beyblade I made my own beyblade to and love your channel byeeeee

[@Laurabeck329]

This video was a bit of a Parker square.

[@Azormik]

*Double Spinning Action*

[@jaxnean2663]

The number 1 appears more clearly than 2 because it's spinning slower since its on the edge?

[@eman-nj3hk]

Is there a way to motorize this and or add a ripcord

[@davidjeffery2511]

*Spinning tops from the nile*

[@oliberrhy2391]

Nice.

[@bongbongbong999]

Show us your vinyl toy collection

[@sionatube]

This would be interesting for Tadashi Tokieda from Numberphiles

[@dr.fukwad1407]

I found this out a while ago with a marker cap

[@RIXRADvidz]

Cylinders of the NIle.

[@kimjonurinal]

Water from the nile.

[@redvelvet8543]

Awesome

[@rdu239]

Is Tim an exclusive toy collector or an item collector?

[@gabrielincognito8855]

What is it with people and spinning toys?

[@demoncard1180]

1:25 It looks like a fig roll!

[@stealthcherry]

Tim will you please be my grandpa

[@foxgamingofficial8710]

1:36 we did that with glue sticks at school in 4th grade

[@crodthesorrysap4165]

Where does he get all of his toys

[@Brekner]

Too bad not many of them span for long :(

[@solountipomas8616]

Brekner Catalin They would, but Tim can't do it or it will stay off scene.

[@SuqMadiq]

Spun*

[@Brekner]

Heh this made me google, you are indeed right, tho as others have said it sounds wrong to use "spun" instead of "span", which is considered an archaic past form of spin.

[@DamaKubu]

There do u store all this stuff?

[@vicentetemes5793]

let us beyblade my brethren

[@abuhazraen6629]

I use to do this with an AAA battery.

[@WashingtonThwackhurst]

cyLINdErs ---> NILE cydrs (ciders from the Nile, illuminawty confirmed!!!)

[@DiannW6]

Hello Tim. Have you heard of the book Anno's Animals by the artist Mitsumasa Anno. I would recommend it.

[@Create_o_raptor]

Ancient monsuno

[@dirtyd0g01]

Not so easy to spin spinny things from the Nile