Tiny Titan: Building the Pocket-Sized Stomper with Double the Speed!

[@SVT512]

That is so cool! I had stompers growing up, love them. What a great project!

[@RandiRain]

Thanks so much!

[@electronicengineer]

You've done it again Randi! You made me remember my childhood and feel like a kid again, if even just for a half hour, or so. Anyway, I must once again, comment on your incredible skillset and awesome imagination! You really are just a kid at heart though and I believe that is what I like the most about Saturday mornings... hanging with Randi, as she revives the child still inside of me and having a chuckle or two along the way. So lighthearted and just plain fun. Thanks for your efforts (as always) and helping me remember how fun life could be playing again! You rock Randi ! I hope that you have a fun-filled weekend. Thank You!!!

[@RandiRain]

Thank you very much. I think it was just a magical time when we were kids. I have really fond memories being real young. The older I got the more the world was less fun, and I hated that.

[@canonsonico3752]

Looks awesome! Thanks randy!

[@RandiRain]

Thank you.

[@Super_Bros.]

That’s super awesome! 😮

[@RandiRain]

I wish I had a gym floor to put them on. They're so fast.

[@skipbreakfast]

Never seen these before but it looks fun!

[@andy-in-indy]

The car model looks like an AMC Eagle SX4. Pretty neat!

[@helperguy1360]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@RandiRain]

That's exactly what they are. That's what the person who first made the models made.

[@stevendunn264]

You are so fun. I just love your videos.

[@RandiRain]

Thanks Steve.

[@jell-oputin8036]

Yeah dude ! STompers😁👍🏼 these made Christmas at my grandparents house with my cousins so much fun. Very cool ❤

[@RandiRain]

Back when toys were fun.

[@technodaz]

What a relaxing video , until the motor test that made me jump and my dogs go mental thinking someone was at the door. Amazing work , and such a cute lil stomper.

[@RandiRain]

The high pitch?

[@technodaz]

@@RandiRain No the way I jumped , I live in the sticks as we say here when I jump they always just presume someones outside. I'm a jumpy half deaf person and was playing that on the stereo while relaxing after work. I just spent like 5 mins winding them up after and letting them out to see nothings outside.

[@Saavik256]

Amazing! I've never heard of Stompers before, I don't think they were a thing here in my country.

[@RandiRain]

They were by Schaper, which was an American company. So maybe not.

[@billporter6592]

Loved it.

[@RandiRain]

Thanks

[@Series1969]

Great video! I remember having several of these. My cousin and I would dig up the yard making roads and hills for these. My Pop wasn't to happy with us.

[@RandiRain]

They were a huge hit when they came out.

[@ptonpc]

I've never heard of these things but is a really good build. Happy New Year!

[@RandiRain]

1981 I think... Made by Schaper.

[@crushedcan5378]

nothing more BASED than creating a thing yourself. huh you mentioning the smell made me wonder, do all of the thingys ya use give headaches?

[@RandiRain]

I don't really get headaches much. That stuff smells like a boiled egg fart. I'm about to think it's just mental. But the worst asthma attack I've ever had was because of that stuff.

[@Lion_McLionhead]

That's the same size as zipzap RC toys were. Below a certain size, wheels stop being practical & solenoid driven jumping becomes easier.

[@RandiRain]

I never had the zipzaps, but I do know what they are. I'm not familiar with solenoid driven jumping. Solenoids are linear movement. I can't even think what it is.

[@GamingWithZeap]

There was a toy that my dad got me when i was a kid, i dont know what the name of it was but it was like a easy bake oven for boys. It was a molding oven for tiny lead beads, you would get like dragons, wizards and some other odd and end figures. they were about 1 1/2 inch tall when they were done. You would take these tubes of lead beads and pour them in the super hot mold and let it do its thing for about 10 mins or so. I made tons of these figures and painted them. Sometimes it took a few tries to get them right because the molds wouldnt fill correctly if you didnt put a lubricant in it first. You couldnt buy refills anymore by the time i ran out of the beads because they got banned when the companies got more strict with the safety of the kids. "Im guessing the lead fumes" haha but i worked around it and just melted down fishing splitshot sinkers and it worked just as good.... well, the lead was not as pure so they were not shiny when they were cool, the sinkers made them have a flat paint look. The toy was from either the late 70s or late 80s, my dad got it for me at a flea market brand new in the box, it was the coolest "toy" i ever owned. I wish i still had it, my fav was the wizard mold i made loads of those! The oven was maybe 1 square foot in size and painted that old blue hue color alot of old metal toys had and if i remember right it had maybe a glass shield on top to keep the lead from splashin up on you or maybe it was for the fumes. I never used the guard so im not sure. If you have this i would love to see you do a review of it

[@RandiRain]

That I have never heard of and sounds crazy. Lead? Yeah, that's bad stuff. It makes you go crazy. I remember stuff using like liquid nylon and stuff making worms and whatnot.

[@GamingWithZeap]

Oh yeah i remember that too, "CreeeEEEeeeEEpy crawlers" i can hear the commercial, they had one that you could eat too, i tried my friends and they tasted awful haha@@RandiRain I think that toy i mentioned earlier was metal molder factory but the one i am seeing is small, i remember it being much bigger

[@tarstarkusz]

Very nice job. Have you ever considered spray acrylic paint for plastics? Most people tend to use spray paint on plastic, which tends to go on too thick and looks painted. It is extremely difficult to put down a level coat of spray paint. But spraying acrylic paint on plastic looks factory. China came to the rescue with a 30 Dollar sprayer/air pump combo unit that seems to produce a very nice finish.

[@RandiRain]

I haven't. I just tend to stick with stuff I can get at the store. Does it stick without a primer?

[@sideburn]

I’ve got an original and fixed the cracked gears and rims using your mold techniques :) is there a material you can cast with that’s like the original foam rubber tires?

[@RandiRain]

The problem is it being black. I could do white pretty easy, but making the foam black is hard. If you dye it, it turns grey when it expands.

[@sideburn]

@@RandiRain ahh what is a foam rubber material that can be casted in a mold?

[@gshingles]

Awesome skills to recreate something like that from scratch. The TP4056 is just a the charge controller, it will charge to 4.2V in a way Lithium Ion is comfortable with and yeah they are great. They don't have low voltage cut off, but you would want that in the car anyway. I assume that's what you've got with that chip inside?

[@RandiRain]

I really don't know. It's getting out of my wheelhouse.

[@gshingles]

@@RandiRain still, top notch. Look up the DW01 chip. You put it in between the circuit and the battery and it cuts off supply at low voltage, like 2.2V or something. The motor would probably stop working before that, but you're not meant to let Li-Ion get too low in voltage. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a small module with DW01 on it.

[@quintessenceSL]

1st shock- a playground cheap thrill now goes for "certainly you must be joking" money. 2nd shock- these weren't revived like so many other retro toys (I could easily see this as a desk toy). So the calling card of Stompers was climbing ability. Throwing what ever school supplies and debris to see how they would react. How does it climb?

[@RandiRain]

They're fast and hard to tell. They do turn over pretty easy, but they are just as strong as they are fast.

[@gshingles]

Yes, I was thinking "is that Yen, or Won?", but apparently not 😮

[@MusicalBox]

Strange that I don't remember these toys. I see that they were produced from 1980 to 2001. My son was born in 1985. So at some point he would have been aware of the Stompers and ask for them. Maybe they were not sold in Canada?

[@sideburn]

They were really popular. But I was 10 in 1980. Maybe just not good timing age wise.

[@RandiRain]

I caught them at the end. I was kind of old for them. Not long another company ripped them off and called them Rough Riders.

[@sideburn]

@@RandiRain I remember those. And there’s also those lame McDonald’s stompers. I think I was too old also but I had a knack for acquiring friends and friends little sisters and brothers toys that I could dissect and salvage for parts. I remember acquiring my neighbors little sisters speak n spell and took it apart to checkout the speech chip but the mom came over and got it back before I was able to Frankenstein it into a speech synth for my TRS-80 😆

[@Traxxbandit]

Hello Randi. i am new to your channel. but have subscribed and liked as well. I had a thought for you. how about making a r/c stomper. since yours is fast. could be real fun with making it an r/c.. I would love to see what you could come up with. Being a small little climber i bet it would be fun. little different spin on things. but it would be cute and fun. depending on cost i would buy one or two. give me an idea of cost I will give half down so you could get started. let me know

[@RandiRain]

I have thought of that. Just haven't worked it out.

[@wimwiddershins]

Stompers! I nagged and nagged for one of these. When I finally got one, within a few days I pulled it apart and something pinged off... Didn't work again! 😭

[@RandiRain]

The story of many child's toys.

[@tarstarkusz]

If you're willing to screw around with bondo, you can get just about any print perfectly smooth. Frankly, I'm surprised none of these liquid 3d-printer companies (I think they are called resin printers) have tried to get you to shill their printers. 8.4k is small, but I've seen a lot of sponsored videos on smaller channels. A resin printer (assuming that is what they are called) could do this print without the need for bondo and sanding afterwards.

[@Saavik256]

While resin printers do produce high-quality prints, working with resin printers is all sorts of extra trouble. You've got to rinse the prints in IPA, then UV cure them, and the resins are nasty as hell.

[@RandiRain]

You aint just whistling dixie. I have a resin printer, I just didn't use it for this. But I have broke the FEP pad and made a huge mess.

[@msk6003]

Looks like it is hot wheels scale(1:64). I want see it on hot wheels track.

[@RandiRain]

Been awhile since I held a Hotwheel... Might be a hair smaller.