Topper Ding-A-Ling Robot Toy - Pyramid Set

1971 Topper Ding-A-Ling Pyramid robot set is a very large kit where the robot runs on a track, spanning over nine feet.
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[@steveconnor5388]

I remember ding a ling robots I had them as a child ah thanks for the memories

[@hajihunterr7662]

Your Ding-A-Ling looks fun to play with.

[@animeator]

Well dingaling my robot and call me Shirley! - Lost In Space, probably. Awesome refurb 💚💚💚

[@gcaprice406]

Had to watch this for the title card…. I wasn’t disappointed by your ding-a-ling! 😂

[@RandiRain]

No one ever is. :-)

[@samsscaledmodels1872]

I love how mechanically complex yet technically simple these bots can be. Love your skill

[@michaelthomas3646]

nope 5 years before my time, but do remember the song being played extremely often on the radio, and thinking why would someone want to play with my ding-a-ling?!! haha.

[@vincentferrari]

Thanks! The sheer number of ding a ling jokes made a donation a necessity 🤣

[@RandiRain]

If they're there, you got to make them. Thank you.

[@crushedcan5378]

@@RandiRain you did them jokes because you knew if you didn't, all the comment section would be full of the ding a ling jokes right?

[@georgemartinez1720]

Iam sorryvi had to hold back a Laugh I still remember that Song

[@RandiRain]

Oh yeah... Chuck Berry. It's older than that, but he made it famous.

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

I actually had this “Space Skyway Set”set multiple ding bots and an accessory called “King Ding-a-Ling”. It incorporated a smaller bot called “Brain” into a much larger body. “Brain” could operate on the track separately or be installed into the head of the large robot via an elevator.

[@dodgeramsport01]

So the God father of Rock n Roll really was playing with his ding a ling!

[@1969longshanks]

I love your videos

[@RandiRain]

Thank you.

[@Ranger_Kevin]

The colored gears are really a nice touch, I have never seen that before.

[@RandiRain]

Yeah, I did like the colors too and the white kind of changed it.

[@nickblackburn1903]

Isn't there a carpenters song that mentions "every dinga linga ling? " Brilliant as always, Love you Randi. Xx

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I've never seen Ding-A Ling Robot toy before.

[@vhm14u2c]

In Chuck Berry’s song, mentions town, ‘turtle creek’. I grew up there, 70-80s, zip 15145

[@kaljordan217]

This was a Good one 🤖

[@JessHull]

Well I for one, love a big ding-a-ling, and this one is really interesting. You've shown some really interesting mechanisms on your channel, but that little drop down drive leg is really a cool solution to the novel problem of how to get a ding-a-ling to drive on a monorail.

[@RandiRain]

I don't hate ding-a-lings, that's for sure. I don't know about "love".

[@stevecann3394]

It's the combination of your technical ability and your personality that keeps me watching. Keep up the good work👍😃

[@RandiRain]

Thank you so much 😀

[@wimwiddershins]

Ding-a-lings aren't everyone's thing.

[@RandiRain]

Not at all...

[@TheWiredwizard]

How innocent those days were 😁 but the name of this toy is hilarious.

[@sput1981]

Ich liebe deine Videos. Grüße aus Deutschland😊👍

[@RandiRain]

Thank you

[@mohawksniper79]

I got a ding a ling or i would get it. Mine is not as big but gets the job done so they say🤣👍🏼

[@SPEXWISE]

Cool video. Please keep them coming. YT's algorithm is bizarre but you still reach your target audience. Don't give up.

[@RandiRain]

I'm not. It just seems the algorithm doesn't know what to do with me.

[@GadreelAdvocat]

Good to see this one. It reminds me of a solar power mining robot I want to make one day. Had thought of making it with a pick in hand. Yet, might consider a jack hammer. Was thinking of making it look weathered and with a doughboy helmet with a miners lamp on it. Yet, still working on other objects I want to finish first. On another note. Surprised the ding-a-ling didn't have a looped track option.

[@spacefury65]

What you do in the case of wrong size hole is fill the hole with baking soda and a dab of loctite glue so it solidifies. It dries immediately and can be drilled to right size with Dremel micro bits...

[@RandiRain]

Just a smear of CA glue on the inside of the hole will suffice. No need for baking soda, which is actually really brittle. I very rarely use that method, but I have. I usually add powder pigments and get the color too. I still don't much care for it. Too brittle.

[@garychamley3095]

You handled that ding a Ling, like it's not your first time. 🤔 😉

[@RandiRain]

They're not as complicated as people who have them want you to think.

[@albertmoreno5273]

I love your big ding a ling 😂🎉

[@RandiRain]

Thank you

[@deaniepops1]

Those ding-a-lings are very unreliable 😜

[@nickolaswilcox425]

always good when the majority of the gear train is idlers, nothing to replace unless they screwed up with the material, ive seen such material failures and its not fun. picked up an old nes rob and its much the same in that regard, only a few gears that are locked to the axle and those arent even a noteworthy failure point on him, for that you have to look at the clutch gears, the glue holding the clutches together is too old and has failed in nearly all of them so they just slip and transfer no motion

[@KernArc]

Like the angle of the dangle at 17:33

[@rivards1]

The way that... red-tipped appendage... swings down between his legs at 3:36 IS rather suggestive. Jes sayin' is all.

[@RandiRain]

Maybe that's the ding a ling.

[@helperguy1360]

Another stellar video!

[@Lion_McLionhead]

A gear track like that was so hard to prototype until 5 years ago. Can't think of any advantage to it over a rubber wheel grabbing an i-beam track.

[@RandiRain]

You mean in a toy or real life? Because there is a reason in real life... kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5qZfX5-g6ujm6c

[@FurySanctuary]

Comme d'habitude, bravo pour la réparation. Je découvre ce jouet, superbe, j'adore l'idée du double circuit.

[@RandiRain]

Thank you.

[@34.FB.34]

C'est vrai qu'elle est très douée.

[@hydroxacte]

Regarding the idle gears that you wish fit tight -- could you get some 2.5mm plastic rod, drill the gear out and glue the rod in or weld it in, and then drill out a 1.9mm hole?

[@RandiRain]

I've thought about that. Glue isn't going to stick and hold, and welding could work but tricky. I may experiment with it.

[@OSJ81]

🤣🤣🤣❤️

[@bengelman2600]

LOL

[@randykoger4646]

You have the walk/glide settings set incorrectly when you are using the toy. That’s why it’s getting stuck on the track.

[@RandiRain]

No I don't. It only walks when the lever between the legs is not dropped down. It only rides on the track when the lever is dropped down. There are only two settings. The only other thing is the jack hammer and that is at the top of the head and has to be up to go on the tracks. That's easy, because it no longer stays down. The only time it fails on the track, was actually before I changed out the compound gears. That's how I found out they were cracked, and I just didn't bother including that and I left it out. The instructions are there. I didn't do anything incorrectly.

[@sunhuntin]

wow, that was classic stuff right there. well done! looking at the box, the ding a ling shown looks like a fireman [enter jokes about ding a lings in uniform here]. i wonder if they made different ones and it was a gamble as to which ding a ling got in the box? also loved the colored gears, very reminiscent of the tomy trains of the 80s which often had colored gears, though theirs were more drab coloring, like olive greens and muddy yellows.

[@RandiRain]

They made different ones and on the side of the box it's checked which robot comes with it. That's the construction worker.

[@crushedcan5378]

doh.. you didn't paint the gears they looked cute, I like that robots design it makes me think of dig dug would totally get it but I aint from USA

[@RandiRain]

I always liked Dig Dug.

[@toonman361]

Randi, what is the heat tool you use to slice plastic things? It looks like a tightly closed loop which heats up. I know it's not the soldering iron. As a teenager, years ago, I had no such tool and would heat up a pocket knife blade on our gas stove when I needed to cut plastic. Not recommended. Thanks?

[@RandiRain]

That is a heat pen used in making wax parts for casting jewelry. I have a video on it. Mine is an old one that came out of a jewelry making place that shut down. I refurbished mine, but if you wanted to see a modern-day comparison... www.amazon.com/wax-carving-pen/s?k=wax+carving+pen

[@wigwagstudios2474]

1:44 by any chance do you have a video on the cat in the background??? checked and didnt see one, would like to see one though that thing isn't too easy to find

[@RandiRain]

There's two cats. One is just a remote control cat. You may be able to see it by the VerBot. But if you are talking about the KitBot, or PurrBot, or whatever it's called... I did one and it's here... kzbin.info/www/bejne/oojYZ5SHa7Ofp5I

[@wigwagstudios2474]

That remote control cat, it’s by Tomy, the “dizzy kitty” is pretty rare (at least from what I remember). Was part of a community for a while and that toy was one of the many toys featured

[@RandiRain]

@@wigwagstudios2474 Really? I found out it on ebay many years ago, and I only got it because it was going cheap. It works. I've opened it up and there's really not much to it.

[@wigwagstudios2474]

There’s only like a couple videos of it and they’re all by people who collect stuff from the video the toy appears in, so yea I’d say it’s a bit of a rare find (along with the dog counterpart)

[@loganjorgensen]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnnHoH6QoMmYlZY Silly, silly toy people. ^_^ I agree, they should just make that part for those lots, people shouldn't have to mod them into existence. Still I am impressed how you put that part together yourself. Pretty neat toy, I've heard the name many times but never actually seen one, definitely would have been on my Christmas list if I had been born a decade or so sooner.