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Did your toys do this?


Now I already know that some of you won't believe me. When I was a kid, my mom, brother and I all witnessed something amazing.

As a kid it was something that just seemed funny but as I got older I questioned it "How exactly does that work?"

Over 20 years I've only come across one person who ever witnessed the same thing that I did.

Too bad I still don't have my Dino-Rider toys, if I did I would make a video for youtube.

So here's what happen.

When I put the batteries in, I accidentally put them in backwards.

I didn't know that they were in backwards because I turned it on and the legs were moving....with me so far.

Batteries and in my toy and it works, so what..nothing weird about that.

Then I put it on the ground so that it can walk...and it did....BACKWARDS!

That thing was walking backwards...my mom thought it was broke so she inspected it...she discover the batteries and turned them around and then he walked forwards.

We put the batteries back in the wrong way to see if it would still walk backwards and it did, then my brother turned the batteries around in his to see if it would also work and it did.

To this day, I've never had any other toy, remote, device, etc...that worked with the batteries put in backwards..let alone work backwards.

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It's a simple thing of how they walked. Just a DC electric motor, which rotated the legs. I did the same with mine, and IIRC they walked backwards but kind of wobbley and prone to falling.

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Yup. A little switch in the back does that. Mine still work 27 years after I got them. Tyco sure did build em to last.

Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name. ;)

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Yes, my Diplodocus did that. It would try to walk backwards but get stuck moonwalking.

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This all sounds amazing! I wish I could've seen my T-Rex walk backwards, and if only the Brontosaurus could walk and do that as well.

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