{"id":1067,"date":"2020-06-28T19:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T02:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2020-06-28T19:37:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T02:37:57","slug":"yps-mit-gimmick-ein-nostalgischer-spaziergang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2020\/06\/28\/yps-mit-gimmick-ein-nostalgischer-spaziergang\/","title":{"rendered":"YPS With Gimmick – A Walk Down Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Occasionally childhood memories come to mind and make you wallow in nostalgia. For me as a primary school student in the 1970s, the most desirable weekly magazine was YPS with gimmick<\/a>. This children’s magazine differed from all the others at the time in that each time a more worthless than valuable toy – the gimmick – was included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This had to be assembled first, if it was anything made of plastic. Sometimes it was a powder or simply a plastic sheet, which were then imaginatively advertised as “primeval crabs” or “adventure tents”. Often they were scientific gimmicks, like a hygrometer – a moisture meter, which failed with me because I couldn’t find a hair long enough, and which would contract or expand with changes in humidity and would control it that way – or because other parts were missing, like the zeppelin, to which I had no helium. Or simply that the parents didn’t play along, like with the square eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n