Building A Tribute Version of Mattel’s VertiBird Toy

Mattel had a ton of hit toys in the 20th century. In the early 1970s, the VertiBird was one of them, letting kids pretend to fly a helicopter in circles on their loungeroom floor. An original VertiBird can be hard to come by these days, but what if you could make your own? Well, [Gord Payne] did just that!


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/23/building-a-tribute-version-of-mattels-vertibird-toy/