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The museum is not normally open to the public, but during Spielwarenmesse 2019, it conducted a mini-tour on the Monday following the trade fair, and Lincoln and I joined that tour despite neither of us speaking German beyond the bare minimum, e.g. "Sind zwei Halbbrüder einen Bruder?", a helpful phrase that Duolingo has taught me. Despite catching only a few words of the tour guide, we were blown away by what we saw, so ahead of Spielwarenmesse 2020, I contacted the museum to see whether they would be interested in us filming a tour so that the public can get a sense of why the museum exists, what it holds, and what its plans are for the future.
I'm not sure how well we answered those questions. I wasn't even sure what to ask, so I stumbled through questions as well as I could, mostly overcome by a desire to drop the mic and start rummaging through everything that we saw. For more on the museum, check out this February 2020 post, which also includes many pics that I shot when I could stop gawking for a few minutes.
We were joined on the tour by designer Brian Yu from Mattel, who had ditched work at the show to view this otherwise unviewable museum, and he helped with the filming by manning a 360º camera as we moved from floor to floor and aisle to aisle. Thanks to Lincoln for not dropping the camera to paw at games, and huge thanks to Derek Porter for editing the footage into this video:
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