And it's just a little weird to criticize people for linking to something you posted on the web, since linking is what the web is for. It's arguably the most grab-able music format (cassette tapes are a close contender) and it's a very visual and tactile way to experience music. The result is your toy slowly steps forward, and then the track jerks back too fast for the toy to follow, so the toy "walks" and then goes down the slide. It was actually a lot of fun to make extra songs for it, the toy becomes interactive for the player.

which means that evaluation of chronic human toxicity cannot be performed until around 2000 to 2020! I realized very quickly that it was just a gimmick to lure the Gen-Xers and Millenials who remember these from their childhood. It’s certainly because they realized they could save a few cents per unit and are more concerned with profit than making a quality product. Since it required no batteries it was always working, even when you found it at the bottom of toy bin after months/years.Plan Toys and Green Toys stick out to me as two brands which felt consistently high quality and were widely available. What a thing it was to behold, an authenticity that the child in us could always appreciate and be impressed and moved by.

It’s hard to tell, because it’s a small image, but those records have 10 grooves each (with bumps on both sides of each groove making 20 playable notes). Today mainstream computing is still about digital/clean/closed but one day I assume the analog/noisy/chaotic will become a thing in a normal curriculum. It’s a great little toy, and completely mechanical: you wind a knob on the front to compress a spring that powers the turntable, and the music is encoded in bumps on the record which trigger a music box in the “needle” area of the tone arm. Simple wooden building blocks or a stack of cups that fit in each other already allow for that for early age, no need for more advanced toys / battery driven things. It is a very clean copy just like you described, and I am extremely happy to now own a first edition copy in such wonderful condition!He's not putting the records on himself just yet of course, but it's nice to have some technology where the physical aspect is so prominent — records have two sides, you have to manually place the needle and stop the turntable after listening, and records hold a specific album. As for the dial, I remember thinking it felt so music-box-like, but I had no idea it was an actual music box! With familiar kids’ tunes, including Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill, it’s sure to inspire a sing song and a knees up too. The original didn’t have a music box in the base; there was a spring motor to turn the record, but the actual music-box part was in the head (running along the record, which had detents in the plastic to pull the tines for the notes)—this is why you could get different songs by changing the disc. Depending on pvc's point in it's lifecycle, it's either offgassing hydrogen chloride which turns into hydrochloric acid when inhaled, all the way to releasing dioxin when incinerated, and dioxin is considered the most congeners.