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Apr 17, 2025April 21, 2025

KORG Gadget 3 for PC 🧻🧻🧻🧻

This collection of musical toys has been floating around for some years now – appearing on the Switch, iPhone/iPad (thus recent versions of MacOS) and as a VR version. You…

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Sep 1, 2024

Party Maker PVC Inflatable keyboard 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

An outsider entry into the synthesiser market with some bold ideas about the weight of the equipment you’re currently lugging up the venue back stairs. Up to this point you’ve…

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Aug 13, 2024August 13, 2024

VTech My 1st Record Player 🧻🧻🧻🧻

The cat is back! She was here before as a cassette player, yelping a script that resembled a 1970’s British dominatrix. But here she’s obviously more comfortable with popular music…

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Aug 12, 2024August 12, 2024

ANKO Touch and Play Piano 🧻🧻💩

We live in complex times. I have for some time thought that ANKO was the house brand for K-Mart and Target stores. Indeed nearly every item sold, from fish tweezers…

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Jan 29, 2024August 12, 2024

VTech Musical Spin and Play Kitty 🧻🧻

Pity the child born this side of 2020 presented with what you may recognise as a Walkman, a device from 1979 holding what appears to be a cassette, a device…

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Dec 17, 2023

Blipblox After Dark 🧻🧻🧻🧻

On the base of this device its says ‘toy’. I’ll follow their lead, although I’ve owned non-toys less sophisticated than this. This is the third iteration made by Playtime Engineering…

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Aug 14, 2023August 23, 2023

Sensory FX ASMR Megabar and Recorder Cube

So hands up anyone who as a small child built a cardboard robot costume, or a control panel for a space ship. Don’t be shy, there’s plenty of us. Who…

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Jan 26, 2023April 3, 2023

Otamatone 🧻

Suppose yourself to have a small child. You wish to provide them with the most irritating, howling, headache-inducing pest of a thing for them to practice day and night. Your…

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Dec 27, 2022

Kmart ANKO Xylo Piano 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Pity the poor child who is gifted this instrument by Santa, tests a few happy notes and is then demanded to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for their expectant parents.…

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Sep 14, 2022August 2, 2023

Maison Battat Howler 🧻🧻🧻🧻

The howler is the best of the B-Toys, the most authentic, as you feel as if you are actually strangling a small dog. Be careful – not too small a…

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