Japan's tiny Robot Bands for the home

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A look at Bandai's Little Jammer Meets Kenwood 'Live Stage' music entertainment system.
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@OzRetrocomp 7 месяцев назад

Bandai missed a trick by not doing a licensed version with The Muppets. This would be brilliant with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem plus Rowlf on piano!

@PaulTaylor1 7 месяцев назад

I would like a Bobby Benson's Baby Band version! 😂

@xyanide1986 7 месяцев назад

Omg imagine the sales, I want one now too.

@ThatGeezer 7 месяцев назад

Muppets version? Got to have Animal on the drums!!!!!

@gazzythomas 7 месяцев назад

Mna mna

@Laundry_Hamper 7 месяцев назад

Movin' right along (doobie doo, doobie doo)

@user-pr1mx7xc3k 7 месяцев назад

I'm a long-time Little Jammer fan from Japan! I'm very happy to have these products introduced on a channel with many subscribers like you! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask 👍🏻

@AbrahamLure 6 месяцев назад

Can you set it up to play whatever songs/instruments you want?

@user-pr1mx7xc3k 6 месяцев назад

@@AbrahamLure You can only play songs recorded on a cartridge (sold separately). There are many types of cartridges such as jazz, rock, ballad, bossa nova, etc.

@kirylsuvorau3930 3 месяца назад

Can woman singer sing as a man?

@user-pr1mx7xc3k 3 месяца назад

@@kirylsuvorau3930 Sadly, there is no cartridge which recorded male voice🥲 However, so many songs are well-represented without vocals.

@CheapSushi 2 месяца назад

@@user-pr1mx7xc3k Is there a good list of all the songs somewhere? What to search for?

@ThomasSielaff 7 месяцев назад

I've played in bands for decades. These dudes have better timing than many I have known over the years!! 🙂

@ToTheGAMES 7 месяцев назад

Maybe the bass players need a midi controller in their bum too! ;) (Bass player here)

@error404m 7 месяцев назад

I want a drummer whose hat bounces on the high hat.

@Murgoh 7 месяцев назад

@@ToTheGAMES 12:00 even the electronically controlled bassist seems to have some trouble keeping exact time.

@raymondo162 7 месяцев назад

what's the difference between a foot-spa and a drummer ?? a foot-spa bucks up the feet, ................

@drworm5007 7 месяцев назад

I know, these guys are absolute machines.

@thissmellsokay 7 месяцев назад

This goes beyond novelty for me, you wouldn't think it but it does add the performance element you miss from just listening to music. Obviously it's simplistic looking and sounding but there's something about it.

@onedeadsaint 8 месяцев назад

2:45 the peeling music always gets a laugh from me!

@deleted_redacted 8 месяцев назад

What a neat product. Once again, you've introduced me to something cool that I didn't know existed. Thank you, Mat!

@eyeswideshut7732 7 месяцев назад

i agree there are loads of products that are mental but ive never come across them myself... i seem to be out the loop

@jetjazz05 7 месяцев назад

This guy has panache and interest in quirky electronics, but hobbyist levels of knowledge or beyond which makes the videos interesting and informative. Honestly I wish schools would show videos like this to students over boring them and having them get C or D grades. At least here you'd be growing a desire to learn and expand your mind, which really is something important to all human happiness. For me personally, in my 30s, it's places like that this keep my hunger to keep learning and exploring alive.

@Deltarious 7 месяцев назад

Someone suggested a Muppets version of this product, I now *strongly* desire to see you roll the puppets out to do a bit of an impersonation

@2760ade 7 месяцев назад

Animal on the drums would be something else!!🤣🤣

@digitalcatcher 2 месяца назад

COPPA: Nope. (Demonetizes your Video)

@Heartogold42 7 месяцев назад

The Little Jammer Pro (with singer and horn section) is featured in Squid Game during the Red Light Green Light sequence! It always struck me as odd that they had created a little figurine band to play "Fly me to the Moon" in the show, but it makes way more sense to know that it was an actual product!

@timmowarner 7 месяцев назад

Ohhhhh! Watching this I was thinking "Didn't he already do a video on this? I SWEAR I've seen these before." That's exactly where. =o)

@wrockage 7 месяцев назад

yessss!! thank you. i was trying to remember where i had seen it, and i only saw it a couple weeks ago.

@applesocks89 7 месяцев назад

Was looking for a squid game comment!!

@Yixdy 7 месяцев назад

Japan like, really likes Fly Me To The Moon, dude. It keeps coming up in Japanese media I watch. Is it literally all Eva's fault?

@ThiagoMedeirosGeo 7 месяцев назад

I KNEW IT! Ever since I saw a Little Jammer set in action in Kyoto twn years ago, I was completely sure id see it on Techmoan some day. It's an incredible product whose mere existence feels like a fever dream. They had an idea and made it happen! The set at the hotel had at least 10 pieces, and there was a female singer. They looked and sounded amazing! The front desk man told me they had already been in service for nearly 20 years. Bravo Matt for showcasing yet another fantastic piece of equipment that many don't even dream existed!

@lenseeing829 7 месяцев назад

the fact that it reached 20 years of continous use really sells the durability/quality of the device

@magnetmannenbannanen 7 месяцев назад

i would imagine there would be different price range of the product , so some are probably better than other.

@GauBan2501 7 месяцев назад

The first thing I noticed was that the cartridges seem to be identical to the ones used with the WonderSwan. A Bandai produced handheld game console first released in Japan in 1999. The console was created by Gunpei Yokoi (creator of the GameBoy) after he left Nintendo.

@ru5t397 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, I have a Wonderswan and that was the first thing I recognized. Good spot.

@TBustah 7 месяцев назад

Agh, you beat me to it. I noticed it as well. The SwanCrystal had been discontinued by the time this thing came out. My guess is that Bandai was trying to recoup some of their losses by reusing old tooling, not unlike how the Atari Jaguar molds ended up being reused for that dental camera.

@HKT-4300 7 месяцев назад

BanDai liked to use carts like this for things like this, and often that means the device under the hood is an actual wonderswan too, the Benesse Pocket challenge systems use a Very Similar Cartridge, maybe this is an undercover WonderSwan as well!

@matuslux 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, same here. The first thing I noticed as well.

@OtterlyInsane 7 месяцев назад

Was just about to post the same. Wonder is the hardware related

@soulchorea 7 месяцев назад

This has a similar vibe to those old Disney World animatronics - very imaginative and tons of personality in each of the guys - especially the "One - two - three - OW!" 🤣 i love it.

@TheFlyingBusman 7 месяцев назад

Arguably the coolest bit of kit you’ve had on the channel in some time. Absolutely love this.

@Jhud69 7 месяцев назад

It’s one of the things I like about Japan, it’s not all that weird for adults to enjoy toys there. My bus driver on a trip in Japan had his driver’s portion of the bus covered in Sanrio plushies and stickers and it wasn’t an uncommon sight.

@nvrndingsmmr 7 месяцев назад

That's extremely heartwarming!

@okitasan 7 месяцев назад

It’s actually an observation that goes back to the 1800s. An early British visitor to Japan noted even adult men being taken by children’s toys (I’m assuming stuff like kendama). Japan has always been known for making toys and they were one of the things that helped to recover their economy after WWII. Combine that with their craftsperson culture and you get some very detailed toys made with love, like the jammer band. I think it’s also why Japanese culture is so well known for its playfulness.

@grumpyrocker 7 месяцев назад

Surprisingly cute and detailed animation. They really got a lot of character into the performances.

@greendryerlint 7 месяцев назад

That is really far cooler than I expected it to be. Would be hilarious to see a hair band version of this. Thanks for another interesting video.

@2760ade 7 месяцев назад

I made a similar comment! Imagine the various musician characters headbanging in time to the music! Would be so much fun!😂I'd buy it!

@awesomestuartjohnston3470 7 месяцев назад

Look mum no computer could do so much with this. A Matt and Sam collaboration could make new characters and instruments even work out how to make new music files to suit what a challenge. I think I could be a fan as well how had I not seen this before. As alway brilliant Matt.

@svenjansen2134 7 месяцев назад

The frantic energy of look mum and the laid backness of techmoan? It might mix but I'm not sure.

@error404m 7 месяцев назад

You still see these occasionally in cafes, bars and shops here in Japan. There is a key cutting shop near me with the Peanuts version in the window.

@NathanAshe-pumpkinpizza 7 месяцев назад

QUESTION: what happens if you plug the wrong one into the wrong socket?? Does the piano start playing the bass and the base play the drums? If so, you can hear the vocals by plugging one of the other guys into the vocal channel perhaps?

@WafflePlaneRC 7 месяцев назад

Just a guess, but since the vocalist isn't part of the base set, it'd probably plug into the "guest" port if the pro version is anything like this one. Since there's multiple different characters that can use the guest port, the system will need some way to identify what is plugged in there.

@RCAvhstape 7 месяцев назад

If this were a Rick and Morty episode, the little robots would revolt and that's how you get Skynet with a MIDI soundtrack.

@pedrosmith4529 7 месяцев назад

@@RCAvhstape I can confirm

@volvo09 7 месяцев назад

I would assume they would be mixed up. If it didn't matter then the sockets wouldn't be labeled individually.

@Ascania 7 месяцев назад

@@WafflePlaneRC There is really no need. The guest plugs into the same size socket as the drummer. Keep the motion channels channels the same and you can interchange them. There is really no need to go figure specific here. Yes, the sound coming out of the speaker doesn't match the figure on top of it but that's not much of a problem, is it? And some people might even like that.

@VanCiapp 7 месяцев назад

The cartridge resemble a lot the ones used for the Wonderswan series of game console, also manufactured by Bandai.

@The_Str4nger 7 месяцев назад

Oh ho ho ho no! Patented Jammer cartridges, old family recipe!

@mwk1 7 месяцев назад

Do you know what's inside the cartridge? I'm asking because if it's playing around 8bit midi "files", maybe tere is a way to create an own set of music that could later be ... "arranged by the band" 😂

@ActualCharky 7 месяцев назад

That was my first thought. There's a precedent for re-using wonderswan cartridges too- the benessi pocket challenge educational console was basically a wonderswan in a different shell. Considering the wonderswan was discontinued in 2003, I wouldn't be half surprised if they shared some hardware.

@Amon26 7 месяцев назад

As a kid, we used to have a little drummer boy Christmas automaton. I remember stopping once and noticing it was playing in time with the drums in the music and thinking "huwh! it's not just shaking randomly. there's programming happening in this". Anyway, this was cute. Makes me miss your puppet vids.

@quinks 7 месяцев назад

> Makes me miss your puppet vids. So much.

@jetjazz05 7 месяцев назад

These videos have tremendous editing, video and audio quality. While not all content is as well produced on this platform I'm still excited to see that interesting topics and quality narration exist here. When I was a kid a show like Techmoan's couldn't exist, and while YT has its issues I'm still glad it exists so I can learn about all this interesting stuff from chaps like Techmoan!

@MarcWeertsMusic 7 месяцев назад

Really impressed with the animations - both the choice and execution of each tiny move as well as the timing to the music is really impressive. For once, something that looks like a labour of love rather than a made to a budget gimmick. Thank you for sharing the video!

@llYossarian 7 месяцев назад

12:17 - It's his actual _hat_ moving for the hi-hat _cymbal_ parts... adorable.

@bandombeviews6035 7 месяцев назад

I’m surprised when they discontinued it they didn’t release some sort of method to create your own arrangements and movements for the band members. It would’ve encroached a bit on the market for cartridges, but it seems like something that the target market would’ve loved

@wmkm7144 7 месяцев назад

2:36 - How can people say the peeling plastic bit is stupid? I'm happy for each video that has a peeling plastic bit.

@GeoffCollinsTravelsfortheHoff 7 месяцев назад

Ooh yeah...

@mikethedigitaldoctorjarvis 7 месяцев назад

Nothing wrong with a bit of peel porn ! my favourite part when i unbox an item is the new plastic peel 😊

@wimwiddershins 7 месяцев назад

Those people have no joy in existence. Oh yeah...

@Gadgetonomy 7 месяцев назад

Totally agree! It's just a bit of fun and it's also a bit of a Techmoan trade mark. Ignore the whingers.

@MarkFraserWeather 7 месяцев назад

@@GeoffCollinsTravelsfortheHoff I miss the Ooh yeah when other channels remove the plastic.

@philcarter9738 8 месяцев назад

What an awesome set! Had no idea they existed, and I'm pretty sure I heard a few bars of Layla in there too 😀 Also as a chap in his 40's who like building Lego, adults are allowed toys too 😄

@BertGrink 7 месяцев назад

Yes, I heard that bit of Layla too.

@pffyespff 7 месяцев назад

e.g model railways...

@Safetytrousers 7 месяцев назад

I'm 53, I play video games every day.

@BertGrink 7 месяцев назад

@@Safetytrousers So do I, and I'm 70

@panchenima 7 месяцев назад

Who's so dull that thinks peeling off the protector film is stupid, i for one love it, glad you're not stopping.

@Spudcore Месяц назад

I like the drummer a lot! He really goes for it. The accuracy of the player's movements is quite impressive.

@xyanide1986 7 месяцев назад

Very cool. Clearly the people who worked on it know a lot about animation, character design and music.

@enp82003 8 месяцев назад

I love your joy mat! Thanks for sharing the things that interest you. I got my Sony srf-39fp because of you and dug up my sharp boom box at my dad's place because of the rarity in quality nowadays. Keep pumping out great content!

@enp82003 7 месяцев назад

@@thenutsonyourchin yeah Techmoan did a segment on prison tech. That's how I found out about it.

@highnoon9333 7 месяцев назад

This is ridiculous but also adorable. I love those little guys. The detail is spectacular and also I like the art style, how they look like clay figures.

@elwyn5150 7 месяцев назад

The series looks adorable and charming. There seems to be a lot of potential for licensing. I guess I would love to have seen a little Van Halen series with EVH doing two handed tapping and little David Lee Roth doing high kicks.

@treelineresearch3387 7 месяцев назад

A KISS version would probably sell out in an hour, not only does KISS have a fanatical following, the primary KISS fan age demographic both has money and likes knicknacks.

@MrSkerpentine 7 месяцев назад

Would be interesting if it would be possible for people to somehow reverse engineer the coding to allow for custom songs with appropriate movement timing. I wanna see these guys vibe to DragonForce hehe

@cactusjackNV 7 месяцев назад

I like it vanilla. Too many branded things out there it's refreshing to see something not advertising one thing or another.

@GothGuy885 7 месяцев назад

that would be friggin Awesome! 😀👍

@RobCamp-rmc_0 7 месяцев назад

Max Weinberg 7 from Late Night with Conan O’Brien Runaway 5 from Earthbound/Mother 2 Any three-, four-, or five-piece rock band with cartridges playing their hits The possibilities are endless

@CorporalWobbly 7 месяцев назад

I'd love to see what Look Mum No Computer could do with one of these

@dvdmike007 8 месяцев назад

That's amazing, and I have never heard of it before, it's basically multichannel in a weird way

@martinda7446 7 месяцев назад

PS. I immediately thought of the puppet bands that played in Thunderbirds... I went to look and refresh the memory. 'Alan's dream from Thunderbirds Are Go' as a search term will get you puppet Hank Marvin and really the most perfect little Shadows jammers in history complete with puppet Vox amplification.

@stevemarshsound 7 месяцев назад

I, for one, love the plastic peeling music. Gives me a good chuckle every time. Thanks and keep up the great work. Much appreciated.

@profrumpo 7 месяцев назад

Another product I've never seen or heard of, I agree with you there is something rather charming about these speaker musicians. Reminds me of the full size versions the demented Doctor Phibes (Vincent Price) had in the classic film "The Abominable Doctor Phibes".

@jonothanthrace1530 7 месяцев назад

The plastic-peeling music is my favorite running gag on this channel.

@RaccoonHenry 7 месяцев назад

this thing is so silly and so endearing, it had me grinning and giggling like an idiot. I would really enjoy having one around! didn't expect the prices, though!!

@treelineresearch3387 7 месяцев назад

As a product it's really niche and seems like it could have only happened in 90s-00s Japan but it ended up being a lot more adorable than I was expecting and would go great at Christmas time with the right music cart, I was thinking the same thing when you mentioned the little Christmas villages. Too bad this a 20 year old salaryman toy rather than a toy fad from a few years ago, there's probably not enough of them in circulation for someone to have reverse engineered the cart format to enable loading custom music, but Rick Astley is big in Japan so maybe one of the other factory carts has a rickroll on it.

@TsiolkovskySportingLocks 8 месяцев назад

what a totally delightful product. Really brought a smile to my face with its whimsy. Awesome video, really love this type of content.

@DeviPotato 7 месяцев назад

this is so cute! a wonderful use of MIDI-type music formats, which sound very mundane when listened to on their own but the fact that it's decoding a series of individual notes means you can use it to synchronize stuff to music very easily. i wonder if someone dedicated could make custom music carts for these!

@avsystem3142 7 месяцев назад

MIDI data is not audio. The sound quality reproducible from MIDI data is entirely dependent on the playback device. If MIDI data is realized by high quality synthesizers or samples it can sound as good as real instruments.

@oasntet 7 месяцев назад

@@avsystem3142 Enh. It can sound better than this, certainly (especially upgrading to 16 bit), but I've not heard a MIDI guitar that I'd mistake for a real guitar.

@avsystem3142 7 месяцев назад

@@oasntet Again, there is no such thing as a "MIDI guitar". I assume you are referring to guitar samples that are triggered by MIDI data. There are composers who can indeed create compositions on a DAW that you would not be able to distinguish from the real thing. You wouldn't necessarily know the difference just by listening to audio only. However, I will give you that such skills are not common and require intimate knowledge of the instrument that they are programming for. Professional academically trained composers have such skills. That is a basic requirement of the profession.

@SproutyPottedPlant 7 месяцев назад

MIDI is in your DAW where it is used produce hits you hear on the radio 👍

@TacoMaster3211 7 месяцев назад

You're spot on with the comparison to Christmas villages. I really wish frivolities like these were more acceptable for adults.

@NuclearMoonCat 7 месяцев назад

To be honest, it is up to us, adults, to normalize this kind of fun. I, personally, stopped giving a crap a while ago, and if something brings me joy, it brings me joy, end of story. I do not let anyone yuck my yum. But, lately I think, things are starting to change, you can see people collecting figurines, plushies, even the Lego franchise is much more directed at adults, these days.

@Archer690Channel 7 месяцев назад

it seems like a western thing that once you become an adult you can't use toys anymore unless it's for collecting only, where they live in the box forever never to be used, in japan it seems to be normal, there are tons scenes of people that get dolls, trains, mechas, planes, etc, even if those communities are a small market (comparatively speakinng) they dump huge amounts of money into their hobby, closest proxy i can think of is the warcraft community painting their little figurines.

@cactusjackNV 7 месяцев назад

Who said they weren't? And who said you have to put the Christmas stuff away on December 26th?

@Lishtenbird 7 месяцев назад

Hey, woah - if they are, who gonna buy all those diamonds and cars?!

@mobius273 7 месяцев назад

Honestly put some santa hats on these guys and put some Christmas music in it and it'd be the perfect thing for grandparents lmao

@Impossible_Fishy 7 месяцев назад

I was so happy to see Layla, one of my favorite songs of all time.

@JustaMuteCat 7 месяцев назад

I think the most out of place situation I saw a similar set of those was at a orthopedics’ clinic waiting room in Japan. I was fascinated by it.

@cedarstuff 8 месяцев назад

I bought a limited edition of this, which lets you use three Billy Basses as backing singers and a Dancing Santa as lead.

@RenaissanceEarCandy 7 месяцев назад

I read 'dancing Satan' somehow

@stephenswift9868 7 месяцев назад

I initially saw dancing Sinatra!

@jason_a_smith_gb 7 месяцев назад

Batteries good?

@vilislacis3337 7 месяцев назад

I love the “peeling off plastic” part:)

@broadsword6650 7 месяцев назад

An "item of momentary delight", ideal for an area that will be passed through such as a hotel foyer or a shop display. I can imagine the delight would fade very quickly.

@Longplay_Games 8 месяцев назад

These are adorable and very silly

@ryanpeck3377 7 месяцев назад

Back in my day if you wanted to see an animatronic band you had to go to Chuck E’ Cheese. Those early 2000’s kids were spoiled

@Gadgetonomy 7 месяцев назад

Thank you Matt for showing us unique products like this. Very entertaining as always.

@katherinebarlow6446 7 месяцев назад

Man I wish there was a christmas version of this for me to be mesmerized by as a small child.

@medes5597 7 месяцев назад

There was a Christmas version planned that was advertised but as far as anyone can tell it never got released. Likely because Japan does Christmas differently.

@WhatALoadOfTosca 7 месяцев назад

@@medes5597Weirdly Japan's biggest Christmas thing is eating KFC. How Japanese ;) Then again we all believe in a Coke branded fella with a beard.

@MeriaDuck 7 месяцев назад

Some group of designers must've had a fun time designing these figures. Amd the programming (or is it actually midi, even then the response mapping is quite brilliant)

@lowdefal6306 7 месяцев назад

Since MIDI is at its basic level just a collection of data commands, you can use some of those commands that aren't directly used for notes, velocity and such to do automation like this. Those commands won't interfere with music playback but they can be embedded alongside the notes. So not only is the physical design excellent, but the ingenuity to use MIDI for something it wasn't designed for is as well. It's pretty amazing that the 40 year old MIDI standard is so versatile and relevant even today.

@Lishtenbird 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact: there is a plugin called MIDI2LR which lets you control Lightroom, Adobe's photo processing software, with MIDI devices.

@Safetytrousers 7 месяцев назад

MIDI has long been used to control lighting.@@lowdefal6306

@declawedboys1849 7 месяцев назад

The close-up view of them playing really gave me some Earthbound/Mother 2 vibes!

@minigolfkid 7 месяцев назад

I was surprised there’s no version from Mother!

@qwertyhero1138 7 месяцев назад

I never tire of "OOOHhhhhh YEahhh, ThAts It... Taaake it Oooff" I can't be the only one who'd enjoy watching a compilation of just these segments from over the years. With the audio track looped in the background; naturally. Come on Matt, give the naysayers something else to complain about; as if they haven't enough. Great content, been watching this channel for ages now, always entertaining and/or informative.

@ScienceGeniusGirl 5 месяцев назад

These are so charming, it's a shame they're so expensive! They seem like a really fun thing to have around.

@petermcfarlane5275 8 месяцев назад

Cue someone who hacks it to add custom MIDI of recent pop hits, reverse engineers the movement code, and fashions custom characters ...

@tomgidden 7 месяцев назад

I kinda want to see a plastic reenactment of "Whiplash". Maybe the "Guest" port can be used to animate an injection-moulded J.K. Simmons throwing a chair.

@mattevans7150 7 месяцев назад

I know it would be difficult to read the files off the cartridge, but I wonder what the format of the music is, and if you could feed that format in to either the data in or audio in inputs? And have to agree with a muppets version as suggested in other comments.

@ThatOtherMikeyGuy 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, I NEED one of these. Only feature missing is the ability to blow your own cartridges from MIDI files.

@Graham_Shaw 7 месяцев назад

What a wonderfull novelty product!! I love it!! Thank you for bringing the "Little Jammer" series of products to our attention.

@padraigcollins6525 7 месяцев назад

Mat, it’s great to see you so pleased with a product. I can see the joy on your face and hear it in your voice. And what a cool little thing it is too.

@gylgamesh5 8 месяцев назад

I LOVE PEELING PLASTIC!

@parkds 7 месяцев назад

That is the most pristinely packaged used piece of tech I have ever seen.

@2760ade 7 месяцев назад

I don't think it had ever been used! It is in too good condition, and the cellophane was still on the control unit!

@l2k55 7 месяцев назад

That's really cool. Worth the wait! Great video.

@a.k.4550 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video, enjoyable as always! Speaking of the impending marketing season, the movement of those figures sure reminds me of the Mr. Christmas "Santa's Marching Band". Eight figures standing on servomotors that rotate left or right in time to strike notes on tuned bells. Since it's all hardwired with twisted a pair of conductors going from a control module to each figure, it is a real mess to set up or even store neatly. Oh, and no volume control, just the sweet serenade of piercing bells and noisy plastic geared servomotors to define the appropriate holiday mood.

@ntheory 7 месяцев назад

We had this and it was always fun! One of the elves developed an issue with his gearbox and would always flub his solo in Joy to the World but that sorta added to the charm.

@josemuse4119 6 месяцев назад

Hallmark also had a set of Christmas animatronic figurines that would synch together to play like a mini orchestra. I believe they were Peanuts characters. I thought the Hallmark sets were expensive at $200 but are a bargain compared to these sets.

@JakeM-dd2tw 8 месяцев назад

The demo song sounds like the band from ‘Earthbound’ on SNES - brilliant 👏

@TBustah 7 месяцев назад

I keep finding other fans of the series in the weirdest places. Anyway, if you're into games, you would probably be interested to hear that the music carts for this thing are actually reused from Bandai's attempt to compete with the Game Boy: the WonderSwan. It had been discontinued a couple years earlier, so I guess Bandai was trying to recoup some of their losses by reusing the tooling.

@Lockbar 6 месяцев назад

A cute toy for somebody who already has everything.

@lukeerik2752 7 месяцев назад

I like it when the fish sings and WILL NOT STOP until the end.

@gravityissues5210 7 месяцев назад

You mentioned music boxes; in a way it's also like a modern take on the old German and Swiss clocks with the elaborate mechanical figures coming out to play tunes on the hour. (The fact there's an alarm built-it makes it even more-so.) Of course, those old clocks are also worth a fortune and are very cherished, despite arguably being just as whimsical and unnecessary.

@JemTheWire 8 месяцев назад

Quality of sound notwithstanding, I really like this. It really works and is very amusing and fun. Another great video.

@j__r0d 7 месяцев назад

oh man, when I noticed they were actually in beat with the music my heart melted! how cute!

@md7999 6 месяцев назад

Brilliant! Well done sourcing this amazing tech, simple and fun…

@iainb1577 7 месяцев назад

The company directors must have had something strange slipped into their morning coffee, the day the decided to take that to market. That said, I love it.

@jC-kc4si 7 месяцев назад

Bandai is a toy company, so not out of line with their usual products.

@mattpierce5009 7 месяцев назад

One of the coolest things I've seen in awhile, was really hoping there'd be a MIDI port when you showed the back :)

@ManabiLT 7 месяцев назад

I've got an alarm clock that's a drum set. You can also play the drums by tapping them with your fingers, so it's along the same lines as "toys for adults." It's a lot of fun to play with!

@thomashounsome7737 7 месяцев назад

Those are adorable! Thank you for this video, sir. Made my morning!

@twocvbloke 7 месяцев назад

The characters all look like they're right out of Bob the Builder, but with a little more animation... :P

@jackscott8931 7 месяцев назад

What a cool little set, honestly at the start of the video I was thinking what toss, but by then end it has likewise won me over! The attention to detail is amazing. I can't wait to see the pro as the one thing I was thinking was it's a shame about the some of the choppy midi sounds.

@fflynnful 7 месяцев назад

The drummers hat is the best part. :)

@bryandraughn9830 5 месяцев назад

I love that it's someone's job to come up with stuff like this and make it happen.

@captaindebug 7 месяцев назад

Absolutely fabulous - made me laugh out loud - especially their renditions of Layla and Lady Madonna. So cool.

@Otakunopodcast 7 месяцев назад

I love animatronic music things like this. Years ago my mother in law gave us a set of Peanuts Christmas figurines from Hallmark. They are also animatronic musicians, and they play various Christmas tunes, with each of the Peanuts characters playing a different instrument. The cool thing about the set that I have is that the different pieces communicate with each other wirelessly, so there's no wires whatsoever. And the song will dynamically rearrange itself depending on which instruments are available. So if you have only 3 out of the (iirc it was a set of 4) instruments, the song will still sound reasonably correct, minus the missing instrument. I always look forward to Christmastime every year when I can unpack these guys and watch (and hear) them play.

@chrisharrington1372 7 месяцев назад

My in laws have the Mickey Mouse characters playing instruments and it’s similarly delightful. The true next iteration of this idea.

@applesocks89 7 месяцев назад

Yes we love the hallmark set! Hold on tight to your Linus (trumpet) if you’ve got him!

@jakethreesixty 7 месяцев назад

2:47 The protective film removal song 😆

@davepickering997 7 месяцев назад

Scotty on the piano! That's the ticket, laddie!

@vernonzehr 7 месяцев назад

My first thought was maybe possibly you could replicate this with 3D printing and an arduino or raspberry pi? It wouldn't be simple or cheap but it would be a fun project.

@grinningtiki220 7 месяцев назад

I have always dreamed of starting a soda parlor-esq store with a magic and fantasy theme. In the corner would be a band of gnomes playing music. This reignites that dream so much.

@gabotron94 7 месяцев назад

If you got the songs from Clone Hero you have the tracks already separated and with a note chart file you could use as a starting point for the performance

@K-o-R 8 месяцев назад

How utterly charming!

@flyingtypetrainer4072 7 месяцев назад

So neat! Thanks for sharing!

@BradenPitts_ 7 месяцев назад

This is really cool, thanks for sharing with us!

@avsystem3142 7 месяцев назад

Speaking of peeling plastic. A few years ago I was taking piano lessons at the local community college. Before each class I would arrive early and practice the pieces on one of the several available pianos. The piano I liked the best was a Baldwin Grand in the choir room. It had great tone but there was a piece of peeling protective plastic film across the fall board that looked horrible. When I mentioned it to my piano professor I was told I shouldn't mess with it, the choir professor had a fetish about leaving it in place, for what reason no one knew.

@joutoob9 7 месяцев назад

Not a good idea, the plastic is meant to be peeled off. After some years, it partly bonds with the material, and what's underneath will never look like it was supposed to.

@avsystem3142 7 месяцев назад

@@joutoob9 Tell me about it.

@dualityk 7 месяцев назад

It's like having a little slice of The House on the Rock on one's desk. Things can be silly and cool at the same time, and I think this fits that bill just fine.