That Teddy Ruxpin commercial was great. "Teddy's not a mass murdering lunatic like all your children's other toys." They REALLY went heavy-handed on the "wholesome", "family-friendly" angle. What an aggressive sales pitch!
Teddy Ruxpin was truly a great toy to have during the 80s, I had him for many years and loved hearing his stories and watching his cartoon show. It's times like this, I wish Worlds of Wonder did not go out of business and was still around today.
IMO, the talking doll "fad" wasn't a fad at all, rather the start of a whole new generation of interactive toys. I'm a casual collector of FurReal Friends toys, as I find the technology behind them very fascinating! Many would find them creepy, especially my friends, but I clearly see something in them they don't see.
Exactly! I'm still remembering A doll that I used to play with at Walmart back in about 1997-98. It amazed me the way he interacted with you. You had to squeeze his hand to get the answers or interact with him. He used to tell jokes, he was like a hilbilly type person I think.
Thanks for the video! It's sad that so many adults and kids are scared of dolls nowadays due to them being made main characters in horror films. When I was a child there was nothing more magical than Teddy Ruxpin, Big Bird, or Mother Goose from World of Wonder telling you a story. There were dolls I didn't have or didn't know about like Cricket and Julie. I think it would be wonderful if children these days could experience them in their 1980s glory!
My grandfather was fascinated by the tech behind talking dolls so he picked a lot of them up for my brother and I. I’ve still got Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby and Mother Goose, but also had Alf and Cricket back in the day. I admit it’s easy to find them creepy but for me that’s also part of their charm.
I knew someone who had Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby. Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but doesn’t Gribby just plug into Teddy and play/song along? I don’t remember him having the casette player as Teddy did. I don’t really recall a talking Alf but Burger King had promos going back in the day, puppets of 1 each Alf puppet included a record they came with….. I had the chef 1, there was sort of a vacationing 1, a baseball 1, and I forget the 4th)
My parents never bought into the talking toy craze because of the prices. They said, you have a tape recorder, you have stuffed toys, use your imagination. 😂
I’m only 17, but I’m absolutely OBSESSED with the talking dolls that came out years ago. I have a Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby, and soon I’m going to have a talking wrinkles dog doll :) so excited!!
Fun Fact. A year after the Cricket doll was released, they released a male version of the doll called Corky. Corky also ran on cassette's and was marketed for little boys. He looked alot like a My buddy doll, only with moving mouth and eyes. The same voice actor to voice Corky also voiced the Good Guy Dolls in the Child's play movie a year later.
I had a Cricket doll growing up, and I love that her mouth and eyes moved. It didn’t creep me out at all, in fact, I played with her so much that my cousin gave me hers when mine broke. Now, thanks to Cricket and Corky’s Clubhouse, I have a playlist of all the cricket, Corky, and Jill, RU-vid videos as MP3’s forever. Nostalgia rocks, especially when I get to keep the stories, jokes, and songs that have never completely left my memory.
I owned a Julie and at 45 years old I bought myself a fully functioning Julie from worlds of wonder…my Christmas present to myself,I fascinated w vintage taking dolls, but I must admit she was my favorite, love this video, ty for the creepy memories lol!
Interesting backstory video! I’m surprised you didn’t mention Cricket’s brother Corky (who the good guy doll was based off of) and Cricket’s older Sister Jill! I love that Alf one, I need to try and find one that works haha.
I was hoping you would mention the dolls that didn’t take cassette tapes. Like the talking Julie doll from 1987. You could say certain things to her and she would respond appropriately with one of her several programmed comments. She also had sensors on her fingers that you could place on books and she would read them. There were talking cabbage patch dolls that didn’t require cassette tapes either.
My nephew got a tickle me Elmo doll and i thought it was psychotic. It could stand up while it talked. "Hey kid! Elmo says take these matches and burn your house down!" 🤣
I've got a jill, 2 Corky 3 Cricket, Mickey, Baby Ruxpin, Teddy Ruxpin, Baby Heather, and many more! I've got tons of Electronic toys from the 80s and 90s and 2000's!
I had a furby back in the day. Once in the middle of the night, sitting somewhere in my closet I hear it wake up and scream "cock-a-doodle-doo! ee-hee-hee-hee!!" And I had thought the batteries were dead. There was all kinds of rumors about furbies being creepy. I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention the haunted tickle-me Elmo.
I had that talking Baby Sinclair as a kid. As a kid, I always wanted a Furby since I was fascinated by them seeing the commercials, but I never got one. I did get a Wuvluv which gave birth to a little Wuvluv. Unfortunately, I my parents and I couldn't get the baby to work well.
I actually had a CASEY back in the day, probably the 1st thing I recall ever asking Santa for at our mall in Rockaway. Didn’t have half the books and cassettes, though, like 5 or 6 tops. Furby at the end there, had a few of those, 2 original, 1 baby original, 1 Shelby, Gizmo, 2 Booms, didn’t go for the Gremlin looking 1s, though, Connect would’ve been neat to try, maybe…..
ive recently been absorbing myself in the 80s Jill doll, she's so rare now that finding her in decent condition often comes to a whopping $1000 dollars to purchase. id love to find one someday in decent condition and not at such a price tag.
I found a talking Jill doll on eBay today for only about 70 dollars- granted, she’s not working but I’m pretty sure there are some videos on RU-vid of how to repair her so that could be something worth looking into!
0:19 Ha! I'm also missing the battery cover on my ALF talking doll. It has been a long time since I've looked at it, I'm not even sure where it is right now but I don't recall it having a cassette deck. I mean it obviously must have but it is strange I wouldn't remember that.
Never had any of those. The closest to that for me was a troll. I don’t know why my mother thought I would ever want something like that because my toys at that point were almost entirely gi joes. But then even more ridiculous was the fact that I actually ended up playing with it.
I preferred the talking robots too! Teddy Ruxpin and talking dolls always creeped me tf out! You just know the little bastards were planning to kill you in your sleep! 😆
My best friend had a talking doll (we were 12 in 2000) that said something about splashing in the bath tub or something like that & it took batteries One night, I was sleeping over at her house & her mom decided to play with a Oiuji Board (we were in my friends room) with her friends I s*it you not, that f*cking doll started talking on its own & saying "killing" instead of "splashing". We freaked tf out, removed the batteries & threw it outside The next morning it was back in her room, sans batteries, & talking Now, we knew her mom could've lied about putting it in her room & it could've still had a charge (like with a smoke detector) minus the batteries, but we both remember very vividly it saying "kill" the night before & still the next day. We cut that doll up & threw it away piece by piece in different places (like effing serial killers, but whatever lol) Needless to say I will NEVER touch a Ouiji or allow it in my house/space. Better safe than sorry 😬 I also, after catching part of Chucky soon after, turned all of my dolls/barbies facing the wall at night (I had a shelf that went around the top of my room with collectors dolls & normal ones on it) 😳
I think that Chucky from Child’s Play was based off of two dolls. Of course there was the doll My Buddy but the talking doll Cricket had a little brother named Corky. I think the two dolls were both were both based off of The Good Guy dolls in the movie.
You highlighted talking robots but failed to mention 2XL??? Huge oversight man! :) (that's the talking toy i had. He played a lot of multiple choice games that you answered with push-buttons on his console).
I owend 5 furbys at one point and just placed them in a 5 pointed circle . They'd just talk and talk . Funny when they'd get angry man great times. I got asked yo remove them from a jims(san antonio ihop) cuz it was freaking out another booth. Lol I miss my furbies
@@NerdOutWithMe yea my kids had 1 each and so did I and the gf so I bought a fifth to be funny. They start dancing and stuff it's really cool how they interact with each other
chucky was inspired by 3 dolls actually, the first one was my buddy, in the form of a boy themed doll, with extra outfits and toy kits, second was the cabbage patch kids line, them being on cereal, dolls, extra outfits, even diapers! and last but not least baby heather by mattel, a baby doll that could talk, move its head and eyes and mouth, funny enough a display of baby heather dolls is seen in the first childs play movie in the toy store as it blows up
I grew up in the 2000s and never liked talking dolls much, although I did have a talking Dora doll that my brother was scared of when he was little 😂 Understandable.
You know what may be a cool idea for an episode? I don't know if you two have any fondness for the syndicated hour long action adventure shows from the 90s and 2000's, you know like Xena, Acapulco Heat, Andromeda, Renegade, Highlander and the list goes on and on. There were so many of these and many of them were really fun to watch. Would these be a good idea for a lets back pedal?
I used to watch the Teddy Ruxpin cartoons and I wanted one, but I never had him. I thought the talking robots were cool as well. They should be in a Backpedal with the other home robots from the 70's 80's & 90's I think.
My brother had the “My Buddy” doll, and we relentlessly teased him that it was going to come to life and kill us all. He also had the Casey talking robot, and we definitely put other tapes in him. Weird “Al” Yankovich got a lot of play in Casey.
No they never bothered me, the label "Nightmare Fuel" in itself is a recent fad typically fueled by a generation weened on FNAF games and merchandise yet most never actually have visited a Chuck E. Cheese style establishment. O_o??? Not denying the creepy factor hasn't been around forever but the modern slant is every doll, puppet, and robot is creepy 100% all the time, a sort of hyperbolic attitude perpetuated with lots and lots of memes. I'm still planning on getting a Ruxpin some day but not that new one, bears with glowing eyes are creepy. ;)
I'm Gen X, raised on Chuck-E-Cheese, and I used to find all those animatronic creatures terrifying as a kid in the 80s. LOL. So the talking dolls def freaked me out as well. Not sure what it was. Prob the uncanny valley effect.
@@NerdOutWithMe Little late to that party but did get to see the animatronics, eat the pizza, and play some arcade games before they became defunct. ;) You fear them but you must still love them. ^_^ Idk, been speculating on that myself, seems like ventriloquism dummies aim directly at the freaky part of the spectrum. :\
the whole 80s fad of talking toys amazed me we had pull strings in the 70s , teddy ruxpin i just loved , cricket corky and jill i have they are truly wonderful , jill is the first fully animated voice recognition doll she listens and can answer to questions , worlds of wonder julie was less animated limb wise but knew light and dark , coldness , how loud you were , and could read with placing the finger on her books ,pamela also wow toys was less complicated , baby heather mattel is fantastic she was promoted in the toy store in childs play , and is chuckys battery pack when the batterys arent there , edan gross voice actor is corky and goodguy dolls voice also . sorry to say no wow toys teddy ruxpin can work off a def leopard tape they have to work off there programmed tapes so thats an urban myth, however cricket and corky could along with casey the robot and knock offs dolls and bears play standard tapes
Oh man, you didn’t even mention Cricket’s brother, Corky!! He also took cassettes, and the kid who voiced Corky went on to be the voice of the good guy dolls in the child’s play movies! And the Jill doll from playmates… she deserves her own video with her level of creepiness 😂 A 3ft tall cassette playing doll that could move her head, eyes and eyelids, mouth, and arms, and you could actually talk to her and she could answer 😳. Because of how complicated Jill was, she ended up having a lot of technical issues… just imagine a 3ft tall animated doll glitching out…….. yeah….
I've got a jill, 2 Corky 3 Cricket, Mickey, Baby Ruxpin, Teddy Ruxpin, Baby Heather, Etc I've got tons of Electronic toys from the 80s and 90s and 2000's!
I have cricket. I’ve had her since I was 4 yrs old and she was never creepy to me. Idk how this generation of parents lets their kids play games like FNAF but then wants to try to act like talking toys are creepy 😂😂😂
I am trying to find a talking doll that I used to play with at Walmart. I cannot for the life of me remember his name. It was interactive in a way by him asking a question and you had to squeeze his hand to have him comment. He was funny and was like a hillblilly type character I think. Does he sound familiar to you?
The main issue with talking dolls was when they would become demonically possessed during the night and turn to you with glowing red eyes and threaten to eat your soul. Was all a bit distressing for 5 year old me.
I know this video is old but I’m trying to find a doll that was 4 feet like a my size Barbie but It talk and walks that doll scared the h*** out of me😂😂
If people find these creepy they have issues & are sissies. The same gen that will let their kids play FNAF and claim they can handle it seriously thinks these were creepy? Idk about y’all but the 80’s toys with the technology was way better than the toys we give kids today. all just solid plastic with a button that may say one or two phrases and there’s no movement.
@@NerdOutWithMe I don’t consider today’s toys more advanced….none of the dolls actually are animated like cricket or teddy. They have talking dolls, but they don’t move their faces.
I had a lot of these. I loved this fad until I knew about Chucky 😅 Then they started creeping me out. I remember camping outside of Bradlees in TR with my mom to get Furbys for my younger brother and sister. That was the one and only time I camped outside of a store for anything 😅
