Fisher-Price Classics | Music Box Record Player | Baby Musical Toy, Baby Interactive Toy, Classic Toy with Retro Style Packaging, Pretend Play Toys for Boys and Girls Ages 18 Months+ | Basic Fun 1697

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The capabilities are there, but it's not what those devices are for any more than a toaster is a gaming PC just because you can hack it enough to get Doom to run. I'm not sure how common this is in other countries, but here in Germany we have quite a few "water playgrounds".

The Leapfrog one with the 8x8 LED array and the light pen is absolutely brilliant in how much play value it gets out of that simple hardware and already feels like a classic. 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. But instead they’re selling us yet another landfill-bound piece of plastic crap, under the guise of selling us the ability to give our kids an experience we had ourselves.I too recently rediscovered my FP record player; my 15 month old is enjoying it some 35 years after I did. One of the deadliest fires in US history was the MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas and iirc all of the fatalities were due to the fumes from the burning pvc carpet and none were heat related. With familiar kids’ tunes, including Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill, it’s sure to inspire a sing song and a knees up too. It is not possible for us to draw any conclusions about you, and any data collected as a result will never be passed on to third parties. I'm part of that group (I ever regretted breaking my beloved mitsu diamondtron[0]) but still the mainstream is massively about digital purity, beyond biological retina sampling and displaying .

If a toy's only value is "push a button for a predefined thing to happen", there is no opportunity for exploration. The colored pictures on the screen include the lyrics to the two songs, in addition to displaying various full-color paintings related to each tune. You can see it mentioned in almost every article or book about writing software, doing UI design or UX work. It wouldn't be until much later I'd have to tools to dissemble one, and by then I was taking apart real record plays.So the kind of liability they feel, I believe, is just that of getting bad press over some reviewers deciding something is too confusing, leading to reduced sales. BNPL is an interest-bearing option that allows you to delay payments on your purchases for up to 12 months depending on how much you spend.