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Old Toy Modding?
Sqwubbsy writes "Stumbling through Google, looking for info on the Big Trak by Milton Bradley, I came across an article about one that was retrofitted with an OOPic controller. I was wondering if anyone else had a good story about a retrofitted toy that they beefed up?"
Well, you all probably don't want to hear what I...I mean my friend...did to a lifesize barbie doll.
If by modding you mean, "blow it up with firecrackers to see what it does."
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Well I had a story about a blow up doll that I had modified with a two horsepower wet/dry shopvac, but I've been too busy healing up from all of the skin grafts to post it.
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"Dear Penthouse. My name is Teddy Ruxpin! I never thought it would happen to me, but there I was, with Chatty Cathy and Baby Alive..."
Ok. Sounds just about like every computer I've ever owned for more than a year. Sometimes there are strange smells, too.
The owls are not what they seem
yeah, I once "modded" an old GI Joe figure with a "jet pack" strapped to his back (about 3 or 4 regular bottle rockets with fuses twisted together). amazingly enough it DID fly up about 10ft into the air and actually HOVERED there in a relatively fixed position for a few seconds. unfortunately, there was apparently a manufacturer's "defect" which caused the "jet pack" to explode and letters to be sent to next of kin.
I'm conflicted. On the one hand I think your "friend" desperately needs a life and should leave his parent's basement immediately. On the other hand, the world may just be a safer place if the only women's underware he has access to is his mother's.
I took some of my old toys and modded them into cold hard cash.
But that was 10 years ago.
Yeah we had one of those old old teachers, we finally drove her to retire, I could never figure it out though we musta put 100 tacks on her chair at different times EVERY time they were bent, we used to say she had lead brithces )I know lead is soft but cmon we were in second grade) , Finally I got a serious whaching when I mixed ink from a pen, nasal spray and original crazy glue together and painted a matchbox car with it , while it was drying we were pushing it back and forth accross the desk by the bumper and she walked over and grabbed it, went to throw it in the trash and it was major league stick to her hand, she ended up with a bandage on her hand and I got my first "whacking" at the pincipals office, NOW THAT WAS TOY MODDING FOR FUN AND PROFIT !
What an unfair Ask Slashdot this is. How am I supposed to be feeling now? All I ever got for Christmas is this piece of charcoal. :'(
And seriously, that has got to be the coolest washer I've seen. Forget all the fancy-smancy new machines with touchscreen LCDs, it's way cooler to do it yourself. :^)
"Ad infinitem et ultra!" - Buzz Lightyear
In the early nineties, Mattel had an infamous Barbie doll that told girls gems like "Math is hard. ..giggle.." Some activists broke into a warehouse and swapped boards between the GI-Joes and Barbies so that the Barbies were saying things like "Stop Cobra!".
http://ifaq.wap.org/posters/barbiedir.pdf
Oh yeah, I have a network enabled Mr. Potato head.
/^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
Negative obstacles are going to be a problem (i.e. holes in the ground , stairs, bottomless pits, etc).
Bottomless pits are none of a problem, just add steering fins.
Now, pits that DO have a bottom, these mean some serious problem!
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When I was 5-years-old, my aunt bought me one of those dorky remote control cars that goes forward except when you press the remote control, making it turn backwards and to the right.
Well, being bought at Big Lots, it breaks almost immedietely and leaves me with my first of many derelict cars.
My father, being an insane, genius, electrical engineer (do they make them any other way?), decides that the thing to do is make it into a complete remote control car. So the first things he does is orders a MOSFET speed control kit from RC/Modeler (back in the days when electric speed controls were awesome AND expensive). And he hands me a soldering iron, a schematic, a preprinted circuit board, and sets me to putting it all together.
Fast-forward one year: I'm playing with my brand new remote control car! It runs over anything and teaches me a very valuable lesson about things coming at you turning right when you move the stick left!
I've still got that car. 20 years later and it rolls just fine with a fresh NiCad charge. And I'm a mechanical engineer. Coincidence?
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I used infrared LED's and sensors as eyes. By pulsing the LED's and reading the sensors when both on and off, I was able to filter out background noise. When the truck approaches an obstacle it knows something is there and will swerve or stop and back up if the obstacle registers on both its left and right front. Like this, the truck can drive around continuously on its own. But not for long cause it sucks down batteries like you wouldn't believe, worse on plush carpet but not so much on hardwood flooring.
I've also modded a different RC monster to carry a wireless video+audio camera. It moves too fast to drive indoors. It is interesting to drive around the yard while sitting at my dining room table watching the monitor. I would like to add a radio circuit to carry my voice. Imagine the neighbors kids reaction if a little truck drives up to them and says 'Hey you little hooligans, get the heck out off my lawn!'
Teddy Ruxpin was controlled by a signal on an audio tape. One channel was audio, the other was data.
My Nephew had one.
I had Iron Maiden's "The Number Of The Beast"...
Teddy Ruxpin blinked, then opened his eyes and mouth wide in a silent scream of horror.
He reaaly looked shocked.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
I guess my first modding experience would fall under the "artsy-fartsy" catagory.
I realized that every conflict has its casualties.
I'd rip an arm off of a stormtrooper, then use red and pink modelling paint to make the injury look authentic.
My mother sat me down one day for a talk, because she found a bloody GI Joe head and a Stormtrooper arm in the bathtub.
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At school, Lisa and all her friends play with their new Talking Malibu Stacy dolls.
Stacy: Let's buy makeup so the boys will like us.
Lisa: [sighs] Don't you people see anything wrong what Malibu Stacy says?
Celeste: There's something wrong with what _my_ Stacy says.
Stacy: [in a low voice] My spidey sense is tingling -- anybody call for a web-slinger?
Lisa: No, Celeste. I mean, the things she says are sexist.
Girls: [giggle] Lisa said a dirty word!
-- Ah, to be eight again, "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
I used to take apart my GI Joes. Remember that one phillips screw in their back? Well I would pretend that a Mad Scientist had swapped their body parts. I was the only kid on my block to have a demasked Ninja. In retrospect, I probly coulda made more of the Ninjas and sold them at school.
So whose head do you want on there? Deep 6 or Clutch?
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