>have electronic toy I remember>definitely Texas Instruments, sort of resembled a Little Professor which was >uploaded sketch of it back in the late 2000s to a semi-popular blog at the time>only one other person since knew exactly what I was talking about>still to this day, almost have no proof that it ever existedWhat's your "identify a toy I used to have" holy grail, and has been more than 15 years?
This used to be my white whale, I had it for ages since really early childhood (Somewhere between 3 - 5) and completely forgot where it came from and despite searching online with every possible description I could think of I was never able to find out where it came from. Never saw anyone post the same figure or toyline here on the board, posted it a few times in ID threads and barely ever got a reply, let alone a positive ID. Didn't find out where it came from until about three years ago when I was watching an 80's toy commercial compilation on YouTube and suddenly spotted him while looking up from my phone. It was from a Fisher Price building toyline called Construx, and it came out of a series of alien spaceships. Funny thing is I don't remember even playing with any of those ships as a kid so I have no clue which one I even had since all the sets came with the same purple alien.
>>11880394I'm glad you were able to find it anon. Apparently, there's a university in Dallas that has archives of TI to 2005, I wonder if I could get in contact with them...
>>11880374It's not Dataman, is it?
>>11880436No, it was a touch-screen, the following is what I drew for said blog 16 years ago. I used notebook paper because I was in high school at the time, and even by 2010 it had disappeared from my stuff for years.
>>11880445The pic almost reminds me of a Speak and Spell variant.Not Professor Time?That one had overlays like you describe.
>>11880481No, it wasn't Professor Time, it was wider than that, nor did it have a built-in clock.
>>11880394Damn. I could have told you that. My older cousin had him and some Construx sets and he left them at my Grandma's when his dad told him to "grow up". Every summer I played with that guy, building building him robots and spaceships.
He's been searching for this toy since 2010https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/680/fuzzy-memory-grinning-triangle-man
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>>11880934That's not it. It didn't have buttons, didn't speak, used cards.
https://plaidstallions.com/toystores/eightteen.htmlHave a look at theseThe description sounds like one of the many, many generic undocumented old "electronic learning aid" toys that looked nearly identical to the popular texas instruments toys from the time, they used to be sold at a lot of places.
>>11881858TI was the one thing I'm 100% sure on, I remember thinking how cool it was that it was the same company that made the TI-83.
Touch & Tell?
>>11882203Specifically this variant, with the handle?
Nah, much smaller. Each card was closer to 2 and a half inches square, and had a colored tab on each end.
>>11882212Wordy Wagon.
>>11882186No offense but I think that part is what's stopping you from just looking in an old radioshack catalog and finding it wasn't actually TI or was just something similar. Had the same thing with an old YGO card I was 100% sure was a zombie and found it years later, sure enough the thing looks like a Zombie and even got a Zombie version later but is actually a Fiend monster. There were a lot of these things and many a bootleg or thinly veiled copy with a similar logo to existing brands.
>>11882294Problem is that it is very similar to other toys TI made as shown in this thread (on a color/theme level). Who else had those somewhat mushy touchscreens with laminated inserts?
>>11882304I definitely did but it wasn't your thing because it bleated bible quotes and you said your thing doesn't speak
The guy in OP's gif looks enough like me that it makes me do a double-take every time I see the thumbnail.
Dollar store police/SWAT action figures from 2003 that had really good articulation for dollar figures. They were maybe 6 inches, probably a little less. They were in blue plastic with only a little paint here and there. I think there were 6 different ones, but I had like 15 of them and I would undo the screw in the back to take them apart and mix up the pieces to make "new" ones. They came with guns and one guy had a riot shield. I search for them every 6 months or so and never find anything. I would play with those things for hours in my room. I'm not sure what happened to them, but I would kill to have them again.
>>11882603Reminded me of CORPS!Probably not since they were army dudes. I think they were 6 inches and cheap.
>>11882603Its probably these. All of those good dollar store articulated figures were made by Chap Mei.
>>11883334Not these. They had really good articulation. Ball socket hips, hinge and swivel shoulders, ankle articulation. Way more than a dollar store toy typically had. I have searched pretty thoroughly and have never seen one again.
>>11884652Could they have been knock-offs of these?
>>11886336No, they were much more generic looking.
