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They really went all out on these...

"A preloved Teddy comes with a cassette tape featuring an eight-channel recording of “Chump” including synchronized eye and snout movements."

"This fully-playable version of “Welcome To Paradise” will immerse you in the world of a small apartment in Oakland, California. Search out the record to play the full 8-bit rendition of your favorite song."

Totally impressed and amazed.

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Absolutely incredible product. I don't have the $99 to splurge on this but it was very enticing :)

You enter a lottery to buy the 1 Ruxpin that was built. You can probably get more than your money back if you don't want to keep it.

Oh, that makes it slightly less cool, although still very cool.

It would have been nice if they made it a limited run (say, 100 copies) instead of singular pieces.

There's multiple copies of a number of the items.

>eight-channel recording of “Chump” including synchronized eye and snout movements

Am I understanding this correctly to mean that some of the audio channels on a Teddy Ruxpin cassette are silent tracks that control the motors in the toy? That's kind of interesting. I wonder if there are any other examples of a custom Ruxpin track being made . . .

Edit: comment directly below this one addresses this.

unbelievable tbh this had to have been an insane amount of work

Yeah, the teddy bear singing "I don't know you, but I think I hate you / You're the reason for my misery" and the bass singing "I am one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone no doubt about it" are my favorites. "Longview" would have sounded... interesting too coming from the bear, but I guess they chickened out there and picked a device that couldn't reproduce the lyrics :)

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