About: Cricket dolls     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatPlaymatesToys, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FCricket_dolls

Cricket is a talking doll that was first unveiled in February 1986 at the American International Toy Fair in New York. It was the first major offering by Playmates Toys, a Hong Kong-based company that, until that time, had mostly imported toys from overseas and distributed them for the U.S. market. The Cricket dolls operated in similar fashion to that of Teddy Ruxpin, but with two-sided cassette tapes instead of those with sound and movement data on separate tracks. The doll required four "C" batteries for the player and one nine-volt battery for the mouth movement.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Cricket dolls (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Cricket is a talking doll that was first unveiled in February 1986 at the American International Toy Fair in New York. It was the first major offering by Playmates Toys, a Hong Kong-based company that, until that time, had mostly imported toys from overseas and distributed them for the U.S. market. The Cricket dolls operated in similar fashion to that of Teddy Ruxpin, but with two-sided cassette tapes instead of those with sound and movement data on separate tracks. The doll required four "C" batteries for the player and one nine-volt battery for the mouth movement. (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • Cricket is a talking doll that was first unveiled in February 1986 at the American International Toy Fair in New York. It was the first major offering by Playmates Toys, a Hong Kong-based company that, until that time, had mostly imported toys from overseas and distributed them for the U.S. market. Cricket was designed by Larry Jones at California R&D Center. Talking animal toys such as Worlds of Wonder's Teddy Ruxpin and Mother Goose dolls had previously been sold, but Playmates' concept was to create a humanistic doll with simulated speech capability. Scripts and songs were written by Robin Frederick and Jay Tverdak. Cricket's catchphrases, including "Are we having fun or what?" and "I'll be talkin' to ya!" were written by Jones. Cricket was voiced by nine-year-old Laura Mooney. The Cricket dolls operated in similar fashion to that of Teddy Ruxpin, but with two-sided cassette tapes instead of those with sound and movement data on separate tracks. The doll required four "C" batteries for the player and one nine-volt battery for the mouth movement. Cricket was available in both black and white-skinned models. The black Cricket doll was released with two different hairstyles. One featured hair identical to that of the white version with two curly pigtails tied with pink yarn. The other version had short curly hair with no ribbons. Cricket was sold wearing a pink sweater, yellow underpants, pleated mint green skirt, yellow socks and pink high-top sneakers with monogrammed laces. Her sweater came in two variations, one knitted and the other velour. Cricket also came with her "health plan" and two tapes, one labeled "Operating & Caring for Cricket" and the other, which was unlabeled, featured songs, jokes and stories. The Cricket line was discontinued before all of the planned products could be released. These included the book and tape set “Cricket Visits Australia” and a planned device named the “Chatterbox” which would enable Cricket and Corky to interact in much the same manner as the Grubby accessory for Teddy Ruxpin. Despite this, the products continued to be included in lists and advertised in pamphlets packaged with the doll. (en)
gold:hypernym
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is Wikipage disambiguates of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 50 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software