Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about TEDDY RUXPIN!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Teddy Ruxpin is an animatronic children’s toy in the form of a talking ‘Illiop’ the creature’s mouth and eyes move while “reading” stories played on an audio tape cassette deck the series would be animated in a digital puppetry form and would be aimed at preschoolers . Teddy Ruxpin cassettes used the right track for audio and the left track for a control data stream. Grubby only worked with the initial WOW release of Teddy Ruxpin . early versions of the toy used three servo motors, but this was reduced to two in later versions . the toy’s rights were then sold to Hasbro, and produced again from 1991 to 1996 . Entertainment with another version in 2006, produced by BackPack Toys . Presently Teddy Ruxpin is available from Wicke they also released the companion toy Grubby and several other non-animatronic companion toys and characters . this included two different versions of the bird-like Fobs (one orange, one purple) that were hand puppet attempting to stem tide, WoW issued non-investment grade bonds to buoy itself . attempt made moot by 1987 stock market crash . worlds of Wonder filed for bankruptcy protection and was liquidated in 1988 . the creditors continued to operate the company in receivership until closing its doors in late 1990 . the Teddy Ruxpin toy line was then picked up by Hasbro, which produced him under their Playskool line until 1996 . entertainment brought Teddy Ruxpin back to stores for a third time . the toy’s size was largely the same as the Playskool version . an “interactive video” model was released under the branding ” TV Teddy system consisted of a series of specially encoded VHS cassettes . an RF-transmitter relayed signals encoded on the video track to the animatronic . servos provided much actress Joanna Kerns served as spokesperson for the toy shortly after its introduction . Neither of these would work with Grubby . in 1987, worlds of wonder contracted with Wendy’s restaurants to feature a Teddy Ruxpin themed Kid’s Meal promotion . baron is currently the only voice actor officially associated with the property . will Ryan voiced the late Tony Pope was the original voice of Newton Gimmick . he did not reprise his roles in the tv series The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin . production was moved to canada; John Stocker replaced Pope in the series, Teddy Ruxpin leaves his homeland in Rillonia in search of adventure . the trio unexpectedly find six crystals with different meanings and powers . they also can enable the Monsters and Villains Organization worlds of wonder successfully sued them in 1986, claiming the tapes had on Teddy were too similar to the results of playing the proprietary recordings . the courts (in Ohio and Texas) ordered the infringing tapes off the