Gemmy 2003 Dog & Cat Dance Club - Electric Cat - “Electric Avenue”

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, my all time favorite Gemmy item in existence. I figured this video would be fitting to serve as my final post for awhile. I promise I’ll get to talking about the cats themselves, but first, a word. Remember that “beginning of an end” I mentioned in a video description back in January? Well, we’re officially at the end of the end. Exactly four years ago, on February 17th 2020 at 10:00 AM, I published a video titled “My Last Video (for a year or so)” announcing my temporary retirement from the channel. Prior to the release of that video, I was uploading 2 videos per day, every weekday. And, after I returned to the channel a year and a half later, I began uploading 2 videos per day, every weekday. That was over 2 years ago now, and I’ve tried my best to maintain this streak with few exceptions. But as you can imagine, this is not easy to keep up with, and my life has changed a lot in the last 2 years. No matter how hard I try to stay a little kid forever, everyone must grow up eventually, and I simply cannot continue with my current ways. Running this channel feels like working a full time job, on top of the full time job I already work, and I am exhausted. Please, don’t misunderstand me, I am NOT quitting this channel. I’ve been unhealthily obsessed with these singing toys since I was birthed from the womb, and I’ve reluctantly accepted that I’m not going to suddenly lose interest in them anytime soon. What I AM doing is halting scheduled videos permanently. I very well may continue to be active here, posting a few videos a week, or I might leave forever and never return. Life is unpredictable, and it’s hard to say for sure. The one thing I know is you’ll see less content from me from now on, and that’s the short of it. I’m not about to turn this into a big deal with a huge goodbye celebration or anything, but I have considered making some kind of sendoff video, so maybe you’ll see that soon. I’ll shut up about all this now, but first I want to give an enormous and sincere thank you to every single person who has been with me throughout my time on TH-cam, you all mean so much to me. If you’re here right now and reading this, you’re awesome!!!
I think it’s time we redirect this description back to where it started, with the items I felt were worthy of being the stars of my last officially scheduled video: My 2 Electric Cats. I first acquired the one without the box on the left wayyy back in early 2014 after I bought it off eBay using a gift card I had received for Christmas a few months prior. I still remember scrolling through eBay in the early morning before school as I used to do every day, seeing this for sale, and instantly becoming captivated. It looked so cool!!! And more importantly, the title claimed it played “Electric Avenue”, a song I already loved at the time, so I knew I had to have him. Still, I didn’t really know much about him or what he did until he arrived on our doorstep. I opened the box, tested him for the first time, and just like that he was my favorite thing I owned 😂. Of course, neither the hair or arms moved at first due to split gears, but I didn’t really care at the time. In fact, I didn’t even try to repair him until late 2017, and I’m incredibly thankful for this because I probably would’ve ruined him otherwise. His head had quit moving by that point too, which turned out to be a loose motor wire, and I had my grandpa solder it back on for me because I still didn’t own my own soldering iron yet. Even in 2017, that cat was one of the first items I ever successfully replaced the gears in, and looking back I did a surprisingly good job considering my inexperience. At least, on the inside. If we’re talking about the outer cat skin itself, I murdered the poor thing. Besides minor mistakes, like not gluing the fabric back down around the eyes or hair, I also made some major mistakes, like cutting the fabric ALL the way around the bottom of the base in order to get the skin off instead of just cutting the zip tie like any sensible person would do. I also demolished the arms, cutting completely through them on all sides (including the tops and bottoms where there are no seams), just so I could get his light-up plugs in and out of the skin 😭. Not to mention all the random cuts I made on his chest, shoulders and back underneath his shirt where thankfully you can’t see. The only thing I bothered to sew up afterwards was the arms, and I didn’t even put any stuffing back in them! If that wasn’t bad enough, I could no longer use a zip tie to hold his skin down, so I decided to just hot glue it on instead. It looked terrible, but all that mattered to me was that he worked, and that’s how he stayed for 6 years until I just restored him again recently.
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