Talking Dolls of the 80s & 90s!
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- Talking dolls were quite popular in the 80s and 90s, but they go back pretty far. And ever since the beginning they were nightmare fuel. So, lets Backpedal and discuss Talking Dolls.
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That Teddy Ruxpin commercial was great. "Teddy's not a mass murdering lunatic like all your children's other toys." They REALLY went heavy-handed on the "wholesome", "family-friendly" angle. What an aggressive sales pitch!
IMO, the talking doll "fad" wasn't a fad at all, rather the start of a whole new generation of interactive toys. I'm a casual collector of FurReal Friends toys, as I find the technology behind them very fascinating! Many would find them creepy, especially my friends, but I clearly see something in them they don't see.
Exactly! I'm still remembering A doll that I used to play with at Walmart back in about 1997-98. It amazed me the way he interacted with you. You had to squeeze his hand to get the answers or interact with him. He used to tell jokes, he was like a hilbilly type person I think.
My parents never bought into the talking toy craze because of the prices. They said, you have a tape recorder, you have stuffed toys, use your imagination. 😂
Prob saved you some nightmare fuel though. LOL
Haha that's what parents probably woulda said too... I didn't have these toys either... friends did though
My grandfather was fascinated by the tech behind talking dolls so he picked a lot of them up for my brother and I. I’ve still got Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby and Mother Goose, but also had Alf and Cricket back in the day.
I admit it’s easy to find them creepy but for me that’s also part of their charm.
That's awesome!
I knew someone who had Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby. Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but doesn’t Gribby just plug into Teddy and play/song along? I don’t remember him having the casette player as Teddy did.
I don’t really recall a talking Alf but Burger King had promos going back in the day, puppets of 1 each Alf puppet included a record they came with….. I had the chef 1, there was sort of a vacationing 1, a baseball 1, and I forget the 4th)
Fun Fact. A year after the Cricket doll was released, they released a male version of the doll called Corky. Corky also ran on cassette's and was marketed for little boys. He looked alot like a My buddy doll, only with moving mouth and eyes. The same voice actor to voice Corky also voiced the Good Guy Dolls in the Child's play movie a year later.
Dropping knowledge! Cheers!
I had a Cricket doll growing up, and I love that her mouth and eyes moved. It didn’t creep me out at all, in fact, I played with her so much that my cousin gave me hers when mine broke. Now, thanks to Cricket and Corky’s Clubhouse, I have a playlist of all the cricket, Corky, and Jill, TH-cam videos as MP3’s forever. Nostalgia rocks, especially when I get to keep the stories, jokes, and songs that have never completely left my memory.
I SO badly wanted a Teddy Ruxpin, but they were so damn expensive!
That singing doll is the thing of nightmares!!!
Yeah, it was pretty crazy how expensive they were - considering they were glamorized tape decks.
I’m only 17, but I’m absolutely OBSESSED with the talking dolls that came out years ago. I have a Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby, and soon I’m going to have a talking wrinkles dog doll :) so excited!!
That's pretty awesome! Always thought Grubby was pretty cool.
So lovely to see these stood the test of time!:)
-ole lady from 1980
I remember the struggle to get my daughter a Furby back in the day...and then she didn't even care anyway. Those things were terrifying really.
My mother had several. Eventually she stuck them in a closet and they would talk to one another spontaneously. it was pure nightmare fuel.
Teddy Ruxpin was truly a great toy to have during the 80s, I had him for many years and loved hearing his stories and watching his cartoon show. It's times like this, I wish Worlds of Wonder did not go out of business and was still around today.
Thanks for the video! It's sad that so many adults and kids are scared of dolls nowadays due to them being made main characters in horror films.
When I was a child there was nothing more magical than Teddy Ruxpin, Big Bird, or Mother Goose from World of Wonder telling you a story. There were dolls I didn't have or didn't know about like Cricket and Julie. I think it would be wonderful if children these days could experience them in their 1980s glory!
I owned a Julie and at 45 years old I bought myself a fully functioning Julie from worlds of wonder…my Christmas present to myself,I fascinated w vintage taking dolls, but I must admit she was my favorite, love this video, ty for the creepy memories lol!
They need to bring back dolls like Julie. I'm sure many children would love them!
That episode of Twilight Zone terrified me as a youngster! glad to see this video series again
Some of those dolls are proper creepy.... 😬 Great vid! 👍
My daughter still has nightmares from Jill The Talking Doll. Jill’s head spun like she was possessed
I had a Teddy Ruxpin doll when I was 2. Truth is, I was born in 11/90 but they were actually selling the 80s toy up until at least 1992/93; go figure.
Interesting backstory video! I’m surprised you didn’t mention Cricket’s brother Corky (who the good guy doll was based off of) and Cricket’s older Sister Jill!
I love that Alf one, I need to try and find one that works haha.
My nephew got a tickle me Elmo doll and i thought it was psychotic. It could stand up while it talked. "Hey kid! Elmo says take these matches and burn your house down!" 🤣
Tickle me Elmo was scarier than any Chucky doll.
I still have my Teddy Ruxbin Teddy Bear from the 1980’s! Thanks Grandma! 😂👍🏾💯
That is awesome!
My brother had one called AJ Bear. That “talked in bear talk”. I remember it more fondly than Mr Ruxpin
I had Worlds of Wonder Julie and Pamela, Baby Heather and another doll I can't remember the name of. This video brought back memories.
I had a talking Corky and I loved him so much! We used to watch Childs Play together and would freak my mother out.
I was hoping you would mention the dolls that didn’t take cassette tapes. Like the talking Julie doll from 1987. You could say certain things to her and she would respond appropriately with one of her several programmed comments. She also had sensors on her fingers that you could place on books and she would read them.
There were talking cabbage patch dolls that didn’t require cassette tapes either.
Tickle Me Elmo has entered the chat
I’m so glad Teddy Ruxpin made a comeback! And I hear he’s getting a movie in the works
Oh really?! That's pretty amazing.
I've got a jill, 2 Corky 3 Cricket, Mickey, Baby Ruxpin, Teddy Ruxpin, Baby Heather, and many more! I've got tons of Electronic toys from the 80s and 90s and 2000's!
Sweet!
Awesome I have two corkys plans on turning one into a talking chucky doll
I had a lot of these. I loved this fad until I knew about Chucky 😅 Then they started creeping me out.
I remember camping outside of Bradlees in TR with my mom to get Furbys for my younger brother and sister. That was the one and only time I camped outside of a store for anything 😅
HAHAHA!! Amazing. (PS - I've been searching for a sweet Bradlees shirt for a while now)
I still the Full Set Of Big Bird, Cookie Monster And Oscar The Grouch with all 19 books and tapes.
I had that talking Baby Sinclair as a kid. As a kid, I always wanted a Furby since I was fascinated by them seeing the commercials, but I never got one. I did get a Wuvluv which gave birth to a little Wuvluv. Unfortunately, I my parents and I couldn't get the baby to work well.
The Baby Dinosaur's , " Not the Mama" is so relevant today lol
My parents got me a My Buddy instead of a Teddy Ruxpin. I never forgave them! lol
My sister had the talking Pee Wee Herman doll, he had a pullstring.
My one friend still has his!
@@NerdOutWithMe If any doll was ever going to come to life and kill me in the middle of the night, it would be that one. That thing was UGLY
I really love Alf! My favourite show with this cutie allien
ive recently been absorbing myself in the 80s Jill doll, she's so rare now that finding her in decent condition often comes to a whopping $1000 dollars to purchase. id love to find one someday in decent condition and not at such a price tag.
I found a talking Jill doll on eBay today for only about 70 dollars- granted, she’s not working but I’m pretty sure there are some videos on TH-cam of how to repair her so that could be something worth looking into!
My uncle at one point had a buddy doll from the 80s I think, Thing was definitely a chucky inspiration
Those commercials made me cringe even when I was a kid.
@@NerdOutWithMe they were very weird
There were a few you forgot, mother goose had a baby named hector, mickey had goofy,there was snoopy, cricket had corky and jill and i think thats it
i collect all the talkers there so clever , cricket was playmates big hit , then corky her brother and finally jill the big sister
I also collect all the talkers lol
I had a furby back in the day. Once in the middle of the night, sitting somewhere in my closet I hear it wake up and scream "cock-a-doodle-doo! ee-hee-hee-hee!!" And I had thought the batteries were dead. There was all kinds of rumors about furbies being creepy. I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention the haunted tickle-me Elmo.
Wait... there was a haunted Tickle-Me-Elmo?!??!
I REALLY REALLY wanted a Teddy Ruxpin as a kid. Never did get one.......never got to see the a cartoon either.
I actually had a CASEY back in the day, probably the 1st thing I recall ever asking Santa for at our mall in Rockaway. Didn’t have half the books and cassettes, though, like 5 or 6 tops. Furby at the end there, had a few of those, 2 original, 1 baby original, 1 Shelby, Gizmo, 2 Booms, didn’t go for the Gremlin looking 1s, though, Connect would’ve been neat to try, maybe…..
0:19 Ha! I'm also missing the battery cover on my ALF talking doll. It has been a long time since I've looked at it, I'm not even sure where it is right now but I don't recall it having a cassette deck. I mean it obviously must have but it is strange I wouldn't remember that.
My mom found an Alf plush doll at a yard sale, and there it stays, in the back seat, protecting the neighborhood. lol
Hope ALF has been doing a solid job
@@NerdOutWithMe He certainly has. Lol
I had a furby, and I wasn't scared of it. Terrified yes, scared, no.
Side note cricket had a brother named corky voiced by the same kid who voiced the good guy dolls in child's play
Talking dolls of any kind always scared me. The robots were cool though.
def creepy
@@madpajamas7628 its why there were so many horror movies based on this stuff
My best friend had a talking doll (we were 12 in 2000) that said something about splashing in the bath tub or something like that & it took batteries
One night, I was sleeping over at her house & her mom decided to play with a Oiuji Board (we were in my friends room) with her friends
I s*it you not, that f*cking doll started talking on its own & saying "killing" instead of "splashing". We freaked tf out, removed the batteries & threw it outside
The next morning it was back in her room, sans batteries, & talking
Now, we knew her mom could've lied about putting it in her room & it could've still had a charge (like with a smoke detector) minus the batteries, but we both remember very vividly it saying "kill" the night before & still the next day. We cut that doll up & threw it away piece by piece in different places (like effing serial killers, but whatever lol)
Needless to say I will NEVER touch a Ouiji or allow it in my house/space. Better safe than sorry 😬
I also, after catching part of Chucky soon after, turned all of my dolls/barbies facing the wall at night (I had a shelf that went around the top of my room with collectors dolls & normal ones on it) 😳
Sometimes some of my Dolls talk that are not meant to talk; they have no built in ability and were never meant to talk - but they do!
Never had any of those. The closest to that for me was a troll. I don’t know why my mother thought I would ever want something like that because my toys at that point were almost entirely gi joes. But then even more ridiculous was the fact that I actually ended up playing with it.
This brought back some memories. Going off on a tangent here...😏....you guys should do a top 10 favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone.
Hmmmm... that sounds like a good idea.
I was writing to say hello and I hope you folks are doing great. Have a great day friends.
Cool video.. I worked for Playland toy ny.. I collected most of these.. I have a 2 teddy's and two talking mickeys. Just found you videos..
Very cool!
I have a Teddy Ruxpin & grubby and they both still work
Awesome
I still have the big bird one
chucky was inspired by 3 dolls actually, the first one was my buddy, in the form of a boy themed doll, with extra outfits and toy kits, second was the cabbage patch kids line, them being on cereal, dolls, extra outfits, even diapers! and last but not least baby heather by mattel, a baby doll that could talk, move its head and eyes and mouth, funny enough a display of baby heather dolls is seen in the first childs play movie in the toy store as it blows up
I preferred the talking robots too! Teddy Ruxpin and talking dolls always creeped me tf out! You just know the little bastards were planning to kill you in your sleep! 😆
Oh man, you didn’t even mention Cricket’s brother, Corky!! He also took cassettes, and the kid who voiced Corky went on to be the voice of the good guy dolls in the child’s play movies! And the Jill doll from playmates… she deserves her own video with her level of creepiness 😂
A 3ft tall cassette playing doll that could move her head, eyes and eyelids, mouth, and arms, and you could actually talk to her and she could answer 😳. Because of how complicated Jill was, she ended up having a lot of technical issues… just imagine a 3ft tall animated doll glitching out…….. yeah….
Nightmare Fuel. LOL
I've got a jill, 2 Corky 3 Cricket, Mickey, Baby Ruxpin, Teddy Ruxpin, Baby Heather, Etc I've got tons of Electronic toys from the 80s and 90s and 2000's!
They need to have a playmates Jill remake with the Wi-Fi connection of Alexa Echo. It would be awesome.
I have cricket. I’ve had her since I was 4 yrs old and she was never creepy to me.
Idk how this generation of parents lets their kids play games like FNAF but then wants to try to act like talking toys are creepy 😂😂😂
@@Pocketmouse1990 I agree
Personally while these toys are fascinating, I wouldn’t get them because they creep me out. Plus they are harder to play with and snuggle with.
I miss my talking Alf doll and my talking Micky and Goofy!!
I really like the animal talking toys a lot more then the human dolls, the dolls are kinda creepy in a way. and anyway, who would be scared of a bear?
Agreed!
You highlighted talking robots but failed to mention 2XL??? Huge oversight man! :) (that's the talking toy i had. He played a lot of multiple choice games that you answered with push-buttons on his console).
Think it's time for a Talking robots Backpedal.
I grew up in the 2000s and never liked talking dolls much, although I did have a talking Dora doll that my brother was scared of when he was little 😂 Understandable.
All talking dolls have a bit of creepy
the whole 80s fad of talking toys amazed me we had pull strings in the 70s , teddy ruxpin i just loved , cricket corky and jill i have they are truly wonderful , jill is the first fully animated voice recognition doll she listens and can answer to questions , worlds of wonder julie was less animated limb wise but knew light and dark , coldness , how loud you were , and could read with placing the finger on her books ,pamela also wow toys was less complicated , baby heather mattel is fantastic she was promoted in the toy store in childs play , and is chuckys battery pack when the batterys arent there , edan gross voice actor is corky and goodguy dolls voice also . sorry to say no wow toys teddy ruxpin can work off a def leopard tape they have to work off there programmed tapes so thats an urban myth, however cricket and corky could along with casey the robot and knock offs dolls and bears play standard tapes
Yeah, and the Talking Alf also could play regular tapes, which made for some fun times. LOL
Had a Teddy Ruxpin and a Becky doll that talked.
I used to watch the Teddy Ruxpin cartoons and I wanted one, but I never had him. I thought the talking robots were cool as well. They should be in a Backpedal with the other home robots from the 70's 80's & 90's I think.
Def planning a talking robot episode.
@@NerdOutWithMe I look forward to it.
I owend 5 furbys at one point and just placed them in a 5 pointed circle . They'd just talk and talk . Funny when they'd get angry man great times. I got asked yo remove them from a jims(san antonio ihop) cuz it was freaking out another booth. Lol I miss my furbies
Bahahaha! Dear god man. That's amazing.
@@NerdOutWithMe yea my kids had 1 each and so did I and the gf so I bought a fifth to be funny. They start dancing and stuff it's really cool how they interact with each other
You know what may be a cool idea for an episode? I don't know if you two have any fondness for the syndicated hour long action adventure shows from the 90s and 2000's, you know like Xena, Acapulco Heat, Andromeda, Renegade, Highlander and the list goes on and on. There were so many of these and many of them were really fun to watch. Would these be a good idea for a lets back pedal?
I like that idea. Gonna add it to the list.
Alf my favourite character))))))
My brother had the “My Buddy” doll, and we relentlessly teased him that it was going to come to life and kill us all. He also had the Casey talking robot, and we definitely put other tapes in him. Weird “Al” Yankovich got a lot of play in Casey.
Wish they made a Weird Al talking doll.
@@NerdOutWithMe That would be amazing!
Great episode i have a cricket
Thanks Ashley!
I still have my cricket doll
I got a teddy ruxpin and grubby and my buddy mother goose
I owned talking Gabby the bear, Baby Sinclair doll, Kevin from home alone mini talking doll
No they never bothered me, the label "Nightmare Fuel" in itself is a recent fad typically fueled by a generation weened on FNAF games and merchandise yet most never actually have visited a Chuck E. Cheese style establishment. O_o???
Not denying the creepy factor hasn't been around forever but the modern slant is every doll, puppet, and robot is creepy 100% all the time, a sort of hyperbolic attitude perpetuated with lots and lots of memes.
I'm still planning on getting a Ruxpin some day but not that new one, bears with glowing eyes are creepy. ;)
I'm Gen X, raised on Chuck-E-Cheese, and I used to find all those animatronic creatures terrifying as a kid in the 80s. LOL. So the talking dolls def freaked me out as well. Not sure what it was. Prob the uncanny valley effect.
@@NerdOutWithMe Little late to that party but did get to see the animatronics, eat the pizza, and play some arcade games before they became defunct. ;)
You fear them but you must still love them. ^_^ Idk, been speculating on that myself, seems like ventriloquism dummies aim directly at the freaky part of the spectrum. :\
loved teddy and grubby❤❤
cricket corky and Jill talked way too much like please Shut Up
Big fan of alf wish i had a doll
I had the teddy ruxpin
Where are the Jill Talking Doll and World of wonder Julie ?? They are the most advanced 80's Talkings dolls :o you missed the two best one
You forgot about Jill! Jill was amazing!
Oh the nightmares
Yeah, probably played more rock tapes in Teddy Ruxpin than the tape he came with.
Ruxpin rocks out to Motley Crue.
I have a Teddy Ruxpin
My little sister had Baby Loves To Talk.
Awesome! Thanks for watching.
I get Child’s Play led to a decline in sales for these dolls.
Most definitely
I have a Corky doll
I am trying to find a talking doll that I used to play with at Walmart. I cannot for the life of me remember his name. It was interactive in a way by him asking a question and you had to squeeze his hand to have him comment. He was funny and was like a hillblilly type character I think. Does he sound familiar to you?
It doesn't sound familiar, but if I come across it I will def let you know.
I am going to start a Kickstarter campaign to make Eric and Tig talking dolls "(nightmare fuel!). Please let me know what they should say....
Well, I can't speak for Eric but make mine say, "All work and no play makes Tig a dull boy"
I know this video is old but I’m trying to find a doll that was 4 feet like a my size Barbie but It talk and walks that doll scared the h*** out of me😂😂
Sounds terrifying! LOL
The main issue with talking dolls was when they would become demonically possessed during the night and turn to you with glowing red eyes and threaten to eat your soul. Was all a bit distressing for 5 year old me.
I mean, to be fair they are all pretty much nightmare fuel.
Not my dream come true
If people find these creepy they have issues & are sissies.
The same gen that will let their kids play FNAF and claim they can handle it seriously thinks these were creepy?
Idk about y’all but the 80’s toys with the technology was way better than the toys we give kids today. all just solid plastic with a button that may say one or two phrases and there’s no movement.
There are some pretty advanced toys nowadays. Most are pretty expensive though.
All of them were nightmare fuel
Pretty much