Toby Terrier
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A picture showing two of the Toby Terrier and His Video Pals videos. -
The Toby Terrier electronic toy.
Toby Terrier was a toy dog manufactured in the early 1990's by Tiger Electronics. The toy was designed so that when you placed him in front of a TV with one of his videos playing, he would make various comments and remarks about the video. In order for this function to work a specific cartridge that matched up with the video being played would have to be inserted into the toy. His collar contained a sensor that tracked what was going on in the movie. It was activated by pressing a button located below the sensor. The Toby Terrier video series was a comical and educational video series for kids, whose characters consisted of dog puppets. The video series itself was known as Toby Terrier and His Video Pals.[1]
How It Worked
Toby would wag his tail, bark, nod his head and say phrases such as, "Well, scratch my fleas!" as one watched the video when he was turned on. This was accomplished using VEIL Technology. The video fields would send out a data stream that is basically a bunch of one's and zero's that were received through Toby's neck collar. The video also never faded to a pitch black but rather a dark-gray to insure that Toby would not turn off during a transition. There were also small cartridges that contained information on different phrases Toby could say in certain videos (known as "PLUS" videos in the series).
Types of Videos
- Normal
- These videos did not need a cartridge and the titles are as follows:
- Singin' And Dancin' And Waggin' Our Tails!
- Safety First!
- Time For A Party!
- These videos did not need a cartridge and the titles are as follows:
- Adventures PLUS
- These videos required the user to insert an included cartridge into Toby's underside. This allowed Toby to make various exclamations while watching the video.
- Is There A Dog-Tor In The House?
- Let's Go To The Zoo!
- Walking On The Sunny Side!
- These videos required the user to insert an included cartridge into Toby's underside. This allowed Toby to make various exclamations while watching the video.
- Toby's Wonder Bone Amazing Interactive Video Learning System
- These videos required the Wonder Bone in order to be played with Toby correctly.
- And The Winner Is...
- Where In The World Is Charlie Chihuahua?
- School Daze
- These videos required the Wonder Bone in order to be played with Toby correctly.
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