The Meeting of Barney and Big Bird

The Meeting of Big Bird, and Barney, they can Talk a lot ...
The making of the interactive Barney, Codenamed Gepetto for the motion
technology inside the dolls, the Actimates toys were Microsoft's attempt
to get into the toy market. The first of these dolls, modeled after
Barney, was first sold in 1997, becoming a success that holiday season.
Dolls based on Arthur, his sister D.W., and the Teletubbies (all four of
them including Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po) were also made. The
dolls were discontinued in 2000 and Microsoft lost the patent rights to
the toys not too long afterwards ... Big Bird StoryMagic was a set of
books, tapes and animated dolls created by Ideal Toys in 1986. Caroll
Spinney and Frank Oz recorded the voices of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch
and Cookie Monster, reading a set of Sesame Street storybooks. The Big
Bird StoryMagic doll had a tape player in his back; when one of the
tapes was played inside him, his eyes and beak would move, as if he were
telling the story. Animated Oscar and Cookie Monster dolls were sold
separately; they would only work when plugged into the Big Bird doll.
Oscar featured an animated mouth, and could withdraw into his trash can,
while Cookie Monster had googly eyes. Some of the StoryMagic books were
adaptations of previously released storybooks; others were original to
the series. Baby Bop, BJ, Sesame Street Muppets, Jim Henson, Barney the
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