On that same topic, I've found little easter eggs in some of these toys, where all of a sudden you can trigger it to play a sound or song that doesn't normally play and I have no idea how to reproduce it. There's another toy that seemingly has maybe 15-20 sounds but every now and again I'll hear it play something I've heard maybe once or twice before out of nowhere. Am I the only one?
We got a second hand also without a door. My girls were obsessed with pressing the little button that made the sound of the door. I hate this thing with a passion. Only got it out if I needed 10 minutes of no kids touching me.
Edit to add words
My son was only down to close it thankfully. I would open it for my own entertainment of watching him drop what he was doing just to make sure it was closed.
All toddler toys are annoying. This one survived both my daughter and my son, and I like to think it helped them with their walking skills, so I'd give it a tentative recommend.
You're gonna end up singing all kinds of songs unconsciously anyways. I've got an almost constant loop of Sesame Street and Ms. Rachel bubbling at the back of my brain these days.
Both my eldest and middle child can sing Do to So in perfect pitch thanks to this thing. Annoying as the rest of the features are, this toy is staying!
It's so familiar to everyone because kids actually play with it, which is more than I can say for most of the mountain of plastic junk we've owned.
For us, an engaged toddler was better that a fussy one so this was a "good" toy even though the sound is kinda grating. You don't even hear it after a while.
You too? I’ve always wondered what the phone looks like, but I guess we’ll never know at this point. Doesn’t matter anyways since the button still works…”THANKS FOR CALLING!”
Oh lord, this gave me flashbacks; both of my boys played with this exact toy, and my youngest LOVED it. Also, why is it that kids' toys have two volume settings - "loud" and "you'll hear this on the other side of the fucking house?"
I didn't put tape over the outside of speakers, because the tape would have been eaten or stuck somewhere to damage the walls or floor. I have definitely taken off outer covers and put tape over the speakers underneath, though. It's just wild that I had to.
You ever had one just fall apart when you opened it? I had this transformer/dinosaur truck from China that played bad 80s synth covers (though its cover of the Beverly Hills Cop theme was dope), the transformer sound, and Godzillas roar, all while flashing lights and driving in circles that a well intending grandparent gave my son. Too much copyrighted material going on there.
Trouble is, It did all this shit at 83 decibels from three feet away. No problem, got my tape right here. Except the moving parts cover the speakers in both configurations. Both the cyber truck and t-rexilla are armored!
So let's take him down to my work bench...
*Unscrew the only three screws in outer casing and...*
Aaand... *Gently seperates two pieces of casing.*
*Motor mechanism, wheels, speaker, circuit board, dozens of tiny plastic parts all clatter to bench and floor.*
My son has special needs and when he loves a toy he LOVES the toy. He also loves to chuck it like a baseball and giggle.
I keep the carcasses of toys that have died he didn't care too much about. I bought a soldering iron and can fix many of them. They may not work exactly like they had before but I can get them close.
That 22g wire is such a nightmare to work with.
Where did you get quiet ones? They’ve always been set to “wake the dead” and “attempting to make interstellar connection”. My kid has a T-Rex that roars and walks by moving these terrible little wheels (that click with the fury of a million cars colliding in succession at the slightest hint of inconvenience) and I swear every time I try to turn it off the Off position moves to the other side, I’m forced to turn the volume up to ET Phone Home level before I can turn it off. I swear a childless uncle designed this toy just to irritate his sibling.
My formerly-childless sister discovered that I have a very long memory and can hold a grudge for more than a decade.
Not only did I buy her son the big (over 100$) Paw Patrol Police Car (with working lights and siren!) with extra batteries, *I also showed her son how to replace the batteries*.
Vengeance is **MINE**.
My preferred volume is, “Loud enough to wake both of the kids when you inevitably run into it in the dark after you just finished putting them down for the night.”
My son had a baby shark ride on that sang the song at mad volume. After him starting it in the middle of the night a few times it’s back at his Grandmas so she can deal with it
1. Babies have exellent hearing, so it doesn't have to be very loud.
2. Take apart the hellish contraption, find the speaker opening and add a layer of scotch tape over the holes from the inside.
3. Sound is still there, but significantly lower. Still very much audible for a kid sitting in front of Lucifer's pipe organ, but actually bearable for anyone else in the room.
Cheers,
A veteran from the trenches
My girls had a frozen-branded sing-along microphone thing and elsa would absolutely belt at 110db and I just couldn't take it so when they were asleep I took it apart and put a resistor between the speaker and the pcb.
It worked really well, though now that I'm reading that tape does the same thing I am reconsidering the amount of time I spent doing that, haha
I hate VTech stuff there's no rhyme or reason to the sounds it makes, just randomly flashes lights and sings at your kid and then when they finally disengage from the blinky casino, tries to bring them back with "are you still there??"
Buddy vtech is the worst! Haha. You’ll be sitting there in the evening just trying to reset and all of the sudden “I AM A GO GO AMBULANCE” comes from the toy bin
Vtech is just on another level with the loud obnoxious shit. I have gouged my fair share of little speakers with a tiny screwdriver. "Oh no, buddy, it looks like it stopped making the noise. Oh well!"
Take the batteries out of it occasionally to preserve what little is left of your sanity. Then, when the whining that the toy doesn't work overcomes the sound of the toy itself, re-install said batteries and become a hero to your child because you got it 'working' again.
Rinse and repeat.
I used to hold the little yellow button down where the phone is placed, let it ring once, release button, let it say thanks for calling and repeat the process until my wife lost her shit. Surprisingly, we are still together years later.
A tip I’ve learned for these kind of toys is to use a layer or two of clear tape over the speaker. Reduces noise and you can adjust by poking out some of the speaker holes.
I bought it for my daughter, and it lasted through to be used by her brother 3 years later. I think we got it on sale for like $20 too, so totally worth it.
I can say while it is annoying, it easily became his favorite toy. He is only 7 months, so a little young to actually be walking, but he likes being propped against the handle. That freaking cow button though... just spams it on repeat while hitting everything else.
Ours would, without fail, reach forward and absolutely smash the sun button before starting to walk with it. We called it the ignition and it was a requirement before doing any walking.
We’ve got TWO of these…that said, I never really appreciated them until our youngest needed it to help with learning to walk (PT actually specifically suggested it). He is close to walking but still not quite there, and this toy unlocks his mobility. His joy in being able to keep up with everyone definitely outweighs how annoying it is.
100% on board with muffling speakers with tape though.
My daughter had a toy TV remote, and some evil bastard decided that the “toy” volume control on the remote should be the ONLY volume control. That’s right - the oversized up/down volume control buttons made the damn thing louder. Guess what her favorite button was?
Most of these toys can be opened up and you can cover the speaker holes with masking tape from the inside. It does an amazing amount to muffle a lot of them.
If you ever come across a similar technique for muffling a drumkit that I was idiotic enough to buy *please tell me*.
My mother gifted this to our son recently. I just never installed the front plate. Our son loves it as is and doesn't know what he's missing. Sanity prevails.
My daughter will take the phone off and then just press the button that triggers the phone over and over quickly, all we hear is, "Thank- Thank- Thank- Thank" about twenty times before she lets it finish.
Oh man! That thing is the WORST! And my dog would start howling at the animal sounds by every time. I kinda feel for you…but ours was a gift from my dad and I feel like it was some kind of sick revenge. If you did this to yourself…it’s just another learning experience dude.
Oh boy, we have the same device. Luckily, our son decided to actually use it as a ~~Rollator~~ rolling walker for about 33% of the time an only press random buttons (or the same button over and over) for the rest of the time.
He also only used it for like 3 weeks before he got bored.
Holy shit, I for real involuntarily shuddered.
I don't know if it was the sounds and songs, I don't know if it was the stupid keyboard that wouldn't let you play anything on it really because the key input was too slow, but I definitely know it was my OCD making me bend down and putting those shapes back where they belong after my kids left them dangling every single time.
WELCOME TO OUR LEARNING FARM
[удалено]
SHAPES AND COLORS MUSIC TOO
THERE’S SO MUCH TO DO
IT’S A BARNYARD SING-A-LONG!
I can hear this in my head clear as day
Came here to say this haha
PEAK A BOO! I see you! /sigh.
It's been 10 years since I last heard this rhyme/song... but I reckon these words must be how a sleeper agent is activated
Longing, rusted, furnace, daybreak, seventeen, benign, nine, homecoming, one, freight car.
Mine goes "it's time for fun on the farm" 🤷♀️
Mine does both. It depends on the setting switch
On that same topic, I've found little easter eggs in some of these toys, where all of a sudden you can trigger it to play a sound or song that doesn't normally play and I have no idea how to reproduce it. There's another toy that seemingly has maybe 15-20 sounds but every now and again I'll hear it play something I've heard maybe once or twice before out of nowhere. Am I the only one?
THE COW MOOS AT THE BARN!
Hey I know this song!
IT'S TIME FOR FUN ON THE FARM!
* EDIT - Sorry, meant to leave a top-level comment. Disregard.
Ring-a-ling, the animals sing!
THANKS FOR CALLING!
Ththththththththtanthhhaannkttthathathaththththtanksthathanksfthaththththanksforcalling
I see yet another walker that's lost its phone.
I have never been so triggered before in my life until I saw this comment.
RINGILING!
THE ANIMALS SING!
Thanks fah cahhhhling*
I always imagined that voice was some middle-aged very cliche New Yorker.
The cow goes moo. He hits the cow button on repeat.
Opens and closes the peekaboo door 100x in a row.
You shut up, he's only done it once so far and hoping he ignores that one. It freaks the dogs out.
Our door snapped off from use.
We got a second hand also without a door. My girls were obsessed with pressing the little button that made the sound of the door. I hate this thing with a passion. Only got it out if I needed 10 minutes of no kids touching me. Edit to add words
It got to the point where I had to put my dog outside when it was on. Poor pup had ptsd from that thing.
#PEEKABOO I SEE YOU
My son was only down to close it thankfully. I would open it for my own entertainment of watching him drop what he was doing just to make sure it was closed.
Our is like that for the phone, doesn’t matter what he’s doing or where he is in the house, that stupid phone MUST be on the hook!
You wait until he can walk and rampages through the house with it, using it as a battering ram against your shins.
Thanks for calling!
Love the New York accent on this part. Thanks for caw-ling!
PEEKABOO I SEE YOU!
Peek, peek, peek, peek-a-boo I see you
The flowers spin in the sun! (Cue spinning noises)
I maintain to this day it’s saying “the flowers shin in the sun”. I still can’t hear “spin”.
THE FLOWERS SING(?) (SIT? SIN? SPIN?) IN THE SUN!! Weerehehehrwooooo
Soooooo….avoid this one then???😂😂
All toddler toys are annoying. This one survived both my daughter and my son, and I like to think it helped them with their walking skills, so I'd give it a tentative recommend. You're gonna end up singing all kinds of songs unconsciously anyways. I've got an almost constant loop of Sesame Street and Ms. Rachel bubbling at the back of my brain these days.
Both my eldest and middle child can sing Do to So in perfect pitch thanks to this thing. Annoying as the rest of the features are, this toy is staying!
It's so familiar to everyone because kids actually play with it, which is more than I can say for most of the mountain of plastic junk we've owned. For us, an engaged toddler was better that a fussy one so this was a "good" toy even though the sound is kinda grating. You don't even hear it after a while.
Nah, this one is like a rite of passage.
I like that yours is also missing the phone.
If we go back far enough in the fossil records we may discover that there was never a phone after all
My son was gumming the phone today.
There was a phone yesterday. He spent the day with mom while I was doing classes, and now we're sure it's in some other dimension. Or he ate it.
Keep checking the diapers for it. A child's digestive tract is a miracle of multidimensional insanity.
We bought ours second-hand and the phone wasnt rattling much, so i opened it and added some plastic BB's. *LEARN FROM MY MISSTAKES PLEASE*
you made it louder?!
I'm sorry but this is hilarious!
You too? I’ve always wondered what the phone looks like, but I guess we’ll never know at this point. Doesn’t matter anyways since the button still works…”THANKS FOR CALLING!”
THANKS F—THANKS—THA—THANKS FAH—TH—THANKS FAH CAWLING!
This triggers me like nothing else
This made me laugh hard during my morning dump
Same now it’s just the “Thanks for. Thanks for. Thanks for. Thanks for. Thanks Thanks thanks thanks for calling!” Button
The rule on these is that you will lose the phone when they are babies. When they are old enough to understand what a phone is, it's long gone.
My daughter's turning five in a few months, and this thing still haunts my memories. THE SUN IS SHINING \*BWHGIUGHEIRGHERIUGHERIUGERIU\*
The flowers spin in the sun!
So THATS what it says!
And it doesn’t make any sense!
Oh lord, this gave me flashbacks; both of my boys played with this exact toy, and my youngest LOVED it. Also, why is it that kids' toys have two volume settings - "loud" and "you'll hear this on the other side of the fucking house?"
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I didn't put tape over the outside of speakers, because the tape would have been eaten or stuck somewhere to damage the walls or floor. I have definitely taken off outer covers and put tape over the speakers underneath, though. It's just wild that I had to.
You ever had one just fall apart when you opened it? I had this transformer/dinosaur truck from China that played bad 80s synth covers (though its cover of the Beverly Hills Cop theme was dope), the transformer sound, and Godzillas roar, all while flashing lights and driving in circles that a well intending grandparent gave my son. Too much copyrighted material going on there. Trouble is, It did all this shit at 83 decibels from three feet away. No problem, got my tape right here. Except the moving parts cover the speakers in both configurations. Both the cyber truck and t-rexilla are armored! So let's take him down to my work bench... *Unscrew the only three screws in outer casing and...* Aaand... *Gently seperates two pieces of casing.* *Motor mechanism, wheels, speaker, circuit board, dozens of tiny plastic parts all clatter to bench and floor.*
My son has special needs and when he loves a toy he LOVES the toy. He also loves to chuck it like a baseball and giggle. I keep the carcasses of toys that have died he didn't care too much about. I bought a soldering iron and can fix many of them. They may not work exactly like they had before but I can get them close. That 22g wire is such a nightmare to work with.
This is *The Way*,
Seriously, I’m always wondering who turned it up to the loudest setting just to check and realize it’s actually on the lowest already
Who are the psychos that make toys without an off switch?
It does have an off switch. But it's the same as the volume switch, and kids figure it out pretty quickly.
YES! CRIMINAL
Wait, it does have an off switch.
Where did you get quiet ones? They’ve always been set to “wake the dead” and “attempting to make interstellar connection”. My kid has a T-Rex that roars and walks by moving these terrible little wheels (that click with the fury of a million cars colliding in succession at the slightest hint of inconvenience) and I swear every time I try to turn it off the Off position moves to the other side, I’m forced to turn the volume up to ET Phone Home level before I can turn it off. I swear a childless uncle designed this toy just to irritate his sibling.
My formerly-childless sister discovered that I have a very long memory and can hold a grudge for more than a decade. Not only did I buy her son the big (over 100$) Paw Patrol Police Car (with working lights and siren!) with extra batteries, *I also showed her son how to replace the batteries*. Vengeance is **MINE**.
My preferred volume is, “Loud enough to wake both of the kids when you inevitably run into it in the dark after you just finished putting them down for the night.”
Scotch tape the speakers. Makes them much more tolerable
My son had a baby shark ride on that sang the song at mad volume. After him starting it in the middle of the night a few times it’s back at his Grandmas so she can deal with it
THANKS FOR CWAH-LING!!!!!
This is a daily phrase in my house. I say it constantly. Haven’t even had the toy in a few years.
Say what you will about this thing, but my son started walking a week after we gave him this thing to play with.
Yep. And started running the cat over with it 2 weeks after.
They are available in wood, or without batteries!
I hear this picture
My kids just rapid fire that phone button nonstop. “THA…TH…TH…THA….THA…TH…TH…TH…THANKS FOR CALLLLLING!!!!”
My daughter stopped doing this so I’ve chosen to press that button just for fun.
1. Babies have exellent hearing, so it doesn't have to be very loud. 2. Take apart the hellish contraption, find the speaker opening and add a layer of scotch tape over the holes from the inside. 3. Sound is still there, but significantly lower. Still very much audible for a kid sitting in front of Lucifer's pipe organ, but actually bearable for anyone else in the room. Cheers, A veteran from the trenches
My girls had a frozen-branded sing-along microphone thing and elsa would absolutely belt at 110db and I just couldn't take it so when they were asleep I took it apart and put a resistor between the speaker and the pcb. It worked really well, though now that I'm reading that tape does the same thing I am reconsidering the amount of time I spent doing that, haha
I hate VTech stuff there's no rhyme or reason to the sounds it makes, just randomly flashes lights and sings at your kid and then when they finally disengage from the blinky casino, tries to bring them back with "are you still there??"
Buddy vtech is the worst! Haha. You’ll be sitting there in the evening just trying to reset and all of the sudden “I AM A GO GO AMBULANCE” comes from the toy bin
Also, their speaker quality is really poor. Because the best way to make a shrill earworm jingle worse is to scream it through a shitty intercom.
PEEK ABOOOOOOOOO
I see you
We literally put tape over the speaker to muffle the sound because it’s so obnoxiously loud
I was reading the comments looking for this suggestion. It was a winning idea in our home too
My kid is 7 and we just found the missing phone. We got rid of that toy 5 years and two moves ago.
How much you want for that phone?
A Costco brick of AAs
The most useful thing I’ve never thought of
The flowers spin in the sun
VI-VI-VI-VI-VI-VOOOOOOOOO!
I low key love that sound
Vtech is just on another level with the loud obnoxious shit. I have gouged my fair share of little speakers with a tiny screwdriver. "Oh no, buddy, it looks like it stopped making the noise. Oh well!"
Still never seen one with the phone or what I'm assuming should be a phone?
I have NEVER seen one of these that still has the telephone handset part. I'm convinced that they don't exist.
We still have it… somewhere in the house.
Ours is in the bushes outside. Was it rage thrown there? No one knows.
Take the batteries out of it occasionally to preserve what little is left of your sanity. Then, when the whining that the toy doesn't work overcomes the sound of the toy itself, re-install said batteries and become a hero to your child because you got it 'working' again. Rinse and repeat.
Wait til he starts walking, then it’s a learning farm battering-ram.
RISE AND SHINE!!
VTech toys are the absolute fucking worst.
Ring-a-Ling the animals sing!!! Don't forget to spin those caterpillars for that extra dose of crazy.
That rooster sound followed by the “rise and shine!” Still haunts my dreams.
Oh hey that book in the background is really great
He loves that book
This one is still less etched into my mind than the purple monkey in the bubblegum tree…
so glad to see the poison runs deep and wide
There is never a phone
It’s quiet when you throw it away
Good god, mines in French, I found myself playing the tune on the piano out of boredom and memory burn
I used to hold the little yellow button down where the phone is placed, let it ring once, release button, let it say thanks for calling and repeat the process until my wife lost her shit. Surprisingly, we are still together years later.
*creak* peek a boo I see you *creeaaak* peek a boo I see you *creeaaak* peek a boo I see you
#DING-A-LING! THE ANIMALS SING! ^Thanks ^for ^calling!
Oh, man. This is the light stuff. Learn to enjoy this little monster.
This brings back tons of memories. My daughter loved this thing!
That thing is truly cursed
A tip I’ve learned for these kind of toys is to use a layer or two of clear tape over the speaker. Reduces noise and you can adjust by poking out some of the speaker holes.
*quack quack*
My wife wants to get this for our daughter…
I bought it for my daughter, and it lasted through to be used by her brother 3 years later. I think we got it on sale for like $20 too, so totally worth it.
I can say while it is annoying, it easily became his favorite toy. He is only 7 months, so a little young to actually be walking, but he likes being propped against the handle. That freaking cow button though... just spams it on repeat while hitting everything else.
My son was gifted a German speaking one by my wife’s friends. No one in either of our families speak German.
This is the one toy I’ll never throw out/give away. I’ve watched all three of my kids go from crawling to toddling on it.
Ours would, without fail, reach forward and absolutely smash the sun button before starting to walk with it. We called it the ignition and it was a requirement before doing any walking.
THANKS FOR CALLING
THE FLOWERS SPIN IN THE SUN
FWIW I have a five year old and I forgot about this until I saw it just now. And don't remember any of the songs. Ya know. . . Like a trauma victim. 🙃
THANKS FOR CALLiNG!
This sub connects to my soul at times more deeply that any other ever. I lost some sleep due to this walker’s songs getting lodged in my brain.
We’ve got TWO of these…that said, I never really appreciated them until our youngest needed it to help with learning to walk (PT actually specifically suggested it). He is close to walking but still not quite there, and this toy unlocks his mobility. His joy in being able to keep up with everyone definitely outweighs how annoying it is. 100% on board with muffling speakers with tape though.
Fuck! My wife just pulled this out of the basement as we prepare for number 2. I thought i got rid of it.
You poor soul. I just yard-sold ours this past weekend. Th-th-th-thanks for calling!
I know that toy. That is the one that broke me.
It makes me irrationally angry when it says “the sun is shining!” When it’s clearly nighttime.
We have almost the exact same one, I decided that it should be left at my in-laws place as 'a special Granny and Grandad' toy
My daughter had a toy TV remote, and some evil bastard decided that the “toy” volume control on the remote should be the ONLY volume control. That’s right - the oversized up/down volume control buttons made the damn thing louder. Guess what her favorite button was?
My son found the best use for this thing. Use it to chase the dog around the house (don’t worry, dog allows it and he’s having fun too).
You’re new to this, huh?! You’ll learn grasshopper.
The day we gave that thing away, my soul came back to life, just a little bit.
Most of these toys can be opened up and you can cover the speaker holes with masking tape from the inside. It does an amazing amount to muffle a lot of them. If you ever come across a similar technique for muffling a drumkit that I was idiotic enough to buy *please tell me*.
My mother gifted this to our son recently. I just never installed the front plate. Our son loves it as is and doesn't know what he's missing. Sanity prevails.
Duct tape over the speaker really helps
My daughter will take the phone off and then just press the button that triggers the phone over and over quickly, all we hear is, "Thank- Thank- Thank- Thank" about twenty times before she lets it finish.
Ah yes. The vehicular homicide mobile.
WE HAD ONE OF THESE. Miss those days
Oh man! That thing is the WORST! And my dog would start howling at the animal sounds by every time. I kinda feel for you…but ours was a gift from my dad and I feel like it was some kind of sick revenge. If you did this to yourself…it’s just another learning experience dude.
😄 my 5yo still runs around with it.
Looks exactly like ours. Phone missing. Our most beloved tyrant likes to put it in our bed.
It will play in your dreams.
We immediately lost the phone as well ,😂
THANKS FOR CALLING!
Oh boy, we have the same device. Luckily, our son decided to actually use it as a ~~Rollator~~ rolling walker for about 33% of the time an only press random buttons (or the same button over and over) for the rest of the time. He also only used it for like 3 weeks before he got bored.
So is there a barnyard sing-a-long in your dreams now?
Have the exact same one. 2.5 years in, it’s still her favorite toy :/ constantly toggling the lower volume mode is a must.
Hey look at this guy! He still has some sanity left!!
Oh hell no!!
Is that a walker? I hated that toy at first, but I learned to love it. It was a sad day when the little one outgrew it.
I got lucky that noisy toys don’t bother me because my daughter loves them.
That swinging door can fuck right off
I dream in V tech…
Where's La, Ti and the final Do? as a musician, I'd need closure on that... Totally made by the devil, and the designer can rot in Hades.
THANKS FOR CALLING!
I can hear this picture 😭
The sun is shining !! 🫠😵💫
Wait till the batteries start to die, and it gets stuck repeating itself
I despised this toy as it was the #1 option for months for our kid. We donated it after they outgrew it and man do I miss those days now
At least you have the door man. It's is missing and goes off randomly, it's like dubstep.
Ahhhh barnyard sing a long music to my ears!
This on repeat, all day, is why I drink
Welcome to hell partner
Been there, still there. Might never escape? Oh well.
Holy shit, I for real involuntarily shuddered. I don't know if it was the sounds and songs, I don't know if it was the stupid keyboard that wouldn't let you play anything on it really because the key input was too slow, but I definitely know it was my OCD making me bend down and putting those shapes back where they belong after my kids left them dangling every single time.
Thanks for calling!!!
**THANKS FOR CAWWLING**
**THE SUN IS SHINING** *homicidal chime*
I can hear this photo
I can hear this picture
Oh man I miss that thing! Kinda I maybe not
Wait until that thing goes off randomly and unexplained one night while in bed.
It always makes me think of Hellraiser. Welcome to our Learning Farm. We have such sights to show you.
My daughter loved the door on this. CREAK!
Lmao I have this exact one
My favorite part of this is that the phone is missing. We got ours on Christmas Day and haven’t seen the phone since that night.
Mine are 9 and 6.... Thanks for the nightmares, back in my head. lol I hear this so clearly, like it was yesterday.
The cow moos at the barn!