Ohio Arts Mighty Tiny Phonograph - Karyns mini record Players
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2021
- In 1967 Ohio Arts released a fun toy, the "Mighty Tiny" that played tiny little two-inch records on an actual phonograph. It was such a hit they followed with the "stereo" (not stereo) version, the Stereopet.
While a fun toy back then, the "audio quality" was horrid. The construction somewhat basic and with a $2 to $4 price tag, most were thrown away 50 years ago. Making collecting them desirable! Most don't work when you find them and still sell for around $100 in an antique store or on eBay. But Karyn has rebuilt these and they work "perfectly", or as well as they ever did.
She has also amassed a large collection of records most of which play well. (Again disclaimer, "well" is not quite correct, as well as they ever did is a better way to express that!
Also a quick look at her "hit clips" player, super early MP3 player.
It's great to be called antique. We grew up in an exciting era. We have seen a lot of changes and advancements in technology. It's always good to look back at things from our childhood. Be safe and keep up the great videos. Look forward to Sunday.
I really like to look at it that way! I remember my childhood being filled with all kinds of wonders. The toy aisles at the local Grand Central or Kmart seemed to be from ceiling to floor in cool toys. Many were first seen advertised on TV. But actually seeing them in person! I really knew that these toys were impressive when I saw my parents looking at them in complete awe! One toy that seemed to be the favorite of my mom, was the invention of the Super Ball! My first one wasn't black, like the early ones, but a rainbow of mixed colors. My mom was so impressed with the way it would bounce! She often said that if there had been a bouncy ball like that when she was a kid... Yeah... Those stupid foam balls never would bounce decently. They still came with Jacks... Never could get my two-zies! My mom would say, "Man, if only there would have been Super Balls back when we played Jacks!" Yes, Mom... Playing Jacks would have been a real workout!! ............ Something today's kids will never know! LOL!!
I’m from Singapore and received the Stereo version of that tiny record player you repaired, for my sixth birthday. I absolutely loved it. Long gone now!
That is so satisfying when you get something not working to work. Great work and great video.
I remember seeing valve record players still being used when I was a kid! Those were kinda magical at that age, with the orange valve-heater light (and heat!) show along with the warm and fuzzy sound!
Nice of Karyn to give a shout out to NSYNC at 11:33 too! 😉😁
We love in the sink! Seems Siri doesn’t understand! In the sink?
Nice walk down memory lane.
Thank you for encouraging me to try and fix my stereo pet...I spent a couple of hours on it and got it to work nicely...it was not so hard...but it was very delicate work...it doesn't work with 100% quality but it works.
thank you again for your encouragement.
Kidlets: You really went way out there to reincarnate Lawrence Welk driving his Dodge Convertible while listening to his portable record player.
In truth nobody ever use those things. We were just a really fun novelty to stick in the car. But most of them played special records that were made just in the car player. About four minutes long and then you’d have to load a new record. Gee what could go wrong?
I lived thru that time and had no knowledge of the. I listen to vinyl also but it is in a very high end system. Turntable weighs 140lbs on a 100lb granite slab. Better than CD for real.
Thanks for sharing Karyn.
For years I had a stone turntable. I’ve gone to a more basic turntable as I don’t play it as loud and don’t really need the vibration dampening anymore. But do love vinyl! And I’m still driving my speakers with 2000 W so I can turn up if I feel like it! I just don’t feel like it anymore.
Fascinating! I kept waiting for the discussion of the little sawing table. Always enjoy your visits.
My first transistor radio was from Japan. It outlasted all my friends radios for 5 years more than theirs.
I had a transistor radio in about 1960 I think. Took it to school to listen to the World Series. Loved listening to baseball on that thing. Teachers were OK with it too! As long as I only listen at recess
I have an ancient GE transistor radio from my grandfather. No clue how old it actually is but it still works like a charm!
Darn I wish I saved this - I remember Turkey in the Straw and the one you played - all scratchy. I had forgotten what it looked like until I saw this. Loved the kiddle episodes too.
Great show on an old toy. I have never seen one of those. I totally get the idea of nostalgic toys. I have about 80% of my old toys and now they are getting played with by the third generation.
great thing :") the shop!!!!OMG LOOKING GOOD CLEANED UP .!!!!! would love to see some casting ;) take care .
Planning to get back to FIGURES! Soon. Need many for the railroad...
I had a late 70’s early 80’s brown Fisher Price briefcase looking record player... it was great as I recall... course I was a kid and hadn’t experienced the true power of HiFi sound! 😂
Those are collectable now...
Thanks for sharing. I received one of these Christmas morning in 1972. My favorite was the laugh record which I played continuously. I still have mine though it no longer working. .
Bravo on getting the stereo working again! To tinker is to live.
I remember the "Close and Play" record player.
Wow good old stereo chronic never saw those in Australia 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👀👀👀👀👀😎
Very neat record players it’s so amazing how you seem to want back what you once had as a kid when you see this kind of stuff on eBay it happens to me all the time and I think why did I ever get rid of or loose that toy and really want to buy it back but I do have all of my vinyl records too which I never gave up on and still enjoy them along with the new tech stuff too of course.
I'm here from Techmoan
Fun toy too.
These are really cool and what fun for the time.
So cool! Karyn, you have some pretty neat collections.The mini record player is very interesting. But that car record player that you showed on the show is the cats meow. Just think about changing the record while driving. LOL
J.W. Brewer who I worked for had one of those recored players in his Chrysler 300.
Saw this toy on the Techmoan channel as well. It could be a predecessor to those Ozen voiceboxes used in talking toys in the 70's and early 80's. Before the hitclips came out, there were the "Pocket Rockers". 2 Short fragments of popular songs in the 80's were played from cartridges with an endless tapeloop (based on 8-track) in an electronic walkman-like player with a speaker, soundquality was way better too.
Not a lot of people know, but the talking doll was invented by Thomas Edison! He offered a doll with a phonograph inside that made the doll talk. Worked quite well, but no one could afford it.
I have some teacups from my mom that say "made in occupied Japan " on the bottom. Absolutely beautiful!
My thing is SMG dinosaurs that I bought at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. There was a set of 4 or 5. I have 2 of the set.
We all have our favorite toys from when we were kids. Awesome we never know what they even were yet alone can find them. I have the nearest car back them had removable wheels and tires and engine and stuff and it came with all these little wrenches so you could work on it. No idea what that was never seen one sense!
Ebay! One never knows what will turn up there!
Very cool!
It's a kind of a juxtaposition that some niche' technology eventually transforms into pervasive, pedestrian and mainstream.
It’s really fascinating how that happens too. Something that someone remembers from when they were young becomes desirable when they get old and so people start collecting it. Then that generation dies off and those things become less desirable and then slowly become very desirable!
cool
Hilarious video. Where can I get my crappy mini record player!?? haha The sound that came out of that thing was horrible. The 60's era I-pod.I remember the car record player. Never really took off for some reason. :)
I still have an Echa sketch. I am looking for REMCO science toys. At one time they had a weather station, they also had a plastics kit also. Searching on Ebay (their search engine stinks).
Hi. Yea eBay try’s to sell everything. You search for model car and get used cars to young models. Sigh. But it’s out there. It’s like prospecting.
@@ToyManTelevision Good point about prospecting. I liken it to fishing. You bait the hook, throw it in, and wait. Looking for an N scale blast furnace from Walters. The are pricey. That is a barrier I need to cross or just figure how to scratch build it. Of corse I could get an HO one and change the platforms stairs and railings. Time will tell.
Somehow Techmoan missed this record player.
Seriously! However, at the time, toys like this were really remarkable. The fact that someone could invent a real working record player that small! Or a song clip that fits on an Mp3 format! Look where we are today!
I once had copies of Spiderman No. 1 thru 10 and the one where Spiderman was introduced, missed No. 11 and had No. 12 and 13. When I went into the service, I very carefully stored them away in a box. Well, I mom did the "hurricane" bit and threw them in the incinerator. I came home from boot camp, discovered my loss and really went off on mom. She said they were just a bunch of old comic books and I needed the space. She did not believe me when I said she threw out several hundreds of dollars worth of HIGHLY collectable comics (1966 value)
We have all lost things this way because they were thought it to be worthless.
Maybe you could replace the lousy speaker with new ones and improve the sound a bit?
Keep collecting, if you have space and funding. ;-)
The “junk” often has the highest value. The “limited edition Elvis collection with certificates of authenticity” are in general worthless. No one ever threw one away. BUT a happy meal toy from 1975..... SCORE!!!$$$$. such is collecting.
LOL! Vintage, Man! Vintage! These toys were pretty basic. The speaker is a plastic cone that comes in contact with the needle. All mechanical sound.. No electronics!
I have the original Central Pacific Railroad Spike
Back about 1962-63 or so, my sister got for Christmas this miniature metal sewing machine (intended for young girls) that would actually sew. I forget what it was called -- "Suzy Homemaker" or something like that, maybe not. But anyway (I digress!), one day she was playing with it and she ran the needle right through the tip of her finger. Ouch. About that time I was playing with Aurora brand HO slotcars, the first generation ones, that operated with a vibrator motor. After a little while, they went with standard motors, which worked much better. I had fun with those, but they didn't work as well as the slot cars that came out later. Better stick with model trains.
I really hated to see the HO slot cars come out. I was an AFX 1/32 scale guy!! Much earlier system and much much better. For what it’s worth it’s back on the market! In Britain they had an exact same system called scale electrics. Never left the market and is still very popular
also I saw something on your video which looked a like an ad from Pascal...are you Canadian...I am curious
Nope. We do have the souvenir tee shirts though.
It's a wonder you don't have that VW Van that you sit on a LP and it will play.
Do you know if anyone has digitised these recordings?
Not that we know of. I’ll bet they have.. but finding them…
4th!
Good day...I have the stereopet but it does not work...is it worth trying to fix...I tried already to remove the screws but they are pretty embedded into the item...also did you say C battery or D...I've been using a C battery...can you verify what yours takes...cause I think you said D in the video
Hi. C battery. And it depends on how bad it is I guess. Karyn got hers going. But it was mostly good to start with. Good luck
@@ToyManTelevision I really want to try...can you ask or advise on suggests on removing screws that are really embedded into the plastic...that will probably be the hardest part to fixing this
Funny. Seems that all records were made by Donald Duck!
I never seen these tiny electronic players. In college, MD players were the shiny new things, but it quickly give away to all mp3 players and cell phones.
The Hit-Clips were a "thing" back in 2000. My youngest daughter was about in 4th grade when they made their debut. I remember looking at those "clips" and telling my daughter... Soon these clips will contain an entire album on them! Well.... Technology shot right past that! And it didn't take long!
@@karynfelix-the-Cat MD was still new in 97-99 here in France. And I bought a mini HiFi with MD player in 99 (still working). But Napster was already big in 2000, but only on PC.
gee thought anything over 25years was an anquie humm , so whats anything close ta 3x that called...
Old as dirt? (Not the cat dirt, real dirt).
When are crappy TYCO trains coming back?
Soon