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New Article: Petster, the Robot Cat!

If you're waiting for the next parade review, don't worry, it's a'comin soon. Had some video/audio synch problems, but we're on the road to recovery. Hopefully will have two more full reviews by Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, there's a new article up, about Petster, the robot cat. One of the forgotten gems from the era of Teddy Ruxpin-inspired electronic interactive toys, Petster was sort of like a giant Furby with wheels. Review includes a commercial download and a special lovey-love happy photo album.

Posted by Matt on 11/19/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 112 comments

Hey. I read it. Alfred is one scary mofo when he’s pissed. Word.

Chestnuts roasted by Allie @ 11/21/2003 12:22 PM

I am sorely in need of a good Batman Returns watching. My favorite of the films as well. Simply the most complex, weird, and also most visually striking. There’s too many reasons not to like that film. Just this line alone makes it worth it: I was their number one son, and they treated me like number two. Yeah, now I’ll have to watch that over break.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 11/21/2003 1:36 AM

First off… I Do have the tetris board game :) :) It is great fun, a race to fill the board with pieces without making holes.

Second, great article but the best part was in the commerical, "this girl loves petster even though his batteries are not included" I like the way they went out of there way to mention that.

Chestnuts roasted by Doogles @ 11/21/2003 1:57 AM

I had one of those Petsters. It wasn’t the deluxe version, and didn’t have the remote control/leash thing. It was also a bit smaller and had shitter smaller wheels. It’s still in my parents basement someplace rotting away, no idea if it still works or not. I think the battery contacts got all corroded or something.

Chestnuts roasted by Syd @ 11/21/2003 4:28 AM

Big deal, i’ve seen sexier robotic animals….ever go to chuckee cheeze?

Chestnuts roasted by R Hunter @ 11/21/2003 10:06 AM

FYI: The Neverending Story 2 star Jonathan Brandis dies at 27

here’s the link:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-11-21-brandis-obit_x.htm

Matt, no offense, but the picture of him looks exactly like you. What do you guys think?

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 11/21/2003 10:32 AM

I had 3 toys as a kid that needed six D batteries.

The crappiest was this electric crane set thing. Man it sucked.

The second was this truck thing that had 8 wheels down each side, that could bend and move like a snake, but only in the verticle. The thing could climb up stairs. UP stairs. Pretty cool little toy.

The middle one was this robot ..
The last.. was of course, the Star Wars AT-AT. I know it used 6 batteries.. maybe they were C? I think they were D. Maybe it was four? Hell I don’t remember. I think it was 6 Ds. That’s my story and I’m sticken to it.

Chestnuts roasted by Tyrion Xavier @ 11/21/2003 11:12 AM

I wonder how many lives the petster hamster saved, or the amount of trips to the emergency room by Richard Gere

Chestnuts roasted by DLP @ 11/21/2003 2:33 PM

yeah batman returns is my favorite of the series too. The Pengiuins Man, THE PENGUINS!!! THE PENGUINS WITH ROCKETS ON THERE BACKS!!!! XD PURE GENIOUS!!

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 11/21/2003 3:29 PM

I’m just wondering if you sell stuff on e-bay ???

Chestnuts roasted by cliffbear @ 11/21/2003 4:06 PM

speaking of robot toys, what is that frightening bear/troll that reads stories to kids? i saw it in a display box (push the button and watch him run a demo box) and i ran away screaming… the ugliest, scariest bedtime story telling machine ever. it was out as recently as last xmas… *shudders* i need a drink.

i have a talking mickey mouse of the cassette player ass teddy ruxpin style. man, did that thing suck.

meep.

Chestnuts roasted by meep @ 11/21/2003 7:08 PM

This has nothing to do with this blog. Although has alot to do with X-E. Cliff and Star wars. Just finished watching empire for the 1,000,000th time (never get tired of it). I STILL CAN’T FIND CLIFF!
Sure enough in the credits it lists John Ratzenberger as Major Gerlin, but I can’t find him….
Anyone know what seen he’s in?
Anyone? Please help.
If not for me, do it for Han. His last words before he got frozen were "find Cliff".

Chestnuts roasted by kibbles n' bits @ 11/21/2003 7:13 PM

I want a cat they are so kute

Chestnuts roasted by Efren Rodriguez @ 11/21/2003 8:26 PM

Never had a Petster–before my time–but in the more recent electronic pet craze, this family has been FILLEd with ‘em.

My sister has a Micropet "Coco" the cat, a Fur Real Friends cat, a Baby Furby, and a NeoPets Scorchio.(The small one, not the plushie kind.) I have a NeoPet and a MicroPet too, but mine are, respectively, a blue Kacheek and "Sumo," who is this weird purple monster thing. They’re neat though–they fit in your pockets(another reassuring pocket pal!), and rather that just responding blindly to sound, they DO stuff if you tell ‘em too. Not a lot, but they do.

…MATT MUST REVIEW TETRIS BOARDGAME…

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 11/21/2003 8:31 PM

Spam, forget two things! My sister also had a Meow-Chi. Myself, I always felt strongly drawn to, believe it or not, Flower-Chi, simply because it was a singing flow. And a TECHNO-looking singing flower, not like the crazy singing flowers my aunt owns.

Secondly–wasn’t there a Big Bird whom you could put tapes in, and he’d move his beak to them, but they could be ANY tapes? So you could do weird things, like have him sing along to Michael Jackson or somesuch weirdness?

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 11/21/2003 8:34 PM

Kibbles,
I believe John Ratzenberger was at the battle of Hoth.
When Princess Leia finished laying out the escape strategy to the snowspeeder and x-wing pilots, he’s the one who claps his hands and says,"allright everyone to your fighters, let’s go!" Or words to that effect.
And thus the cirlce is complete. You can connect George Wendt and Darth Vader in less than three degrees.

Chestnuts roasted by Spike Speigel @ 11/21/2003 8:36 PM

Deiniftely yes! We still own the Talking Big Bird, which was like Teddy Ruxpin with the books and tapes. Unfortunately, his mouth only seemed to move sporadically when you put in regular tapes. This one was my sister’s- she got it for Christmas.

That was the year I got Wrinkles the dog. I distinctly remember Wrinkles going mad crazy when his batteries got low- making weird noises and stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Jess @ 11/21/2003 8:45 PM

I used to watch Ladybugs and Sidekicks with Jonathan Brandis because of the hot pre-teen kissing scenes. Good times for a 12 year old girl.
I just looked him up on IMDB.com and some guy who goes by "Dr. Pizza" had his own opinion of Mr. Brandis :

"Cute, sexy, whatever. He made me gay."

Maybe if Jonathan Brandis knew that he posessed such powers, he wouldn’t have killed himself? :)

Chestnuts roasted by Kristal @ 11/21/2003 9:48 PM

Actually Matt, our cat is easily fatter than Petster. I wish I had a digital camera or scanner to prove it, but I don’t so I can’t. Sad. Just take my word on this, he’s the fattest fucking housecat on the planet. Makes Garfield look anorexic. Am I making myself clear? The bitch is HUGE!!!

And Tetris: The Boardgame??? Did you review that already? If not, you gotta. After Mac and Me, obviously.

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 11/22/2003 12:50 PM

Seeing that MCNuggets commercial download reminded me about how McDonalds recently ruined them by taking out the dark meat! Fucktards!

Chestnuts roasted by Pissed off @ 11/22/2003 1:44 PM

my friend said he ate his own shit. he insists that it wasn’t as great as people build it up to be, so until i find someone who has done the same and begs to differ, i will take his advice.

Chestnuts roasted by weird fetus @ 11/22/2003 2:30 PM

Just finished the Thanksgiving article (and anxiously awaiting the next one). Haven’t read the blog completly, so I appologize if anyone answered Matt’s question about "Night Court", but I remember it was on A&E about a year ago, teamed up with "Newsradio" re-runs.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 11/23/2003 3:28 AM

Anybody remember those LAME remote control cars where the remote was connected to the car. I think those things needed like 8 D batteries and they blew all the way to China. I always hated getting those and having to look all happy when you opened the box. And they always came from that friend/relative who, without fail, every year gave you the absolute worst Christmas gifts. Like a sweater they knitted themselves with something vaguely resembling a duck on the front or thermal underwear, or some really crappy walkman from Uzbekistan. You know what I’m talking about.

Chestnuts roasted by Tuff Daddy Cool @ 11/23/2003 6:54 AM

Full episodes of You Can’t Do That On Television are coming.

http://www.ycdtotv.com/episodes/index.html

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 11/23/2003 7:27 AM

I got one of those remote controlled cars.

They sucked ass. -_-

Chestnuts roasted by marril159 @ 11/23/2003 8:37 AM

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