1984
Wersi
HOBBY MAKER
A smal kit stored in a funky box of paper.

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 1 COOLNESS: 1
1985
Cesiotone
COMPOSER 505
Definitively the cheapest fake organ ever. And the name "Cesio" is really unbelievable. I am sure, the CASIO people never heard of this company.

SOUND: 2 DESIGN: 2 COOLNESS: 3
1985
Coca Cola
MUSIC SYSTEM
Most beautiful musical watch I've seen. State-of-the Art Design and real Synthesizer-Feeling! Let's coke!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 10
1985
Korg
MP-100
Actually not a toy... but small and has a built-in speaker. It also has MIDI but it is so hard to program that it is also absolutely needless for professionals.

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 4 COOLNESS: 3
1985
Pianotronic
MP-210 MINI PIANO
These kind of organs were produced in the mid-eighties in hundreds of different colours and names. This is the most stylish in black and silver.

SOUND: 2 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1985
Science Fair
ELECTRONIC ORGAN KIT
Build your own musical toy. It sounds like it looks like. This is the newer version.

SOUND: - DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 5
1985
Texas Instruments
SPEAK & MUSIC
A true classic toy keyboard. Makes some great noises and has some cool learning tools. But the "voice" feature is dull.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 7 COOLNESS: 7
1985
Yamaha
PORTASOUND TYU-40
Has only a pinao sound, but it can be pitched with a very professional looking wheel/bender. Even the rhythm section can be pitched up and down. Cool!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 10
1986
Fisher Price
CREATIVE MUSIC MAKER
Very interesting and rare machine. A combination of an organ - surpisingly with half-notes - and a microphone. Your voice can be transmitted to a radio near you - you can change the receiving frequency. I can't imagine a child with an age of 4, that can handle it to play and sing at the same time. Another great technical failure and highly collectible. Very Special Thanks to Max from Californa!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1986
Good Play
MELODIE-ORGEL
Goodplay licensed so much cheap Hongkong - Taiwan - whatever organs. You cannot count. They are all rare or super-rare. This one has a built-in mic and a nice clicking rhythm section.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 5
1986
Grandstand
MAJOR MINOR
This machine has some great sound facilities that aren't mentioned on the box or in the manual. There is a teaching and SINGING voice. Each key can sing its own Do Re Mi and so on. There is also an unbelievably great rhythm section. You can speed up the robotic clicking sounds so fast, that Aphex Twin will be blown away. Pure fun.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1986
Nasta
ELECTRONIC VOICE SYNTHESIZER
This little robot is a simple buzzer... the sound comes through a wand, which pops out on the back, when you press the button. You have to "talk" into the wand without making any noise! The effect is a didgeridoo-a-like sound. You cannot understand anything... wooowwweeewuaaawwoowww.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1986
Sight & Sound
MY FIRST KEYBOARD
Thin sound and thin plastic for a thin collector.

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 6 COOLNESS: 1
1986
Siso
ELEKTRONIK ORGEL
Ach ja! (german expression for being totally depressed!)

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 4 COOLNESS: 3
1986
Texas Instruments
LITTLE MAESTRO
The Speak & Spell for younger children. Has a nice pig-sound.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 8 COOLNESS: 5
1987
Rollet
KIT PIANO MECHANIQUE
Build your own fully programmable sequencer. Box sais "Mécanique" but it is electronic. The only mechanical thing it the card with the musical pattern on it.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 10
1987
Yamaha
PORTASOUND VSS-30
Smallest keyboard of the VSS series. A very hot toy sampler with resample function - so you have millions of possibilities. In combination with the CS01 analog synth, you have a very unique YAMAHA sound-station, thousand times better than any modern synths.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 7 COOLNESS: 10
1988
Fisher Price
ELECTRONIC PIANO
Big surprise: I thought this would be just another cheap mono-organ but it offers a 4-note polyphony with a very smart sampled piano sound in 4-bit quality. Has also a little sequencer and two nice demos. Strange design for an 80ies fisher price toy - I think it was indended for "young adults".

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 6 COOLNESS: 10
1988
Intersound
PLAY IT AGAIN
It is small and it makes beep, that's all I need... Sorry, collectors poetry.

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 4
1988
Tomy
INCREDIBLE VOICE CHANGER
Ugly little thing but with some nice features. It pitches any sound source up and down and offers you 16 different positions. You can also create some great feedback noises with the enclosed microphone.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 4 COOLNESS: 7
1988
Unknown
HELLO KITTY ORGAN
Very cute and has a nice visual effect included. On top of the loudspeaker you can see little colourful balls. They start to jump, when you play a note. Kitteeeahey!

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 10
1989
Yeno
MEIN SPRECHENDES ZAUBERKEYBOARD
Funny little machine with a very digital electronic piano sound and four sampled animals. There are additional cartridges for games and composing - one cartrige contains very smart preprogrammed arpeggio-styles for own compositions.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 6 COOLNESS: 6
1990
Lotte
PAPUWA PIANO
Great Noisemaker.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 6 COOLNESS: 5
1992
Good Play
MUSIK LOK
Unfortunately 90ies stuff, but too great to ignore. The little train has a small 8 note keyboard on the bottom. As it drives along the track, the coloured switches push the keys, so you get your own programmed melody. In other words, this is an analog step sequencer for 3-year old children. No surprise, that this toy failed like many other musical toys. Too complicated for our youngsters.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 10