1980
Romper Room
SNOOPY PLAYMATE
Thick machine with funny keys - play Snoopy nose, ears, hands and more...

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 7 COOLNESS: 5
1980
Suzuki
TRONICHORD
It is one of my masterpieces. Hours & hours pass by when you play this little machine. It simply produces harmony in any way... perfect for a futurist of the past like me. Thousands thanks to Morgan Fisher from Tokyo!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Playtime
CABBAGE PATCH KIDS
Simple architecture - portable and electronic. Oh i cabnnot stand these ugly faces of the Cabbage Patch Kids.

SOUND: 4 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 5
1980
Mattel
STAR MAKER GUITAR
Boys and girls... be prepared for the f**king greatest toy guitar on earth. Mattel created a masterpiece but unfortunately it is ultra rare. It creates the most brutal feedback noise you can imagine – without using any additional gear. Just take it in your hands and break biggest walls with the sound of this unearthy plastic. Many thanks to Jacques DuLong - inventor of the Bee Gees Rhythm Machine - for information and inspiration!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1979
Bambino
TRIMTONE EV-5TS
Incredibly great design by incredibly great manufacturer BAMBINO - they also made some cool electronic games. Solid Plastic, very good keys and a deep warm sound, produced by an unbelievably big loudspeaker. This series was also released in a different colour as Symphonic Organ by EMIX/TOMY.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1979
Concept 2000
MR. MUS-I-CAL
Wonderful little calculator with musical attitude. This is made by my most beloved company: CONCEPT 2000. They made some great musical toys in the 70ies. Please notice: Kraftwerk haven't used this...

SOUND: 4 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1979
Unknown
103 MINI GAN
Wonderful looking and very professional Japanese kit. Definitely not for kids. But I am too stupid to build it.

SOUND: - DESIGN: 8 COOLNESS: 10
1979
Concept 2000
ELECTRONIC JUKEBOX
Totally unusual design. Same sounds and functions like the CONCEPT 2000 LITE 'N LEARN. But so much more plastic for nearly nothing! Special Thanks to Scott from USA!!!

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 5
1978
Waddingtons
COMPUTE-A-TUNE
Well designed Space-Age organ with good echo effects and a pseudo filter function. Very effective and good to handle. Has also a great colour. Really a cool machine.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Mego
MUSON SYNTHESIZER
Incredible Machine. Far ahead of its time - a mini sequencer with endless possibilites. Kind of a ROLAND TB-303 but much cooler & cheaper - still cheaper... The coloured buttons can be used to change the melody and rhythm. Each color has a different tune. You can also change the speed and pitch of the sequence with 2 sliders. This was also released by Palitoy in the UK.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Mattel
BEE GEES RHYTHM MACHINE
Much better than the Shaun Cassidy Electronic Organ and great for musical experiments, because the rhythm section and the sound will merge drastically when you play it loud. On top of that, you can pitch the sound over an octave up and down with a wheel at the back. I wish the Bee Gees had played this on their albums.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Mattel
MAGICAL MUSICAL THING
Colourful and innovative design. A great masterpiece of the golden age of electronic musical toys. Great examples on the back of the box - play it with your knee, hip or elbow! I played it with my nose... very funny experience.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Kenner
PLAY 'N PLAYBACK
A lovely and well-shaped organ with keys made for elephant fingers. I like the transparent protection plastic. Unfortunately it sounds like many other 70ies toy organs... beeeeep. Special thanks to Scott from USA!

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Remco
SOUND FX MACHINE
Wow!!! Another toy that is definitively not a toy. This machine is made of cheap plastic and cardboard! It produces unbelievably noise sounds. You cannot play melodies, but you can create sounds varying from hysteric aliens, exploding space guns and flying trains. How many children in the world would have recognized all the possibilities... and how many parents would have stand the results?

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Unknown
WOC 100
Yet another DUBREQ Stylophone clone, but made of super-cheap plastic and an incredibly poor sound. Whooooooo....

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Dubreq
STYLOPHONE
Here is the German edition, promoted by Bill Ramsey (the german Rolf Harris? But Bill is not german... strange world). Sounds very flat because of the few "digital" parts inside. The early Stylophones sound much much better.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Radio Shack
ELECTRONIC ORGAN
Lot's of these appeared with different names, colours and boxes. Sounds very cheesy and the black keys are only there to activate preprogrammed melodies.

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 7 COOLNESS: 3
1978
A-One
ELECTRON GX.2
Wow, this is the biggest mini organ. Works only with the enclosed loudspeaker, so the box is much bigger than the organ. Has a wonderful kicking rhythm section but the organ sound itself is the average squarewave sound. Special thanks to Hiromichi from Tokyo!!!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Gakken
MAIKU ORUGANU
Funny little thing. Especially made for little girls fingers! Many thanks to Hiromichi from Tokyo!!!

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Asahi
ELECTRONIC ORGAN
Weird colorversion of the japanese MAIKU ORUGANU. Oh, it is green and yellow like my site :)

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
A-One
LOVELY LEO
Extremely cute Artwork by Manga-originator Osamu Tezuka. And all in my most favourite colour: orange!

SOUND: 4 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Tomy
ELECTRONIC SYMPHONIC ORGAN
Awsome! Such a great sound! Such a great quality! And soooooo rare!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Unknown
PINK LADY
PINK LADY was a famous japanese Trash-Pop-Group and they released tons of merchandising. Fantastic box art. This could be a start of a new collection: Pink Lady Stuff. Thanks to Hiromichi.

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1978
Kenner
DANCING PLAYER
Nice little turntable with a n exceptional feature: a dancing pop group. The group-members react to the sound... so don't play death metal records... this will crush the plastic. Thanks to Hiromichi.

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1977
Mei Fong
CANDY CANDY
Hey, it is so easy to build an organ... Just watch the electronic parts. Funny little thing with 70ies popular Candy Candy Anime Manga images! When you take off the batteries, it still plays for some seconds longer.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 5