toy three secrecy.

When I arrived at Savers Brunswick last Sunday, I was quite disappointed to see that the infrared toy that I have been eyeing and thinking about was not there anymore. Have I been thinking too much? Should I have just bought it right away when I saw it? I decided to accept the mystery. I also decided I should just be happy. What made me happy was this: just half an hour before that disappointment, I managed to find a very cool toy at Savers Footscray, and I decided to just buy it immediately!

Radica’s Girl Tech Password Journal® 2 seems to have been disappointing many, many little girls, and temporarily entertaining only several other little girls, in various parts of our little blue earth. Released in 2000, and that’s a nice nine years ago, mind you, some girls actually had to wait for a few years until they could get it as a christmas present, only to realise that what was advertised as voice recognition seemed to be either too simply or at times too complicatedly recognising mere soundwaves.

Before I read all the customer reviews online, however, I was shrieking with joy in my studio when I first managed to figure out what this toy does. First, it asked for the time. “Hour, please,” it said. Lucky I understood that somehow the “select” button has something to do with it. It then asked for the date, and the month. And then: birthday! Of course I came up with a fake birthday, and so right after my fake midnight, when I opened it on my fake birthday, it said “password accepted, welcome back. Happy birthday!” Shriek! Joy!

Another thing that made me happy was to find out that the lock mechanism is ran by a motor that is duly activated after the device decides that the password matches. Plus sound effects! Goodness gracious, I can definitely use this heck of a machine. Even when most other little girls around the world have agreed to dump it in the garbage.

Toy three, here I come.