Fisher-Price Phonographs and Big Bird

 

By Doug Boilesen, 2024

Fisher-Price made children's phonographs and also toy record players that were music boxes. Big Bird and Sesame Street would be featured in Fisher-Price phonographs, records and other talking toys.

 

Fisher-Price Phonographs

 

 

Fisher-Price Phonograph, Fisher-Price Toys, New York, 1981

 

Fisher-Price Phonograph Model 0825, 1979-1984

 

Fisher-Price Phonograph Model 0835, 1979-1984

 

Fisher-Price Phonograph Model 0825, 1985

 

The Fisher-Price Record Player Model 815, featured Sesame Street's Big Bird playing 33 1/3 and 45 RPM records, c. 1984.

 

 

Fisher-Price Music BoxRecord Player Toys

In 1971 the Fisher-Price Music Box™ Record Player was marketed and its popularity would be evidenced by it being released again in 2020 as a Fisher-Price Retro Toy for Kids ages 18 months +. Ten songs on five records could again be heard from a toy being identified as a "Record Player" (now battery operated instead of the original wind-up dial on the front).

 

Fisher-Price Music Box™ Record Player, F-P Classic Retro Toy, Fisher-Price Toys, 2020

 

Music Box Record Player, Model 2205, Fisher-Price, 1987 (Courtesy of This Old Toy).

 

Music Box Record Player, Model 2203, Fisher-Price, c. 1988.

 

Similiar in its stylized phonograph look and functionality to the 1984 toy TOMY Record Player this 1987 Fisher-Price Music Box Record Player played discs to hear the music box tunes such as Au Clair de la Lune, Hickory Dickory Dock, etc.

For more examples of Fisher-Price Music Box Record Players see Toys that Never Grow Old.

 

Tomy "Bring-Along-A-Song® Record Player, No. 1073, 1984


 

Other Big Bird Talking Toys and Records

The Show 'n Tell Picturesound Program with its recorded story accompanied by filmstrips featured multiple Big Big and Sesame Street programs.


Big Bird in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Child Guidance, 1983.



PlaySkool Big Bird Sounds Around, Mattel, 1989.



Big Bird Schoolhouse Talking Alarm Clock, Bradley, 1978. (FP0197)

"Good morning, it’s me, your friend, Big Bird, the Old Schoolhouse Clock says it’s time to get up."



 

 

 

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