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 Box Record 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."