How To Make A 1985 Teddy Ruxpin Say Anything You Want

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[@bradjensen8231]

You could rip the original tape into something like audacity, then isolate the control track, cut it into a bunch of files that you label with their function. Then you can paste them back into a custom control track for your own audio recordings.

[@lakebay972]

My cousin had a Teddy Ruxpin; and I used to put in a Motley Crüe tape; and he did the Vince Neil part perfectly; also put in AC/DC, Judas Priest, and Ozzy.

[@scarecrow9213]

Did is emote

[@rebeccahopkins9522]

Yes but his mouth and eyes didn’t move. Unless you were tripping. And then EVERYTHING was moving 😂

[@dsearfoss29]

My mom‘s cousin had a Teddy Ruxpin and put in a music tape and he animated to the music.

[@PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven]

My uncle did the same thing when I was little cause my cousin broke his stereo so he used Teddy instead

[@lakebay972]

@@rebeccahopkins9522 Teddy’s mouth and eyes were moving. “Home Sweet Home” had me laughing in tears; so did “Shook Me All Nite Long”

[@rock-afire-fan]

Teddy ruxpin uses Pulse position modulation, you can make a box with knobs to control the eyelids and mouth and record the modulated data onto a tape with the vocals.

[@rebeccahopkins9522]

Those tones sounded STRANGEEEE. You turned Teddy Ruxpin into Chucky! 😱

[@tonyjohnson8937]

The fact that you had Straight out of Compton on cassette earned my like

[@pseydtonne]

Mine as well!

[@courtneycasarez6515]

Those tones sounded creepy. Like Annabelle type stuff.

[@thehumanthatwantsadog7389]

Courtney Cuz it is -.-

[@maryannguthrie3449]

yea

[@plateshutoverlock]

It sounds like a simple sawtooth wave with some variation in tone that both animates the bear, and switches to any of the accesory dolls plugged into Ruxpin. It would be very trivial to use something like Audacity to add those tones in the proper spacing and format to sync Teddy to whatever voice is on the recording.

[@rebeccahopkins9522]

Omg I wrote almost the same thing except I wrote she turned him into Chucky 😂

[@pxpunklv]

LOL

[@muggaphilly2072]

That same n.w.a tape back in the 80's we use to put inside teddy too lmao wow

[@enzonolastname1181]

If you miss the Mickey Mouse tape you can re-record the tape in a music player on your pc play track 1 on pc then press the record button on a tape player wait then your done

[@enzonolastname1181]

Done

[@yuvrajsandhu3914]

You should let a furby or any other animatronic toy speak into the mic so it is recorded on the tape and then put it into teddy ruxpin That would be awsommme

[@retrotoylover]

that would be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@pleasestopsubbingtome9867]

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[@mauriciojack1728]

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[@memphisgraham7986]

@Mauricio Jack Yea, been using Kaldrostream for years myself =)

[@bigboyrt]

My life is complete. Now Im going on ebay and getting to mess with my family

[@Cyperstudio]

this could easly lift teddy's usablility for other peoples videos. i thank you for this.

[@TravelcoP_TheChosenVirgoat]

What about the new Teddy's

[@Spartan375X]

I didn't expect a cassette tape to be that complicated. That's pretty awesome!

[@jessihawkins9116]

you are simple minded

[@Official_MysticWolf]

My teddy eventually only had those towns and I never knew why.

[@JoCox4048]

1:57 *LOWL*

[@anthonysabularse8562]

I just got a Teddy Ruxpin today. The person who sold to me, gave me a Best Of 1965-1966 Country Music tape. Watching your video want me to try using a Multiplex tape. I haven't bought batteries yet. I plan to make a video about it on my channel Bart D' Man 95 Lobby Wurkz. New subscriber here by the way.

[@MetalJuggalo]

My dad told me when he was a kid, probably about 4 or 5 years old, his much older sister put an Insane Clown Posse tape in his teddy ruxpin so instead of it being so random story, it was a song about murder. He doesn't remember what song it was but it was the Ringmaster album. Now, him and I are huge ICP fans

[@chrisgpoe9412]

I have a great idea for this. Just ordered a Teddy Ruxpin with cassette. I love this video!

[@WizardClipAudio]

Yeah,.. I totally have all that gear and a totally have all the digital editing. The tricky part was getting a fully working Teddy Ruxpin to make my own tape,... the whole point is to make a music album specifically for Teddy and Grubby animation.

[@jessihawkins9116]

yeah do they use a different sounds to control the grubby? what about mother goose and hector? 🤔

[@WizardClipAudio]

@@jessihawkins9116 Indeed they do. Not necessarily between different franchise of dolls. I think Mickey and Goofy for instance use the very same sounds for animation that Grubby and Teddy do. By the way, I noticed that some tapes have distinct animation tones for other characters besides teddy and grubby too. Like when my folks took me to that famous toy store in NYC, when I was really little, and they had Gimmick and the Fobs, and Wooly What’s it Dolls and more all hooked up to Teddy and Grubby too. I reckon each doll would be attenuated or biased to ‘listen’ for their distinct animation cues in the track, and filter out the rest of the audio cues, not intended for them.

[@jessihawkins9116]

@@WizardClipAudio are you talking about FAO Schwartz? 🤔

[@WizardClipAudio]

@@jessihawkins9116 Yeah, that was the one.

[@beforebefore]

Would the 1985 WOW Teddy Ruxpin fans be interested in a new device that would allow you to create new stories (or whatever), WITH synchronized animations for both Teddy and Grubby, but WITHOUT using cassette tapes, and WITHOUT modifying Teddy? It would work in real time, no computer or other devices needed. Just speak into the devices microphone, and use the mouth and eye animation controls on the device "as you speak". If you are recording 2 voices and want to push Grubby's voice to his speaker only, there will be a Pan control to do that - in real time, while speaking. Playback would be through Bluetooth to Teddy via a (wireless) bluetooth cassette adapter. I'm a EE, and have a Teddy and Grubby (and "stuff"), and in the process of trying to bring Grubby's animatronics back to life, I created the heart of the device to create the animation control signals... in real time. If this were to be a "product", I would obviously have to make some profit to make it worth my development time and expenses... so just wondering what people might be willing to pay for such? (if at all)

[@adelprimo]

Hello. I'm from Brazil and I'm a fan of Teddy. One difficulty here is finding tapes in Portuguese that still work. I would be willing to pay for it.

[@silhouettoofaman2935]

You used to be in a band? That's so cool! What was it called?

[@tordfangirl4eva192]

UwU

[@coltongary]

the beatles

[@christopherologist]

Furburgers

[@SumProject18]

I was in a band once... *Y m c a*

[@retrotoylover]

an even better way to make it move in sync is to record the channel that has the coding derectly into your computer using a cassette player and audacity or any other audio editor, and record another channel that has your voice, and copy and paste the animation signals to where it will almost perfectly move in sync. when the pitch of the signal goes down, the mouth opens and the eyes close. when the pitch of the signal goes up, the mouth closes and the eyes open! so copy and paste those at the right time of your voice and match it to your voice. use a cassette adaptor in teddy and plugged in to your computer and play the finished audio to see how it moves. if you did not exactly match it, go over it again and make any changes. then, if it is perfect, derectly record that audio on a blank tape! there ya go! I have a teddy ruxpin that has a metal back cassette player while yours is plastic, and when I put other tapes into him, it moves and I didn't put a signal on it! the metal version was the first run, so they changed them over the years to make it better. they changed the metal cassette player to plastic because metal is too expensive, but the metal has a better sound because it is not a cheap material. the reason why yours don't move when a regular tape is inserted, is because there is a switch, actually 2 switches in the cassette player. one of them detects when a teddy tape is inserted and a regular is inserted, so when a regular one is inserted, it wont move because on the metal version, it will damage the motors because of the way it moves. and the other switch is because the metal version, the cassette player still ran without a tape when it was turned on, making kids taking the tape out and not turning off the toy, causing the batteries to run down. so that switch on yours, it wont run without a tape!

[@wendi-bnkywuv]

Super amazing!

[@onfirestudios4664]

2:25 nope im leaving

[@postersm7141]

You are brilliant and I love the fact that you know what a four track recorder is LOL are used to also be in a band and I’ve done a lot of recording back in the day!

[@jameshicks1367]

In 1986 I was at my friend's house and just for a laugh we stuck in Van Halen running with the devil on the cassette. The thing took a few seconds but it sort of moving its mouth and eyes as running with the devil played over the cassette player. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen but it sure as hell did!

[@plateshutoverlock]

It uses the holes in the center top of the casette shell to tell the toy whether to use the animation tones, or play both tracks as audio without animation. Incidently, those center holes are used by higher end cassette decks to determine the formulation (like metal, etc...) of the tape . If you try to record onto a Teddy Ruxpin tape in those decks, the deck would use the wrong mode for the tape's actual formulation, and it won't record properly. You would have to cover those center holes.

[@danieltice3428]

omg exactly!!! this is wayyy to much work. i used to get my teddy ruxpin to play everything from new kids on the block to elvis. it has to do with the way the cassette is designed.

[@Hoverdork121]

So you basically showed us how to make the Teddy talk just like ALVINNN! And the chipmunks Talking Teddy Episode 😂😂😂

[@HugeWolf1]

Would it not be easier to find out the "tones", that is the frequencies that are used then just add the signals to the channel when you want the animations to work? A good oscilloscope would do that and a signal generator for the signal recording.

[@MarkHidden]

Don't need oscilloscope. Just an audio editor like audacity. www.audacityteam.org.

[@puppapalooza]

This was so cool I definitely need to alter a teddy ruxpin

[@dionabradly6092]

He works off frequencies that technology is past his era

[@nrdesign1991]

Maybe feed those tones into an oscilloscope to see what's actually going on.

[@wendi-bnkywuv]

They look jagged like square waves with some sawtooth waves thrown in, just as I was expecting! Teddy Ruxpins can also respond to other sounds that share a similar sound if it's placed upon the correct channel. When the pitch goes down that tells the Ruxpin to close its eyes and open it's mouth, and when it's gets higher that tells the mouth closes and and the eyes open. Pretty fascinating!!

[@MrAdal206]

I’m just amazed that you have a Ruxpin.

[@kenzieladybug9531]

5:58--6:01 "The silliest thing! And sing!" LOL Too funny! XD

[@onfirestudios4664]

its not silly its creepy

[@MickeyMousePark]

So it basically uses tech that Disney used (Audio Animatronics

[@joustingjay]

Perfect. Now I can get a hundred of these all saying scary things and open up an escape room called Five Nights At Teddy's

[@chameleoned]

Thank you for this! I took your idea and brought it into the digital realm using a DAW on my PC. I made sure to credit and link to you in comments - Teddy Ruxpin Shout at the Devil tutorial

[@smbssrestored-legendofzeld5332]

I have (had?) a talking Alf and he animates to any tape you throw in him.

[@rachelharrison7713]

That's interesting. I honestly have to find tye tapes that go to my teddy r. Cause it isnt 8 track(found some at goodwill) and it isn't a cassette oriented as they usually are. Is such an odd "cartridge" or a cassette.

[@ernestmac13]

Digitizing is the way to.go, as you can see the waveforms for each channel; which should help you get the mouth and eyes to match your words more accurately. You might try a new cable, as the one you have may be broken. It often saves time to try the easiest possibility first, and it is often cheaper. Then you can try and see if it's the port for the cable on Teddy or on Grubby.

[@hdofu]

one step closer to recording a Supafuz cassette for teddy of "Sick of it".

[@laotasurfs1110]

Holy holy, that's so cool!

[@jakekampschmidt6065]

Could you imagine if Teddy would talk in reverse when the tape was rewound.

[@mikamo]

All we would really need to figure out is if the data track tone is a sawtooth, square wave, or a sine wave, and what different pitches do, and mapping them out. Then it’s as easy as using a keyboard, whether that’s a synth, midi, or just an app, to recreate them in whatever pattern you want. Copy to Audacity paired with whatever recording you want, peg audio recording balance all the way to the right and data sound all the way to the left, plug it into a tape recorder (pick up a nasty one at Walmart or a nice one at a thrift store for about the same price), set the recording to stereo, and done.

[@wendi-bnkywuv]

They are very jagged and clipped, so square and sawtooth, much as I suspected due to the harsh sound.

[@Kajatime]

I wonder if a car tape adapter plugged into a computer speaker out would work. Then you could edit and play tracks directly from a computer or another device. If that works, maybe try plugging the tape adapter into a $20 bluetooth adapter and connect wirelessly.

[@Fsilone]

Would using a 3.5mm to cassette adapter and a dual deck stereo work to record a tape from a computer?

[@JasonSmith-sv4zf]

If you use one of those old CD to Tape converters (for using a portable CD player in your cars tape player) you could hook that cable up to a tone generator and see what tones cause the mouth and eyes to do different things (probably high and low tones controlling the open and close).

[@13athroom]

Most interesting video I've seen in quite some time!

[@Ricecooker64]

There are endless ways to rig this toy. we can all agree.

[@MidWestConcertVideo2]

Very cool thanks for sharing this. Here's how I'd start hacking this. I'd start with a video of one of the tapes playing in Teddy, to capture all the mouth and eye movements. And I take the original tape, and capture that with a computer audio recorder, and match both audio tracks - the one from the video and the one from the audio cassette. Then I would cut the control track into little motion samples, the naming them things like "eyes open while mouth is open" "eyes closed while mouth is open", etc. I would record my own audio track and drop those samples where needed. Another possibility would be to record control sounds into a small sampler, and then play the output of that sampler into the Teddy using one of those cassette adapters for very old car stereos.

[@coondogtheman]

My cousin had something like this but it was big bird from Sesame Street. Same idea as teddy. I put one of the tapes for him in a regular stereo and heard the story audio on one track and data like sounds on the other track and I turned the balance control on the stereo until the data sounds went away. If I had the player either teddy or Big Bird I'd make them sing eminem or 50 cent songs.

[@gabeshores4475]

How? THATS AMAZING

[@MadYocco]

You're a genius. thanks for teaching me.

[@WizardClipAudio]

Please don’t wreck original tapes,.. you can rehouse normal bias in a type four metal tape case or drill house in a normal bias housing to make the tape work.

[@RealRoseus]

Cool! I really want to try this so I can interrupt a part in one of the tapes I have, play it for my friend and try to freak her out 😂 Also, I've been wondering what the signals coming from my teddy were. Sometimes the tape would stop everything and play the odd animation signals sound but I never knew what it was and it ALWAYS scared me 😂

[@themilennialmilllepede7994]

True friends don't scare friends. That's mean. . .Unless they like that sort of thing.

[@jessihawkins9116]

@@themilennialmilllepede7994shut up

[@jackofalltradesmercury207]

You have a Beautiful Voice ❤❤❤❤

[@theresadysonful]

I wonder when you will make a video about grubby or even baby teddy ruxpin.

[@Portuguese-linguica]

Ma'am you are a genius thank you for sharing.

[@Football_-ue5hw]

This is what mama tattletale is based off

[@OneOfAMineRocks]

Great job!

[@BlockbusterVideo]

Hi! I have a question! I own the original Worlds of Wonder Teddy Ruxpin and Mickey Mouse. I dont have a Tedsy Ruxpin Cassete Tape but I tried using the Mickey Mouse Cassete Tape on Teddy and the Speaker/Audio on the Teddy is perfect but its Eyes, Nose and Mouth wont move. Is it because its a Mickey Mouse Cassete Tape or is it because its the Teddy Ruxpin Model 3 Edition? I thought maybe rhe Sovors were stuck but they're really east to move up and down and they dont feel hard or stuck. What do you think the problem is? I would sincerely appreciate the help! :)

[@retrotoylover]

his left eye is punched in!

[@AndrewsSister75]

I guess you can make Teddy Ruxpin say F You now lol

[@thegreatreceitatingplatypu5529]

You can animate Teddy Ruxpin using a Casio keyboard and an adapter cable! There's a video on KZbin of a guy doing it and showing how it's done!

[@retrotoylover]

that's only for the yes entertainment version, which was made in 1998 by yes entertainment. it has a red shirt with a yellow stripe and blue pants, and is a lot smaller than this version in the video. the yes entertainment takes 4 aa batteries while the one on the video takes 4 c batteries! so, the yes entertainment version is made by a different company and it is made differently so the signals are different!

[@The_One_Time]

That only works with the Yes! Entertainment Teddy.

[@jb_roboticgames6540]

could it work with keyboard?

[@turkeyplague]

Not for the Worlds of Wonder version. He uses pulse position modulation, where the time between each pulse controls the position of his servo motors. The 1998 Teddy by Yes! Entertainment uses a simpler system and can be controlled with a keyboard. There's a video floating around that shows how to do this.

[@meritpoint]

Tried this years ago using one of those cassette adaptors for car stereos plugged into a PC.

[@brianonthego]

Great work.with the new Bluetooth 2017 teddy, could you do this?

[@withorwithoutfur5624]

You know, I’m not sure. Unfortunately I don’t have mine anymore. He’s with a little boy.

[@WizardClipAudio]

If you or anyone, who reads this comment are interested, I'm doing a whole series of related videos about how to 'hack'/interface with Teddy Ruxpin, without having to compromise the integrity of his original hardware, and how to modify and program new cassette tapes for Teddy Ruxpin. It really,..much of it, more or less applies to any of the related World's of Wonder animated talking dolls. I have a couple up already from over a year ago, and am presently recording the first of a myriad of methods to program new content for the toy, and should be up, by next weekend. Other Videos will be more related to experiments with interfacing AI software with unmodified WoW Teddy Ruxpin hardware with peripheral devices.

[@foxiefurriesofficial2807]

Wow I am gonna try!

[@HarryScanlan]

I know this is old but hopefully you see this. I have the same TASCAM - but I don't think my Cassette adapter is "Stereo", even though it says it is stereo. What adapter are you using?!

[@mythomaschannelmythomascha2593]

He will also work with the talking Mother Goose cassette from Worlds of Wonder Playskool and 1985 I still have my original one from when I was a kid I was very gentle with my toys I did a project on what tapes Teddy Ruxpin that can and can't animate him but they would all work in him my favorite one is a backpack toys I was able to fix it I was one of the only people who took time to fix the backpack toys model cuz I'm good at fixing things could you fix shout Elmo which was broken from savers can you do it on camera do you remember my TV show

[@callmeangie867]

For science.

[@jakobwheelhand9907]

Pretty slick

[@TheTopicHole]

I wonder if you could use a cassette to auxiliary cable and play a custom mp3s 🤔🤔

[@turkeyplague]

Those control sounds are demonic!

[@themilennialmilllepede7994]

No. They're just strange.

[@NEVERwatchTHISchannel]

I SWEAR I saw an ORIGINAL MODEL one sing the ORIGINAL WHITE cassette of MASTER OF PUPPETS. After all, pealer dun 'er on a 5-stringer....

[@hell5309]

Unfortunately, you don't just have to be able to access the tracks. You have to figure out how those tones match up to his motions and to record a series of them that correspond to the music so he actually lip syncs.

[@brandonstamper6399]

Very cool!!

[@briankeith6256]

How fun!

[@jameslawson1]

Originally I thought that you had just put some effects on your voice and dubbed it over a video of the bear moving its mouth.

[@shaggy791]

Holy crap! I have that 4 track recorder!!!

[@kellynorman7452]

great video

[@agonleed3841]

Loved it cool

[@railfanningstuff8333]

I can do it digitally I got the equipment I just need the toy to perfect the animation to audio sync up I'm working on acquiring one.

[@pleasestopsubbingtome9867]

Make him say "I'm gonna kill you late at night" in halloween.

[@microbios8586]

Couldn't you record the original movement sounds onto another blank cassette? I suppose you don't have another device to record it?

[@Teen.Things]

My dad used to pop his slayer cassette in his

[@RamonaQ]

@2:24 *backmasking has entered the chat*

[@WizardClipAudio]

I figured this out quite a while ago.

[@mythomaschannelmythomascha2593]

Can you make a Teddy Ruxpin playlist

[@SudoWoofie]

We already have it lol | \/ kzbin.info/www/bejne/fl6am2iXbMucpKM&t

[@railfanningstuff8333]

I was thinking of copying and pasting the data bits on Audacity My Idea would be to record the audio from tape over the PC Line-in using Audacity of which is free. Using a 3.5mm headphone to RCA cored

[@railfanningstuff8333]

Just a side thought but I was wondering if a car Cassette to 3.5mm headphone jack adaptor would work in it then I can move the data track to key area's of a song via copy and paste and test it in real-time without the need to record the entire audio track to a tape I would be able to play the sound stream directly from my PC to the Ruxpin in real-time

[@alanbsr0]

YOu had me at Ebay! LOL That's what I try to look for to resell. Of COurse the KNowledge you have of the equipment is beneficial

[@HighTen_Melanie]

I will have nightmares after seeing this.

[@Noo-Bay_theFurby]

Wow, you had a band? What was it called?

[@Twincast007]

Can u do the same thing with grubby?

[@takeru__]

No

[@turkeyplague]

Yes you could. Grubby's data track is mashed in with Teddy's, so you'd have to find a spot on the tape where Grubby is talking. You do still need Teddy for Grubby to work, though.

[@ytperson5]

Is this the same doll that inspired the teddy bear they used in the A.I. movie

[@yeshello5995]

I can’t even come across a Panasonic boom box, for less than like $250

[@SpaceShank]

So Teddy's data track is all didgeridoo?

[@miachamberlain3531]

Yesssss

[@DRUNKENATHEISTSTUDIO]

This is very cool lol

[@colincummings2306]

teddy ruxpin

[@HectorTheCatVarietyChannel]

Put a 2 Live Crew cassette in Him! LOL!

[@charleswatts1864]

Don't all stereo cassette tapes have 2 tracks? There shouldn't be a need to wreck those tapes. New ones should work just fine.