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Melissa & Doug Band in a Box by Melissa & Doug

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Melissa & Doug Band in a Box
(Baby Product) Melissa & Doug
Release date: 2006-06-12

Wooden crate
Recommended Age Range 4 Years and up
Contains 10 pieces
Make a band of your own


Price: $24.99 $13.65


Customer Reviews:
  1. Good Quality Fun
    These instruments are durable and of good quality. I don't worry about my kids banging on them as hard as they want. They make beautiful music. The kids have so much fun playing with them. They are real instruments, not plastic imitations that don't sound quite right. This was a purchase I...
  2. Not so durable Band in a Box
    This item was purchased for as a Christmas gift. Within the first day the head of the tamborine was destroyed by light to moderate tapping. Not too worried, figured not everything is toddler proofed. But six months later, with minimal use, one of the handles from the maracas came off, beans...

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I read that they did in a magazine. Is it true?


I heard that they did too once, but I wanst sure if it was true.

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does anyone know what the value of a toy made by texas instruments called peek a boo zoo?
Instruments of His glory on 26 February 2010 - day 57

It was made in 1990- found it in the closet the other day- just trying to find out if it's worth anything.
It is round shaped- has 6 hands that pop up when a kid either pushes a button or turns a knob- when the hand pops open 1 of 6...


WOW. Those are worth $150 or more. I have got mine for that much when I had it apprised and sold. You must have a better one than what I had, so you should get more than me.

Bontempi - Saxophone
Bontempi - Saxophone by Bontempi

Price: $16.99 $12.75

The toy saxophone is plastic and has a shiny silver finish
Measures about 16.5" long
This toy saxophone by Bontempi has 8 keys and can play a scale and the keys are color coded so children can play songs that are printed on the back of the box
For the budding musician - a silver saxophone for your home orchestra or marching band
Fun to play and encourages creative play

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Design, toys, musical instruments feature is still R & D focus ...

China toy musical instrument suppliers continue to improve aesthetics and function, especially in similar efforts to help expand sales, last year 2010 in the first 11 months, export earnings in the bank over 060 million U.S. dollars, reflecting an increase of 18% over the same period last year. Considering about 80% from sales of electronic models, the company is to promote the design further.

manufacturers to improve the appearance of the release of 3 to 6 years diet. Novel structures and highlight the latest eye-catching, such as stars, lightning, fire, crown and licensed cartoon character mark. Bright colors, including pink, yellow, green, red, blue and purple, with

the company is also developing multi-functional toy musical instruments, combined with a design in two or three functions. To illustrate this point, toy guitar can be a microphone, keyboard or drums. DJ mixer systems are equipped with authorities, while standing on the drum set has an additional microphone....

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Buy the Texas Instruments Little Professor

One of the earliest electronic toys I had (and certainly my first math toy) was the Texas Instruments Little Professor. While I’ve heard some people refer to it as a child’s calculator, that’s really not an accurate description. It was a handheld device that quizzed you on simple math problems. The problems were all simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You just punched in the answer and pressed answer. A correct answer gave you a reward of the “Professor” doing a sort of “dance” with his face. Basically his eyebrows and mustached wiggled up and down. Strange, but it was a pretty good incentive for me when I was 7 years old. If you got enough questions correct, he did a longer dance.

I only recently found out that there were several pretty distinct models of the Little Professor. I had an LCD display with flat buttons. Apparently, that was the later, less popular model. On Ebay, you’ll see that the far more common Little Professor model had raised buttons and used a red LED display. The Texas Instruments website even shows a Solar Little Professor model, something I’ve not seen “in the wild.” Regardless of the model, the game play was the same, and as far as 1980′s math toys went, it was a lot of fun. After a while, I outgrew the toy. It was too effective for me in teaching the problems, and it got boring when I got to the point where I stopped missing problems. Nonetheless, this was a classic Texas Instruments toy that was a precursor to many other great educational toys and games to come.

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