Alphie II
Yes, we realize that there was a PREVIOUS Alphie, but that guy was born in the 70s… and do we talk about the 70s around here? Not if we can help it.
But, for the life of us, we couldn’t just leave out Alphie the Educational Robot. Was he educational? Eh… he could help us play games, so does that count? These were games involving numbers and letters and… and… Ok, look we just wanted to have our very own robot. Is that so terrible to admit?
No.
It’s not.
It’s awesome.
And so that’s why, at some point in the 80s, Alphie II was flying off the shelves and into the arms of children all around the USA. And, come on. We’ve got to give the guy some credit. He was a little robot you could play games with. It was like a miniature Johnny 5 in our living rooms! (You know, except the whole ‘developing a romance with a human’ bit… At least that never happened with us– and if it happened with you, you should maybe keep it to yourself.)
But above all else, parents really wanted to provide us with educational toys (Sesame Street was all the rage, you see) and what better way than with Alphie II the Educational Robot?
Sadly, our little robot was discontinued, left to gather dust in the bottoms of our toybox. A sad fate for any toy but, he didn’t help himself by randomly turning on at times only to convince us that with the faint (and let’s be honest, fairly creepy) electronic jingle of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star maybe he wasn’t just a robot and maybe John Connor was on to something after all.
Of course. That could just be us…
We ♥ Alphie II.
