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Ask HN: Help Me Identify These Items (And Thus Preserve My Sanity)

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I used to own the red one[1] and I cannot for the life of me remember its name... it's driving me batty!

Also I remember reading that the truck was made anew and was excited for my young roboticist but now I cannot think of where I read that.

(Sometimes being a Geek and OCD sucks.)

Please and thanks!

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[1]: http://secpie.com/toys.jpg

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I found a picture that shares two of your items:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veloopity/210755456/

Good work! (And quick: What search-term or tool did you use?)

Google image search "unusual instruments"

Ha! Google-Fu master.

The one on the bottom was called the Magical Musical Thing. I had one and loved it.

And the red handheld was called Merlin. That's all I got.

Yep, that's[1] it. Good work.

Score on the Merlin[2] too!

Was that all from memory?

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[1]: http://www.miniorgan.com/lib/view.php?miniorgan=12

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(game)

The Magical Musical Thing was. But it took some coaxing. I could remember the name was longer and had some rhythm. I was Googling "musical wand" and trying mot to think about it. Then it sort of fell into my head and I Googled MMT and saw the pictures.

With the Merlin, I kept thinking "Simon". I can't remember exactly what I googled but maybe something like "retro handheld electronics red" and saw a picture of it.

I want an MMT now. I remember playing the HELL out of Greensleeves on that.

The truck is a Bigtrak, re-made by firebox.com: http://www.firebox.com/product/2734/Bigtrak?via=top10&ca...

Ah... Amazon Remembers identified the micro keyboard as a Casio CTK-2100 but that's definitely not correct. But worse; they say the red toy and the psudo-flute are both USB bar-code scanners... doh!

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