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...Mount Temple, a public high school in Dublin, asking if there was anyone interested in forming a rock band. That was in 1976, and he was 14. Mullen had been playing drums since the age of nine...His parents finally gave him part of a set--made by a toy manufacturer and retailing for $15--at which young Larry happily flailed away until his father suggested he try to get a group together. The Saturday after the school notice went up, six or seven Mount Temple students appeared in the Mullen kitchen. "Some people could play," Mullen remembers. "The Edge...
...GLORIOUS TOY MOSAIC...
Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery ’87 affectionately wipes the “sludgy“ nose of her two-month-old son and places him in the Gymini, where a toy rooster and other animals hang from two criss-crossing poles above...
Kids like toys based on music, the theory goes, because they allow for open-ended play that's different enough every time that the kids don't get bored before the toy is out of the wrapping paper. Retailers like them too, because these days most people older than six months are the willing slaves of Britney Spears, and she moves units like nobody else. The show- stopping number in Britney's new movie is a singing contest in a karaoke bar, in fact, which may be why karaoke machines are a hot ticket at this year's Toy Fair...
...most innovative musical toy at the Toy Fair this year is Neurosmith's Musini ($69.99, ages 3 and older, due out in September). Musini is built around a motion sensor that picks up vibrations from the surrounding room. Put it on the floor, and when a toddler stamps a foot or knocks on a wall, Musini composes music on the fly in time with the kid's movements. The room itself becomes a musical instrument, one that never plays the same song twice. Note: Musini is not compatible with Hummel figurine collections...