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Post by Kevin on Nov 15, 2016 14:43:24 GMT -7
Hi The blue eyed Teddy will feature soon............
Thanks
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Post by Teddy210 on Nov 22, 2016 2:53:26 GMT -7
Dr Betty is a dear friend of mine that Lachlant guy is a jerk honestly no one is perfect but Betty and I became good friends through these toys I chatted with her we had fun talking and I told her how bad I wanted a talking mother goose and a talking snoopy and guess what she gave me both fully restored free of charge they still work perfectly to this day and she has restored my talking Mickey teddy grubby ideal Big bird Cookie Monster and Oscar and more check her feedback she runs her store through eBay as well and she has thousands of restorations she's done and not a single bit of bad feedback she has 100% positive feedback and if you have problems with your toy even after you get it back from her just ask her to do it over again she'll be happy to do it for you please don't be mean to her
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Post by DollyPrince on Nov 22, 2016 3:49:55 GMT -7
It does not matter how nice she is or not. The quality of her repairs is what matters in this case. I am not sure if she has improved, as I do not follow the progress of other repairers (I repair my own toys), but I have heard more bad than good, especially from those who know exactly how WoW toys are supposed to function.
Lachlan is not a "jerk", he was just an unsatisfied customer who recieved his Teddy broken from Toysthattalk, twice!
He is also a member of this forum, and I advise you to watch your language. This is a forum for discussion, it is not a playhouse and it is not a YouTube comment section. Please refrain from name calling.
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Post by d.ruxpin on Nov 22, 2016 14:24:43 GMT -7
I've had excellent experiences with her. She's been great, so long as you give her a tape to test your WoW/Playskool/YES! talker. Also, although I disagree with Lachlan (I do understand that he's had bad experiences), there's no reason to call him a jerk. He's simply stating facts of his case and nothing more.
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Post by Teddy210 on Nov 22, 2016 14:58:34 GMT -7
Sorry but I have had Betty restore a dozen of my toys and they have all been perfect no I'm not just saying that to fix a toy it takes her like 2 weeks I have had great experience if you just give her a chance I'm sure you will be satisfied she has over 20 years of experience fixing these toys every repair person has their bad days lachlant isn't a jerk but his teddy obviously has other worldly problems not all teddys can be fixed some are unfixable sadly I'm just saying please give her a chance before you judge her too much based on her repairs please
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Post by late2theparty on Nov 24, 2016 7:23:05 GMT -7
As I do repairs on my own WoW toys, I'll speak from experience of the fact that while some seem to be a piece of cake to fix, others can be quite problematic and confounding. Right now I have been periodically going back again and again to a Teddy that plays and has working animation...and has a mouth that works for Teddy, Grubby, Gimmick...and every other character who is speaking on the tapes. I suspect a board problem as changing the tape head made no difference, but nothing is obvious. Dr. Eyeore has been my mentor on all of this, and I know she'd shrug her shoulders on some of these problems and just state that sometimes these guys are just confounding, and that a part that seems hopeless in one will work fine when installed in the next. I guess this is why there was a Grundo hospital way back when. I'm sure some people may have a bad experience with any repair source, while others will be very satisfied. But this is why I will only repair my own WoW toys or do a repair form friends I know well at no cost. Doing it as a business venture would certainly lead me to headaches.
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Post by DollyPrince on Nov 24, 2016 19:37:40 GMT -7
It is true, some WoW toys can be harder to diagnose and repair than others... Blueoctopede's first Mickey Mouse comes to mind..
late2theparty, have you tried inspecting the board and seeing if there is a capacitor or other component which needs replacing?
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Post by late2theparty on Nov 25, 2016 5:41:00 GMT -7
I have yet to doing that type of electronic diagnosis. The equipment I have to tests caps, etc. goes back to point to point/tube days...Heathkit stuff...and I have not done much of that in many years now. And I'm uncertain whether it is really usable for doing analysis on printed circuit boards of not. Contacts on the line ends on these things is sometimes as large as the caps themselves.
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Post by Teddy210 on Nov 26, 2016 0:20:01 GMT -7
I once tried restoring a teddy 3rd generation didn't work out well but I sent him to Betty she gave him new life but yeah if you wanna do your own repairs I highly recommend it but be careful with certain ones Dr Eeyore claims snippy is one of the hardest to fix and yeah he's very heavy but still cute I wish they would have made Charlie Brown to go with him so sad they went bankrupt they were such a great company but at least their toys will live on cause of us 😊
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Post by late2theparty on Nov 26, 2016 20:06:10 GMT -7
If you need to get to the servos in Snoopy's head, he does prove to the the most difficult of the WoW toys to get apart. Mickey Mouse is a bit involved as well. And if you do work on a Grubby and have to get him completely apart, the problem arises in getting the plastic shell that makes up his body back together. The trick on that one is to soak the plastic in hot water to make it pliable. Otherwise you'll drive yourself crazy trying to get separate parts of the body shell back together after reinstalling the electronics. It is sad that WoW went under given where they were headed. The Pamela doll incorporated external chip cartridges, but was nothing compared to the next setp with the Julie doll, that incorporated voice recognition. When you consider the fact that this was 30 years ago. it was amazing where they were headed with their toys.
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Post by DollyPrince on Nov 26, 2016 20:31:09 GMT -7
I do not remember ever taking Grubby's body apart.. If you are only repairing the motors, there is no need.
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Post by late2theparty on Nov 27, 2016 5:23:31 GMT -7
I've had to replace the plug socket in a couple Grubby, and had a piched wire to the board in one. The socket can be replaced without taking his shell apart if there is enough lead on the wires, but it is easier to do this when his shell is take apart. If only the usual case of frozen servos, though, no need to do that. The first one I fixed was a real mess and required a bit of trial and error...but I learned a lot from that experience on how to work on those guys.
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Post by yellowilliop on Aug 19, 2019 12:31:35 GMT -7
late2theparty I absolutely refuse to go thru Dr. Eeyoure. She is super shady, telling me she “forgot” to put the spring back in my bears head. He came back halfway working. When we sent him to her, his right eye was broken inside the head, both mouth motors perfectly working. She toke him back to fix the mistake SHE made after proceeding to tell my dad she “puts the screws, springs, etc in a big bag together” so we sent him back for her to put it back in his head. He came back, with his upper jaw refusing to work, and eyes no matter if he was talking or not, very quickly closing acting as if the motor had 0 control over itself. She blocked my dad after he asked if there was anything we could do about it, the only response we got was “I can not fix it again. I have to much on my hands and will only repair again if he is sent to me and my work is paid for” absolutely ridiculous. Now my bear to this day almost refuses to work unless you shake him a little and tap on his back. He was sent in last summer
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Post by sunab13 on Aug 19, 2019 14:29:44 GMT -7
late2theparty I absolutely refuse to go thru Dr. Eeyoure. She is super shady, telling me she “forgot” to put the spring back in my bears head. He came back halfway working. When we sent him to her, his right eye was broken inside the head, both mouth motors perfectly working. She toke him back to fix the mistake SHE made after proceeding to tell my dad she “puts the screws, springs, etc in a big bag together” so we sent him back for her to put it back in his head. He came back, with his upper jaw refusing to work, and eyes no matter if he was talking or not, very quickly closing acting as if the motor had 0 control over itself. She blocked my dad after he asked if there was anything we could do about it, the only response we got was “I can not fix it again. I have to much on my hands and will only repair again if he is sent to me and my work is paid for” absolutely ridiculous. Now my bear to this day almost refuses to work unless you shake him a little and tap on his back. He was sent in last summer How ridiculous. Sounds like you were scammed. Honestly, what I would suggest is finding tutorials online on how to fix the bears yourself. It would be a lot better than paying tons of money so some half-deaf woman who doesn't know what she's doing can screw up your already broken Teddy.
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