#Walkie talkies

[barbielore]

Some of you may have seen the recent news about the Barbie flip phone.

Produced by HMD, and marketed as a way to stay in the moment without being distracted by apps, the subtext is that this is a basic phone with limited functionality to allow children to access certain phone features (like being able to stay in contact with their parents while not home) without being given unsupervised access to the entire internet.

The Unicorn Play Phone Set features a mimicry of a Barbie smart-phone, with a matching unicorn phone case with a storage pocket for Barbie-themed toy credit cards - and a rainbow wrist strap so you can't accidentally drop it down a drain.

(Was that drain thing too specific?)

But neither of these are the first foray into Barbie phones.

In the late 90s, there actually was a working Barbie landline.

This was, from memory, the era of a lot of novelty landline phones so frankly should come as no surprise.

Or Phone Fun Skipper, which featured not just Skipper using a phone, but also a phone for you to use too.

More in line with the Unicorn smart phone, this is of course not an operational phone, but that isn't what bothers me most. It's that the "phone for you" does not actually look like the phone Skipper is using. It's not even the same colour! What's the point!

Side note, but Skipper is wearing an adorable little vest here. It's bizarre but loveable.

There have been a few iterations over the years of Barbie "phones" that are actual operational walkie-talkies, and I find those quite charming also.

[secular-jew]

The very focused outcomes of operation of beeper blast.

[valentinafdbp21]

What an abominable birthday

Part 1:

Final part:

It was supposed to be posted yesterday, but i had a lot things to do haha (the comic was made 1 day late from Error's birthday 😭)

maybe i'll draw doodles about this party, it was supposed to be an undernovela them party. That is why there is an Asgore piñata

[antheyaaa]

#walker aka Facebook mom

[welele]

[nana-mizu-shiki]

Can't deal with life changing news if your unconscious. Life hack.

I don't know if I already rec'ed this but here you go!!

[gijoe-forever]

[the-bong-water-rake]

//chat, im cooking

[iwanttogointospace]

Released in 1974, Mego’s Communicator was a stylized walkie-talkie made to resemble the same device used on the Star Trek television show. Each walkie-talkie operated on a 9-volt battery and could send and receive voice messages up to 1/4 mile – perfect for alerting your landing party of a pending danger! Mego sold Communicators in two forms: a boxed set and a carded “blister pack.”

A large part of the coolness factor of the toy was its two-tone blue case, silver and black Starfleet insignia, and a cover that flipped up at the press of a button, just like the antenna grid on the original prop. The Communicator also featured a telescopic antenna, a push-to-talk switch, a belt hook, and a green/red alert signal button that was used to emit a “twin warp

Another super cool toy from childhood, they really worked!

[sailorsenshishitposter]

I just remembered that my father would get us to play a game where he would hide in tall bushes and give us one of the walkie talkies. The goal was to communicate with his until we could find him and I can't tell if that's mgs coded or not

I was also taught as a child that weakness isn't allowed but that's a whole different story

[field-cryptobotanist]

I just need to say that a lot of the walkie talkies when they're almost completely out of battery start making incessant beeping sounds alerting pretty much anything around to your location and honestly I need a lot more of that in horror games

[mobeanz]

What they don't tell you about finding unconditional love in friendships is the part where you return to a friendship established prior and are crushed with the weight of masking

[autisim-power]

Honestly....... I still have no idea of what walkie talkie is who made them and whatever else I don't know if I wasent listening or if it was poorly executed (I am having to check the wiki as we speak)

UPDATE: It was never revealed (according to wiki) and I think it should of been I want walkie talkie lore so bad

[antheyaaa]

Walker... Do you want to tell us something?

[morganski-19]

Another headcanon I have with the walkies is that the group has specific frequencies that they would communicate with specific people that the others wouldn't know about.

Like Steve and Robin have one that they would use to talk to each other on late nights when neither of them could sleep or had a nightmare.

Will and Mike would have one where they talked about DND or nothing at all. Will updating Mike on his painting and Mike would talk about his day.

Lucas and Max had one where they would talk while her parents fought with each other or Billy. Reminding her that she wasn't alone and keeping her company on tough nights.

El would have secretly gotten one that Hopper didn't know about, talking with Mike or Max when she felt lonely.

Nancy and Jonathan would use theirs whenever Nancy's mom told her to stop using the phone.

Eddie would have one with Steve to talk about nightmares or just call him when he was high or drunk and talk nonsense.

Dustin made one for just the original four to reminisce on old times or just to talk about things without the older kids listening.

It would always be hard to find when the other person was on the secret frequencies or the main one, so each pairing would have a secret word they would use if they weren't on the right frequency. It confused the group for a while until they all caught on and it became quite frequent. Though if someone else was walking by the walkie if it was still turned on, they would get very confused why someone would randomly just say a random word and nothing else.

[sqeeebus]