Kasey The Kinderbot And Pals Toby And Fetch High On Santa's List This Christmas

November 2004 -- Michael Freeman Ph.D., the Father of Interactive educational Toy Inventions, said that educational robots will be "the gift of choice" this Christmas because pricing has hit new low points and the demand for early tech teaching is up.

"In the last 15 years, I have never seen so much interest in buying interactive toys that are fun, imaginative and teach spelling, reading and arithmetic" commented Dr. Freeman who licenses Kasey The Kinderbot products to Fisher- Price and was the inventor of 2-XL (Mego Corporation and later brought back by Tiger Electronics) and Electronic Talk 'N Play (Child Guidance and later brought back by Hasbro) over a decade ago. "Finally parents are really understanding the spirit of Interactive educational toys. They make learning fun in the early stages of development and preparing their future students to embrace technology."

This Christmas, Fisher-Price expanded its Robot Toy offerings with three interactive toys that offer different skill levels at new price points:

KASEY THE KINDERBOT (children 3-7 years) is a phenomenal award-winning toy (Parents Magazine) that provides over 80 hours of learning fun. KASEY coordinates movement, a visual screen, light up buttons, and speech in order to teach over 40 different learning skills. KASEY teaches math, reading, phonics, words, spelling, thinking, problem solving, manners, music and much more. In addition there are programs (sold separately) that teach many other subjects including science, numbers, and even Spanish and French. Measures 15" tall. Requires 3 "D" batteries (included). Retail price about $39-$49. Available where toys are sold.

FETCH THE PHONICSBOT (children 2 years and up) is part dog part robot and teaches upper and lowercase letters, phonics, spelling, word association, and other pre-reading skills. Measures 12" tall. Requires 3 "C" batteries (included). Retail price about $25. Available where toys are sold.

TOBY THE TOTBOT (children 1 year and up) is a playful robot that comes to life with movement, a light-up screen, and can teach letters, numbers, music, and shapes. Measures 12" tall. Requires 3 "C" batteries (included). Retail price about $20. Available where toys are sold.

SOURCE Fisher-Price