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This is my first post on VTech Wiki so i'll show you the new VTech toys for 2024 featuring PAW Patrol, Peppa Pig and Bluey.

I'm currently working on a video talking about strange and odd facts relating to the V.Smile, and was wondering if any of you knew of any.

Some notable facts I've got so far are;

• While the VTech brand is well known for never having violence, some Chinese V.Smile games like ABC Park Adventure has one of the puzzle icons you must identify be of a soldier holding a rifle. I think this only shows up in more advanced modes.

• One of the most obscure mascots from VTech is this unknown CGI fish which can be seen in one commercial for the V.Smile Motion in Europe (likely France).

• That jingle heard when completing a Learning Zone mini game in ABC Park Adventure is sampled from "Der Fuehrer's Face" by Spike Jones which btw is a anti-Nazi song from when everyone was trying to fight back against the Nazis in WW2. Yes, this technically means that a V.Smile game references WW2, even if it is a technicality.

• The door sounds from Doom (1993) are used in The Batman Gotham City Rescue game. (I know it's really a stock sound that both games used, just lemme have this one)

Hi!

So, I have another obscure VTech toy in German: A learning laptop called "Mr. Laptop" from 2004 or 2005.

Do you know if this exists in English? I've never heard of an English version so far!

The following was lifted from there current end of life page as of 4/6/23.

Product End of Life Announcement

Dear Loyal Customer,

VTech products and services continually advance and evolve to meet global demands and to offer you the best features. In order to maintain industry-leading standards on our products we regularly release firmware updates that keep the products updated and you protected.

We would like to advise you that we can no longer support the firmware updates on our first-generation remote Baby Monitors and Wireless Monitoring models listed below and will discontinue the remote monitoring services and support from 30th Sept 2022.

Baby monitor models

VM981VM991

From 5th July 2022, your Baby Monitor product will continue to operate as a local monitor, however, the MyVTech Baby app, push notifications, and related services will no longer function.

Wireless monitoring models

VC931

VC921

VC9312-245

VC9311-112

From 30th Sept 2022, the MyVTech Cams app, push notifications, and related services will no longer function.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause and encourage you to contact the VTech customer support team in your region if you have any questions.

Thank You,

The VTech Team

Found a page on the 2004 archives of VTech's site found in "http://www.vtech.com:80/pub/Jokesite/funMovie/"

is some kind of site that hosted funny images and movies. Sort of felt internal like it was just a think the employees did to pass the time.

The index page has it's page title say "leba.com", but at this time that url was on sale. There's an FAQ linked on this page but the two questions amount to "What is this?/idk", and "How do I become member/pay the fine". I know it's poor translation from Chinese to English but it still feels oddly vague. I'll put a table below on the videos that are available. If you go to one of the search.php pages you can find an index of some of these videos. All of them are of old commercials at the time of course compressed heavily for web standards. Despite every page under this Jokesite name being in Chinese, the commercials and videos are mainly in English. A few I noticed has this watermark flash at the lower corner, "viralx.com" which was a primitive site for sharing viral videos and images which is what this site is. The section of the site was last used around 2005. Outside of a small sample none of the images or videos will be hosted from this sub domain on here due to it not being that relevant towards VTech.

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///Name (on site) | filename///

Beer ads (2) | 71_1727.wmv

Wine ads | 70_1726.wmv

Beer ad (1) | 68_1724.wmv

Flying car | 67_1723.wmv

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///Unknown names///

091.mpeg

093.mpeg

094.mpeg

119.avi

122.avi

123.avi

60_wuhui.wmv

61_pijiu.wmv

63_bbshs.asf

67_1723.wmv

68_1724.wmv

70_1726.wmv

71_1727.wmv

Here is the actual prototype V.Smile logo in high quality which was lost to time for nearly 20 years.

Found Here - https://www.vtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/AR2004_eng.pdf

(it's on page 19 btw)

Found in the official annual report booklet from 2004 is this image of a catalog. Anyone know where this can be found? Don't know if this was only given internally or was available to the public.

The report booklet. Image below found on pg, 14