Talkboy Talkboy The Talkboy is a portable variable-speed cassette player and recorder manufactured by Tiger Electronics (now owned by Hasbro) in the early 1990s. It was originally conceived as a non-working prop for the 1992 movie "", used by the main character Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin). A fully working retail version based on specifications provided by John Hughes and the movie studio was available at Toys "R" Us on November 20, 1992, the day "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" was released nationwide in the United States.The original Talkboy model released for the 1992 holiday shopping season came in "Home
Home Alone Alone". On Rotten Tomatoes, "Home Alone" holds an approval rating of 63% based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads: ""Home Alone"s uneven but frequently funny premise stretched unreasonably thin is buoyed by Macaulay Culkin's cute performance and strong supporting stars." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, it has a score of 63 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. "Variety" magazine praised the film for its cast. Jeanne Cooper