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 164 of "The Angry Video Game Nerd" to review multiple video game adaptations of the first two "Home Alone" films, as well as a gameplay session of "The Pagemaster" with James Rolfe and Mike Matei in the days following that episode's release. On December 19 of 2018, Culkin would once again reprise his role as an adult Kevin McCallister in a 60 second advertisement for Google Assistant, titled "Home Alone Again"; the commercial contains shot for shot remakes of plentiful scenes from the film, and Google Assistant helps Kevin set up the house to look active by remotely turning on