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 course in theaters, "Home Alone" was the third-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, as well as in the United States and Canada behind only "Star Wars" ($322 million at the time) and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" ($399 million at that time), according to the home video box. In total, its cinema run grossed $477,561,243 worldwide. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 67.7 million tickets in the US. According to William Goldman, the film's success prompted the creation of a Hollywood verb: "to be "Home Aloned"", meaning to have a film's box office reduced by the impact of "Home