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
Macaulay Culkin of party promoter Michael Alig, a drug user and murderer. He quickly followed that with a supporting part in "Saved!", as a cynical wheelchair-using, non-Christian student in a conservative Christian high school. Though "Saved!" only had modest success at the box office, Culkin received positive reviews for his role in the film and its implications for a career as an adult actor. Culkin began doing voice-over work, with appearances in Seth Green's "Robot Chicken". In 2006, he published an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel, "Junior", which featured details about Culkin's stardom and his shaky relationship with his father. Culkin starred in "Sex