Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Strip Bond Rice Rcv Gimp unteed Call for details downtown Al Tel Al Lynnan 7884040 9257420 show today on television twisted desire Melissa Joan Hart May have magical Powers in the teenage but she relies on More traditional Wiles to seduce a love struck boy into killing her parents in this 1996 to real life spouses Daniel Baldwin and Isabella Hofmann 7 music City news country awards country superstar Leann Rimes is both cohost and triple Nomi joining Rimes As hosts Are George Jones and Randy per formers and presenters include Lorrie Ricky Skaggs and Alan Jack extreme comedy Jenny Mccarthy hosts a summer minded look at celebrities doing silly things Jonathan Taylor Thomas drives a Jet Jeremy Piven grapples with a sumo wrestler and David Alan Grier takes part in Scotland Highland 7 talk shows David Letterman George James Jay Leno Conan Tom Snyder Morton Conan Obrien Bob Merrill Bonnie politically incorrect Dave Vicki Barbara today in music history in the Monterey International pop festival opened in it was the first major Rock festival and attracted people Over three performers included Janis Otis Jimi the who and the grateful born this Day Arthur 1874 Ruben 1948 Roberto 1951 1952 soundbite i did the show for eight that millions of people getting hit in the it really was time for both parties to move primetime irritant Bob Saget explains his decision to leave americas funniest Home today lineup concerts to Ella Fitzgerald jazz Winnipeg Winnipeg Art 8 jazz for lunch in old Market Square Ken jazz noon jazz for lunch at air Canada Walle jazz noon Junior the wizard of of fantasy theatre for opens deaf Cen tre to out and about antique show and Sale historical museum of Jame Assiniboia fund to saturday Polo Book launch canoeing Manito Bas Rivers by John Mcnally Grant 8 theatre Shakespeare in the ruins twelfth to july Norbert arts and cultural Rue Des ruins do 8 and movies cinematheque citizen the Day sports Winnipeg Gold eyes Thunder Winnipeg 7 to nightspots cafe a nays Jam with the blues Liberty Grill Kenny Colman jazz Pyramid cabaret the dirty dozen jazz festival and Curtis Winnipeg free press life june 1997 Barry an clockwise from and Kaitlin All age enjoy their Caber f look out parents the kids go so nuts for them Orget Beanie by berets have arrived in Winnipeg and they Are the hottest craze to hit parents pocketbooks Beanie Lindor Reynolds there just As popular with adults As with says Caroline owner of fibbers a Toronto based toy distributor now supplying Winnipeg stores with i guess you could say its like a virtual Caber pet the craze began in 1996 in Japan with Tam a plastic egg shaped object that fits in the Palm of a Childs playing with the toy involves pressing three buttons to activate and Hatch a then caring for it using those same three tiny icons indicate whether the owner should Check the pets play with feed clean up after it or put it to just like a the toy refuses to go to bed until its the toy runs on a tiny computer four Grade s students sat Down with a to Magotch and a Dinky the clone that Kates Only one child had seen the toys with no instructions and Little super they figured out what to do and were instantly i like Hes so said Chloe Wols i want one of her 11yearold Allison pressed buttons figuring out her Caber pets this is she Teny Earold Kaitlin Lee was delighted with the she understood How to play with the toy immediately and grinned with Delight when the Cybele go its just so she i want to keep play ing with the popularity of the toys has led teachers in other cities to ban them from Winnipeg teachers will Likely be facing that decision in the if the by Beret is properly cared a time intensive it lives for approximately 28 then it euphemistically goes to another planet and is replaced by another the kids go so nuts for says they have to have i think there Good because it teaches them to care for if this sounds too silly to be consider this four million of the creatures were sold in the toys Are just starting to appear in win and there already in hot toys r us sold out of its first Winnipeg ship ment of 500 much to the amazement of Supe Valu has them smaller toy stores Are buying from companies like who distributes the clone the most readily available in town is Dinky but dogs and babies Are being toys r us director of marketing Donna Welch says that the intended Market was girl kids Between the age of nine and she it has transcended its a new its a very different kind of theres a lot of it is an item that in limited parents Are advised to Call a store to confirm availability before jumping in the there also advised that some stores Are limiting the number you can buy to make sure As Many kids As possible can get Welch confirm or deny toys r us stores Are limiting were trying to keep Stock said people Are buying within its not our intent to sell our entire Supply to someone who is going to resell adults and kids have to have says its so says you carry it around on your Belt if youre not hell die i hell go to another local store owners Are a Little despite assurances that this is going to be the Summers must have Ive got said laughing Giraffe owner Mark but in not even sure what they my distributor just warned me id want to be elements of nature owner John Tait has his first but is similarly concerned that this toy May not be the rage it is predicted to he also wonders about the beyond the usual impulse in by berets Are Selling for anywhere from to i understand its supposed to be said whose store is in the Manitoba childrens Muse Well see How they Ive already had Calls for people Are asking for they dont realize that the other by berets Are the same thing with More two immediately noticed flaws in the toys the plastic Tab that inserted in the Back to shut it off and save the batteries is easily lost or broken and the icons on the clones Are a Little hard to read if youre an the children could see the icons just Tama Gotchis web set up by manufacturer Bandai offers Stern advice for new too Many snacks Are not when Tam ago Tchi is meals will fill him it on the other snacks Are a Quick Way to make Tam ago Tchi but the Best Way to make Tam ago Tchi Happy is to play the if you have no time to play the snacks will make to Magotch but it will also make it fat and it May be a Tummy note to parents the sound can be turned off if youre about to drown the family Day in a life heres a Day in the life of one to Magotch and one newspaper columnist whose nurturing instincts seem to be All used i Wake up Tammi the kid named of by shouting loudly at when that Doest i play As a last i read the pull its plastic push its reset but assemble a swing set and wait for an egg shape to appear on the i have to wait five minutes for the thing to in afraid to glance away in Case it has some immediate need i have to i Haven been this bored since it i have a baby alien that looks at though it were drawn on an etch i feed although the Only thing it eats Are hamburgers and Well straighten that out before the Day is i play some sort of bizarre game with it that appears to involve me getting hit in the head repeatedly with a All of this involves pushing tiny buttons much smaller than my someone in the Mother ship is writing me up for by Beret after 10 in i try to give it med but it wilful Little i decide to ignore i hit the it is to let me know it has filled its problem it Doest Wear a the tiny screen is filled with a distraught a Stinky pile and Little lines that Indi Cates noxious for some i have to push on the Duck icon to clean up the i turn its lights hoping it will i think its i tuck it in my Brief Case and head put for an in nearly involved in a Headon collision when the alien announces it is not Only it has is hungry and wants to its unhappy and unless i get its off to i pull out of traffic and madly press Tammi grows from a to a slightly larger in worried that i feel 10 in sitting outside the Home of my trying to placate this i raised a baby with Colic and it want this Imback in the feeding i make a snap i turn the sound something Many parents would occasionally like to do with their at every red i Check to make sure the thing int noon to i alternately play with Tammi and try to my heartless colleagues offer to come Over and stomp the Little monsters computer Chip out every time it in accused of playing on the in accused of being hooked on my new i play the Headan Dball game with Tammi and Tell it to ignore the mean i drive Home hoping it wont demand i sing to it on the i hire a the kid has her Dinky Dino and my Shes managing 8 i notice my egg is dark and theres no sign of i accuse the child of she gently Points out that they sleep Allim off 10 i go to bed who knows what time this thing will Wake up postscript i head to work the next for getting All about my new in sure its very Happy on its new ;