error handling in baby toys: addendum by mail

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 So what happens when you press an unknown combination of buttons on VTech toys? Unfortunately, nothing. What a letdown and missed opportunity! Instead of putting in an easter egg like the Clementoni puzzle board, the VTech _Zoef Zoef_ animals, _Toet Toet_ cars, steam train blocks, and wobbly water fun figurines all go silent. Italian versus Chinese humor, perhaps? 
 
 That said, this article proves we have way too many battery-powered toys that make noise... 
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+**Addendum**, 2nd April: David W. reached out to share another great baby toy easter egg story: 
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+> In my very first job as a teenager I worked at a small department store and remember discovering that if you put the LeapFrog Alphabet Pal Caterpillar in the mode where it sounds out letters and pressed `F` followed shortly by `K` it would add a giggle between the two letters. As far as I was able to tell this was the only combination of letters that added the giggle, presumably to avoid the caterpillar dropping the f-bomb.
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+![](../wiggler.jpg "The friendly alphabet-spelling caterpillar in question.")
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+Thanks David! I would never dare to form a (dirty) word by quickly pressing a combination of letters. So I went ahead and tried that using our steam train blocks, but the pauses between the letters are so long that no word emerges except for the very imaginative minds. Worth a try.