The Late Late Toy Show 2013 (It's an Irish Thing :p)

[Mokong]

OK I guess quick explaination for the non-Irish here? Yeah? K.

 

On Irist TV channel RTÉ there is a weekly Friday night talkshow called the Late Late Show, normal talk show, host interviews various celebs and sports people, talks about current events maybe and the like.

 

But the show four Fridays before Christmas the show becomes the Late Late Toy Show. A 2.5-3hour showcase of what are expected to be the most popular toys this coming Xmas. With Kids of various ages doing demos of the different toys (or even some book reviews).... as you can imagine this being a live show more often than not when kids are involved (especially younger ones) things don't always go as rehearsed :P

 

There's also usually some musical acts, dance numbers and the odd celeb guest.

 

Been going on annually since I think the 1970's and is now traditionlly how we Irish mark the true begining of the Christmas Season. Christmas doesn't start till the Toy Show happens! End of!

 

So yeah it's on tonight, 9.30pm, looking forward to it as usual. It can be very hit and miss, some years it doesn't quite live up to the hype, others it can so looking forward to see if it is a good show this evening

 

It's actually viewable internationally on the RTE website this year, so if anyone is tempted to be bombarded with Xmas colours and constumes and possibly (most likely) a few cringy moments when things go wrong or kids screw up... or in general the host screwing up (also likely) or maybe we'll get lucky and have a few good musical/dance acts this year too. You should try check it out.

 

There's also this thing where if you can tickets to be in the audience you'll pretty much have all your Xmas gifts given to ya as every 10 minutes or so the Host after showing off something will say "There's 1 for Everybody in the Audience", I tried entering comps every year to win tickets...not been lucky yet

 

I'm very interested to see what happens in the video games section this year. I remember last year the show was the same day as the Wii U released, but the Wii U wasn't on the show , (but they did have Wii and 3DS stuff, can't remember what though?) so wondering will Xbox One and PS4 (which as ye know also out today) be on this years show, I would hope the Wii U will/should at least get a shout in this year with Mario 3D World... but you never know. The games section tends to be very short and rushed.

 

Will be watching with my son, now 3 years old who even though he probably can't remember last years show is very excited just by the name "Toy Show" :P

 

As a taster here is the shows intro from last year and a few select clips (well what I can find on YT)

 

2012 Intro (Sherk)

 

 

From the 2009 Show, awesome and smart (and a bit posh but we won't hold that against him) 8 year old JohnJoe Brennan

 

Any Craic? (2012)

No not a drugs reference, kid starts talking Irish askes Ryan "How are you what's the story?" (Slang: What's the Story, kinda like asking, any news or what's up?) Ryan replies, "I'm fine, any craic?", any craic depends on context but here more like asking is the kid having a good time or is there anything interesting, so which he says "no" and drives off LIKE A BOSS

 

4 Year Old names all 32 Counties in Ireland

 

2010 Intro (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

 

O Holy Night Performance (2012), for those who like their traditional Xmas songs

 

2011 Intro (Toy Story)

 

9 Year Old Singer/Songwriter (2011)

 

 

 

WOOT CHIRSTMAS STARTS TONIGHT!!!!!

[Diageo]

I'm watching it

[Mokong]

It's on NOW

 

Mary Poppins style intro this year

 

Again for those outside Ireland who've never experienced the wonder of the Toy Show, you can watch it here

 

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/

 

Now If you'll excuse me I'll be AFK for till tomorrow

 

EDIT

 

Video Game Section on now,

 

WOOT, they didn't ignore the Wii U, they showed it between PS4 and Xbox One... though the game they showed was Disney Infinity not Mario....

 

PS4 only showed off that robots in the controller thing (can't believe Nintendo never thought of that, would have worked so well with Pikmin)

And on Xbox One they showed FIFA 14, and then surprised the kid demoing it asking him who was his favourite Irish player, he said "Robbie Keane" and next thing Robbie walks out

Edited November 29, 2013 by Mokong
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[Mokong]

So @Diageo what did you think of it last night? @Wii you watched it too yeah? Anyone else?

 

I thought it was pretty damned good Though seeing my son go loving it may have made it seem better than it was so wondering what others thought.

 

I thought all the acts were pretty decent, expect the first one with the teddy bears, favs were the rock band and the Cup Song, checked RTÉ's Youtube they only have few vids of last night up, surprised they don't have the intro up which as I said last night was a Mary Poppins themed one.

 

Here's the few clips they have added to their youtube.

 

 

Boy demoing FIFA gets stunned with surprise appearance of Robbie Keane

 

Also found this on Facebook

 

The Cup Song, I liked this cause the intro actually surprised me, I should have seen where it was going but I didn't

 

This is a clip of a young man who got to co-host a section, strange one how this came about, few weeks ago the host Ryan Tubridy, got an email from this kid asking to co-host the Toy Show cause he suffers from "Middle-Child Syndrome", letter was apparently very good that Ryan granted his request....kid actually did pretty well too...won;t be surprised if he ends up hosting a kids show on RTÉ next year

 

BOSCO!!!!!! Ok NOBODY outside Ireland will have a clue why this is such a big deal, this is was a massive piece of nostalgia for kids of the 70's 80's and early 90's. Bosco was a puppet who host a kids show that ended back in the 90's and hasn't been seen till last night. When I heard the voice and then saw him I had a reaction similar to when Ireland score a goal in football

 

 

There were a few good other moments, surprised they haven't uploaded more clips, like the girl who has 2 pet pigs named "Rasher and Sausage" and the hyper-active (possibly split personalty girl) who went from looking like she'd either throw a tanturm or throw a punch to being suddenly calm and doing a bit of ballet.

[Diageo]

I thought it was pretty good and enjoyable. I didn't know who the hell Bosco was, so felt nothing about it. My friends and I had fun guessing when Ryan would say, "One for everyone in the audience". That band Age was really good, surprisingly so, especially the singer. He had an interesting voice.

 

I got excited for the console section but the Wii U only showed a tiny bit of Disney Infinity, and nothing else. Was a bit boring. The PS4 and XboxOne were both boring too.

[Wii]

I thought it was very good overall. I think the best performance was probably the cup song. I seen most of it but not all of the show. The vast majority of the kids doing the toy sections were nice but some of them were pretencious little $h!ts, like the sisters Beyonce and Rihanna. Their parents were real original, I can't remember the rest of the names they said their siblings were called but there was definitely a Britney. Jesus people. The co-host section was funny and the the fella playing FIFA was full of chat but when Robbie came out he got tongue tied and was genuinely star struck. Thought he was going to cry at one point. Missed the start, a bit in the middle and the end.

[Mokong]

I thought it was pretty good and enjoyable. I didn't know who the hell Bosco was, so felt nothing about it.

 

I must be showing my age then am I, haha ... ye youngsters today, sheesh

 

That band Age was really good, surprisingly so, especially the singer. He had an interesting voice.

 

yeah I really liked them, my son was jumping round try to headbang and all when they were on (I'm raising him well methinks )

 

 

I got excited for the console section but the Wii U only showed a tiny bit of Disney Infinity, and nothing else. Was a bit boring. The PS4 and XboxOne were both boring too.

 

yeah same, though they never fully do the games section justice at least they did have teh Wii U there, before the show I was worried it would be just PS4 and Xbox1, thought surprised Mario 3D World wasn't demo'd?

 

The vast majority of the kids doing the toy sections were nice but some of them were pretencious little $h!ts, like the sisters Beyonce and Rihanna. Their parents were real original, I can't remember the rest of the names they said their siblings were called but there was definitely a Britney. Jesus people.

 

They were sisters? Must be half/step sisters then I guess they look nothing like each other, the older one looks half Asian (was thinking Half Filippino maybe) so thought. Yeah that was one of the few cringy parts to this years show...which in fairness actually had less cringy and pretencious kids than usual, so that a big plus

 

 

Here's a clip of the those two sisters which I forgot to post previously, that's all the clips up so far, hopefully they add more later

 

Edited November 30, 2013 by Mokong
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