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Wake up! First Sun Warrior of the Morning Challenge Kit Turns Waking Up Into Crazy Anime Game
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 7:00 AM on June 22, 2008
Japanese toy company People has released a new age alarm clock that supposedly helps kids wake up by turning them into Ultraman. It's called the Okiro! Asa Ichiban Taiyou Senshi - Charenjaa Kitto (Wake up! First Sun Warrior of the Morning - challenger kit) and was manufactured for the Japanese Ministry of Education "early to bed early to rise" program. The US$38 kit comes with the extravagant eye shield and helmet; a series of talismans and message cards (no doubt world-saving secret missions); and a 27-day program that will involve your child taking orders from "the commander."
The commander wakes the child up at 6 a.m., and prompts players to put on the helmet and hit a "roger" button to acknowledge their wakefulness. Then, they are ordered to count to 10 in five different languages: English, Japanese, German, Swahili and Malagasy. At that point, the player is "allowed to take off the equipment and start the day"--wtf?! Didn't Akira start this way? [People.jp via CrunchGear]
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ichi1
Posted 7:26 AM 22/6/08
Hmmm the commander, a bloke who provides kids with blindfolds and asks them to hit a 'roger' button and does not allow them to leave til they have recited redundant foreign languages. Sounds like right sicko.
ichi1
Manator (Follow me and die!)
Posted 7:12 AM 22/6/08
WOW
I know this is for kids, but DAMN, I want one!
Manator (Follow me and die!)
AlexLand
Posted 9:11 AM 22/6/08
Brilliant.
AlexLand
tidybowl
Posted 11:44 AM 22/6/08
well - one nice thing about this - the whole country of Japan is in the same time zone - so they wouldn't have to worry about multiple time zones like they would in the states.
Why the heck do they need to learn the national language of Madagascar though?
tidybowl
gadgetplay
Posted 11:32 AM 22/6/08
How long is it before this thing goes off at 4AM and oreders a youngster to meet "The Commander" out in the woods? Oh and to not tell the parents because it's a "secret mission?" "Right sicko" indeed, @ichi1. Right sicko, indeed.
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 12:21 PM 22/6/08
Kodomo no koro Yatta koto aru yo
Iroase ta kioku da Kouhaku bou Atama ni
URUTORAMAN URUTORAMAN SEBUN
Kodomo no koro Natsukashii Kioku
KARĒ toka no tokini Gin no SUPŪN meni ate
URUTORAMAN URUTORAMAN SEBUN
Demo ima ja sonna koto mo wasurete
Nanika ni owa reru youni Mainichi iki teru [...]
[xspblog.com]
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
MrBubbuls
Posted 2:42 PM 22/6/08
um then whats the star pieces and stuff for and ay i ask why 6 why not you know WHAT EVER TIME I SET IT TO WAKE ME THE F^*K UP?
MrBubbuls
M3wThr33
Posted 6:14 PM 22/6/08
Who wakes up at 6AM?
M3wThr33
Crescent
Posted 10:38 PM 22/6/08
you people don't know but roger and snooze are the same words in Japanese.
Crescent
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 12:22 AM 23/6/08
I'd be so tired after going through all that I'd have to go back to sleep for at least another hour.
92BuickLeSabre
gadgetplay
Posted 8:15 AM 23/6/08
@MrBubbuls: "um then whats the star pieces and stuff for and ay i ask why 6 why not you know WHAT EVER TIME I SET IT TO WAKE ME THE F^*K UP?"
Well played, @MrBubbuls!
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