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Oh boy, one of our favorite events of the year! Sweet Suite – Fun toys for now and for the upcoming holiday season!

We start with toy tech from Terra Toys….

On this week’s show we showed three 2025 entries from Terra Toys and one, a big hit and still selling fast, from last year, the Dinosaur Duel Rivals.

Here’s the Sweet Suite Giz Wiz Video: https://youtu.be/cttItAMfL3M

Retail of the RC Dinosaur is a couple of months away and is not yet on their website, which is here: https://terrabybattat.com/product-category/terra-remote-control/

I didn’t find the yellow snake in the video online yet, but here are two others from the company on Amazon for about $23 each: https://amzn.to/40nCcLz

Here are the Dinosaur Duel Rivals at Amazon: https://amzn.to/44Ab6mY

The remote control RC Green Fly that walks up walls & even the ceiling, and should be out soon. On the company website it provides a “buy” link, but as of 7/18/25 when you click the Target RC Green Fly Link Target, it comes up: “not working” —but there’s is a lot more info about the RC Green Fly here:

https://terrabybattat.com/product/rc-fly-green-bottle-fly/

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See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2049

This is such a clever idea from Melissa and Doug. Kids can “Cook” with water again and again with color-changing play food with this new stove top play set. Includes a durable stovetop, a water-dispensing spoon and squeeze bottle, cooking pot, 6 color-changing vegetables, 6 color-changing proteins, 2 color-changing meal disks, and double-sided reusable activity card. On this week’s show you’ll see how to ‘cook’ with water! It a fun and engaging toys for kids 3 and older. There’s a stovetop cook kit MSRP $21.99 and a Flip & Fry Grill Play Set with Water WOW! MSRP $37.99. (Not yet available.)

Melissa&Doug: https://www.melissaanddoug.com/products/simmer-stir-stove-top-play-set?variant=43542995533878&srsltid=AfmBOorLY8LwspQ17ohcl9ISEMIBgaG9wf9cm5addxKGYixI_dQh5LhtopY&gQT=0

Outdoor Cook Kit: https://www.melissaanddoug.com/collections/pretend-play-new-arrivals/products/water-wow-magic-spoon-grill-kit

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2049

Lego’s big introduction at SweetSuite was a Mini-Figure Vending Machine. It reminded me of those gumball machines that were often installed, sitting a metal pipe, outside a store. Their press release said: “Hark back to simpler times with this fully functional vending machine model. Just insert a coin element in the slot and turn the handle to release a capsule to build a collectible LEGO® minifigure. Minifigures include various classic themes such as Castle, Paradisa, Fabuland® and 4 voted upon in a LEGO Ideas fans’ poll. Designed for 18+” Yes, 18+! It’s for their ever-expending Lego for adults kits.

Giz Wiz Video: https://youtu.be/PZPcgzap32w

Lego vending machine: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/minifigure-vending-machine-21358

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2049

It’s July and the winning theme, voted on by our loyal Patreons is Cheap Pet Gadgets!

Chad’s 2nd Cheap Pet Gadget is the Pikk-it Hair Rake.

This gadget is designed to remove all types of hair, including pet and human hair from a hair brush, vacuum brush, pet brush, etc. As you’ll see on this week’s show it has teeth that can cut through hairs and tangles to help remove blockages. You’ll see Chad use it on a couple of pet hair clogged devices and it seems to work pretty well. It’s priced at $8.99 on Amazon.

Check the latest price on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3GymsyN 

I found two of them for $13.99 here on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4nVtle7 

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See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2049

A few weeks ago Lawrence Wengler had an amazing warehouse video on the show. Chad & I wondered if he could ever top, saying that more as a joke, than a challenge. But then, we got this email.

From: Lawrence Wengler

Hi Dicky Dee and Chad,

I accept your challenge to top my last video.

I don’t know if this will do it, but I gave it a try.

Here’s a video of some Kodak cameras in my collection spanning 95 years.

https://youtu.be/MCvl7qcr6No

Happy July! Lawrence.

From the Giz Wiz: Wow, another amazing warehouse video! Here’s his 1^st warehouse video:

https://youtu.be/IeBaePCY59U

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1. Video can be ANYTHING about a gadget: I bought a piece of crap. I bought a gadget I love. I have an old gadget I can’t part with because it was ‘high tech’ years ago! Even a ‘What The Heck Is It? Gadget.

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Email of the week:

Hi Dick and Chad,

On a trip last month, we thought of you Dick. We rode on the Heber Valley Railroad on a scenic trip in the Wasatch Mountains outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. We thoroughly enjoy the ride on the train (see pictures #1 – 5). They had music entertainment during a portion of the ride. 

Not only did we think of you because of your love of trains, but we also saw something that made us think of “clever things that people do when tech breaks”.

I remember the windows in my grandmother’s old farm house. They had what was then great technology – windows with pulleys and weights to help open and close the window.  (See the “Window with weights and pully” picture I obtained from the Phelps Company website.)  Through time, the ropes would break and the system no longer worked.  We used a sawed off broom stick to prop the window open. More than once, someone bumped the stick and the window came crashing down – sometimes on an arm.

On the Heber train, we saw a clever way to solve the problem of what to do when this window tech breaks. They used a piano hinge on a piece of wood to hold open the window. This prevents someone from accidentally knocking out the stick. For extra safety they used this method on both sides. Not sure if we can classify this as a “gadget” but thought it was ingenious regardless.

As always, we enjoy the GizWiz so much and wish you the best.

Selina and Dane Johnson

 Link to the Heber Valley Railroad: https://www.hebertrain.com/