Oh, so I wonder if THAT'S what happened when I walked out of Test Track and then Pal Mickey wouldn't come on anymore. So he was turned off by a signal so that he wouldn't talk while he was in there? We thought his batteries must be dead, because he wouldn't respond, and walked down that path from Test Track to the Mousegear shop and replaced his batteries, and then he would tell jokes again. It seemed odd that he would just die like that all of a sudden, and I was surprised at the time, because it was only the 2nd day after purchase, and seemed too soon to really need batteries. I bet he was supposed to receive a signal to come back on as you exit Test Track, but he didn't receive it for whatever reason, and then walking along that path towards Mousegear, there wouldn't have been anything to give him another signal to giggle, so yeah, I guess he still would have been unable to respond until I had taken him out towards something else that had a signal. One other thing that I noticed that could have been a problem was that his on/off switch inside his head was kind of loose, and if it got jiggled too much towards the off setting, even though not really pushed into the off position, if you know what I mean, he would be off, and not respond or giggle. So it sounds like there may be a few technical problems to still iron out with both Pal Mickey himself and the signals, but he's still very cute and definitely worth it. Who knows, this may end up being an inexact technology, where they end up having to be happy with Pal Mickey saying most of the things, but not 100% of the things 100% of the time. But even with the occasional problem or not picking up signals some of the time, he still said plenty of things to make it worth it. For instance, I thought it was odd that he didn't say anything as I was entering the Magic Kingdom through the tunnel, but as I was walking down Main Street, he started mentioning the names on the upper story windows and why they are there, and then talked about choosing which land to enter when approaching the hub. Then later on in the day as I was exiting, he talked about Roy's statue with Minnie in the Town Square, which he didn't mention upon entering the park earlier. I had heard that he was supposed to mention when there were short lines for rides, but he didn't say anything like that in 3 full park days. Maybe I just wasn't in the parks at times when it would have triggered that or something. He did make a joke about entering tomorrowland when I went across that bridge into tomorrowland, and then another separate joke about exiting tomorrowland when I came across the bridge coming out of tomorrowland, which led me to believe that he somehow knows which way you're walking, and not just when you're near something, but who knows, it could just be that he tells the exit joke the second time past that particular spot or something. He still is such a wonderful toy though- I was just so happy whenever he said anything at all, it was so cute.
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