ANIMAT3D Mr. Chill Talking Animated Snowman with Built in Projector & Speaker Plug'n Play

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As stated above in this thread, the video settings are 352x240 (or 320x240) mp4 (or 3gp renamed to mp4), 50fps. THEY HAVE A MINI OVERHEAD PROJECTOR PREPROGRAMMED WITH ALL OF THE STUFF TO TALK, SING ALONG WITH A PROJECTION OF THE FACE WITH FACE MOVEMENTS AND LIPS THAT MATCH ALL OF THE TALKING AND SINGING.

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The Toy Insider is an editorial site that receives free samples from manufacturers, but all editorial opinions are their own. I made a Madame Leota video to put on the SD card and people removed the snowman hat and turned it into a Leota prop. I don’t think the video player in this prop is a high definition projector but maybe it is, I haven’t opened my prop up yet.I've seen another version that shows a Santa style cap and "30 Minutes Of Builit In Animations" printed on the box. Great for displaying The Snowman as a decorative piece without having animation continuously running. Chill snowman heads last year after Christmas 2021 and being a tinkerer I cracked one open and found the 128MB (note it's MB not GB) SD card was removable.

ANIMAT3D Mr. Chill The Talking Animated Snowman with Built In

But given some earlier attempts to move/copy files seem to have bricked they system, it seems the first thing to try would be to make a bit-by-bit copy of the original SD card. I know there are utilities out there which can make a bit-wise or bit-by-bit copy of drives, SD cards, etc. The MindScape Products page shows the same style hat but says it has "40 minutes of singing, talking and joking". I was referred here by a FB thread in my holiday lighting group where he said "HauntForum has a thread that says if you mess with the SD card it will brick the unit. Chill's at Walmart out of the blue this year and the box is slightly different, so there may be an updated board inside the snowman?

They would have these generic 'heads' and you'd have a talking snow man, jack-o-lantern, Easter bunny, leprechaun, or what ever else, just depending on what SD card was slapped in. I was thinking of trying to connect a raspberry pi to the LCD screen in the projector itself, but guessing it's not directly compatible. I finally got a chance to crack open my talking jack o lantern and it looks like they have moved over to a soldered-on ROM chip instead of the SD card we have seen (cheaper ?