Tiger Electronics' Power Tour guitar rocks out with lights and sensors
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 27th 2007 11:45PM
posted Jan 27th 2007 11:45PM
While your teenage daughter might prefer something a bit more sophisticated, and your male child is probably rippin' it up right now on Guitar Hero, Hasbro's Tiger Electronics is coming out with an axe designed to let little tykes learn their favorite tunes without all the complicated (and pricey) lessons. The Power Tour electric guitar will come with 12 pre-loaded songs, and the string-free instrument will rock a bevy of sensors on the fretboard and body, which will allow youngsters to play along as they follow the light patterns with the music. Additionally, it's slated to have an aux input, allowing users to plug in any song they choose and jam along, but there's no word on whether or not that sweet pictured amp comes along in the bundle. Nevertheless, this kid-friendly guitar could actually find its way into quite a few musically-challenged adult hands as well when it lands in August for a currently undisclosed price.[Via Yahoo, thanks Adam]
THAT is going to go into my grandchildren's hands immediately. It's payback time for my musically-challenged son.
if it makes cool noises I might get one. Obviously not going to replace the PRS, but sometimes music is made from the unlikeliest (that a word?) of sources.
If you buy one of these, in a couple of years it will be another piece of scrapped technology in a junkyard.
On the other hand, I have a cheap guitar that was a hand-me-down from my sister. It's a Gibson acoustic from about 1965, my dad bought it used for about $25 in 1970, now it's worth over $2500.
Get a real guitar.
this is a toy. And, hopefully, it will get kids interested in music.
As for it being junk... maybe.
But not much junkier than what you can get now for $25 (a used strat copy?) and it will give the kids something to play with other than the real guitar. (My parents unwittingly let me play around with my mom's old $50 guitar she had from college. Thankfully I didn't break it: it's a 1935 Martin. Yikes!).
and this is news why?
ok, this thing is screaming "MIDI retrofit me!" oh the awesome power of the soldering iron.
that first line was uh..pretty damn sexist..im a girl..and i JUST got off my ps2 playing guitar hero II...hmph..
if it makes cool noises I might get one. Obviously not going to replace the PRS, but sometimes music is made from the unlikeliest (that a word?) of sources. Talking about guitter music I have a suggestion to make do look up Online Shopping
You mean I can shred to my favorite jams without being connected to a TV or PS2?!? Where do I buy one???? The AMP does look cool, but can it stack? I will keep looking for more news about this axe. Rock On!