Facts

• My brother and I wrote the screenplay for Leno all in one week. We also wrote all of the songs.
  
• I played a total of 9 different characters in Leno including Jay (both young Jay and present Jay), Beyondo, Iron Jay, Mr Brain, Evil Jay, Billy Tuttle, Bob Johnson, and Johnny Allegro (the world's handsomest garbage man). While 4 of those ones appeared in both the stage and film versions, Johnny Allegro and Bob Johnson only appeared in the stage version.
  
• Doizee of the Doizee Club fame was first discovered in Spain.
  
• As of 2001, the Doizee Club is the most popular show for children of all ages. It won several awards and Doizee herself won herself a place in the tv hall of fame. It's only competition is a New Zealand kiddie show called Bumble which is about a bee.
  
• The makeup I wore to play Jay and his tonight show characters in the film version of Leno took 3 hours to apply. The makeup was courtesy of our resident makeup expert Dan McCloud. It was very realistic mind you, so realistic that no one could tell it was me they thought it was the real Jay.
  
• In addition to the original Jay Leno Playtime Friend there's also Beyondo, Iron Jay, Billy Tuttle and Mr Brain. There's also two halloween exclusives Vampire Jay and the Wereleno. The rarest one of these is the Friends Forever Jay Leno Playtime Friend which we gave Jay as a farewell present on his last term as tonight show host.
  
• Millitary Koalas is our most popular animated series and has about 5 seasons of episodes in all. Season 6 is now airing. The Millitary Koalas movie won several awards at the annual film festival.

Night Of The Living Toys

We've got some horror stories about encounters with toys that may have gone bad

• In 1989, some neighbourhood kid got a set of Fireman Sam dolls for xmas. Now believe it or not I was absolutely terrified of Fireman Sam when I was a kid- sure he was a friendly fire fighter but I swore that he was actually an arsonist or serial killer (same goes for Postman Pat and Bob the Builder too). Anyway some neighbourhood kid got a set of dolls of the main characters as a xmas present from his/her mother. I freaked out when I first saw them- there was something creepy about that one doll of Sam- the way it kept looking at me with that blank look in it's eyes. It was like something that crawled out of the uncanny valley. It was one of the scariest things I had ever seen. I couldn't bear to look at it- it was so frighteningly. In my eyes Fireman Sam was an utter creep, he and his eeeevil show made me afraid of fire for life (Curse you Fireman Sam, Curse You!) . It was only made worse when a guy dressed in a Fireman Sam mascot costume showed up at the school my brother and I went to when we were 12- the real life version of Sam was even creepier than the one on tv. I mean, it was THE most disturbing thing ever, he was behaving in a strange, creepy way. I'm not making this up. So, when our friend came over once for Thanksgiving we threw his cousin's Fireman Sam doll set over the fench and into our neighbour's yard (we also burned the various Fireman Sam merchandise my friend's little cousin had)- where some of them were ripped to shreds by the neighbour's dog Monstro. The week later, my best friend's mother found the dismembered Fireman Sam doll in the trash, it had an eye missing, an arm that looked like it was falling off and a chewed up hat. That's the last we ever saw of those creepy dolls.
  
  
  
• I went to a cousin's house one day and my cousin had this doll of The Grinch. It looked like the one from the cartoon and it had that smile on it's face. And everytime I walked past it I swore that it was watching me. That doll creeped the hell out of me. I told my mom about it and she asked my cousin's mom if they could hide the Grinch doll someplace where it wouldn't bother me so she put it in the basement. A couple of hours later I turn around and I see the doll right in the place it was before she put it in the basement which was really spooky. They finally got rid of that doll in the end, they sold it on Ebay. I would have liked it more if it was the Jim Carrey version of the grinch instead of the cartoon one.
  
  
  
• My brother had a similar experience with a Barney the Dinosaur plush doll once, I can't remember it all but my brother will be more than happy to tell you what happened. The person who owned it decided to get rid of it by giving it away to some less fortunate sap. Good thing too because that thing creeped me out to the max, it kept singing "I love youuu, you looove me, we're a happy family" over and over again- and at random too, it was just so creepy.
  
  
• In late summer 1999 we got ourselves a Furbie, he was a black one- we called him Drake. The good things about him was that he was a cute as the dickens, the bad thing about him was that he kept driving us batty all day and night with the noises he kept making- he kept demanding attention twenty four seven. We got so fed up with him that we decided to put him in the garage. Now here comes the really scary part, a couple of weeks later when we went to the garage to get some tools and all of a sudden we heard this really scary sounding noise- it was kind of a growling sound and it was coming behind from one of the boxes and it went kind of like this.."Ooo wwaaa, urrrr". My brother then turned around and saw that Furby...now you've heard the stories of Furbies acting balisitic but our one Drake was absolutely animalistic and not too mention bat f***k insane, almost like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. It was a nightmare come true. So we tried numerous attempts to destroy it even taking out it's batteries but the thing just wouldn't die. Eventually we decide to send him to our arch nemesis Stefanie as revenge for the many times she turned some of our friends against us. We are currently on the search for the Gizmo Furby.
  
  Our first toy inventions were a singing koala named Matilda, a sheep named Charlene and a black cat named Cleopatra. When you pressed Matilda's paws the tune of Waltzin Matilda would play, when you gave Bobby a squeeze he had let out a soft bleating sound and when you squeezed the cat she would let out a cute meowing sound. Those three were invented in 1991 and they worked just fine. We played with them for 5 years then forgot about them. Then in 2001 we decided to get them out again to see if they still worked, but when we did...the tune that came out of Matilda wasn't cheerie like it was in 1991, it sounded warped and kind of like a ironic nursery ryme like the ones who hear it films like Poultergeist, the sheep sounded like someone getting hacked to death, and the cat's meow was now deepened and quite demonic, almost like the growl of the wolf from American Werewolf In London. We didn't get rid of them though- we kept them despite their malfunctions.
  

Jay Leno playtime friend

Everyone, we would like you to meet one of our most popular creations, Little Jay. Star of Tonight Show Kids and one of the most popular toys we've made.

Features your Jay Leno Playtime Friend has:

• The likeness and voice of Jay himself.
  


• Soft and cuddly.
  


• Comes with cute little biker gear and motorcycle.
  Has special "friend" sensors.
  


• Is interactive and comes with a remote.
  


• Has a variety of adorable Jayish functions.
  


• Tells jokes, stories, plays games, gives you interesting facts, and reads from If Roast Beef Could Fly and Leading With My Chin,
  
  Special modes your Jay Leno Playtime Friend has
  


• Play Mode (standard mode)
  


• Story Mode (he reads from Leading With My Chin and If Roast Beef Could Fly)
  


• Tonight Show Mode (It''s like a real tonight show experience)
  


• Interactive Mode (he interacts with you and some of the other jay toys)
  
  Games he plays:
  


• Imagine With Jay (a game where you can use your imagination to help Jay go on adventures)
  


• Around The Home Rally (You can have him take part in a race around your room with other toys)
  


• Catch Him If You Can (Jay zooms around on his motorcycle and you have to catch him)
  


• Chin-Up (See how many items Jay can balance on his big chin)
  


• Copy Cat (Do an action and Jay copies it)
  
  
  To turn him on simply press the Showtime button on the remote. Once he's been turned on he'll do the following things:
  He'll say "Hi there new friend I'm Jay." And then asks you to tell him all about yourself so he can get to know you better.
  He'll then look at you, blink for a minute and his special friend sensor (located in his chin) will detect you- after this he'll say..."You...You're my friend!".
  
  
  Things he likes:
  


• Cuddles
  


• You
  


• Chinrubs
  


• Motorcycles
  


• Meat
  


• Hugs.
  


• Playing.
  
  
  Commands on the remote:
  


• Showtime (Turns him on so you can play with him)
  


• Storytime (activates story mode)
  


• Play (activates the game selection)
  


• Sleepytime (Puts him in sleep mode, press once and he takes a nap, press twice and he falls asleep)

The Jay Leno Playtime Friend is a part of the Tonight Show toy range, also available are Iron Jay, Beyondo, Billy Tuttle and Mr Brain. You can also get the Jay's garage playset complete with toy cars and motorcycles.