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Gift Guide Leftovers 4: Hannah Montana and SingStar
Everyone knows guitars are huge this holiday season, at least the fake plastic kind that hook up to your game consoles.
Some kids, however, may be even happier with a real guitar that doesn’t need a TV to function. Disney has the tweens covered (do they still call that demographic tweens?) with Hannah Montana guitars, available in acoustic and electric varieties, both in purple.
The electric version is manufactured by Washburn Guitars and has a “Lipstick neck,” which must mean something good. It has 22 frets, which sounds like a lot. (Can you tell that your blogger doesn’t know his way around guitars, toy or otherwise?) It sells for about $200 or about the price of a scalped Hannah Montana concert ticket.
The acoustic is about $90 and is based on Washburn’s “Dreadnought” series. It features a “pick guard,” which I imagine is some sort of position someone would plan in the NBA.
If you’re looking for a cheap video game console and can’t find a Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 2 is still a viable option for the casual gamer. Sure, the aging system is on its way out, but the PS2 has a huge games library, and now it comes in a very attractive ceramic white bundle featuring “SingStar,” a karaoke game.
The whole shebang, including two microphones, the “SingStar” game and a game controller, is $150, which really isn’t bad for a game-playing karaoke machine that can even play DVDs. It sure beats spending $500 on a PlayStation 3 and finding out that there are too few good games for that system.
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