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Extreme Makeover Home Edition Builds Spy Gear™ Room for 7-Year-Old Boy Filled with “The Latest and Greatest that Every Up and Coming Spy Could Possibly Wish For”
(SAN FRANCISCO, November 7, 2006) – Kyle Thibodeau, age 7, is the lucky recipient of the first-ever Spy Gear Room built by the cast and crew of ABC TV’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Kyle’s room was revealed on the November 5 episode of EMHE and includes what the show’s celebrity designer Tanya McQueen refers to as “the latest and greatest that every up and coming spy could possibly wish for.”
Of the forty-plus Spy Gear products that fill Kyle’s secret room, McQueen’s favorite high-tech toy is the Spy Video Car. This award-winning remote control car features a video camera with infrared night vision and a private headset monitor. McQueen used the Spy Video Car to sneak a peek into EMHE host Ty Pennington’s highly guarded secret project.
In addition to the Spy Video Car, McQueen and fellow celebrity cast member Michael Moloney relied on other top-rated Spy Gear equipment to help them with various assignments throughout the week. Eye-Link Communicators, Spy Vision Goggles and Spy Light Hand proved extremely useful in the darkness of the designers’ round-the-clock shifts. The Digital Spy Camera and Alarm Kit were used to protect storage bins in the yard until the house reached move-in condition.
By day seven, when the interior was complete and ready to be furnished, those who had contributed to the worthwhile cause of building a new home for a family-in-need were reluctant to give up their Spy Gear. It was determined that, though the recipient of the Spy Gear room was only 7, Spy Gear gadgets appeal to and entertain people of all ages – carpenters and designers in their thirties and forties not withstanding.
EMHE earned the 2005 and 2006 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Reality Program,” as well as the 2005 and 2006 People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Reality Show.” The highly acclaimed series, now in its fourth season, chose Spy Gear, the number one brand of spy toys, for its first spy-themed room.
The Spy Video Car received the 2006 “Toy of the Year Award” from FamilyFun Magazine, the “Mom-Tested Toys of the Year Award” from Parenting Magazine, the “Best Toy Awards” from Child Magazine and was named in the “Hot 20 Toys” by Redbook Magazine, “50 Best Toys” by Nick Jr. Family Magazine and “Top Picks for the Kids” by Time Magazine.
Spy Gear’s award-winning products, together with the dedication and talent of the EMHE cast and crew, gave a young boy the room of his dreams. “Kyle went nuts in his spy room,” confirmed Pennington. “He has every (piece of) Spy Gear known to man.” The boy smiled and replied “I love my room.”
About Spy Gear
Spy Gear is the top-selling brand of spy-themed technology and role-play products from Wild Planet. Founded in 1993 in San Francisco, Wild Planet creates kid-cool products that garner parent approval. Wild Planet playthings focus on fun and imagination and are available worldwide. For more information on Wild Planet and its Spy Gear brand, please visit
www.wildplanet.com and
www.spygear.net.
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