First: 1943 steam locomotive, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP—Good Morning. ca. 1995. Second: Red cab locomotive, Good morning, time to get up. JSNY ca. 1995. Third: Black locomotive, clock center, Are you ready, 3-2-1 WAKE UP! Galaxy, 1991. Fourth: Black engine, clock in cab, Tel-Time, ca. 1995, and Fifth: Thomas the Tank, Thomas is a really useful engine. ZEON, 2001 (istcc)
FIRST: A dioramic Star Trek Enterprise from the original series, with a LED digital read out. On the alarm: “Landing Party Enterprise, beam us up Scottie,” followed by a “beam-up sound,” and light-on. 1993 (istcc) SECOND: Star Trek The Next Generation Talking Alarm Clock. On the alarm: “The Enterprise is under attack, wake up and DO something!” or in Klingon: “”Enterprise Hiviu’-ylvem ‘ej vay’ ylta’!” …with authenic warp sound. © Paramount Pictures WESCO, 1994 (istcc) THIRD: A dioramic Star Trek Voyager, the fourth Star Trek series, with a LED digital read out. On the alarm: “The USS Voyager is 70000 light years from home, and we are desperate to get back. Are you going to lie there all day?” The snooze reminder: “Attention all of those in sleeping quarters! Move now or be left behind.” WESCO, 1996 (istcc)
The alarm is sax sounds and voiceover “Hey, hey, don’t you know now, you gotta get up so you can get down.” Rhythm, ca. 1990 (istcc) Hunk Skunk “Bless-a my soul! I’m-asingin the BLUES! Wake up, baby! If you snooze you Loooose! Rhythm, ca. 1990 (istcc)
Seiko pyramid talking clocks from the first quartz talking clock to the latest iteration, 2010. Original music by Eric Robertson: “Colors.”