If you happen to see a listing for this toy on ebay or something and it doesn't have a remote, don't worry about it because you can use this upgrade to work it.
I somehow think he'd spot that... but if I had a 9910 and some IR blasters
It used to be fun playing with my HP620LX when my wife was watching a soap as I had SkyCommander loaded on it which allowed capture and playback of IR signals. I tried it again recently as a means of capturing many IR signals (i.e. more that a learning remote can cope with) but although the signals operated the target devices they didn't come close to decoding in IR when I sent them to my 7562 learning remote.