Reviewing Toys

My son recently got the “Pokemon Leaf Green Version” for his Gameboy Advance SP and I decided to ask him to do a review on it, so the following is out of his mouth.

In the Pokemon Leaf Green first you get to decide whether you want to be a boy or girl. Once the game begins you get into battles to try to win all 8 badges. It’s challenging once you get to the final 8 battlers in the legend. You have a cousin who lives right next door to you but you always go into battle against him. If you win you get prize money so you can buy things along the way, if you lose you owe your opponent money.

There are about 19 levels, I’ve beat the game once. Once you beat the game it starts all over again. I want the Pokemon Fire Red Version next.

So there ya have it folks, a review straight out of the mouth of a child.

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My little girl wanted the My Little Pony Good Morning Sunshine so much that she begged for it for her birthday (6th) and Christmas last year. Santa brought it to her in the end and boy was she happy. Course we weren’t so thrilled when we had to take it out of the box but that’s another post for ya. (think kids boxes and all those ties)

She still plays with this toy, but now it has become more of her little sister’s toy (she just turned 4) I can find it in both girls’ beds late at night. It may begin in one bed but ends up in another by the next morning.

My Little Soft Pony interacts with your child and will make the little ones squeal with delight. There’s a button on her back and when your child rubs her back or gives her a hug she begins to come to life. This little pony wears her own pajamas and comes with her own baby bottle and pacifier. Standing up on all fours she starts right off by saying, “Good Morning, Mommy.” Other phrases include:

uh-oh (yep she’s made a mess, but don’t worry no water comes out)
Can I have a kiss?
Squeeze my hand please.
Let’s play!
She giggles.
I love you.
Brush my hair please
Sucks on pacifier (sucking noise)
yawns
Good night.

Once she says, “Good Night,” this is when she drops down into a laying position and closes her eyes.

I asked my older daughter a few minutes ago of what she thought of the My Little Pony So-Soft. “I like her because she’s so soft and talks to me.”

My littlest said, “She’s cute, I can hold her and she asks me to play.”

So there ya have it folks, this is straight out of the mouth of babes.

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It seems that recalls are becoming the popular thing these days, which it makes buying toys for our children just a little bit more scary if ya ask me.

Here is the latest toy recall:

Mattel has released a statement today for a voluntary recall on all “Sarge” die cast toy cars. Once again the issue is the surface paint on the cars has lead in them. Toys were made in China.

Instructions: return the toy to the store you got it at for a replacement toy. You cannot go to the store and simply tell them you have the toy, you MUST show the toy.

www.service.mattel.com for more information.

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I thought I might give an update on how the Wii-ing went whilst on holiday. My brother did bring it down with him from London and Alex and I both spent a fair amount of time on it. Alex more to be honest. Both my sister-in-law and him are both pretty competitive where as I tend to have no enthusiasm at all in terms of beating my opponent. Suffice to say, I can be pretty boring to play with sometimes. At the end of the 4 day aways, everyone, excluding me, had a sore right shoulder because of the non-stop tennis competitions they were having.

Bea actually found it quite amusing watching everyone jump around the living room and yell at the television. I kept telling Alex that we had to get rid of our slowly dying XBox and just get a Wii until I found out that it doesn’t play DVDs at which point I became very upset and disapointed and promptly declared that the XBox was my favorite again and I loved it and would never give it away.

I’m not even going to try and pretend that these game consoles have appropriate games for children….

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