| Product: |
Furby |
| Date: |
07/06/01 (552 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Cuteness, intelligence, nice edition (Gizmo)
Disadvantages: Irritable, Expensive, Fur wears away on pressure points!!!
Saturday the 5th May 2001
(My sister's 15th birthday)
~~~The bad start~~~
Got out of one of the wrong sides of my bed and stumbled down the stairs to wish my darling sister a happy 15th *groan*. She smiled one of her fake sweet smiles - her make-upped face glowing with fake tan *another slightly more extended groan*.
"Okay Gracey - what do want for your big day then?"
"I WANT a furby - a furby Gizmo!!!"
Okay then - a furby it would be (I'm always kinda late with getting pressies!!!)
Mum then asks her royal highness where she would like to go for her special day.....
~~~ Serenity defined ~~~
After more arguments than you can shake a stick at she decides she wants to go to Bournemouth, so off we drive and arrive - a whole hour of the can of sardines scenario - later...
~~~ The journey to hell ~~~
Got out of the car and slowly stretched the creases out of my body while trying to look normal, "Hmmmm, Nice day this is turning out to be" I think as I glimpse the sun (I really wasn't in a good mood).
I then start planning my great escape from the almost inevitable family shopping fiasco("OOoooohh LOOOOOOK! Those stripy knickers would look great with the spotty trousers!")
:)
I nearly get away with sneaking away into the crowds when my mum grabs my apparently "way too baggie" jeans and tells me that her and my step-dad will sit down for a pint and a ciggie and wait for me & my darling sister to shop for a couple of hours...
After managing to somehow mould my shocked face back to a relatively normal looking expression I start the tedious task that is shopping with my sister!!!
~~~ The million pound Challenge ~~~
I escort my sister through the streets of Bournemouth and into Argos where I flick through the bulky catalogue to find the gizmo furby staring out of the glossy pages with
a price tag of £29.99!!!!
(That's a days work - I think as I morph into my mother!)
I glance at my sister who smiles sweetly at me again as I grin like an idiot at the numbers on the page...
As I queue to collect my/her Gizmo I wonder whether they are really as annoying as everyone makes out - nah can't be - why pay that much money for a thing of the devil? The studenty looking guy behind the counter calls my number and I sheepishly walk up as he yells out "FURBY GIZMO?". He wears an amused smile as he stamps my receipt and bags the box and batteries (an extra £2.99) for me.
I take a sly look through the box and assume I've done the right thing - my sister's wearing a huge smile for the first time today anyway..
~~~ Journey back through hell ~~~
We cram ourselves back into the sardine can and Grace promptly sticks the batteries in the furby's bum area...
The little dude must of liked it though as he jumped to life and started waving his ears, waggling his mouth, bobbing up and down in a worrying manner and blinking like he had a serious amount of smoke in his eyes. Then there was the burbling, gurgling, laughing and blathering that 'the anti-furbyists' were telling me about!
"It's okay" sister says as she skims the instruction manual - "you can put him to sleep - watch", unfortunately my step-dad who was driving at the time wasn't expecting three loud claps from behind and nearly crashed the car. Ummmm, Gizmo obviously didn't want to sleep as he was still rambling on after this close encounter.
Well for all you guys that might buy one:
Okay the good, happy, fun bits are as follows;
o Gizmo furby is soooo cuuuuuute and even if he is annoying as the (nearly over - yay!)election speeches, you'll forgive him (for a while..)
o It's a clever lil' toy! Quite honestly though - how many of your
toys talk to you and move and respond to various stimuli? (OOOO-er missus!)
o It's really quite a solid toy - I threw him and he didn't break (my friend bought one for her child and it even survived being briefly showered under the tap - although it did go a bit crazy at first)
o Might make the reciever love you forever (if it's a gift of course!)
o Gizmo makes okayish company for when you're really, really, incredibly bored...
Now for the bad and ugly bits;
o Everyone complains at least once about the continuous squabbling and the slowness of learning english words
o When the lil' fellow moves he makes extremely noticeable 'whirring' sounds - understandable I know, but still worth mentioning I thought...
o Might make the reciever hate you forever (gift thingy again!)
o It's not very well made (you can see the gluey bits on the fur in some places)
o The functions you can provoke out of your new found friend (or enemy) aren't all that easy to perform, even if you follow the instructions religiously
o Not all young children like this guy - I've seen a few lil' cuties break down and cry to the heavens after meeting mister furby!
o The only sure-fire way of shutting this toy up without killing it is to remove the batteries, but as always, the advice in the book is - Don't remove batteries unless absolutely necessary!
o Some of the things Gizmo comes out with are really hard to understand (even my inner childish person doesn't get it!).
Anyway - I leave the decisions up to you - it's a pricey toy considering that it may not have the longest 'shelf life' once it's in the hands of the new owner.
I prefer Tigger any day (hehe)
Hope my rambling on was some help to you at least!
Pooky
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