S'not that Good! (Hasbro Gooey Louie)

Member Name: yummy87

Product:	Hasbro Gooey Louie
Date:	10/09/03 (198 review reads)
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Advantages: Children will love stretching the rubber bogies

Disadvantages: Absolutely useless, Does not delier what it promises

Gooey Louie is a fun, novelty game, aimed at the younger market, who like all things gross. The object of the game it to pull plastic bogies from Gooey Louie?s nose. It is one of those games where the loser goes out first, the loser being the unfortunate person who gets the booby bogey, which, when pulled, shoots Louie's brain from the top of his head.

We had seen Gooey Louie advertised on the television and it looked like great fun. It was the type of toy that appealed to the children as it revolved around bogies, which all children seem to find endlessly amusing for some bizarre reason.

Gooey Louie retailed at about £15 at the time, but I don?t think it?s widely available now, probably because it never delivered what it promised.

We bought Gooey Louie a couple of Christmases ago and the kids excitedly opened the box ready to start the first game over the Christmas Holidays.

Louie consists of a pink plastic head on a lime green stand. The top of his head can be opened, to insert the brain, which is made of plastic. Louie has a bright pink tongue, that curls out onto his face. The first thing that struck me on opening Louie, was that the whole kit looks cheap. It is not particularly well made and I had bad vibes about this from the start.

A selection of bogies are supplied with Louie. They are a fantastic lime green colour and made of rubber, which stretch to fantastic proportions. Whilst I was setting Louie up, the children amused themselves by seeing just how far Louie's bogies could be stretched.

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The bogies have to be placed inside Louie?s nose. The booby bogey is attached by a rubber band to a hook inside the nose, which, if pulled, will shoot Louie?s brain out of the top of his head. This is a really fiddly procedure and by the time it was completed, the kids were getting impatient.

Now, Louie?s brain has to be inserted in the top of his head. This wa
s a far more easy procedure. The spring has to be pressed to close the top of the head and the door to the nose.

Players take it in turns to insert two fingers up Louie?s nose and pull on one of the bogies. This is fine if you are a child, but when you are an adult with larger fingers, it is NOT easy. Perhaps the manufacturers thought this game would only be played by children, and not whole families.

The game ends when the person who gets the booby bogie, pops Louie?s brains. The player is out of the game and play continues until there is only one player left.

Now this is alright in theory, but Louie simply doesn?t work. The booby bogie never sets Louie?s brains a-popping, instead it just stretches to unimaginable proportions, and an excitable child yanking on the end of it just pulls Louie over. However, we have tried string instead of an elsatic band and Louie then worked a little better.

I am sure you have guessed that I would not recommend Louie. If only he had come up with the goods, he would have been great. But he didn't, so he was a big let-down and I would advise against bogeying on down to the toy shop to buy it. Terrible pun I know!

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