Tomy Pop Up Pirate

On the whole I am not a fan of modern childrens games because they are too fussy and complicated to set up as well as needing a lot of batteries to keep most of them going. Pop Up Pirate is easy to set up, fun to play and best of all does not need any batteries so it is a firm favourite when my grandaughter comes to visit. The game looks like a big barrel with a cartoon style pirate sticking out of the top. The barrel actually comes in 2 halves which have to be put together when you are ready to play the game, the top half of the barrel holds the ejection mechanism which will eventually make the pirate pop up. The 2 halves are very easy to fit together and it ...

I used to have this game when I was a child and my little sister got this game for christmas this year, since then we have been roped into playing it with her many times as she loves it. This game costs roughly £10 depending on where you buy it from, in the box you get a plastic barel with holes in the sides, a blue plastic base to stand the barrel on, a pirate and 24 plastic swords. There isnt realy a lot of assembly involved in this, you have 5 stickers to stick to the blue base and the swords need to be twisted off the plastic strip they are attached to and you are ready to play. To set this game up you will need to stand the barrel on ...

This game is brilliant fun, i had this when i was young and brought it for my daughters last christmas. In this game you have a plastic barrel with slots cut out of the out side and a pirate in the hole in the middle of the barrel, There are 4 different colour plastic swords, red, green, blue and yellow. This game is designed for two or 4 players, you each pick your coloured swords, if there are 4 of you you have one colour each, if there are only two of you you have two colours each. You each take it in turns choosing a hole on the barrel to push your sword into but pick carefully as one of the holes will make the pirate jump up out ...