My daughter nattered and nattered for a Micro pet for her birthday last year. In fact she wanted two. I'd never heard of these toys before but apparently they were 'interactive' with each other so therefore two worked better than one. Luckily for her Argos were doing a deal for Micro pets at the time. Two for £15.00 so off i went to Argos. When i actually saw the toys, i couldn't believe how small they are, about two to three inches in length! Certainly micro! My daughter got the dog and the cat but there are many other sorts to 'collect'. The Micro Pet is made of plastic and walks around on smooth surfaces. We set ours up on a table. They will not work on carpet. ...  Read the complete review

Micro pets are a range of bewilderingly expensive electronic little toy animals. They come as approximately three inch long toys from various familiar species: dogs, cats, rabbits etc. They're cartoon style creatures with large domed heads - but they don't come in very outlandish colours and aren't overtly / excessively cute looking, unlike some of the other cyber-pets available on the market. (Actually, myself I thought they were cute but a bit on the dull looking side, but that's just a personal thing.) Each toy comes with a partially-hollow pale yellowish coloured plastic play-ball - about the size of a standard glass marble - which its ...  Read the complete review