Archive for 'Electronics for Kids'

Wonderful
Great hand eye coordination for our Granddaughter. Fun for a family to sit and do together. When one of us ge to level 4 she is just as happy as we are!

Didn't work
We received the toy quickly and in pretty good shape, but it didn't work. We tried everything to get it to work, but it never did. We even hired an IT person to come over and see if there was anything that we could do. I still have the product, but don't know what to do with it and feel like I wasted my money. I have never had this problem before.

Needs to be more users friendly
My husband and I bought this toy for our daughter for Christmas this past year. She is about to be 4yr old and had not trouble understanding how to the game worked. However, she is have lots of trouble to use the controller with the tv. the instructions say to point the controller at the sensor but even when you do that you are having to travel from one side of the room to the other just to get it to work. my daughter gets bored after a few minutes because she just has to much problems with it.

Will not work for many, I suspect.
My daughter received this toy as a Christmas gift. Our family owns game consoles including a Wii and I am a computer professional and understand generally how the technology is supposed to work.

I was unable to even use the wand to select an activity from the main screen. Sometimes, the wand would track well for a few seconds. Then it would freeze up. Then it wouldn't move. Then it wouldn't move where I was moving the wand. Sometimes the button would work. Sometimes it wouldn't. The vast majority of the time spent with this toy was wrestling with the controller without success. Tried it in a room with overhead lights, with no lights, close to the screen, far from the screen. No luck.

I think that kids toys should almost play themselves. A kid should easily be able to achieve at least a modicum of success in playing with a toy. IMO, this toy represents only frustration and disappointment to the kid using it.

Some reviews here have said it worked and was wonderful. Good for them. Most of us posting reviews seem to share the same opinion that this toy is essentially worthless.

Great Idea but not quite there
My 5-year old received this for Christmas. We finally broke it out of the box and hooked it all up. Despite what someone mentioned about having a new HD TV and the cables not working, I have to disagree. Our TV is 6 months old (new LED one), and the Splatster hooked up just fine. The colors on the chords don't match the tv, but I figured it out. We used this toy for maybe 10 minutes. I used it first to show my son how to use it but found it very difficult to get it move as I wanted it, select what I wanted. Once I finally selected what I wanted and was able to color freely (I made no attempts to actually draw something; I just scribbled), it worked ok, but then when I wanted to change the brush, it was difficult to get where I wanted. I then handed it over to my son who had a lot of the same trouble I had except to a larger degree. At one point it seemed like the button was stuck but wouldn't select anything still. My son finally gave up. I attempted to close out what he had managed to draw, but I gave up and turned the machine off manually. My son wants to return it, I couldn't agree more with him. Someone mentioned glares causing a problem. Well, the tv in our house is located in a room with a few windows. I had the blinds covering where the sun was shining most, but I'm not going to make him use this only in a dark room. We have a Wii that works just fine in this room. Fisher Price usually has better toys than this. The majority of the reviews on this toy are negative. Too bad. It's a good idea so we don't have to clean up messes, but it just doesn't work like it should. I have no idea how a 3-year old would be able to use this. My 3-year old would have thrown the remote to the ground out of frustration. I would not buy this and do not recommend it.

So disappointing....
We purchased this toy for my daughter when we saw it on sale but held onto it until her birthday...
By time we gave it to her, the store return policy had expired. It only worked for a few months and quit playing dvds. Although the product is suppose to be "kid tough", my daughter was never rough with it and it still quit working?!? I contacted Mattel and they said that they would send us a new one but instead we received a REFURBISHED dvd player that was in much worse shape than the one we had. So disappointing... beware of this dvd player!

Horrible!!!
My parents got my daughter of these Fisher price dvd players, and right off the bat it stopped working. The button to press play never works. Now they don't charge or keep a charge so you have to keep plugged in. Seriously these things are a waste of money. Plus the screen is smaller than my iphone screen. Give me a break fisher price!

Works pretty well, kids love it, life saver on long trips
We have two, a pink one for a girl and a blue one for a boy. Are they perfect? No, but they are pretty good for what they are - kids players. We are very happy with them overall and the kids each love theirs.

With just a little supervision, they can be used by very small children. Ours started as young as 2. They are fairly tough. They can take some banging around. Ours have never broken or badly malfunctioned, but then they haven't had that much rough treatment. We are trying to teach the kids to respect things that need careful handling. So far, so good.

The kids absolutely love them. They can put them on their laps and it's theirs. Many times they prefer them to the big screen TV. I think it makes them feel more in control.

The screen is small, but kids have no problems at all. I have even seen 2-3 kids watching the same screen.

They sometimes skip a bit and I think one froze once, but overall they work and there have been no major failures.

They do take quite awhile to come up at first and I have never figured out exactly what all the buttons do. Many buttons cause it to start over from the beginning of the DVD. Trying to get them to pause and then start right back up has been a problem, but then maybe I just don't know how to work them right.

One charge lasts about an hour or maybe a little more. We like that. When they run out of juice, we can get the kids to do something else, like go to bed. ;-)

They sure make long plane trips and waiting in the boarding area much easier.

NOT Kid Proof!
Don't waste your $$. I have had to buy six of these over 2 years. I learned quickly to keep my reciepts so i could return it in 3 to 4 months. Buttons never work, it gets locked up constantly. Such a joke. Worst product ever!

disappointed!
We were so excited to get this for our 3 year old for Christmas last year. We didn't have it for 3 mos before it started malfunctioning. It just won't play the dvd's. It has a very short battery life-2 hours at best. We didn't get all the extra stuff it requires like some other parents and I'm glad we didn't. I assumed that it would be a good product because the kid tough cameras seemed to work out pretty well, so I didn't do any research on this and it was a pretty quick purchase and I thought the perfect thing. Bottom line, don't waste your money on this one.

Works pretty well, kids love it, life saver on long trips
We have two, a pink one for a girl and a blue one for a boy. Are they perfect? No, but they are pretty good for what they are - kids players. We are very happy with them overall and the kids each love theirs.

With just a little supervision, they can be used by very small children. Ours started as young as 2. They are fairly tough. They can take some banging around. Ours have never broken or badly malfunctioned, but then they haven't had that much rough treatment. We are trying to teach the kids to respect things that need careful handling. So far, so good.

The kids absolutely love them. They can put them on their laps and it's theirs. Many times they prefer them to the big screen TV. I think it makes them feel more in control.

The screen is small, but kids have no problems at all. I have even seen 2-3 kids watching the same screen.

They sometimes skip a bit and I think one froze once, but overall they work and there have been no major failures.

They do take quite awhile to come up at first and I have never figured out exactly what all the buttons do. Many buttons cause it to start over from the beginning of the DVD. Trying to get them to pause and then start right back up has been a problem, but then maybe I just don't know how to work them right.

One charge lasts about an hour or maybe a little more. We like that. When they run out of juice, we can get the kids to do something else, like go to bed. ;-)

They sure make long plane trips and waiting in the boarding area much easier.

Kid Tough or "Tough, Kid" ...
We purchased two of these Christmas 2008. One pink, one blue. As of this review, our pink one is still working but the blue one is shot. I called Fisher Price customer service but because it's been over the one year warranty (info that offered voluntarily) nothing could be done. The blue one does not charge ... period. Working, working, stopped working. Keeping track of the tool to open the back is a pain and I've swapped out adapters (with the pink one) to make sure it's not the adapter. I'm throwing out a toy and don't even know why. Customer service says this isn't an issue they've seen before and because of that, there isn't anything they can do.

I'm so disappointed we spent this kind of money. As of today, the blue one is a 0.00 toy! Save your money and get the kids a cheapie portable DVD player. You could replace it 7-8 times for the cost of this one. It may be kid tough, but it should be "Tough, Kid."

lousy
The exterior is durable as promised, but the quality of the dvd player itself is lacking. Won't play dvds, skips, quit working entirely. When it did work there would be random lines across the screen. Fisher Price should team up with a quality electronics manufacturer to make something like this. I would be willing to pay more for a DVD player that WORKS.

Also, how about adding a "button lock" option of some sort so young ones don't accidentally/purposefully hit a button and mess up their movie, and then freak out about it?

Satisfied
I am shocked at the abuse that the Tough Kid DVD Player is taking and still able to play. My son has dropped it many times and it still works. Sometimes the sound button gets stuck (from being dropped so many times). I have to keep it charged because he uses it everyday. I haven't taken it on any road trips hopefully, it will be able to stay charged for at least 2 to 3 hours. The product arrived within 5 to 7 days in its original packing. I will definitely order from this person again in the future.

grandmother
Great educational toy that is capable of with standing the rough and tough play of an 18 month toddler. My grandson loves the DVD player - well actually he loves the Elmo videos. This DVD player makes the viewing of Elmo possible. His parents love it also as the player frees up the TV screen for them. This was a great buy!