Archive for 'Electronics for Kids'

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.

Very Disappointed
Our girls got this for Christmas. We hooked it up and it wouldn't even work. We couldn't pick up the paint brush at all. We read all of the reviews and tried dimming the lights ect... ect... We tried everything and over an hour later apologized to the kids for buying them such a horrible toy for Christmas. What a disappointment.

Junk
Do not buy!!!!! I didn't listen to the reviews and thought that some people just got some bad ones, but ive should have listened! Its really cute! And my daughter loved it, while it worked. At first it worked great, and saved us on alot of long roadtrips, until oneday it just stopped working!! Sometimes it would play the dvds and than just go to a black screen. My daughter wasn't even tough with this, no drops or anything so imagaine if a kid was touch on it. I called up mattel and it was a simple process, had to send them back the toy and got my address to send me a check, tho its been two months and I'm still waiting for my refund

Never worked
I bought this as a gift for my 4 year old grandchild for Christmas. They do not live near me and I just found out that it never worked. What a disappointment. What can I do now that it has been almost 2 months. I trusted the Fisher-Price name brand. I feel let down on a 0 gift. I suggest you don't buy unless it is from a store were you can try it out and return if problems occur.

don't waste your $$
It broke after a few months, just quit playing dvd's. However Fisherprice did send me a check because they could not replace it at the time.

Not durable
I am very disappointed because the play button quit working after only a few months. The dvd player is not durable.

Defective DVD player
Defective DVD player. The player did not recognize any dvd disc. It was a waste of money and my time trying to get the DVD player to operate. I returned the player and ordered a different brand (not Fisher-Price). The new player works awesome and it did not cost as much as the Fisher-Price DVD player.

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!

Not that Kid Tough...Not that Durable...
I had high hopes for this DVD player, but have now gone through 2 of them. The first one only lasted about 3 months with my 2 year old--it was never dropped, it just quit working one day. I bought another (slow learner, I guess), and this one lasted 3 months, too. If they're going to be disposables, I'd be better off just buying one of the (...) models available. Disappointing!

Very disappointed!
I was very happy to find this item and ordered it from Amazon- thought it would provide entertainment while traveling. It initially worked with the DVD provided, but now does not work with any DVDs. It has not been mishandled. Certainly isn't the "kid tough" item that Fisher-Price advertises.

Very disappointed
Very disappointed in the "Kid Tough" products. We used this DVD player twice without any dropping or bumping and it quit playing properly. DVDs stop or skip or have horrible lines running through the picture. Would also like to add the one time it did work fine that the battery life was very short after a full charge. Didn't even last more than an hour. I'm going to send this back and give up on these Fisher Price products. We also received the camera from a friend and it worked ONCE. Literally ONCE. All of this without even being rough or tough with either item. What a bummer. And for 0 I expect way more.