Fisher Price Splatster

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.