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My Life Portable Console - Virtual Life Simulator

High School Musical Get The Moves Dance Mat

Bandai - Catcha Beast - Red

• Catcha Beast lets kids search for and capture hidden beasts that fly about in the air
• Each Catcha Beast playset has BPS � Beast Positioning System
• Unleash the beasts and engage them in battle against your friends� captured creatures
• The Catcha Beast handset has loads of hi-tech modes
• The latest craze from Japan, Catcha Beast is set to be the next big playground craze!

Much more complex than you'd think from the advert, 2008-11-11
We got this for our son a couple of weeks ago for his 7th birthday.

The console bleeps at you when a beast is near then you have to swing the console around to find the beast and then reel it in with the little fishing reel on the side.

There are apparently 105 different beasts. They are divided into different levels of difficulty to catch, so you start with the easy ones. Once you have caught something you can either keep it (up to 3 at a time) and train it, or exchange it for a lure or sell it for gold. Some beasts only come out at certain times of day. Other beasts require you to have a certain lure in your arsenal from previous catches or you need a trained beast to help you to fight the beast and tire it out so you can catch it.

To find out more about it I recommend you visit the website (google it, it's a .eu address) where you can see more about how you catch things and what sort of beasts there are. Having said which it sounds terribly complicated when you find out all the different layers of things you can do with it, but you can still get started without loads of that knowledge. My son got going with about 5 minutes of us reading the instructions with him and in the way of kids, then went on to work out loads of the other things as he went along.

What I do like about it is that it requires some perseverance to collect different lures and enough gold to get a better beast radar, and that it can require quite a lot of strategic thinking to plan how to get the more difficult beasts. There is a lot of remembering of statistics and abilities like in something like Pokemon or Top Trumps,my son has started writing down all the stats for the beasts he has caught. The difference with this compared to something like Pokemon is that you only have to buy the console once, and then the beasts come free after that, you don't have to keep shelling out to increase your collection. Although I understand that if a friend has a blue one and you have a red one you can get the maximum number of lures and beasts.

My only irritation with it has been that some of the instructions require the screen to be slid shut while doing them, but there is no backlight and it is quite hard to read without the screen slid up. I have emailed the manufacturer about it and they have said that they have passed it on to the R&D team so that's fair enough.

Overall this is a more complex and better long term buy than I was expecting it to be. It's very new, so i dont know how long I will feel this way about it! but I'm quite pleased so far. Perhaps most importantly (!) my son took it in to show and tell and came out of school with a trail of admirers from his class, so I am definitely in the good books for this purchase!

Uncle Milton Remote Controlled Tarantula

"Catch" The Fun, "Catch" The Family!, 2008-11-02
What can I say? I caught my wife when I hid it under our Living Room Fire, very impressed, she is not easy to catch! Caught my 4 daughters, 2 grandsons and my grandaughter. Great fun and is currently loaned out to family members for the umpteenth time! Value for money. Buy it!

Silverlit PicooZ Helicopter - 3 Channel Atlas (colours may vary)

• Easy-to-fly 3-channel infra-red micro helicopter with LED light
• Available in various colours and we are unable to determine which colour you will receive
• Weighing 12 gramms and featuring a high capacity LIPO battery
• Simply plug in the helicopter, charge and fly
• A 20 minute charge will give 5-10 minutes of play time

Huge fun, but slightly erratic, 2008-09-04
Technically very clever, this is an evolution of the tiny Picoo Z 2-channel machine that has taken the world by storm.
What they have added to this is a 'Forward' button that gives a surge of forwards movement to the otherwise very slowly moving helicopter.
But....
This surge forward comes after a slight but unpredictable delay, and the yaw control (left/right steering) on this machine is less good than on the Picoo Z.
So you might have this little machine hovering, and want to buzz it across the room, but it is twisting to the right, OK?
If you try to stop it twisting the sticky yaw control can set it spinning left, and the trim is not a lot of help in this - unlike the older Picoo Z. If you take pot luck and wait until it lines up on your destination, the forward button may delay enough until it aims you at the wall!
So it can be a bit of a lottery, but still great fun.
Fortunately it seems just as tough as the Picoo Z.
The tiny actuator mechanism for the 'Forward' control is jewel like and a very neat bit of model engineering, significant educational value, as always - but the way the whole machine flies is not so good in the ways described. Pity.
Oh, and it has a remote controlled light on it. Might add fun to the arrival of the Xmas pud? Just don't get too near the flames!
Still recommended, but for fun rather than precision flying.

In The Night Garden Interactive Mat Game

Fisher-Price Elmo Live

• Elmo from Sesame Street comes to life
• He can open and close his mouth and sings some of his favourite songs
• He can wave his arms, cross his legs, sit and stand and play games
• Approx. 12 inches high
• Requires 6 AA batteries (not included)

Great Christmas with Elmo Live, 2008-10-29
This has to be one of the best toys anyone could own, Not just for children, He is very entertaining and will have you laughing in no time, When he falls over he ask you to help him up, He knows when he is up or down, He also asks you to scratch his back, squeeze his nose and he will sneeze, Also tell storys as well as jokes, Will keep you happy for hours of fun, Even goes to slepp when he get board

My Life Magic Cards 4pk

• Compatible with the My Life portable console
• PLEASE NOTE: Various 'Keys' are available and will be randomly selected to fulfill your order

Meccano Multi Models 20 Model Set

Mecanno Motion System 20 and daughters!, 2004-01-21
This has been one of the most pleasurable things we have bought our daughter. She has always enjoyed construction kits and she is so thrilled that she can now start to make "grown up" models! She is 7 years old! She is able to handle the small nuts and bolts and use the tools within the kit with relative ease. She needs some help when following the instructions, so mum and dad just have to sit down with her to do this.What fun!! We have talked about all sorts of things - batteries and electricity, axles, cogs, friction to name just a few. Meccano reminds us of our youth and the fun we had. Well done!

Batman Dark Knight Stealth Batmobile

Batman Dark Knight Stealth Launch Batmobile , 2008-07-31
Series: Batman the Dark Knight Movie 2008

Details (Description): The must have vehicle from the new film Batman The Dark Knight. This all new version of the tumbler vehicle features two Bat vehicles in one! With the touch of a button the Batmobile breaks open from battle damage and shoots out the Bat-Pod wheelie action cycle. Includes one in-scale dedicated 5 inch Batman figure.

The Dark Knight(tm), Batman(tm) uses ultra-cool gear and vehicles to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that trouble Gotham City(tm). With the Stealth Launch(tm) Batmobile(tm) Vehicle, one touch of a button reveals twin projectile missiles, and becomes a launcher for hours of battle-play fun. Includes two vehicles and one in-scale dedicated 5" Batman(tm) figure