This toy is a little different from the run-of-the-mill toy where you press a button or move a lever to get something to pop out. A couple reasons this is different: 1) there is an added feature where you press down the pink lever on the side so that the characters get mixed up and sent to different windows. the also spin around in circles which is fun for the baby/kid to see when the windows are open. 2) elmo asks you to try to find certain characters so that is a fun "challenge." the characters themselves also talk (say hello, goodbye, tootaloo, etc). Very cute and really not overly annoying. I really like this toy... the only thing I don't like is the angle that the baby/kid has to hold it in order to play it. it is a flat toy but it has to be held at a 45 degree angle for play. sort of hard for a baby to hold it at that angle and press the buttons and move the levers etc at the same time. really need help from an adult. my 3 yo can do it fine, but my 14 month old can't.
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This is a well-designed and somewhat more original toy than many out there, asking kids to think a bit about where they can find the various characters. The fact that there are four characters but only three windows adds a fun, unpredictable factor. Not only do you guess where Big Bird or Ernie might be, but sometimes they aren't anywhere and a different character appears! The kids I shared this with enjoyed playing with it
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Very cute, bought this for my 2 year old nephew, when it arrived in the mail my 5 year old daughter could not keep her hands off of it.
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*Revised Review (see original review below):
So we allowed our son to open up his first gift from Santa a bit early, because we wanted him to have something new to play with on the airplane ride to Grandma and Grandpa's house in Miami. So we gave it to him, and boy oh boy was he excited! But we were less than thrilled. First of all, there is no off switch. This toy is extremely LOUD, and there is no volume switch either. And it goes off at the faintest movement. If it's on a table and you are walking too close to it, if the table senses your vibrations, Elmo pipes up loudly to invite you to play. We were hoping a volume switch would exist, at the very least. But nothing. Its voice is BOOMING. More upsetting though, is that we ordered it from this seller here on Amazon instead of buying it at a store, because it was cheaper than the one at Target. But when it arrived, we noticed instantly that we got a dud. When Elmo says to our son "Can you help Elmo find Big Bird? Where is Big Bird?" and he opens up the correct door to see Big Bird's face sitting there, Elmo says to him "Noooo... you found ERNIE!" and then the voice of Ernie says "HI THERE!", or whatever it says. You get the idea. When Elmo says "Can you tell Elmo who is behind door number three?" and he opens it and it's Abby Cadabby, you suddenly hear cookie monster's voice shout "HELLOOOO!!!" and Elmo says "YOU found COOKIE MONSTER!". And so on. The characters are wrong about 80 percent of the time, even when my son gets the answers right. The one he played with at the Target when he first saw this toy never did this. So clearly, we got a dud. We are going to return this one, and go buy it at Target (for more money, but at least we can test it out a few times to make sure we get one that actually works right). My poor son is so confused! He's almost two, and he really gets frustrated when he gets the answer right and Elmo says he was wrong. Not to mention when he hears the wrong character's voices emerge from the character behind the door almost every time. He ended up throwing the toy and crying. So sometimes you are better off paying a few dollars more to get a product from a store that you can investigate and test out yourself before paying. Lesson learned.
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Original Review: We saw this while at a Target shopping for holiday gifts recently. I handed it to our toddler (21 months old) while he sat in the seat of the shopping cart. He became addicted to playing with it, feverishly pulling the lever over and over again to try to find the characters. It reminded me of watching the little old ladies at the local Casino slot machines for hours on end. He couldn't get enough of it. At one point we tried to take it from him, because we weren't going to buy it. But he went ballistic. So we handed it back to him and finished our shopping in peace. He played with it for so long and so hard that he fell asleep in the cart! It wore him out! We put it back on the shelf and added it to the Amazon wishlist of presents he will get for Christmas from Santa. ;)
He later saw one at a friend's house while on a playdate, and didn't want to leave without it. It's insane, how much he loves this toy. We can't wait for him to open his very own on Christmas morning!
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My 18 month old loves this toy! He sits with it and opens the windows over and over and just laughs hysterically when the characters change. I dont know if he is just easily amused, but he loves it and that speaks volumes to me! I think it is a nice toy for the little ones and it's definitely worth the price. The only thing I don't like about it is that the audio is very repetative, but that is pretty much the same with most childrens' toys...totally a personal issue! Overall, a nice toy and pretty durable as well.
