the girls' godparents got the girls furbies for christmas. i'm notorious for exchanging gifts for the girls, judge me if you will... but if i think it's something they just won't play with, i'm not going to keep it just lying around the house. i'd rather get soemthing i KNOW they'll love, right? so anyway, they are 5 years old. will they enjoy the furbies? do any of your kids have them and do they play with them? they prettying f-ing expensive if you ask me!
That's what Alice asked for from Santa. I kept asking her what she asked Santa for, and she would whisper "Furby." "Barbie?" "Furrrrrrrrrrrby." "Barbie doll?" "Furrrrrrrrrby." I think they'd probably play with them.
I thought about it for my two, but I don't think my two will play with them. Do your girls tend to play with stuffed animals? Mine do not. I got them the Wowee Alive pets a few years ago, and I put them away b/c they never got played with. So after furbies came out, I got the Wowee animals out to test it and they didn't touch them. My two just aren't in to any baby dolls/stuffed animals. They will play with Barbie size dolls, art stuff, dress up clothes and games. I remember loving stuffed animals, no idea why mine don't play with them.
My neighbors kids got them last year, and they dont' play with them. My neighbors kids got them last year, and they dont' play with them.
My girls asked for them and their aunt is getting them. They are in love with them...don't know if they'll like them or not, but they seem pretty neat.
mine couldn't care less about their stuffed animals, unless they are playing "doc mcstuffins" or something. and they're not really into baby dolls, either. AND, they refuse to sleep with any stuffed animals or dolls because they're afraid that they might come alive in the night. which also makes me rethink keeping these furbies lol!
No furbies with the dolls in the bed issue. My baby sister is still afraid of furbies as hers would wake up and talk at all hours of the night
ok, see, now this is one of the main reasons i don't want these things! it would scare the sh** out of all four of us, if they started, like, having a conversation or something at 3am! lol
All of my girls have had them at some point, and none ever really played with them. Instead of exchanging gifts everyone gives you, how about registering at Toys R Us, or Target. This way people can choose what they want to buy your kids from YOUR list. TBH, it would kind of piss me off if everything I bought a particular family was returned every time. Kind of kills the fun of giving a gift.
My 5-year-old begged and begged for one this year. I just let him use his Amazon gift money from my Mom to buy the orange one. He loves stuffed animals but I find it hard to believe this thing is worth the $55 that it cost. But, that's what the gift money is for, right? We'll see when it arrives.
This thread cracks me up! Dh and I were knuckleheads and bought one when they were all the rage a few years ago($40 then). It was quite amusing to us, lol. Even to this day we talk like the darn thing(rarely though-but we had it on the car dashboard when driving and it was like, "wooooahhhhh. Party!"). Hahaha!! I can't see any of my kids spending more than three minutes with it...
Funniest FB post I read in while was a friend that had a Furbie that would.not.turn.off. HAHA! It was amusing to read about-but he was frustrated because only did it make the kids mad, but it scared their dog so much it was having accidents whenever it saw the Furbie. We wishlists for our DD to help reduce the return/exchange issue. We only exchange if they are wrong size/something we object to/or we already have. DH & I (or our DDs) dont like some of the current toys in our DDs age bracket-- so it also helps prevent the whole explanation of why DH and I dont want DDs listening/playing/watching certain things.
Andrea had a few of the first Furby's.....I hated those darn creatures. They are the one of the most annoying 'toys' (darn Fidgits last year are a close second.) I did hear that the new incarnations of Furby have OFF buttons, something they needed the first time around!
No they don't have OFF buttons... I read reviews (not for my kids, for me LOL. Quite sure I'd enjoy them more.). And yes, not gonna work if your kids don't like stuffed animals or are scared of them. You could try them out, then go to walmart or something and return them. In my limited experience though (and from reading reviews), most of those toys lose their appeal pretty fast.
And just so you know mine wanted it for 2 years! I finally gave IN because she wrote it again on her wish list to Santa Claus she want Furby! Yes, the price blows me away. But the good news I am a deaf parents so none of those noisy toys won't bother me but here the kicker---I have to buy batteries all the time! I tell my twins' to make sure you turn it OFF when you are done! Of course I have to go and double check! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you! Diana
i don't return everything. i don't feel comfortable registering for christmas. but here's teh thing... if their godparents actually SPENT TIME with the girls (they lived a mile away before we moved), they'd KNOW that a gift like that would scare the sh*T out of them. if i know the gift was half-thought out, then i don't feel bad returning it. i always tell people we are happy getting gift cards as gifts... that way the girls can go to the store and pick out their own gift (they still have plenty of other presents to physically unwrap)...
dh returned the furbies! i told the girls about them, and they said, "yeah... we dont' want those..." lol
Steven's orange Furby came today. All three boys have barely put it down since they came home from school. It's very cute and extremely interactive. Steven keeps singing to it and it will dance and talk back to him. So, anyway, it's a hit here at our house. It will go to sleep (snore) and turn itself off after a minute or two of inactivity and it won't wake up until you pick it up again.
The furbies have been redeemed. Other than the girls cousin, Dovie's, furby being extremely talkative they did play with it more than I expected. I don't see it holding their attention for months but neither was terrified!
My girls got their Furbies on Christmas Day and they haven't put them down the only problem we've had is apparently Sarah's has turned mean a couple of times and she claims hers is sassy. Not surprising since Sarah is indeed sassy herself and she kept yanking Furbie's tail which makes them mean. I think they are extremely cute and having two and seeing them interact with each other is pretty neat. They are not allowed to take them to bed with them so they put them to sleep and wrap them up before bedtime. So far so good..but who knows how long it will last.
Hahahaa, Alice was upstairs with hers and she came downstairs in tears, "My Furby's eyes are mean and she sounds scary." I googled that if you feed it too much (mess with it's mouth too much) it will turn mean in addition to pulling on the tail, and the way to fix it is to let it go to sleep, when it wakes up, start tickling and petting it until it changes back to nice. And yeah, Alice is carrying hers around all of the time.
ok, i'm glad i returned them. they sound uber creepy! i can just picture the girls leaving theirs downstairs in the play room, and getting up in the night to go to the bathroom and seeing them outside our bedrooms doors with mean eyes hahahah! blaaaah.
