Elmo The Bore
Written: Dec 25 '00
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Pros: cute
Cons: lacks imagination
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| maddi's Full Review: Let's Pretend Elmo |
I baby-sit for an adorable little 23-month-old little girl who lives, breathes, and sleeps thinking that Sesame Streets Elmo is the coolest little guy in the world. She totes around a cute little Fisher-Price pose-an-Elmo, so as a Christmas present, I bought her another Elmo I thought she might enjoy.
I found a Let’s Pretend Elmo and immediately found myself pushing is red hand over and over again just to listen and watch him. I really think he is cute. But the true test was Elmo meeting Jaylyne and if Elmo could entertain a darling 23-month-old.
Fisher Price’s Let’s Pretend Elmo is 14 inches tall, red with a bright orange nose and google eyes. Wearing a white T-shirt, bib over-all with his name on the front pocket and white and yellow running shoes. A casually dressed little monster that can pretend with a little child of the age 18 months on up. He requires 3 “AA” batteries. To have fun, just put Elmo into one of 5 positions and squeeze his right hand and listen and watch as he pretends with your child.
By lifting both arms high in the sky, Elmo recites that he is a big, red hairy monster or mimics the sound of a monkey, all the while moving his body a way a monsters or monkey would. Lift just one arm, and he is a train or a policeman. Put dear sweet little Elmo on all fours and he is a baby gooing or a puppy barking and trying to crawl across the floor. Sit Elmo down he’s a cowboy on a horse or a race car driver out to win the big race. Shoot, Elmo is even an airplane varooming through the air or a superhero when you child holds him by the waist and moves him through the air. He RRRrrrrrrs, EEEEEKs, whistles, goos, weeeeees, and yipeeees to everything he and your child will do together while pretending.
Now for the real test, what does a 23-month-old think. Hidden behind colorful christmas wrapping paper is hidden our lovable Elmo. Jaylyne quickly rips off the paper and squeals (yes a bad habit…lol) from excitement that the one and only ELMO is her Christmas gift After quickly showing her all the neat things Elmo will do with her, she heads off to play pretend with her big red monster. Within 20 minutes, Elmo is abandon. Even to a 23-month-old the Let’s Pretend Elmo is BORING. She can’t hug him because his body is hard from the mechanical things inside. She can’t take a nap with him because if she happens to roll over on him, he hurts her. She can watch him pretend, she can listen to him make noises but she can’t use her imagination with him. He only wants to be certain things like a race car driver or a puppy. Basically she is done with the Let’s Pretend Elmo .
Now to me, a child who used their imaginations continues to grow each day, the Let’s Pretend Elmo states it will pretend with your child when in fact Elmo is pretending and your child is watching. Yes, he is a cute toy but only to watch not play/pretend with. I wouldn’t recommend the Let’s Pretend Elmo to anyone who wants to let a child use their imagination and not just watch a toy pretending.
Recommended:
No
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