Who sleeps at a sleepover?
Written: Sep 19 '07
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Pros: IGUANA! FINALLY!
Cons: Fabric pieces are easy to tear, small parts are easy to lose
The Bottom Line: If you don't like hunting around for tiny toy pieces, pass this one up!
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| pitfaltina's Full Review: Littlest Pet Shop Bedtime Blast Set |
My daughter has made it her lifetime goal to acquire all the "unusual" pets in the Littlest Pet Shop line, and we were having a very hard time finding the iguana. We finally got wise and realized it was to be found in the Littlest Pet Shop Bedtime Blast set and we ran out and purchased it without delay.
The Bedtime Blast set is supposed to be a sleepover party. As such, you get what seems like a zillion tiny little accessories that you would find at a sleepover. Or I should say, at a girl's sleepover, since it is pretty unlikely that a little boy would want to primp a kitty at the vanity table. Hasbro needs to realize that little boys like to play with Little Pets, too, and make them less girl-centric. Many of the accessories are designed for sleeping, which is just silly, because who actually sleeps at a sleepover?
Included in this set are three adorable pets. First, of course, is the much-prized iguana. The iguana is 2 1/2 inches long and is a uniform shade of mint green, except for his crest, which is a slightly darker shade of mint. The iguana has a bobblehead and a magnet in his left paw. The iguana loves to climb, so my daughter informs me, and I usually find him crawling up the refrigerator when I begin to prepare dinner. That can scare the bejeezus out of you the first dozen times!
You also get a chocolate brown puppy of indeterminate breed. The puppy has the cutest big green eyes, a bobblehead, and a magnet in his left front paw. The puppy stands about 2 inches high.
The last pet in this set is a kitty that stands under 2 inches high. It also has a bobblehead and a magnet in its right paw. The kitty was a big hit because it has a tuft of real hair that sticks out from the top of its head. Kitty also has a bow that is attached by a clear rubber band. Stupid Mom thought the clear rubber band was part of the really annoying packaging Hasbro uses on all the Littlest Pet Shop toys and Stupid Mom cut it off. Daughter informed me at top volume of my goof and was silenced when Stupid Mom stuck the hair bow back on with a piece of strategically applied cellophane tape. A tiny quibble, Hasbro. If you must use those tiny clear rubber bands in packaging, DON'T also use them as part of the toy, okay?
The Bedtime Blast set has a tiny fabric sleeping bag for the iguana to rest in. Neither the puppy nor the kitty fit in there, but it can sleep two hamsters comfortably, three if they're really good friends. The puppy and kitty have to be content with sharing a pet bed. The bed is molded plastic with a big molded bow and will hold both the puppy and the kitty, or a gaggle of hamsters.
There is a vanity table in this set for all that sleepover primping that girls do. The vanity stands about 3 inches high and is made of molded plastic with a silvered paper mirror that you shouldn't even attempt to clean. The table surface is tiny and will hold only one thing at a time, making it nearly useless.
Of course, we must also have things to primp with, and to that end, Hasbro has provided 3 clear plastic "bottles", a hair dryer, a brush, and a hair curler. The brush can be used to brush any pet if you have a good imagination, but the hair curler can only be used on the tiny handful of pets that have real hair. It is also a bit difficult for little fingers to open and close, and my daughter usually tosses it aside in disgust.
The pets also get a limited amount of clothing to further along the dress-up theme. The iguana gets a bonnet, a sleep mask, and a pair of slippers. The slippers ONLY fit on the iguana and only on the front feet, and you only get two slippers. Last time I counted, iguanas have four feet. The puppy gets a nightcap and two slippers that again only fit on the puppy's front paws. Poor kitty has to be content with the measly hair bow that Stupid Mom mangled.
There are two basically useless toy accessories for the pets to play with. You get a stuffed monkey doll that is molded from pink plastic and a stuffed teddy bear that is molded from yellow plastic. None of the pets can hold them, bite them, or do anything with them, so my daughter usually sticks these in the pets' storage box and forgets they exist.
Finally, you get a bowl of realistic-looking popcorn for those Midnight Munchies sessions. For some odd reason, my daughter loves this piece, and she usually gives it to her pet turtles.
My daughter does like this set and plays with it a lot, but she always bemoans the lack of anything magnetic in this set for any of the pets to use their paws on. If I'm going to spend $10 on a LPS set, give us some magnets to play with, as that is the single biggest attraction of these toys for my daughter!
Cleanup for most of the toys is remarkably easy. A quick swipe with a damp paper towel gets most of the grime off. I'm not entirely sure how to wash the fabric pieces of this set without ruining them, so I don't, and boy does it show! For parents who are worried about the recent magnets-in-toys scare and subsequent recall, please don't worry, as we've never had a single Littlest Pet Shop toy lose a magnet.
What I LOVE about this set:
~Cutest pets!
~Lots of fun accessories!
What I HATE about this set:
~All those small toys are vacuum fodder and are easily lost
~The hair curler is very hard to open and close for tiny fingers
~Many of the fabric pieces of this set are starting to tear at the seams or fasteners. Mom has to spend a lot of time sewing 'em back together.
~This set is not terribly gender neutral
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 9.99
Type of Toy: Playscene
Age Range of Child: 3 to 5 Years
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