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Daddy Clay

Santa's Hits and Misses: What worked? What broke instantly? 42 Years, 5 Months ago
I find that I spend a good bit of the time between Christmas and New Year's fixing broken toys and wiping away tears. And buying more batteries. Were you surprised by the success of a particular toy or gift (for kids or grownups)? Or were you pasting together plastic fragments of something that disintegrated soon after unwrapping?

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Daddy Clay

Re:Santa's Hits and Misses: What worked? What broke instantly?
42 Years, 5 Months ago

Bubba's big present this year was an electric scooter (an eZip model from Currie Technologies that I found for an incredible price on Amazon. I would rather he pedal something, but he begged and begged for something to drive.) Within two days it stopped dead. This was a huge disappointment. I tried to check all the wires and fuses. Everything seemed fine. I called customer service. Waited for a while (understandable). The associate was awesome. I was impressed how they could run diagnostics. We fixed it. By disabling a couple of features that were proving problematic with the control unit. I was impressed at the ambition of the tech to make a scooter run, but maybe they should KISS. Total relief to get the thing running again -- would have been a huge headache to ship back/find mechanic etc.

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sophiasdad

Re:Santa's Hits and Misses: What worked? What broke instantly?
42 Years, 5 Months ago

We were surprised at the creepiness of one of the toys. It was a Fisher Price Laugh and Learn Puppy. Surprisingly both my parents and my wife's parents got it for her. Both of them had the same problem with the dog. It would sit there and randomly start talking to you, even in the middle of the night. My parents even had it in the closet and it would keep talking every so often. We were scared we were getting some kind of Chucky doll, but we found out that it is a setting when you open it up. There is a tab that when you pull it out it can be turned off and does normal settings. We just had this fear we would have to hide it in the closet and then all of sudden find it in our daughter's bed with its eyes glowing. At least it isn't as scary as we thought it would be.

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ben

Re:Santa's Hits and Misses: What worked? What broke instantly? 42 Years, 5 Months ago
There was a report filed for NPR's Day to Day about the power outages in Detroit. The reporter bought her son a Wii for Christmas and the power has been out since he opened it. Yet another good reason not to have moved to MI.