Fire Monsterz Inferno - MIUCHIZ Virtual Companions

by MGA

Product Features

• MIUCHIZ Monsterz - Introducing the new Tribe especially for boyz: Monsterz! For battles and brawling galore!
• To become part of the MIUCHIZ community. MIUCHIZ feature your favorite characters from the MGA universe. Depending on your MIUCHIZ character you will have different things to do and to live for.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.6 x 8.4 x 8.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F901F0
• Item model number: 330288
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 years and up
• Batteries: 3 AAA batteries required. (included)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,547 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Miuchiz are the new generation of virtual companions--digital, interactive, colorful characters that you customize, personalize, and stylize. Featuring full-color screens, Miuchiz also come with push-button touchscreen response, motion sensors, and "train and feed them" play. Also, Miuchiz have three modes of play! Now you can play on your own, with your friends, or online! One-Player Mode: Being part of Miuchiz also means you're never alone. The one-player mode includes a menu full of play options. Check out your inventory in your own room, go to the mall to shop for stuff, or relax at the spa. Each unit comes with three games. Two-Player Mode: The two-player mode lets you wirelessly interact with your friends, "call out" to other Miuchiz characters, beam gifts, and compete in games. Online Mode: But the fun doesn't stop there! Miuchiz is the first virtual character-based toy you can plug into a computer and enter into an online community. It's called Planet Mion. It's an amazing interactive world in which you can explore, play games, download cool stuff to your handheld unit, and chat with your friends. And you can do it all with your favorite Miuchiz character! Take all the changes from the Web site, download to your handheld, and play on the go again! With Miuchiz, the possibilities are endless.

Product Description

Miuchiz are the latest in virtual companions. They're interactive, digital, colorful characters that you can personalize and stylize. Each fun friend comes with a full-color screen, touch-screen response and motion sensors. Play alone, with friends or even online. Your most important mission is to become part of the Miuchiz community. Once you plug your Miuchiz friend into your computer, you open up a whole online community called Miuchiz World, where you can engage in chat sessions with friends and download cool stuff to your handheld unit.

Each character offers a different type of fun in both One and Two Player Modes. Activities include wirelessly interacting with friends, giving gifts, calling out to other Miuchiz characters and competing in games.

Includes one electronic handheld game, color touch screen, motion sensor, USB cable to connect to your computer, IR sensor for two-player mode and joy pad and buttons. Requires 3 "AAA" batteries (included). Measures 4.75"L x 2.75"W x 1"H.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cool start, but not quite, October 31, 2006

By 

K. Yancy (cordova, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Monsterz Inferno - MIUCHIZ Virtual Companions (Toy)

I have an Inferno and my 2 kids have other Miuchiz of their own.

The concept is really neat, but they are still quite limited. There really isnt a lot to do in miuchi world yet, so you can get a little tired of it after a few visits. Earning miuchi bucks to get stuff takes a lot of effort. However, they are supposed to add new things to the online world regularly.

Playing wirelessly with another miuchi owner has been problematic for us and you can only play tic-tac-toe and rock/paper/scissors and/or exchange items. Again, they say they expect to add new features.

With Inferno, I notice that often when you go online, he wont have all the items he took from his closet prior to connecting. Also, when viewing items on the handheld that are in inventory, they often do not display colors and just show up as a shadow.

Looks like all users online are connecting to the same server. Performance is sometimes pretty bad. Other times you can't find anyone to duel with etc..

On the plus side, they were very smart to make software updates possible on the handheld via the USB connector. This means they can improve the handheld experience without requiring you to buy a new handheld. With other virtual worlds (e.g. pixel chix) you are stuck with the world and features you start with out of the box. Miuchiz has the right idea.

Based on my experiences and feedback from my kids, you may want to wait just a bit longer before you spend your hard earned cash as right now it becomes a pixel-chix sort of experience pretty quick (i.e. get kind of bored with it). Maybe by Christmas they will have added enough to miuchi world to make it more worthwhile.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating!!!, March 23, 2007

By 

Michael Bentivenga "Big Kid" (Columbia, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fire Monsterz Inferno - MIUCHIZ Virtual Companions (Toy)

The game has a nice concept, IF IT WORKED. I've been trying since christmas(over 3 months) to connect this game to the internet to update it for my kids and finally was able to update the firmware today. Something that you will have to do to be able to get to the virtual worlds,BUT THE WEB SITE IS ALWAYS DOWN!!!!! EXPERANCING TECHNICAL PROBLEMS!!! and the nice window that pop's up on the home page from the Chief, asking for suggestions goes to a bad link!!!

I only gave it 1 star because the review process doesn't have a 0 stars.

DON'T WASTE ANY MONEY ON THIS THING!!!!!