Giggling Elmo Hot Tomato Game

by Cardinal Industries

Product Features

• Don?t be left holding Elmo or you will lose your turn
• Includes Elmo round fun looking head
• Learn to color, shapes and more with the included hot tomato cards
• Take it anywhere you go
• Easy to store

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NX0OZU
• Item model number: 4067
• Manufacturer recommended age: 3 years and up
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,425 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Cardinal Industries Giggling Elmo Hot Tomato Game in which Elmo shakes and giggles and pass him along to the next player before he stops two different ways to play. Use the hot tomato cards to learn colors, shapes and much more.

Product Description

Elmo shakes and giggles! Pass him along to the next player before he stops. Two ways to play, for additional fun use the Hot Tomato Cards to learn colors, shapes and more. Promotes color identification, letter recognition and categorization skills.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loads of fun for little ones, December 6, 2007

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Pat D. Langille - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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Our 4-year-old twin nieces absolutely love this game. It's most fun with 3 or more people. You turn on the giggles by pushing Elmo's nose, and then start tossing it to each other. The person who is holding it when it stops giggling "loses". Theoretically at that point the loser would leave the game, and play would continue until only one person hasn't lost, like musical chairs. But with our girls, we just started over with the same crowd. They were absolutely riveted. I think they'd have played it till bedtime if we'd let them.

The game helps youngsters with their motor skills (tossing, catching) and also with learning to tolerate losing. If you have a child who cannot bear to lose, this probably isn't a good game for you. Everybody loses at some point in this game! We just said, "Ohhhh" sympathetically and then started right back in. Worked for us.

The game includes a set of cards for older kids. When you start the game you choose a card, which has items of one color on them. I think the rule is you have to name an item similar to the ones on the card before you can get rid of Elmo.

Two thumbs up from us. We're planning to buy two more for our other nieces!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars broke twice, April 15, 2009

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soccer mom (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Giggling Elmo Hot Tomato Game (Toy)

Such a big hit with my 4 year old that we took it to school, where it broke in a day. Teacher felt bad, and bought us a new one on Amazon. New one lasted less than 15 minutes on a playdate. Definately not worth it. You are throwing your money away on this toy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Giggling Elmo, November 10, 2008

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N. Kramer (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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My sons loved it while it worked. But they kept dropping it (once the thing starts giggling it is hard to hold on to), so it lasted for maybe a day. then it was worthless. So we never got to the game part of it.