Lamaze Discover the Sea Carousel Musical Crib & Floor Toy

by Lamaze

Product Features

• Characters spin while music plays encouraging baby to bat at them
• Great developmental floor toy when baby?s ready to sit and play
• Choose mode- bedtime or playtime
• Easy to use crib attachment - fits traditional and convertible cribs
• Adjustable volume

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 6 inches ; 2.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0029F1O6I
• UPC: 796714271248
• Item model number: LC27124
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,658 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Discover the Sea Carousel grows with baby from soother to floor toy. Colorful sea creatures dance around peek-a-boo scenes lulling baby to sleep. Music length can be set from 10-40 minutes and is reactivated when baby cries.

Product Description

The Discover the Sea Carousel is a grow-with-me soother that transitions with your child from a crib soother to a floor toy. The soother features a spinning face with peek-a-boo graphics, wobbly soft characters, and a night light. Modes include a soothing mode (length of music is set by parent or caregiver) and a child-activated play mode. Additional features include a universal crib clamp (attaches to all cribs) and a cry-activation sensor.

• Cry-activated with adjustable sensitivity
• Soothing, mobile-like motion
• Grows with baby; becomes a developmental floor toy
• Easy on-and-off universal crib attachment fits convertible cribs
• Soft nightlight with peek-a-boo scenes
• Music length can be set from 10-40 minutes
• Requires 4 AA batteries, included

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't work properly, July 4, 2010

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Elisabeth S "josjo" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lamaze Discover the Sea Carousel Musical Crib & Floor Toy (Baby Product)

Well our baby likes it. He likes looking at it and listening to it. The problem is that it isn't reliable (and we have changed the batteries several times just to make sure).

The sound activation only works once, then we have to turn it off and on to get it started again.

It doesn't run for the set amount of minutes. Sometimes it runs for 5, sometimes for 40 minutes. And once in a while tha machine completely stops, starts and stops again whilst making clicking noises.

Overall it is quite cheaply made and very annoying that you need a screwdriver to change batteries and to put it on the floor as a toy.

And finally the sound of the machine itself is loud and annoying to us adults.

4.0 out of 5 stars Pro's outweigh the Con's, June 17, 2011

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MrsHomeEc - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lamaze Discover the Sea Carousel Musical Crib & Floor Toy (Baby Product)

Pro's
- Strap to attach is brilliant, no matter the size of the crib this thing fits. I even attached it to the front of the headrest during a long road trip. We have a crib with thick molding and found it almost impossible to attach a traditional mobile or the Vtech - Soothe & Surprise Nature Light that someone bought us.
- My daughter LOVES it. She loves the continuous mode and the spin and play mode. It also helped her learn to reach and grab (she is developmentally behind physically)
- The back can be removed to turn it into a toy. This is a great toy to use during her physical therapy. She loves to grab the fish and spin it around.

Con's
- the motor is a little noisy, but we, including my daughter, don't mind it
- batteries die pretty quick(we have found this to be true for most all her batteries operated toys), especially when you use it every night. Now that we use it only 1-2 times per week, we don't change the batteries that often.
- The timer and sensor worked great at first, now not so much.

Honestly the most annoying thing is the battery life, but hey I think that batteries are just a part of raising a kid these days. Batteries are now our #1 shower gift. Duracell even sells a pack of batteries that comes with a mini screw driver. We keep the screwdriver in my daughter's room with her first aid/medical stuff and grandma sends batteries with any care package :)

2.0 out of 5 stars Cry Activation Feature Doesn't Work & Batteries Die Fast, February 18, 2011

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NoBoysAllowed - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lamaze Discover the Sea Carousel Musical Crib & Floor Toy (Baby Product)

I was so excited when I ordered this for my baby. It plays 40 minutes of music and it is supposed to be cry activated. When my baby cries, you CAN'T miss it! My baby has a seriously strong set of lungs. With that said, even on the most sensitive setting, this thing will NOT turn on to crying! I even tried "crying" like my baby would, right next to the thing, and nothing! I am so disappointed. I called Lamaze/Learning Curve customer service about this issue and they really could not help unless I paid to have the item shipped back to them for a replacement (which I won't because it's fairly heavy and shipping is expensive - going to avoid buying Lamaze products from now on). If you're buying this product for this feature, don't rely on it working! It also has a pretty loud motor, though that doesn't bother me as much, personally. Batteries last roughly five 40-minute plays, we went through one set of batteries in 36 hours. Overall, not the best purchase I've made.

UPDATE: Characters stopped spinning completely after two weeks of use. Since I'd just changed the batteries the previous day (the unit required daily battery changes) I thought they may have died again and put in fresh batteries. This did not fix the problem. Luckily Amazon took this item back for a refund, it was so horrible I don't want a replacement.