Love Me Baby CHOU CHOU Functional Ethnic Doll

by Zapf Creation

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0001ZXLOQ
• Our recommended age: 3 years and up
• Manufacturer recommended age: 3 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #448,961 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

This battery-operated African-American doll has unpredictable behaviors to give little girls a taste of what it's like to care for a real baby. Chou Chou makes realistic movements, such as kicking her legs when happy or when her diaper is being changed and opening and closing her eyes randomly. Her sounds and behaviors are also very convincing and include babbling baby talk when Chou Chou is happy, yawning when Chou Chou is sleepy, a sucking sound when Chou Chou's bottle is placed in her mouth, laughing when her blanket is thrown over the upper part of Chou Chou's body, and crying when Chou Chou is not attended to after one minute. Chou Chou also has molded plastic hands, feet, and head that look realistic and a soft, fabric body so she is still cuddly enough to sleep with. Chou Chou comes with several helpful care-taking accessories, including a pacifier, bottle, security blanket, and a birth certificate authenticating her arrival. She comes dressed in a romper suit, hat, and diaper—all of which may be hand washed. --Cristina Vaamonde

Product Description

With so many lifelike functions, Love Me Baby CHOU CHOU will keep pretend parents busy trying to figure out what their little one wants. Is she crying? She may need to be fed or have her diaper changed. Is she yawning? Use the soft soothing blanket (included) to help her fall asleep. The newest CHOU CHOU family member, this darling doll has joints in her arms and legs to be positioned in several poses including kicking her feet, babbling and even sucking on her bottle or pacifier just like a real baby. She wears a pink cotton playsuit with matching hat and comes with a bottle and pacifier. Other Baby CHOU CHOU outfits and accessories sold separately. Imported. 19"H.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY, October 12, 2005

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Shannon Putt - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Love Me Baby CHOU CHOU Functional Ethnic Doll (Toy)

My daughter received this doll for her 4th birthday party. Everytime we visited the toy store we had to pry the doll out of her hands so you can imagine how happy she was to receive this doll. The doll is cute and I do love the functions however the head on this doll is made out of this squishy/rubbery material. After playing with the doll 3 OR 4 times the doll appeared very dirty and you CAN NOT clean this material. To top it off my daughter was fascinated by the squishy/rubbery head and was constantly pulling at facial features, she pulled on the nose and it came right off!! There is no way to fix this. Please Please do not waste money on this doll. Stick with the baby born, we've enjoyed that doll for over two years. It alot more durable!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING CHOKING HAZARD!!!!, October 26, 2005

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J. Potter (TN) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Love Me Baby CHOU CHOU Functional Ethnic Doll (Toy)

Like many of the other reviewers my daughter just HAD to have this doll (even though we already have Baby Annabelle). Within 3 or 4 times of playing with her, yes she became dirty, but more surprisingly her eye lids began to crack and actually flake off in chunks! A doll of this expense should be more cost effective than 10 bucks per play session! I eventually simply put her away out of fear of an accident waiting to happen. Did Zapf Creations do ANY marketing or trials with REAL kids? I bet not...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My 3 year old LOVES this doll!, November 16, 2005

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Andreas Bader (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews

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

This review is from: Love Me Baby CHOU CHOU Functional Ethnic Doll (Toy)

I read the reviews AFTER we had already bought this doll for our daughter's 3rd birthday. I was concerned about this doll not working as described or it falling apart and her birthday present becoming a disater instead of a joy.

Was I wrong. My daughter receieved many birthday presents, but this is the ONLY one she has played with for 3 straight days. She continually wants to play with her, feed her, hold her, and get her to sleep. We have had not problems with her eyelashes/lids coming off. The baby's noises are very quiet and do not bother me at all. They are perfect and my daughter responds to baby Annika (as she named her) immediately. When the baby cries she asks me "What do I do Mommy?". That makes me laugh as that is how I was as a new mom with a newborn!

So far the baby functions just as described in the directions. Chou Chou cycles through all the functions just fine and even shuts off automatically (to save batteries) if you don't play with her for a certain amount of time (30 - 60 seconds?).

We did purchase this baby from Germany when we were visiting my in-laws, so maybe the quality of dolls over there is different than the ones in the US.