SCREATURE Interactive Dinosaur

by Mattel

Product Features

• Lifelike and realistic with ferocious sounds
• Screature uses an infrared sensor to sense and attack his prey with your help
• If you can control Screature, he will respond loyally to your petting, but if you pet him in the wrong place, Screature attacks
• Set him in room guard mode and Screature will guard all your stuff
• Screature a mean little predator with a big appetite

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 6.5 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 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: B001O2S7X0
• Item model number: N4320
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 10 years
• Batteries: 3 AA batteries required. (included)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,541 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

SCREATURE Interactive Dinosaur: Can you master Screature, or will you be his prey? Lifelike and realistic with ferocious sounds, Screature uses an infrared sensor to sense and attack his prey with your help. If you can control Screature, he will respond loyally to your petting, but if you pet him in the wrong place, Screature attacks. Set him in room guard mode and Screature will guard all your stuff. Screature a mean little predator with a big appetite.

Product Description

Your own prehistoric pal but dare you pet his head? Screature uses infrared to sense and attack his prey! Lifelike and realistic, with ferocious sounds. He's a mean little predator with a big appetite for fun!

Can you master Screature or will you become his prey? Lifelike and realistic, with ferocious sounds, Screature uses infrared to sense and attack his prey. If you can control Screature, he will respond loyally to your petting, but if you pet him in the wrong place, the dinosaur attacks! Set him in room-guard mode and Screature will protect all your prized treasures. This monster is a mean little predator with a big appetite for fun! He comes in a try-me open-tray package. Minor assembly required. 3x 'AA' batteries included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars favorite birthday gift, August 5, 2009

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Joe'sMom (Ayer, MA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SCREATURE Interactive Dinosaur (Toy)

This toy is lots of fun for the dinosaur lover in your family. It stands about a foot high and has 2 sensors: one on the nose and the other on it's back. The toy is programmed to do different things based on which sensors are activated. If you press the sensor on the back, it's like you are patting Screature. It sort of purrs. If you press both sensors together, it's like you are tickling screature and he laughs. Pressing the sensor on the nose though activites his "angry" mode. The nose sensor also detects movement near it's face so you don't actually have to touch screature to get "snapped" at. The dinosaur will also sort of rear back and unfold it's wings and spit water out. This is a fun trick on an unsuspecting friend!

The toy seems well made and easy to activate. Sensors are pretty sensitive so you don't have to press them hard to make Screature move. The dinosaur itself is stationary so it doesn't walk or jump.

The battery component and the water tank are on the bottom under the feet. The battery component is screwed in so no worries with young kids getting into batteries. The water tank is small but really easy to fill.

Great birthday gift! definitely recommend

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun!, September 10, 2009

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Mark Adkins "Technogeek" (Nebraska) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SCREATURE Interactive Dinosaur (Toy)

I got one for my shop/office, and enjoy it. A few notes:

1. When you get it, it is in a demo mode and will NOT squirt. All you have to do is to turn it completely ON (switch is on the foot) and it will increase its behaviors, go to sleep mode, squirt, etc. (I suspect some low scores came from people who did not know this.)

2. The squirting tank is pretty small, and the volume of each squirt is pretty small, but it shoots a good 10+ feet with a little force. If you use it in an office or someplace with nice clothes and lots of paper, you may want to keep the tank empty... or put up a good warning sign!

3. This is a reasonably tough toy, but it is more geared for 'tabletop play' than 'sandbox play'.

By the way- this thing just BEGS to be hacked. Voice recording/playback module (it yawns when it wakes up. I want it to play the theme from Jurassic Park!), glowing eyes, dancing to music (a Screature/iDog hybrid?) and more!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The hit of the birthday party, July 24, 2009

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Nerdaddy (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SCREATURE Interactive Dinosaur (Toy)

This is a great little dinosaur! A friend got it for my son (7) a couple of months ago, and it was a lot of fun at the party. Lots of giggles as the kids put their hands in front of his mouth to make Screature snap. And when we filled him up with water, the boys went crazy trying to make him spray each other. Definitely more play with Screature than the $100 toy mom and dad got him at the same birthday. :P

I expected quick loss of interest with Screature, but two months later he's still playing with it: using the water-spitting for target practice on his action figures. There's fun a motion-sensing mode he likes to use on any unsuspecting guest who visits his room.

My only complaint is that the water container in the foot is pretty small; it's gone after about 10 sprays. But the good news there is that the spray of water is very thin, so he can use it indoors without too much mess. So maybe that's more of a feature! :)