Customer Reviews

My Meebas Game Light Blue - Happiness

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Let me start this by saying that my daughter LOVED this. She talked about it, was excited about it, really obsessed with it. She couldn't wait for the little toy to come out and spent a lot of time between when she bought it and when the toy came out thinking about which one it would be.
Unfortunately, that isn't much time, and that's my problem with this toy. We purchased it from KMart at 5 pm, she played it for approximately 45 minutes in the car on the way home. She then played it for about 20 minutes the next morning and then about 30 minutes after school. That's when the toy came out.
After the toy emerges, the packaging clearly states, the electronic game has "limited play value." So for 19.99, my daughter got less than two hours of play from it. She does have the little stuffed animal, but hasn't played with the electronic game part for more than 10 minutes since it opened. The stuffed animal is small and appears cheaply made. It has the appearance of one of the "small prizes" you might win at a fair game. I haven't seen it either since the day she got it.
Whoever came up with this is a marketing genius, however. You choose from several colors of Meeba canisters and within each canister color range, there are several possible Meebas that can emerge. So your child can't pick which animal she will get: it's random luck. My luck, my daughter didn't get any of the the Meebas she wanted so of course, she wants another one of these.
I would not recommend this to others for two reasons: limited play time for the amount of money spent and there is a chance that your child will be disappointed in the toy that comes out and start asking for another. I do not plan on buying any more of these.
I am giving it two stars based on how into it she was before it opened.

Bought one of these for each of my daughters ages, 6, 8 and 10. Took each of them about 3 hours of pretty consistent playing to complete all the levels and the things each opened. Cute little plush comes out and they were excited. They had alot fun and enjoyed the suspense of what critter they would get and the plush is cute BUT...now the thing is basically useless. It does not relock to play again just opens with the press of a button. And, the digital part doesn't play hardly anything any longer. I now see in the instructions only found inside the packaging to be read after purchase, that it says "limited game play after plush evolves". Well, that is certainly true. Should be more like "just throw it away when the plush comes out because it doesn't do ANYTHING!". So, basically you pay for 3 hours of digital entertainment and a very small plush for $20.00! Would have been a great toy had they made it more challenging, sold it for half the price, or even if it had the ability to be able to relock with some code so a parent could hide surprises back in it to play again or siblings could put in surprises for eachother. I also agree with the other reviewer that the velcro on the plushes is not strong enough to hold it securely to anything. Great fun but too short a time of enjoyment, definately overpriced. So sad, could have been great. All of us parents need to band together and keep up he reviews so that we can save eachother some money! Thanks!

I got these for my daughters...one is 12 and one is 6. They both were very excited to see what popped out. After only a few hours of the same games out popped the meeba! They were really excited...for about 30 seconds. The meeba isn't the best quality, it's like something from a claw machine. It's very thin and has a tiny weak velcro tab, so you can't even hang it on a back pack or anything to show off. I would buy them again if the price drops way down, but $20 is just too much for what you get.I'd wait until the price drops to buy one

I bought this for my 8 and 6 year old daughters. They played with it for a little while, but quickly got bored of the same games over and over. The games to begin with aren't all that interesting or fun. The Meeba still needs to come out- and since they don't want to play the games they suggested prying it open with a scissor. Now I'm stuck playing it to get this Meeba out! Save your money on this one folks.

We did not know about these toys until our grandson's request for one. They are pretty neat. He remains excited about it and LOVES to explain to us how it works.

I purchased this toy for my nine year old. She really enjoyed playing with it, but got it to hatch in just a couple of hours of playtime. Unfortunately, after the MyMeeba hatches, there are minimal games to play and you can't go back to lower levels. I think I am more disappointed than my daughter.

I wouldn't have minded so much if the price had been around $12 instead of over $20.

It's a cute novelty toy, but don't expect long hours of variety game play.

Yes! I found out how to regrow the mymeebas toy! When the Mymeebas is fully grown and you got the plush turn the mymeebas tube over unscrew it and take the bottom off. There will be a little hole in the battery compartment, put a paperclip in the hole (AKA reset button) Put new batteries in.Then the mymeebas will be in try me mode again! It worked for me and i know every one who has bought this toy and wanted to grow the Mymeeba again so i really hope this makes it a better toy for you!

This is a game/toy where the child plays until, when they have completed enough, a stuffed? animalish thing pops out. As for the games there were better and more challenging games in the early nineties. It's hard to believe that non back lit LCD technology has not progressed since then. It was so hard to see, my eight year old (and that is stretching the age limits) had to play directly under a bright lamp. The only real cool thing is the sliding the game screen up and down the tube like it is a view screen into the inside idea. A lot more could have been done to make this a more enjoyable stage so that a child would want to replay it. When the top pops up there is a very cheap "stuffed" Meeba that pops out. Ours didn't have stuffing but that may have been because of space limitation in the tube. Since the electronic stage wasn't fun and the meeba that popped out was cheap my child hasn'd glanced at it since. We will sell/giveaway as soon as possible.

I got this for my daughter (who is 7) one day when she was dealing with an ear infection which was causing her a great deal of pain. After the doctor visit, I went in to get her prescriptions and bought her one of these toys as well. When I got into the car she was still crying, but I soon noticed that this toy (and probably the Ibuprofen as well!) really helped distract her from her pain. She played with it all night long. The next day after playing with it some more, it came out. She was so excited when she saw it getting bigger and when it got close to the time for it to emerge. I do not agree with the negative comments at all. I do not think there is anything cheap about this toy, and she still sleeps with it!

My daughter got this for Xmas and was all excited. Unfortunately see used it constantly that day and the entire thing "evolved" in less then 4 hours and how she is done playing with it. No long term value.