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Miuchiz Virtual Companions - Bratz Babyz Cloe

• A virtual companion with three modes of play, including on-line plug-in capacity.
• Cloe, of Bratz Babyz fame, can eat, sleep, shop, chat with friends, try on clothes, play games, visit a spa, and much more.
• Easy to navigate in every mode.

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Miuchiz are the new generation of virtual companions--digital, interactive, colorful characters that you customize, personalize, and stylize. Featuring full-color screens, Miuchiz also come with push-button touchscreen response, motion sensors, and "train and feed them" play. Also, Miuchiz have three modes of play! Now you can play on your own, with your friends, or online! One-Player Mode: Being part of Miuchiz also means you're never alone. The one-player mode includes a menu full of play options. Check out your inventory in your own room, go to the mall to shop for stuff, or relax at the spa. Each unit comes with three games. Two-Player Mode: The two-player mode lets you wirelessly interact with your friends, "call out" to other Miuchiz characters, beam gifts, and compete in games. Online Mode: But the fun doesn't stop there! Miuchiz is the first virtual character-based toy you can plug into a computer and enter into an online community. It's called Planet Mion. It's an amazing interactive world in which you can explore, play games, download cool stuff to your handheld unit, and chat with your friends. And you can do it all with your favorite Miuchiz character! Take all the changes from the Web site, download to your handheld, and play on the go again! With Miuchiz, the possibilities are endless.

Product Description

Miuchiz are the latest in virtual companions. They're interactive, digital, colorful characters that you can personalize and stylize. Each fun friend comes with a full-color screen, touch-screen response and motion sensors. Play alone, with friends or even online. Your most important mission is to become part of the Miuchiz community. Once you plug your Miuchiz friend into your computer, you open up a whole online community called Miuchiz World, where you can engage in chat sessions with friends and download cool stuff to your handheld unit.

Each character offers a different type of fun. With Miuchiz Bratz Babyz, you can check out your inventory, go to the mall for shopping or even relax at the spa in One Player Mode. In Two Player Mode, you can wirelessly interact with friends, give gifts, call out to other Miuchiz characters and compete in games.

Includes one electronic handheld game, color touch screen, motion sensor, USB cable to connect to your computer, IR sensor for two-player mode and joy pad and buttons. Requires 3 "AAA" batteries (included). Measures 4.75"L x 2.75"W x 1"H.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.6 x 8.4 x 8.6 inches ; 7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ETRDPW
• Item model number: 331452
• Batteries: 3 AAA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,078 in Clothing (See Top 100 in Clothing)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Big Headache!, November 25, 2006

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KWells - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miuchiz Virtual Companions - Bratz Babyz Cloe (Toy)

Save yourself a big headache. After my seven year old daughter was 'sold' by their TV ads, I bought one for her. The hand-held game works fine, but my daughter is bored of it (after 2 months). Each time she tries the online experience, however, I must sit in front of the PC and spend over an hour downloading/installing the latest version of the software, rebooting my PC, and trying to re-connect to their website (of course this is in the middle of when I am trying to cook dinner!). After updating the software, it asks me to update it again... I am sent into a circular loop and then it cannot even connect to "Planet Mion." I suspect they spent 99% of their budget on the ads, and 1% developing the product.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HORRIBLE - waste of money, February 12, 2007

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P. H. Stein - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miuchiz Virtual Companions - Bratz Babyz Cloe (Toy)

This toy can't be unsed unless you go online and "update" it. We have spent countless hours trying to "update" this toy - and ther is always a problem. The website is down or some other technical problem. Then IF the website is up - you go through the whole process and the toy still does not update - so it is unusable! It is a complete waste of money.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Way Cool, October 19, 2006

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Jay Macintosh - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miuchiz Virtual Companions - Bratz Babyz Cloe (Toy)

I bought 2 of these for my kids (A Roc and a Cloe) and they are both ecstatic about the toy. Not only do they play it offline but when they connect to the virtual world, everything they did offline gets transferred to the world. My son was awed when he dressed his monster up with battle gear and armor only to see it in the world. This toy is for the new era of consumers who understand computers and know how to use them. I read a few reviews from users who just could not get it connected. Like any computer hardware, you need basic understanding of how to install computer software/hardware and how to get them connected to the internet. I suspect these customers that failed to get their game connected, probably had very little if no computer experience. I like to think of myself as computer literate, but found that my son got it hooked up and running faster than I could. Definitely one of the coolest new toys around, I suspect we will see many more of these types of toys/virtual worlds in the next few years.

My daughter who purchased the Cloe unit spent a great deal of time shopping in the store on the handheld and then went into the world. The graphics on the handheld are fairly basic but when you go into the virtual world the graphics are very high quality. The little Cloe's running around all dressed up looked quite cool. My daughter loved going to the changing room and trying on new clothes all the time. She also loves playing some of the arcade machines that are sprinkled around the world. These contain cute little games that you can play like "Memory", and "Mix and Match" that allow kids to earn more money (Creditz as they call it) and then have it go back to your handheld so you can purchase more stuff offline.

The game is just full of options, I do not believe my kids even found them all. I saw them play games on the handheld, dress up their character, feed them, buy toys for them, change their colors and then when in the world, there is a whole new set of activities for them to do. In the world I saw them playing some Arena fight game (very tame and harmeless), then a Laser tag game, a whole bunch of board type/2d games, treasure hunts, scavenger hunts, race games, balloon pop games and the list goes on. We do not know what was in the Haven world as we needed a Pawz game to enter that area, but my kids are already bugging me to purchase one so they can find out.

I was very impressed at the great pains Bratz went to in making sure the game was kid friendly. There seem to be lots and lots and lots (almost too much) of checks and balances to prevent inappropriate content for children. Kudo's to them for trying to make this safe for kids.

For $30, you definitely get your money's worth.