Customer Reviews

The Wave Dance Maker

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

This is the second product by this company that I've tried. I don't think I'll by another. It is slightly better than the Dance Maker II I just brought home, because at least this one has music (if you can call it that). Both toys aren't fun in the least. They aren't reliable, don't ever give you the "grade" at the end of a dance (actually you aren't dancing, but stepping from lighted star to star like playing Simon), the batteries are ridiculously difficult to insert- I can't explain how awful this product is. Shame on the company for making it and Toys R Us for selling it. Don't leave your child in tears on Christmas morning. I knew I was returning it so I had three little girls come over and try it. They hated it too! "BORING!" they said.

I purchased this for my three daughters hoping that one of them would be able to handle it. It never worked from the start. We set it up and turned it on. It made a lot of noise and the pads didn't pick up there steps. The quality is just not there.

There are no lights on the floor and it doesn't seem like there are any sensors either. It can't respond to your actions.

The toy does what it says on the box. Keep kids who like to dance entertained but if you were looking for something that has lights, this is not the best choice.

I bought it for 13 dollars when there was a sale on Amazon. It is not worth much more than that.

Whoever designed this product had no idea how kids are going to use it. Lousy mat provided can skid and harm kids very bad.

Don't buy this toy even if it is offered for one dollar.

I got this as a Christmas present. I've always had a love for dancing, so of course I wanted to try it out right away. After playing for a bit I realized that it repeated the same pattern over and over and over! I wan't happy. The music that came with it isn't even considered music. The pads on the bottom to help it stick feel of within a bit. At the end it doesn't tell you your score, or if you missed any. The lights don't change after you hit, they changed like every 5 seconds or something. I'm twele years old and I was dissapointed in this. This might be ok if you buy it for like a little kid.

I suspect this toy will not be extremely fun. You just try to press on the star on the mat to match which ever light flashes on the panel. The Wave Dance Maker will be put aside by kids and forgotten about. However, our daughter got a similar product called the Dance Maker 2 as a gift which seemed to go over better with kids. We thought it was awful & a piece of junk, but when her friends came over for a birthday party, they couldn't stop playing it! We were surprised. I think that because Dance Maker 2 has you compete against someone else, it was more fun for everyone. In that product both people try to copy the lights with their feet, whoever does better wins. Kids would just watch the competition and want to go next. Even parents got involved. There is no music on the Dance Maker 2, we just put some dance music on the stereo and it was fine (better than the lame music a machine like the Wave Dance Maker could produce (however when you play your own music, there's no correlation between the lights and the music) but the kids didn't seem to care. It's just a game of reflexes (matching the lights as quickly and accurately as you can). So I guess if you get anything, get the Dance Maker 2 as long as you think you have 2 or more kids who would like to play. Even dance maker 2 is pretty cheap. At the end of 3 minutes of competition, it calculates who won and flashes a light indicating who won (no score readout or anything thing like that). Honestly I can't even tell if it counts steps correctly - for all we know it randomly picks the winner. But most people didn't care, they just wanted to try and beat someone. Who would have figured! My wife almost returned the item but pulled it out when kids came over for the birthday party and it was a huge hit (we were dumbfounded). We've had people calling asking the name of it ever since, (but it seems very hard to get now - most places were out of stock around Christmas time). Either it was a hot seller or they stopped producing it because it was junk. Who knows.

What a let down. This was the one toy my child was truly looking forward to at Christmas and this was the worst toy ever. I can't believe the box says it will "teach you to dance". It barely works half the time and I was thinking of returning it for another thinking that the one I have is broken, but after reading the other reviews, I realize its just a piece of junk. It never rates your dance moves and the songs are just terrible. Please don't waste your time or money buying this toy!

I guess Moose Mountain's quality control is pretty lousy too since ours never worked at all right out of the box. Totally dead. Stay away from this one.

Completely boring, poor design. You might as well flash a flashlight at your little girl and tell her to dance on some saran wrap. It is about the same, might even be more entertaining.

If you are looking for an "easy to do" toy for your kids...this isn't the one. It came with no instructions! Movements don't register correctly! Not sure what it is for, expect taking up space. I've actually gotten some laughs out of it though. My kids keep asking me why the song won't change. It is supposed to have 3 different songs you can change. (NOT MUCH VARIETY!) Don't waste your dollar!