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Not much fun was gained by my grandchildren prior to them breaking. I purchased two of the electronic journals and both fell apart with in a week.
90% of the time, this is interpreted as 'change password', 'change date' or simply not understood. Even though many of the advertised features - time/calendar, voice commands - don't work and never will, our girl is happy with the fact that the PJ opens at the sound of her saying her secret word and she can hide her secrets in there - we did succeed in setting a password, eventually. Attempting to set up the Password Journal, half an hour later, had me shouting in anger and frustration and my little 6 yr. She simply wanted it and she had to have it. And on, and on, and on it goes.I must admit that I was partially wrong. It seems it took the vibrations generated by my screwdriver to be the password because it accepted it.- Since my girl couldn't imitate the noise of a screwdriver, it refused to open.- To reset it, had to unscrew the crew closing the battery door and had my girl scream her password as I was inserting the batteries.- Once it finally opened, all we found inside was the cheapest possible notepad of a non-standard size, probably impossible to replace once used, some cheap plastic stylus and nothing else, except of a UV lamp - that's exactly what my kids needed, a little cataract.- Attempting to set the time and date is were we stopped. To set the time, for example, you must say 'change time'.
No problem, it will ask you for the new password. Want to tell it to turn on the light.
Now, a few days later, we both agree that this is not what she expected.WHAT I DID LIKE ABOUT PASSWORD JOURNAL:- Nothing but my little girls likes the fact that it sometimes opens when she says the password.WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE ABOUT PASSWORD JOURNAL:- Batteries not included (3 AAA's).- As I was inserting the batteries, the contraption woke up and demanded that my girl said the password and confirmed it. Anyway, it usually gives up after the first 2 or 3 digits so the time is never set.
old daughter disappointed and crying.Thanks to Amazon's great reviewers I knew that this is was coming but the deceiving TV advertising campaign conditioned my girl into wanting it so intensely, me reading what others had to say about this over-hyped item had no effect on her. In the rare instances when the command is fully understood, you are supposed to say the year's digit, one at a time as in 'two' [beep], 'zero' [beep], 'zero' [beep], 'nine' - can ANYONE explain why you have to say two-zero-zero on a toy that was launched in 2004.
And, if she is happy, then I am happy but, the grown-up in me says that, while the concept is good, the implementation is not. In the end, I had to hope against hope that everyone describing their experiences with this toy was wrong and ordered it.
This brain-comatose device is suppose to understand human speech but the claims are slightly exaggerated.
this is a very fun journal but it is not worth the money go to a store and buy one for way way way cheaper.
She loves it. And the prercorded sayings and noises are somewhat annoying (for Mom at least).
Overall it's a fun Journal. I must point out the voice on the prerecordings has a British accent.it sounds like the character 'Daphne' from the TV show Frazier.
My 8 yr old daughter asked for this for Christmas. It is very senative and if she doesn't pronouce the password exactly (and I mean exactly) the same way as recorded the intruder alert goes off.
I gave 4 stars for educational value because anything that gets my daughter practicing her writing is a good thing. Santa obliged.
Although, she gets very frustrated when it doesn't recognize her voice.
The girl I purchased it for was thrilled with it. I purchased this as a Christmas gift and have already given it.
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