Elefun - Motorised Butterfly Catching Game
From Hasbro
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
When Elefun blows his trunk, butterflies fly into the air. This very cute baby elephant will have your children and their friends jumping with joy as they scramble to collect the most butterflies. With one deep breath and a few huffs and puffs the elephant blows his 4' trunk, sending colourful butterflies spiralling high into the air. You never know where they will tumble to, so grab your net and get ready to start catching! Elefun lets your children practice their catching skills with the handy butterfly nets. Or, if they haven't quite got the hang of swinging the net around yet, they can still win the game by quickly gathering up the butterflies from the floor. Win or lose, Elefun is a game that will keep them entertained every time. Suitable for up to 4 players aged 3 years and over, Elefun requires 4 x C batteries (not included).
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2 mins. of fun a few times over and then the batteries wear out
At first sight this toy looked great, however there are a few things that make it not worth a buy. Firstly, there is only about 2 minutes of fun before most of the butterflies come out. Secondly, 3 or 4 of them normally get stuck somewhere along the way out of the elephants trunk. Thirdly, because of the heavy duty lid where the butterflies go, my little one gets frustrated at not being able to do it herself and requires someones help every 2 minutes. This doesn't really make for good independant play. And fourth but not certainly least, after a few goes of the two minutes of fun the batteries wear out and this toy requires a lot of batteries. So if I had my time back I would give this toy a miss.
Disappointing on so many counts...
Echoing what many other reviewers have said, this toy really looks much better on the box and in the adverts than it performs in real life - in fact, we couldn't get it to work at all at first and had to invest in some stronger (and more expensive) batteries. Once it was up and running, it didn't take the children long to get bored of it. The butterflies all shoot out within about 15 seconds, then all there is to do is pick them up and put them back in again. I think it comes with about 30 butterflies, but they soon start to disappear after you've had a few turns. My 2-year-old lost interest because she found it too difficult to catch the butterflies, and my 4-year-old quickly tired of having to keep taking the trunk off and reload all the butterflies every couple of minutes.
Now and then they'll spot the box and want to play, but about 5 minutes later they've had enough. So, although it's a sturdy toy and a nice idea, in practice it's a very disappointing game which I wouldn't recommend at all.
Don't bother
I brought this for my son last Christmas (he was 3 at the time)and he's played with it twice. There aren't enough butterflies, so you spend your time picking them up to put them back in. They all come out at once, so the game is over quite quickly. They are hard to catch for a little one and as soon as the batteries are on the wane, the butterflies don't fly up the sprout! We've recently sold ours at the car boot sale
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