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| | | Description: | | D-Rex Interactive Pet Dino is the ultimate pet. A ferocious yet loyal dinosaur with an independent personality, D-Rex combines robotics, proprietary software and reptilian skin to create a lifelike appearance and behavior. He'll walk, chomp, bare his teeth and roar to let you know what he wants. D-Rex might demand food or want to play a game, and he'll hear your voice and respond to your touch. Like the ideal pet, D-Rex will protect your stuff and attack on command. Requires four "C" batteries, included, and two "AA" batteries, not included. Measures 22"L x 8.75"W x 13.28"H. | | | Features: | |
• D-Rex is the ultimate pet
• Combines robotics, proprietary software and reptilian skin to create a lifelike appearance and behavior
• Responds to voice and touch
• Will attack and obey on command
• A ferocious yet loyal dinosaur with an indpendent personality
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 22.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 14.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 8.51 pounds | | Package Length:
| 21.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 14.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 10.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 11.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 83 reviews |
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24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Wonderful! Really Something Different!Dec 03, 2008
By MAD MOM
Hesitant at first about purchasing this for my 5 year old dinosaur-mad little girl. Happy that I did. Does all it's advertised to do. Put batts in and tried it out before wrapping it up for Xmas....had a ball just playing with it myself. Looks a little mean in the beginning but it plays, growls, bites his bone, walks around the house "looking" at things & comes when you call it. It's like an ugly puppy that somehow starts to look adorable. Has great facial(?!)expressions. My daughter is going to LUV this, and to me, seeing her so happy is worth the pricetag. Super toy!
23 of 25 found the following review helpful:
DRex for my TwinsNov 07, 2008
By M. Kae
I got this for my twins and they love their DRex. My daughter and son plays hide and seek with it. They both love to pet D Rex and watch him react to it (waging his tail, making some happy noise & moving his eye brows). I do just let DRex do his thing around the kids. But I use the controller when I'm playing with my kids with DRex. I've even shot videos of them playing with their DRex. I'll post them on Youtube. Over all, I'm pretty happy to have gotten this for my twins.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Batteries are Not includedDec 17, 2008
By Glen A. Williamson
D-REX Interactive Dinosaur
D-REX is as cute as the other reviews say; However, The Batteries are NOT included!
The Product Description reads incorrectly: "Requires four "C" batteries, included, and two "AA" batteries, not included."
It should read ( as it does on the box): "Requires five "C" batteries in his tail and two "AAA" batteries in the bone-shaped controller."
Also, contrary to some, its reptilian skin is lifelike in appearance and seems durable.
45 of 57 found the following review helpful:
 Keeping my fingers crossedOct 31, 2008
By Moeyob
"Mom of 8 year old boy"
I bought this toy as my son's BIG Christmas gift and am keeping my fingers crossed that he will really like it, though I don't have much hope that this gift will provide more than 30+/- minutes of entertainment.
I can't comment on the durability outside of the "skin" feels like it could be easily torn.
Although it's facial expressions are kind of cute there were some immediately obvious issues (after 15 minutes of play)
- the remote only works at a distance closer than 8 feet
- slow to respond, leads to multiple remote button pushes
- the sensors have a very limited distance. You have to walk up to the dino for it to trigger in guard mode.
- slow speed when moving
- it lists to the left as it walks so it has a tendency to circle, which means it cannot "seek" you out.
- if it runs into something it does not back up
- a minor issue is the bone will not stay in it's mouth
It makes some cute (& not so cute) noises and it's facial expressions (when you can see them) are moderately endearing. It DOES walk on low pile carpet, still if I had to do it over again, I would wait for a second generation of d-rex (or pleo).
13 of 15 found the following review helpful:
One Word: OverratedJan 07, 2009
By Sam Bravern
My wife and I vowed to thoroughly research the Toys this year and make very careful selections. We were tired of taking Xmas toys to the Goodwill only 6 months after Xmas. I was very skeptical of this toy as with most toys like this, essentially they all use virtually the same computer program to control different looking toys (robots, etc.) Our other son already had an expensive robot that claims to do similar things with a few changes like the petting and putting a bone in its mouth but basically this is the same thing as most other purported "artificial intelligent" animals, robots, etc.
But the reviews on Amazon were so good we thought this was a good bet. NOT. The thing people tend to forget is that the vast majority of reviews are written within a short period from when the item is received. I agree this is a great twist on the intelligent robot/creature thing. But the novelty of it wears off quickly. At least it has for our 7-yo. It's been 2 weeks and he claims he still loves it, but he only plays with it maybe once every 5 days, and usually only to demonstrate it to someone who hasn't seen it before. Granted we all thought it was really cool the first 5 days, but after that, I realized that this thing really doesn't do that much.
The creature is well executed, it looks cool, and the skin feels cool and the movement of the face an eyes is neat. But again, the novelty wears off quick as it just doesn't do a whole lot and has no educational value. I could see maybe a 3-5 year old maybe treating the thing like a pet and therefore taking interest in it a lot longer. But in a household where we have a WII, and Playstation 3, robots, RC cars, Legos galore, etc., this thing just sits around not getting played with.
Bottom line, as usual with 50% or more of the toys they get (that they want bad), a waste of money. I'm wondering what percentage of the reviews here might have been planted by the manufacturer as either 90% of the reviews were written in the first 5 days, or most of the kids that this was reviewed for are younger. Otherwise I am totally shocked at the average rating. Mark my words - they'll lose interest after a couple weeks.
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