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Will no one rid me of this Furbulent Beast? Awful toys you can't switch off

140 replies

RooneyWanderingStara · 25/12/2013 18:08

Or at least the children have TOLD me they can't be switched off. Xmas Hmm

The furbies in this house are fast heading for extradition to the shed. On what grounds I cannot be concise but I am working on it.

Also on my personal shitlist this meteorologically challenged Christmas:

The V tech Toot Toot vehicles. Heard the songs? Once was enough. They are LEAVING THE BUILDING (I'm sure it was MN's fault, they were on that recommended email at least once)

Please feel free to add Satan's contribution to your own festivities. Xmas Grin

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2kidsintow · 26/12/2013 23:46

They don't learn. They can't. So it is, I'm afraid, pointless.

34DD · 27/12/2013 02:59

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coralanne · 27/12/2013 05:47

My DGD got one for Christmas. I asked her how it layed an egg.

"Oh mummy has to download the APP first" was her reply.

DD's Great Great Grandmother (85) had the most fun of all with it.

arfishy · 27/12/2013 07:41

God we lived through these in the first incarnation with the DSSes. They ended up in the cupboard under the stairs to keep them quiet. If they were so evil in the early nineties then I just dread to think what they are like now. Needless to say DD didn't get one.

picnicbasketcase · 27/12/2013 07:51

I think DD's new furby said 'you complete cunt' yesterday. I do have quite low self esteem though.

chutneypig · 27/12/2013 08:01

My 6 year olds had one each, so it's fairly noisy here. But oh so worth the noise to hear DD complain that hers keeps asking her for food and keeps waking up. Oh how I laughed. So much so that I nearly woke hers up in the night, but decided that was a step to far for my own sanity.

kazza446 · 27/12/2013 08:04

We can't get the app to work on our galaxy tablet so have been a little limited as to what we can do with it. It's been a great source of entertainment these past fewddays. Yet to see it turn nasty but it has started shouting "nice titties" a lot!!

kazza446 · 27/12/2013 08:06

picnicbasketcase that is Sooooo funny, could have done with mine shouting that yesterday at my db when he came over for the afternoon. I would have given it a £5er for sayin what I was thinking!!!

stinkyfluffycat · 27/12/2013 09:07

kazza446 we got ours to work with a galaxy tablet - turn the system volume up and point the microphone (not the speakers like it says in the Furby instructions) at the Furby in a quiet room.
It still says 'nice titties' all the time, though...

kazza446 · 27/12/2013 09:26

When we have installed it it brings up screen which says slide to switch on or communicate. Can't remember which one..when we slide it, it doesn't let us switch on. Tablet then crashes. Tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it but it just does the same. Will have to try on my phone I guess x

kazza446 · 27/12/2013 09:26

Should we have got some instructions with it?!

GwendolineMaryLacey · 27/12/2013 09:31

Hysterical thread Xmas Grin

It's dd1's birthday in a fortnight. She'll be 6. Are they actually good or a pain in the arse? Will she love it or hate it? Will it make us want to kill each other?

I had an original furby and I wanted to kill it. That was partly due to the mechanical grating sound whenever it opened its eyes. I assume they don't make that noise anymore?

stinkyfluffycat · 27/12/2013 09:32

Oh, I've no idea then! I can't get app to work on phone, even though it should, it just has an 'error' when I try to install it.
No instructions, just a poster with a few tips on the bottom - the best of which is to pull the tail for 10 seconds to make it sleep!

stinkyfluffycat · 27/12/2013 09:33

That was to kazza. Although the tip about pulling the tail for 10 seconds may be useful to all of you...

Rooners · 27/12/2013 09:46

Arf at low self esteem Grin

One of ours has been asleep all morning. I'm a bit Hmm that it's died - however the dses assure me that they are in fact immortal 'well unless the batteries run out' which give me hope.

Better than the two of them sitting on the bookcase, erm, Furbling together. It's creepy.

F.1: whit wit weee oh

F.2 : duh dooo! Diddle whizz wheee!

Me: fucking hell.

Luggage16 · 27/12/2013 10:32

mine (dd) started whispering to me last night and talking about secrets. I asked it what secret and it whispered some more! very freaky - am worried it is plotting world domination!

Changebagsandtinselrags · 27/12/2013 11:16

Do you think it's an alien invasion disguised as toys?...

InTheRedCorner · 27/12/2013 11:55

Little mini zombies?

TheNightIsDark · 27/12/2013 11:56

DS's has broken. He only got it yesterday.

InTheRedCorner · 27/12/2013 11:57

How? Do you still have the box and receipt?

Luggage16 · 27/12/2013 11:57

put new batteries in and press the reset button

TheNightIsDark · 27/12/2013 12:01

Tried it and it dies after ten mins. Ordered from amazon who have none of the same left so will refund but not replace as it's not in stock.

Do they need Duracell batteries?

SantanaLopez · 27/12/2013 12:49
Xmas Grin

I spent all yesterday playing with my baby SILs. It likes being stroked behind its ears, I was this close to dressing it up and sticking it in the pram.

Ziggyzoom · 27/12/2013 13:04

My DD's have named theirs Keh-Doh, unfortunately in Furbish it sounds rather more like "paedo". Blush I'm not sure Keh-Doh will be allowed out!

NorbertDentressangle · 27/12/2013 13:28

This thread is so funny - pmsl at "nice tits"!

I'm quite relieved my DC are too old to want one though.

Back in the 90s (pre-DC) a work colleague kept bringing her DD's Furby into the office so she could look after it whilst her DD was at school. It was mildly entertaining for a while but then really pissed us all off.