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

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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

OP posts:
LinghamStyle · 27/12/2013 13:40

I'm due to commit Furbicide. I'll do the time, it'll be worth it.

LinghamStyle · 27/12/2013 13:49

I just concentrated on listening to ours and it does say "nice tits" !!! I'm flattered but not in front of the children please. It'll be calling me bitchface by next week.

PerkyPenguin · 27/12/2013 14:15

This thread is making me terribly nostalgic/jealous! My DD was 21 a few weeks ago but I remember for her 5th birthday we got her a furby (a much less technical one than this boom thing!)
She took it to school on her birthday (poor teacher in hindsight) and it had to be locked in the cupboard as it wouldn't shut up. The TA was sent in to remove the batteries out of DDs sight. Looking back, they must have been cursing the blooming parent who sent their child in with that thing!!
It had to eat dinner with us every night (in those days it 'ate' when a knife/finger/fork was stuck in its mouth). Sadly his ear broke and he got a bit confused sounding a few years later and that was the end of him.

I am rather jealous, I would love a new high tech furby. Perhaps I will hint at DD for my birthday :D

Carla1234 · 27/12/2013 15:14

I spent all of 2013 carefully planning & buying DD Xmas and bday gifts (she is 8).

She loved them all on Xmas morning, and then was unexpectedly given a Furby Boom by DF brother in the afternoon and hasn't put it down since!

I admit I was scared of it at first (keep thinking "Gremlins") but now I love it!! Was so excited to wake it this morning - my cousin stayed over last night in DD bed and we forgot (were drunk) when going to bed and didn't realise DD had put it to bed - cue much screaming at 3am when cousin rolled over and woke up Furby!

2kidsintow · 27/12/2013 17:14

We can't get DD's to talk to the app on the tablet at all.

We even had it sat with a pair of headphones on while trying to connect before... then gave up.

I'm sure hers also said "Blow-job, OK?" yesterday.

But it's currently on the cheeky fella personality, so keeps going on about cake and saying he's 'not worthy' when DH rubs his back (to try and make it change back in pleasant girl furby).

LKbabyH · 27/12/2013 17:21

Toot toot owners, a bit of sellotape over the speaker bit of each car is your friend. It knocks the volume down to bearable.

lade · 27/12/2013 18:48

This thread is hysterical, but my DD is loving her furby. The app is fantastic! Today Beeboo did the most enormous turd (during which it strained in a most painful manner), a big stink appeared, and then the furby looked at it and said " oooh, nasty". I swear it has spent too much time with DHGrin.

Orangeanddemons · 27/12/2013 18:51

Dd cries when that cheeky fella comes on. How do you get rid of him and what causes him? We tried playing Brahms lullaby to make him nice again, but he fell asleep

Bumpsadaisie · 27/12/2013 20:55

Please - what is a Furby?

Luggage16 · 27/12/2013 21:05

orangeanddemons - he turns to the burping/farting guy if you over feed him! Change him back by playing a couple of music tracks to him (turns into disco diva) or but rubbing its back for several minutes (turns back to cute cuddly furby). I managed to turn ours into a rock furby earlier lol. When ours was the burping/farting guy the second furby kept commenting on his farts saying 'eww nasty' and 'really??' lol they have had me in giggles all day

VesuviusPoovius · 27/12/2013 21:31

One of ours needs new batteries has died.
One is still stroppy teenager.
One is still babyish.
One has turned into that Allan Carr old man creature. It sat on the table at tea time farting and yelling sarcastic rubbish at us.

2kidsintow · 27/12/2013 21:59

Apparently, a 'factory reset' on the personality can be achieved if you turn the furby upside down while poking your finger in its mouth and pushing on its tongue and pulling its tail at the same time for 20 seconds or so.

MidniteScribbler · 28/12/2013 06:08

Mine is "into it" when petted. Dirty beast.

CarpeVinum · 28/12/2013 10:54

I want one after reading you lot.

This should be in classics. I'm killing myself laughing.

aciddrops · 28/12/2013 13:30

Lego. I feckin hate the stuff.

CarpeVinum · 28/12/2013 13:49

after reading Luggage16 's post I have changed my mind.

I want a pair of Furbies. Not one.

Orangeanddemons · 28/12/2013 13:52

Omg! Ours has pooed a submarine. A submarine!

CarpeVinum · 28/12/2013 13:55

How do they fit all this stuff inside them ?

Are they Tadis like inside ?

And do you have to shove it back up again, or...feed the exiting stuff to them for future reexpulsion ?

MIL's Furby was never this exciting. Cute, scarily gremlin-esque at times, but...wow technology has moved on.

santasballsack · 28/12/2013 14:47

Hahaha im laughing like a hyena at this thread. We have two who just sit and chatter nonsense to each other. The dogs keep trying to creep up on them but are petrified when they talk!

takingthathometomomma · 28/12/2013 14:49

I stuck DDs in the back of the cupboard after last Christmas. After a while, she forgot about it and so did I. We tried to turn it on a few months later and it seems that we've killed it. Result!

melika · 28/12/2013 17:43

I had them first time around for my sons, on Christmas day my neices daughter had one and brought it around for us to see. My jaw dropped when she said she had the app too. How things have moved on... but they are still bloody annoying. I used to take the batteries out, job done.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/12/2013 17:48

I've never succumbed to buying any non-switchoffable toy.... I'm just here to admire the thread title. 'Furbulent beast' should enter the language! Grin

CarpeVinum · 28/12/2013 19:12

The dogs keep trying to creep up on them but are petrified when they talk!

Which one(s) should I buy ?

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 28/12/2013 19:20

DS's turned into the bloke furby earlier, complete with dodgy cockney accent not unlike Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Shock

It farted then said ''mmmmm smell that beauty'' Grin

BaaHumbug · 28/12/2013 19:28

DD seems to have a narcoleptic Furby, it just keeps nodding off even when it's being jiggled around.