Sooo... if you had suggested to a friend that what DD really, really wanted was a water-spitting dinosaur which happened to be sold out, what do you think would be the obvious alternative?

[Lovecat]

(and yes, I know I'm an ungrateful cow and I/DD is lucky that he's gone to the trouble of buying her a gift at all!)

But guess what he's got her instead of this lovely thing...?

a water pistol?

I don't know. But whatever it is I would be grateful for there not be a screature in my house. DS wants one of these. Not a chance buddy..

Doesn't look all that lovely to me, looks scary Erm... A toy gun? Dartboard? Those wind-up grannies on zimmer frames that you can race?

Yuck at the Dino...surely anything would be better than that!!

Did he get her a tiny tears? (I bet she's so not the tiny tears type!!)

You can get a wind up granny on a zimmer frame???? WHERE????

My mam would love that!!!

Not even close, ladies... a water pistol would have been fab...

(I actually think the dino looks fun - DD is normally a very 'girly' girl so I am thrilled she's after something interesting for a change!)

racing grannies

That too would have been better....

Grannies

A Barbie doll?

I think they do racing nuns too... unless I just dreamed it.

A game for a console she doesn't own?
Skiing lessons?
Solar powered torch?
Chocolate teapot?

what what what i want to know...........

Anything has to be better than what you have linked to in your OP.

Okay, it is.........

A kitchen.

A pink kitchen.

Let's be honest here, it's not exactly what springs to mind when you can't get your hands on a squirty dino, is it?

Bless him, at least he tried...

Maybe DD will like it.

I wouldn't ask a friend to buy my dd something at £35 to be honest.

awwwwwww bless him he sounds lovely

There are so many things that could have been worse and at least it is something she will play with. Ds would love a kitchen (although probably not a pink one!).

Oh, Connie, I realise it makes me sound like a graspy cow, but I didn't ask him for it, I said she would be happy with whatever, he said he would be spending at least £50 so he needed ideas (rich childless gay mate)...

You're welcome for the marvellous suggestion Connie

Lovecat, will your DD still like the gift? Will she be disappointed that she didn't get the dinosaur, or is it just you that wanted her to have something less girly?

When I was little I would have loved the dino and probably subjected a pink kitchen to an arson attack. But then I popped the eyes out of my sister's tiny tears to see how they worked and was a disgusting child with pockets full of snails.

Mis-guided but sweet friend!

Oh, she'll love it and I'm v. grateful to him for getting her anything, to be honest, it's definitely me that wanted her to have an ungirly prezzie for once.

I'm v. ungirly and always have been (CornishKK I hear you, that would have been me at the same age!), so having such a pink-obssessed girly girl is very weird - I don't know how to play with dolls, fgs!

I would never expect anyone to spend that much on my dd's, most of my family and friends only spend 5-10 pound on presents.

Yes a pink kitchen is not a dinosaur but i would still be very grateful.