Product is buggy and does not function as describe
Date:October 3, 2014
Cons: Low quality, Not durable
Product is buggy and does not function as described. Repeats the same lines over and over (nowhere near the claimed 150 built-in phrases and jokes) and 9 out of 10 times it does not follow voice commands. For example, the doll would ask "what do you want to do today" and my daughter would respond "let's talk" and more often than not, it would just repeat itself. Also, when we tried to initiate the dance function it would ask for music, but then it wouldn't even dance to it. The doll repeated the same 3 phrases for each function (jokes, talk, dance, and sing). Instructions were followed and new batteries were tried, but nothing worked. My 6 year old daughter got really frustrated with it after an hour of use. I thought I just needed to show her how to use it, so I read all the instructions, but I had the exact same results. And no, it was not set to demo mode
I bought the Fijit Friend for my granddaughter's birthday. She was able to use it for about 4 days and now it doesn't work. It uses 5 AA batteries and I had to change them every single day for those 4 days of use that she got out of the toy. This was the #1 toy on her birthday list and I was thrilled to buy it for her but completely disappointed. I will be returning this product to Mattel.
I bought one for my Grandson and after we put the new batteries in it WE could NOT get it to work. He was very excited to play with it when it had the demo batteries so I purchased for Christmas and as I said after changing the batteries I t would NOT come back on. Now that I returned it there are never any in stock at the price I paid for it ):