Got this one of the last times it was on Woot.
It’s… annoying af.
Its songs are mostly unintelligible with a MIDI-esque tune going super fast & squeaky for each. Being bilingual is not a selling point, as you can barely tell the English ones, let alone whatever is the second language on a handful of songs.
The biggest problem is that you must keep clicking a tiny button to go to the next song, out of all 100+, with no easy way to get to a song you’d want to hear, or to go back if you pass it. One’s patience leaves by song 30, replaced with a special penchant for toy vïoleňce. And, if you accidentally hit the tiny button for recording that’s beside the one for songs? Well then you must start over in the rotation, like a special blend of Sisyphus and ouroboros.
The dancing cactus is cute and fun, but the movement is really loud-- the dude rotates on a long, zigzagged spindle of sorts. But not to worry, as you can mostly still hear the unreasonably loud songs & recorded voices over this. (Maybe that’s the purpose of the song volume: to drown out this mechanism?)
The ability to record and playback is cool, until you hear the voice it uses: nightmare fuel, like a killer doll from a horror movie, high-pitched like a Chip’nDale Rescue Rangers episode gone awry.
To note: the child it was for loved the noises, especially the playback recordings, for about 15 minutes, but idk if it was worth any of it.
By ‘any of it’ I mean all the above, but also: I had to send it back for a replacement due to poor shipping & handling that bonked out the USB recharge port, and busted the buttons loose (which were all flimsy to begin with, as seen in the replacement.)
Worth maybe $5 for its small entertainment value. (Mostly DollarTree quality; FiveAndBelow is pushing it.)