Teksta Robotic Puppy (Blue)

Ok this was hard to review. The puppy itself is pretty cool and quite fun - for animal loving kids I reckon this would be a real winner. You need plenty of AA batteries as it rinses them! However the bone comes with the capsule type batteries already. When first turned on, the puppy walks about and when pressing the buttons on its head will walk about to music. We successfully got it to sit and do backflips, although it needs plenty of time and patience to get it to action what you have asked for. The app on the ipad was easy to install and helps a bit if you want to log commands in. The ball sticks to the dogs nose with a small magnet on the ball, and the bone charges when you put it up to the puppy's mouth, but that's about it.It is insanely noisy however, and sort for clunky, which was a disappointment to my geeky 6yr old boy who I think thought it would be much more sophisticated. For these reasons we returned it - it simply didn't seem clever enough or responsive enough for the cost. I wouldn't recommend at all, unless you have an utterly dog-mad child who doesn't expect too much from it. However, I have given it 4 stars as there was nothing essentially wrong with it, and the seller was really helpful about us returning it.

Well this is now the 2nd dog we have received and I'm still not struck on the mechanical sounds. The first dog that was sent had some clicking noises with the ears... I was unahppy with this. We got sent a new one and the dogs ears didn't make any clicking noises... now 20minutes after my daughter has been playing we have clicking :(Maybe this is just the way this toy is designed but it is a shame that it is just a bit noisy! BEWARE that they have an IPAD app for the Teksta but NOT for the iPhone! For a couple that own two iphones and no ipad it is a little annoying!Ruby is chuffed with it and already says she loves it... and sending this one back might cause some tears so I might be holding on to see what happens!

I've seen other reviews which seem mixed. My now 7 yr old wanted this as we can't have a real puppy. He and my 4 yr old love it. Key points to remember:1. Ears are designed so they can fall off without breaking. So if it lands funny after doing a backflip then just click them in again.2. Programming on play.com to use with texsta works fine. You have to read the instructions and I found a youtube video helpful to back them up. Remember that if you haven't pressed the correct head button to ready texsta then it won't work. You need to watch the eye patterns. It is robotic so give the poor thing a chance!Hope this helps. Both my children love it.

My 6 year old got this for his Christmas, I was worried after reading all the negative reviews, managed to get it at a reduced price and thought ok lets go for it and hope its ok. Well its more than ok, granted you have to figure out the hand controls and it did take my son quite a time to be patient and let Teksta go through its routine before it is ready to take the hand commands. My son now has it sussed and its just great!! Not sure how long the batteries are going to last as it does take a lot of power for Teksta to do a flip.So far I am delighted with it, my son thinks its the best thing "ever"!!

the adverts really hyped this dog. but for children 6/9 it was hard to get it to perform.......wait until you hear the beep....and he flips. too slow and doesn't keep the attention. I got what my son wanted for christmas because I put off getting it for his birthday in October and he kept on about it but alas its sat in the box on the table.....2nd of Jan and not given a second glance or first for that matter. a lot of money for the initial wow

It looks good, it is a Christmas present for my Grandson so have not actually opened or tried as he will do that Christmas day, the purchase warranty is extended as it is a Christmas present so I am happy to wait for it to be tried on the day.

Great service delivery - fun robotic puppy and so cute very addictive (according to 8yr old grandson) word of warning batteries don't last long but very pleased otherwise -

Arrived on time and my daughter loves itIt is quite solid and is what I expected .the only downside is that it doe no come with batteries and it's fiddly trying to unscrew the base to put some in