Elmo and Sesame Street Reviews

We bought this for our 8 month old baby (even though it is marked as 18 months and up). He absolutely adores it! He will lie down next to it or put his head on Baby Elmo's tummy. He loves to hug him. It was a very rewarding purchase!

I took my daughter to the toy store when she was about a year old, and she picked out Baby Elmo. Boy am I glad she did! It is such a great toy that keeps her attention! She carries Elmo around the house all day! She loves to kiss him when he cries and give him his 'ba ba'. A great toy, well worth the money!

Our 9 month old daughter got Elmo for Christmas. We play with it together. She loves for "Mommy" to give Elmo his bottle. She sometimes tries to take his bottle, but luckily for Elmo it's attached to his hand. Sometimes if she is crying, Elmo's crying will distract her from whatever she's not-so-happy about.

Our baby Elmo has on a onesie that is sewn on. He also has a small blanket attached to his hand and an ID bracelet. He cries, talks, and moves his legs when you push his stomach or squeeze his hand. When you put his bottle in his mouth he makes the slurping noises and sometimes burps. We haven't had to change his batteries yet.

The only minor things I don't like are that his clothes are "attached" and the attached blanket is really too small to be of any use for Elmo (maybe it's a diaper/burp cloth?).

This is one of the cutest toys I have ever seen. I bought it for a friend's child. The personalized name (Eli) and birthday are pronounced perfectly! (However, I suppose the true test would be with a very uncommon or difficult name.) It has a number of phrases and sayings. I thought it would only say Eli in one phrase, but it manages to incorporate the name in a number of phrases. I can't speak to the durability, since it was a gift for someone else. However, it really is adorable and if I had children, I would definitely buy it for them.

The Birthday Elmo is adorable and my son loved it so much when I ordered it for his friend that I ordered one for him too. Kids around 2 just seem to respond to Elmo's voice and its so special to have it say their name AND their actual birthday! A very fun gift for a toddler!

My daughter has a very unique old fashioned ethnic name handed down from our family tree yet Elmo got it right (how, I'll never know). Wow, I'm impressed! Only thing I don't like is that this Elmo is more of an orange color and looks different than her chicken dance elmo and the dancing elmo.

Baby loves her new Elmo. She got it a week and a half after her first birtday. Do not order by mail or with a check, no matter what they tell you it is a nightmare! Mommy thinks the puppy he is holding is cheap looking, and white! Elmo does say a variety of things. He sings one song and it is not his famous Elmo song.
He really sounds like Elmo which is what the baby loves. He is soft and she loves to cuddle and carry him around.

I can't believe they have a personalized Elmo for some of the names they do and yet nothing for a name as simple and basic as Christine. What is the problem with personalizing it with ANY name. I'd be willing to pay extra.

My 1 yr old son got this as a gift from my sister. He loves it! He likes everything about him. Only thing is that my 8 yr old now wants one for himself.

I got this toy for my niece. she loves it, it is very unique. I think that most kids would like it. The only reason I put but is that it is easy if your kid has a name like tom, mary , mark etc. There are some odd spellings that have odd pronunciations. You are best off to not buy this from a toys r us on line unless your kid does have a standard name with a standard pronunciation. If it is an odd spelling or an odd pronunciation, you are much better off going to a toys r us store and getting them to program it, and listen to the name as she programs it. As it was with me saying her name is margaret, she did program one as margarita. They did immediately fix it, but you are smart to use normal spellings for normal pronunciations. I hope this makes sense. If your kids name is pronounced as Gina, and you spell it like GEENAH.......... write down the typical spelling it will give you a better chance of getting it right. Also there are many different personalized elmos. The generic ones do more things.

I bought this for my nephew and could not wait until Christmas to give it to him. He absolutely loved it. It was amazing to his reaction when Elmo spoke his name. It's the perfect gift for any child who loves Elmo.

CAUTION! Elmo only knows the Spanish pronunciation of Benjamin (ben-ha-MEEN) instead of (BEN-ja-min). How many famous ben-ha-MEENs have there been? None that I know of. How many famous BEN-ja-mins? I can think of one big one...a politician, inventor, business man and the man whose portrait appears on the US $100 bill...Benjamin Franklin. Why does Elmo say "ben-ha-MEEN?" Granted, there is some Spanish history and usage to the name Benjamìn, but the name (from the sources I've been able to find) are of Hebrew descent (Benyamin) and the name was made famous by the aforementioned. I could understand if I ordered the "Feliz Navidad Elmo," or if I lived in a Spanish-speaking country, but I didn't and I don't (well, I am only 35 miles from Los Angeles). A supervisor at Personalized Gifts for Babies "R" Us stated there is nothing they can do except take it back and refund my money. Apparently all of the computer chips were programmed to pronounce Benjamin with a Spanish accent. How many other names will be pronounced in foreign tongues? Be wary.

If you are expecting a fun Elmo game for your child, THINK AGAIN! This is the MOST boring game in the history of PS games! Well, that's what I think at least. Let me give you a lineup of reasons why not to buy this game. 1. It has the SLLOOOOOOOOWEST character (Elmo) who goes so slow you'd think his legs were made of rubber! You'll fall asleep before he takes 3 steps! 2. The game character(s) ask your child sometimes to press this button, or that button, or press restart on the Ps1. You'll have to help your child about 1,000 times to get to the second (bonus perhaps) level(s) after the first level. The only reason I even rate this one star is because most young children adore Elmo and his friends on Sesame street, the second levels in numbers I have to admit is sort of cool, the space exploring level in letters is sorta cool, and it helps kids in Pre-K to Kindergarden or in their speech. 3. Elmo talks on, and on, and on, and on, until you do what he asks you to press or do. Leave the game on an hour and don't mess with it, and Elmo will still be talking! It bores you till you want to get an exterminator, give him an axe, jump into a coffin and let him obliterate you! Take my advice or if you can put up a risk to keep the terrible game, you do it. I'm warning you though. Every time your child wants to play it, you will be TORTURED the whole time!

Please read all of the reviews for each of the two 'games'. When I say 'games', what I really mean is 'excercises in boredom'...

My daughter is 2 and a half, and purely out of her love of Elmo she requests these games every so often. Within about 3 to 5 minutes she is bored silly, and we're packing them away again.

The gameplay is just soooo painfully slow, and there is no way to speed through the 'game interludes' (read 'excruciating delays').

Movement is restricted to forward, back, and sidestep - basically, you just push the controller forward the whole time and Elmo automatically follows the path - in his own sweet time. I admit that the controls are nice and easy for a youngster, but the speed of response (or lack of it) is the killer here.

Beyond recognizing letters/numbers, there is no real challenge or 'point' to the game. My daughter can count in both English and Spanish, and already knows her alphabet. She can even spell her name! She needs more of a challenge than this! And the reward for completing each level (if you can stay awake long enough to get that far) is a 'bonus game' that puts the final nail in the coffin!

And there's more variety in a small box of chocolates! It is sooo repetitive... It is sooo repetitive... It is sooo repetitive... It is sooo repetitive... Enough already!

I bought this toy for my son at 7 months of age and he is now 1 years old and still is having fun with it. I admit that it is noisy and at times you don't want to hear all the sounds that it is making but that's why it was made to stimulate children. I have not had any experiences with it going off by itself unless it was not properly placed on the stand. So maybe those that go off so frequently and in the middle of the night were just faulty or not put up correctly. But all in all it's a great toy and a very good time consumer for your little ones. They get a kick out of it just spinning around and around and as your child gets older they learn how to work the different parts that make certain sounds.

My 6 month old son and 10 month nephew absolutely love this toy. I don't think the music is annoying at all. (Kinda techno-new agey sounds with a good beat) I haven't experienced any of the negatives the other reviewers have written about. In my opinion, it's one of the best toys for 6 months-1 year olds out there.

I never take the time to rate reviews. But this toy really ticks me off. Both my infant (for whom the toy was intended for) and my 2 year get a kick out of this when I take it out of seclusion. But usually I have it locked away since it periodically goes off on its own. There is no way to turn it off and the batteries are too hard to get to pull them out and put them back in all the time. For a while I had it in the downstairs bathroom with the door closed. I could still hear it go off in middle of the night. I don't need that. I put this on my daughter's wish list this past Christmas which is why her aunt bought it. I still kick myself for doing that.
There was a lesson to be learned here: never buy a toy without checking how it turns off!

I purchaced this toy for my twin girls and it is nothing that I expected it to be. First lets start by saying stage one is terrible they couldn't even lay under it to play because as you know all babies kick there feet so they kept pushing it out of the way, or they were to long for it.Second the only way to play music was to put the balls through it for them,Yes turn elmos head and that would work to but it was very hard to turn.One of the girls got her arm stuck in between the handle and the guide where the ball goes.Luckily we were close by before she fell and really did some damage.Third Now that they are at the state to try and push it it just keeps tipping over on them so that is also impossible.I kept this toy thinking the toy would maybe be better on the other stages but guess what boy did I get fooled.All i have to say is don't waste your money its cute but not worth it.

The number of stars I have given this toy is misleading. My daughter has loved this toy since she was about 9 months old. She loves putting the balls in the hole and listening to the music. She plays with it more
than anything else. However, now that she is beginning to walk, we have a problem. If I am not there to hold down the back of it, the toy will tip forward. I did contact Fisher-Price. They are sending me a label to ship it back and will give me my money back. I think I spoke so someone in either the recall or safety department. They were very helpful and nice.
I hate to send it back though because she loves it and it is durable.

This toy was received as a gift for my then 7 month old son. From the beginning I could tell that it was not worth the amount of money spent on it. It is difficult to use as a walker, especially on carpet. The only enjoyable thing on this toy is the fact that my now 12 month old son is able to put the balls in the hole and he enjoys the music. I would not recommend this toy for the price it is advertised for