- Your child can push or ride
- Easy conversion from pushing to riding mode
- Hippo's mouth gobbles blocks from the floor as he goes
- Hippo makes fun bobbling motion
- Includes five see-through blocks filled with familiar foods
- Foods include cereal, broccoli, carrots, pie, and peanut-butter and jelly sandwich
- Blocks can be stored in hippo's tummy under seat
- Sturdy plastic
- No assembly required
- Manufacturer's recommended age 9 months to 36 months
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| Model Number: | C5843 |
| Batteries Required?: | Yes |
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This goofy, smiling, cleverly designed hippo gobbles up blocks from the floor as he moves forward. His huge jaw opens to scoop the blocks up and catapult them into his tummy, where they're stored. And he easily converts from a push-along walker to a ride-on, growing with your toddler. Five see-through blocks filled with familiar foods are included.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Our 10 and a half month old daughter loves walking around using the Hippo but she needs to be supported as it moves rather fast on a hard surface and, for someone learning to walk, it is a little too fast. It is much better on carpet or grass. She enjoys seeing the blocks appear in the base of the hippo as it gobbles them up. The five blocks are very colourful and contain plastic food items such as broccoli, cheerios and carrots that can be shaken around inside the blocks. There are also lots of colourful textures to touch and little shapes that can be manipulated. The walker can be used to sit on too but at the moment she leans over too far and slides off. I am sure that once she is a little older and has mastered it she'll love it.
Points to watch out for
1. When you press the red button to put the seat up and down make sure that you support the lid with your other hand. My daughter put her weight on the lid and it went down on my finger- ouch!
2. The picture in the assembly sheet shows the handle at a more obtuse angle than it really is. It is more or less at right angles to the floor which I think makes it more awkward to push.
On the whole though a sturdy and durable toy that I would recommend if your child is ready for walking.
Points to watch out for
1. When you press the red button to put the seat up and down make sure that you support the lid with your other hand. My daughter put her weight on the lid and it went down on my finger- ouch!
2. The picture in the assembly sheet shows the handle at a more obtuse angle than it really is. It is more or less at right angles to the floor which I think makes it more awkward to push.
On the whole though a sturdy and durable toy that I would recommend if your child is ready for walking.
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i don't like this product as a walker at all! first off the handle is very difficult to hold it is positioned awkwardly and theres not much gap for hands to fit comfortably. it did very little to help my son to walk and we had to buy a different style for that. As a ride on its fun for a while and the gobbling the blocks up is fun but there are much better one out there for the price i paid for this one.
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75 of 76 people found the following review helpful
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3 Nov 2004
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Unlike some of the other reviews I've read, our hippo gobbles pretty well. Not only does he gobble blocks, but I've seen other objects pop up into his belly.
That said, this is by far one of my daughter's favorite toys. I bought it for her when she was around 9 or 10 months old. We have other Peek-a-Blocks at home which she really enjoys, so I figured that if she wasn't really into the hippo, she'd at least have new blocks. Well, it turns out she LOVES the hippo, and plays with it daily. It's given her so much confidence and has probalby been strengthening her muscles - all of them, since she not only walks with the hippo, but swings it around as well! Hey, it's got to be durable if it can stand that much abuse.
We haven't tried the ride-on conversion as of yet, but as far as I can tell, she enjoys playing with the blocks and she's delighted for being so mobile.
All in all, I'd consider this toy a pretty good value for the money. At less than $25, you get a walker, a ride on AND a set of blocks. Not bad in my book.
That said, this is by far one of my daughter's favorite toys. I bought it for her when she was around 9 or 10 months old. We have other Peek-a-Blocks at home which she really enjoys, so I figured that if she wasn't really into the hippo, she'd at least have new blocks. Well, it turns out she LOVES the hippo, and plays with it daily. It's given her so much confidence and has probalby been strengthening her muscles - all of them, since she not only walks with the hippo, but swings it around as well! Hey, it's got to be durable if it can stand that much abuse.
We haven't tried the ride-on conversion as of yet, but as far as I can tell, she enjoys playing with the blocks and she's delighted for being so mobile.
All in all, I'd consider this toy a pretty good value for the money. At less than $25, you get a walker, a ride on AND a set of blocks. Not bad in my book.
152 of 163 people found the following review helpful
Love it!
31 July 2004
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Before you buy this though, ask yourself: do I want to encourage my crawler who already gets into everything to be even more mobile? Really, shouldn't we be doing everything we can to keep those kids as immobile as possible? I don't know about you but the keep-up-with-your-toddler exercise plan is wiping me out. Our 9 month old daughter was already pretty mobile but had just started to cruise and wasn't great at it. Well along comes Mr. Hippo and forget it. She's toddling all over the place now and it's only a month later. At first he was a little too fast for her but now she can keep up. Our dogs go running when they hear old gobble-and-go clipping across the floor heading straight their way.
On the "gobble" topic. He doesn't exactly gobble that well, it's true. The mechanism that pushes the blocks from his "mouth" to his middle is very soft and turns very loosely so sometimes the blocks just sit against it in his "mouth". Hey, that's okay. If your kid is like mine and loves shoving her hands anywhere and everywhere at least you don't have to worry that they'll be "gobbled" or pinched or whatever.
Overall though, he's one sturdy little hippo. He's been rammed into furniture, and into aforementioned pets repeatedly (not repeatedly into the pets though, as I said, they learned to flee early on) with no damage. So if you really want to help that little mover and shaker to move even more, go for it.
On the "gobble" topic. He doesn't exactly gobble that well, it's true. The mechanism that pushes the blocks from his "mouth" to his middle is very soft and turns very loosely so sometimes the blocks just sit against it in his "mouth". Hey, that's okay. If your kid is like mine and loves shoving her hands anywhere and everywhere at least you don't have to worry that they'll be "gobbled" or pinched or whatever.
Overall though, he's one sturdy little hippo. He's been rammed into furniture, and into aforementioned pets repeatedly (not repeatedly into the pets though, as I said, they learned to flee early on) with no damage. So if you really want to help that little mover and shaker to move even more, go for it.
34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Not what I expected!
19 Sep 2004
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We are huge peek a block fans in our home, so when this toy came out, I went right out and got it for our daughter's first b-day. We played with it right away, but I was not impressed! Of course the blocks are great, but Mr. Hippo doesn't eat up his food like he is supposed to, my daughter has a hard time pushing him cause the handle is small, and to top it off, she has a hard time riding on him cause she is very tall and just can't move her legs right when she is on him. As excited as I was to purchase this toy, I will be returning it as soon as I can. We are going to get her something a little more suitable. I would not reccommend this toy, and am kind of disappointed by Fisher Price with this toy. (I am still a huge fan of Fisher Price though!)
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