This year’s gimmicky gift for kids this year is going for between $114-175 a pop on Amazon right now and was fetching upwards of $250 before Christmas on eBay. The toy is suppose to peck its way out of its egg in “ten to forty” minutes (according to the manufacturers’ guide video).
Complaints to the company, Spin Master, on the slowness of the thing to hatch have been so numerous that there has been a two hour wait on the phone.
Video on how to hatch your hatchimal Here
Waste of money, pet rocks are everywhere and they’re free.
Oh forget that! If I’m going to pay that much for something that’s supposed to hatch, I better be able to eat it.
“This year’s gimmicky gift for kids this year is going for between $114-175 a pop on Amazon right now and was fetching upwards of $250 before Christmas on eBay.”
How easily a fool is separated from his money.
Pet rocks have been around for thousands of years, David and golioth played with them and had a great time.
you set your pet rocks free? if they breed they will become an invasive species.
If it can’t break out of the shell, maybe it just needs a bigger pecker.
Apparently the pet rocks grew up and now are buying this crap for their kids.
Oh Cool! I want one!!
The problem is not the design or quality of the toy. The problem is that kids do not have the patience to follow instructions. They want it now and none of this time or effort to make it happen. They want to watch it hatch so they can throw it away and go on to the next shiny object.
For $100 you can get a cheap incubator and chicken egg turner.
For an additional $100 you can buy enough fertilized eggs to fill the incubator (way less if you can get them locally).
Spend the last $50 on feed for the chicks (you’ll need more over time, of course).
If you bought broiler eggs, in about two months you can slaughter and freeze them, until you eventually cook and eat them. They’ll probably taste better than the plastic toy would, and your kids will learn a hell of a lot more useful information in the process.
“Ten to 40 minutes”?
Hell, I have to wait twice that long to orgasm with my new boyfriend. And, like the Hatchimals, it often -never- happens.
🙁
There’s always Easter. For the eggs, not Ann.
Luv those battery-operated eggs. 🙂
Either hella lotta ammo for that, a hella lotta
beer, or a hella lot of food at Fuji Ichiban…..
the choices are terrible!!!
You can get a dozen fertile eggs and an incubator for half that, & do it yourself..