Toys for Children

We purchased this item on Monday, 1/19/09 from Babies R Us. It was on sale for thirty six dollars. My wife and I had shopped around and felt like we got a good deal for the item at that price, but were initially disappointed to discover that it did not fit our sleigh style crib very well because of the way the back part of the musical base is designed. It is clearly designed for a straight, rail-type crib. After some tinkering, I got the mobile to attach to our crib securely, though not in the location I would have liked for it to be.

We liked this item because you can select to have the music play with the mobile spinning OR no music with the mobile spinning. Other reviews had said that the music played too loudly, but I didn’t find the music to be horribly loud. I should say that our child has not been born yet, so perhaps I wouldn’t know if the music is too loud or not.

What I DO know is that as soon as I put batteries in the mobile and pressed the music button, some STRANGE melodies came out of it. Imagine a cat walking across the keys of a piano. It was clearly not music. I turned the base unit off and back on again and the same thing happened. After a few more tries, the mobile seemed to work fine and the music played normally and I even began to think it was just my imagination. This was Monday night. We did not touch the unit at all until tonight (Thursday) and when I pressed the music button, the mobile spun for 3 seconds and stopped. I pressed the button again and the mobile spun for 2 seconds and a few confused notes bleeped out of the mobile before it stopped again. I played with it for the next 15 minutes, trying to get it to work as it had just 3 nights before, but each time I pressed the button, IF the mobile did anything at all, it played a few random notes with a second or two of spinning. Eventually it stopped spinning completely. Before I gave up on it, I decided to test the batteries…all were still brand new and at 100% charge.

So despite the high hopes I had for this product, the one we bought is a piece of junk and is sitting by the door to be returned to Babies R Us this weekend.
Rating: 1 / 5

I’ve bought it as a present and could not stay away without opening the pack! The toys are so cute, colourfull, they are smiling and dancing:)I love it so much that even want to birth a baby!:))
Rating: 5 / 5

This mobile was easy to put together and easy to install in the crib. The remote that comes with it is so nice since the music and motion stop after 20 minutes. It runs on 3 C batteries which seems reasonable. Haven’t had it long enough to see how quickly it goes through batteries though.

My two month old seemed to enjoy his wind-up mobile but it was impossible to get anything done when the motion stopped after only 2 minutes. I put this one together and put him in his crib when he was awake and he loved it! He lays there and coos at this animals and kicks his legs.

The animals on the mobile move 360 degrees which is nice and they are in bright colors which seem to entertain my little one. The music is repetitive but the sound quality is good and the baby doesn’t seem to care. It is nice that you have the option to mute the music if you want to and two volume levels.
Rating: 5 / 5