Congrats on your soon to be first Pleo! My first pleo was by accident, I bought it on ebay as a gift for my grandson, as he is ga ga over dinosaurs, I soon fouond out that Pleo was not right for a very young boy , no remote control, you can't make Pleo do what you want, but you can encourge Pleo to do things, like rubbing under their chin to sing a song, press two different feet at the same time to get them to Perform the "ta da" trick, and so forth, but the rest is what I call, Pleo Magic. and when you hold that little cooing baby in your arms, and he looks up at you and coos, and goes to sleep with little snores, you will be smitten!
The first thing I would suggest is if your friend has not reset this as a baby, to do that right away by downloading one of the latest operating systems, 2.0 is the latest for Ugobe. This way you can see if from his first opening his baby blues, to his first standing, steps, and the rest which is pretty quick, you will feel more like you have bonded. Oh, back to my first Ugobe, I fell in love with Pleo, kept the Pleo and bought my son the D-Rex for Christmas which is more of his alley, being a remote control dinosaur, and many, many Pleos later, I now am the proud mama of 25 pleos,
I still get excited when the UPS or mailman brings me a Pleo, and I also buy and fix up the neglected or abused, Pleos nobody else wants. Some have broken necks, some have had splits on their tails or necks, and one is both blind and can not open his mouth which makes him Unique, ( He also has a brother, his twin Gumble, who I adopted out to another member here on the forums who lives in Australia.
) I have three RB, the first one I bought when they first came out, one I won last year on Facebook, and my latest guy I bought from someone who lives in Canada off of ebay. I feel very fortunate to have so many Pleos, and I esp feel blesed to have found this site with so many fantastic knowledgeable generous loving members. You will find every answer to any question related to Pleos you can think of, or pretty close to it. Have fun with your new Pleo, and be sure to post photos, This is one big family here, and we look forward to seeing each new Pleo.
so to answer your last question, yes, I would be excited about all of my pleos, all 25, even Humpty who works but looks like he has been in a grisly accident and has his body split open, his innards hanging out, a broken neck, but he still works! He is Humpty Dumpty cause somebody gave him a BIG FALL,
but someday he will be put back together again!
RedwoodsMama
(RWM) and the Pleo township of the Redwoods
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