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Title: Pleo's magnetic tail - urban myth?
Post by: Crewella on November 19, 2010, 01:26:23 PM: I've noticed a few people mentioning a 'magnetic tail' in some of the Pleo listings on eBay UK. One listing said the Pleo came with its 'magnetic tail', and a couple of others since have shown questions from potential buyers asking if the 'magnetic tail' was included, or functioning. Anybody got any ideas as to how this started or what they might be referring to? :o :D
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Post by: grumpy on November 19, 2010, 02:38:26 PM: Can you list the ads? I'd love to see what they're talking about.... :P
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Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on November 19, 2010, 04:14:41 PM: It's so you can stick Pleo on the fridge when you've finished playing with him of course :P
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Post by: Jules on November 19, 2010, 04:27:32 PM: That is odd I just looked at all the listings and their is nothing mentioned. ???
Title: Re: Pleo's magnetic tail - urban myth?
Post by: Crewella on November 19, 2010, 05:08:33 PM: The listings will have completed by now - this was the most recent one with the mention in the Q&A at the bottom:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Pleo-robotic-dinosaur-not-working-/260691486579?pt=UK_Toys_ElectronicPets_RL&hash=item3cb26c6773

And another one!!:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PLEO-ROBOTIC-DINOSAUR-AMAZING-INTERACTIVE-PET-BOXED-/320612847213?pt=UK_Toys_ElectronicPets_RL&hash=item4aa603ce6d
Title: Re: Pleo's magnetic tail - urban myth?
Post by: Jules on November 19, 2010, 05:53:07 PM: I think that the person who was selling that Pleo must be bonkers! I've never herd of such a thing and I'm sure it would have been mentioned here previously if it has a magnetic tail piece !

Googled it and nothing came up either. ???
Title: Re: Pleo's magnetic tail - urban myth?
Post by: Crewella on November 19, 2010, 05:57:58 PM: I know!! I'd have ignored it if I'd just seen it the once, but I've seen that mentioned three or four times now! Maybe they're all reading it off each other's listings, and probably parents selling their kid's unwanted toys have no idea how they really function. I just thought it was quite amusing that it seems to have snowballed! :P
Title: Re: Pleo's magnetic tail - urban myth?
Post by: Pleo Power on November 20, 2010, 01:28:37 AM: when Ive had Cammey Cloey or Copper in here and their tail moved near the monitor (a flat screen) it seemed to change color where the tip of the tail was moving past.
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Post by: Jules on November 20, 2010, 04:33:15 AM: OK time for some scientific investigation :)
Title: Re: Pleo's magnetic tail - urban myth?
Post by: Jules on November 20, 2010, 05:30:03 AM: Quote from: Pleo Power on November 20, 2010, 01:28:37 AM
when Ive had Cammey Cloey or Copper in here and their tail moved near the monitor (a flat screen) it seemed to change color where the tip of the tail was moving past.

Magnets will only affect LCD monitors not TFT.

I have found no magnetic field in the end of my Pleo's tails.
All a load of rubbish , magnetic tails lol %)
Title: Re: Pleo's magnetic tail - urban myth?
Post by: Crewella on November 20, 2010, 06:35:04 AM: Nope, me neither! Drat, I'd wiped the fridge door down and everything, just in case! :P
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Post by: barrettgazzy on November 20, 2010, 08:16:49 AM: Lol i do remember seeing a listing on ebay a little while back mentioning the magnet tail lol i just chuckled to my self as i know this was incorrect as i Skinned my first Pleo when his neck broke to check it all out .
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Post by: Crewella on November 20, 2010, 10:13:50 AM: I'm just doing that very thing at the moment, Gaz, though I really wasn't expecting to find any magnets! It's fascinating - a real work of art under there! :D