Post by: irbyma7297 on September 27, 2012, 05:50:32 PM
Post by: nicholasljy123 on November 26, 2012, 01:26:50 AM
Post by: Mystearika on November 26, 2012, 12:24:28 PM
I also owned some robotic toys in my childhood, my favorites were the original Furby and the tamagotchi.
The Aibo faded into the back in my mind as i grow older. It is funny i remembered the Aibo in a dream
In it i were sorting out in a dead family members belongings. There were some dusty boxes with robots, The Aibo was there, Also a dinesaur, but i don,t remember how it looked and a very creepy robot child.
I decided to search the net for the dog, i could not remember its name so it was hard, i found a lot of toy dogs, on an discussion in the review part of some of Woowees robots, the people talked about Aibo and Pleo. I had found my dog and i searched for the pleo also since i was curious, i found a hatching video on youtube, it was really cute and the dino had that lifelike magic as the Aibo. Aibo was discontinued and too expensive second hand. But i was in love with pleo. I found many of the ugobes on ebay. and i researched on the net. i found this forum and decided to find an RB, cause the old one sounded fragile with the chance of broken necks and ruined skin. i was afraid that i could not get it repaired if it broke.
And then i got my cute RB Norbert :)
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on December 03, 2012, 08:29:12 PM
Post by: Talon on December 04, 2012, 09:50:48 AM
Talon
Post by: Torterenek on December 08, 2012, 11:07:45 PM
Post by: irbyma7297 on December 10, 2012, 07:22:02 PM
Post by: tracytigress on January 11, 2013, 08:12:21 AM
Too bad around that time 500€ was little bit too expensive for me. I'm glad I remembered Pleos again few years later, otherwise I'd never found out they're back again, and upgraded!
Post by: irbyma7297 on January 31, 2013, 06:39:33 PM
Post by: Harper K on February 03, 2013, 04:03:57 PM
And heh heh, I'll be looking in to the dragon wings
Post by: Crewella on February 03, 2013, 05:13:31 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on February 03, 2013, 09:13:46 PM
Post by: Torterenek on February 10, 2013, 11:01:08 PM
Post by: Junkroxy on August 06, 2013, 03:05:30 PM
I love furby and pleo, i love Caleb Chung and his fantastic vision of interactive pet and robotic companion. Around 2008-2009 i worked for the italian Pleoworld as a community manager. Best work in my life, my fav pet robot was the my job too. I was very happy, but sadly the dream ended with Ugobe bankruptcy. Pleo will be in my heart forever.
Post by: RedwoodsMama on August 06, 2013, 06:07:56 PM
I sell and buy on ebay, since 2004, so when I saw Pleo, I thought that looked like fun. I got to meet my grandson, Jeremy for the first time when he and my daughter came to visit us at Christmas a couple of years before, when he was about 2 1/2 years old, I as astonished by how smart he was and how much he knew about Dinosaurs. He could name them all by seeing their pictures and knew more about them then I did when I was in my teens. He was eat, drink and sleep dinosaurs! :D P0:) So a few years later , (2009) I saw Pleo advertised on Ebay. I read the description and bought this what seemed like a very good bargain Pleo for only $85.00, complete, box etc.
I wanted to make sure before sending Pleo off to my grandson that it worked and was in good shape. Well, this Pleo was so cute and when I turned it on for the first time, I was Pleo smitten. I learned pretty easily though that Pleo was too advanced for most five year olds, and my grandson would have gotten bored or been too rough with Pleo. So I kept Pleo and I purchased D-REX for my grandson Jeremy, and he loved it. D-Rex was a lot more appropriate and the good thing is that it was remote control. With D=Rex's bone, he could MAKE him do what he wanted him do. Pleo does what he wants, based on how he is treated.
So the very first Pleo cost me $85.00, and that Pleo is still my favorite Pleo, the gorgeous broken necked special Ms. Nova, who has been on LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOng vacation in Southern Ca. Pleo is also contagious, and what started out as One little pleo, is now a whole Township , The Pleo Township of the Redwoods, 26 current members.. P??? P:-* P|-) P;) P0:) P:D P:) ;)
RWM :cat-hug:
Post by: Will Smart on August 12, 2013, 09:33:58 PM
That's how I came to know about Pleo.
- Will Smart
Post by: Icewolf on August 13, 2013, 03:59:39 AM
The years passed and I forgot a little about Pleo. I didn't completely forget about him, but I didn't think about it so much. So many things happened in my life so I had other stuff to think on! I got a boyfriend, moved away from my family and lived in my own. Then, the year 2009 me and my now fiancé, went to Toys "R" Us, just for fun, cause I still find it fun walking around toy stores and check out new toys. Then all of a sudden, I saw Pleo on a shelf! My eyes went this big O__O. I ran to the shelf and saw many green boxes stored up on the shelves and then the star standing inside a see through box. There were buttons you could push and Pleo would move and stuff. I have no idea how that worked to be honest, haha. I just pushed a button and Pleo would start moving and let out sounds. I looked for the pricetag, and noticed how cheap he was! In swedish currency the price was 999 crowns so that would be around 145,34 dollars. I made a puppyface to my fiancé but he said that we should save the money for more important things. And he was right, cause back then, we we're kind of broke.
Back at home, I couldn't stop thinking about Pleo! He was so cheap! If if didn't buy it now, I would regret it. So I was kind of sad knowing that I wouldn't be able to buy Pleo. My fiancé noticed that and as much as he hates seeing me sad he told me: "You know what? Lets buy Pleo!" He told me that if we bought him, the money we would have left was only be used for food, but nothing else. Bills were already paid. So next day we went back and bought him! We went back home and when Pleo was up and going, we both fell in love in him.
Sometimes I have a little bad consience thinking about how we bought a Pleo for all of our money, haha. But we both were happy with the Pleo :)
Post by: Junkroxy on August 13, 2013, 04:40:53 AM
I was very excited at the time, but it wasn't possible to take the little guy with me (how sad!)...
(http://i39.tinypic.com/iwhz49.jpg)
Post by: rjladya on October 23, 2013, 01:04:58 PM
Post by: Antje on December 15, 2013, 03:22:00 PM
And now I'm surrounded by a whole Pleo forum and Pleo world. :o ;D
Post by: RedwoodsMama on December 15, 2013, 06:24:27 PM
Post by: maagtablet on December 16, 2013, 08:13:47 AM
I didn't know Pleo existed until three weeks ago. Than it was for sale at the iBood site. My husband see it and of course we had to have one. We love dinosaurs! :dino-chase:
And now I'm surrounded by a whole Pleo forum and Pleo world. :o ;D
lol for me it was exactly the same!
I've always been a dinosaur fan! Especially T-Rex! They should totally make a T-Rex pleo! XD
Post by: Antje on December 16, 2013, 03:11:43 PM
Post by: robodog on March 11, 2014, 01:01:26 PM
But recently.I found out that the original models can sometimes be bought on eBay for under $300. I'll be paying off my house this year which will free up some cash so I'm hoping to.have my own Pleo by the end of the year.
Post by: jack box on September 05, 2014, 11:51:11 AM
i'm brand new to pleos but when i was younger i went to the national history museum and they had a real life-like dinosaur (similar to pleo) asleep in a cage it was breathing and snoring, it was so cute, so at the time i tried looking for something similar, but i didn't find anything then weirdly allot of years later, last week i was surfing the net and came across a YouTube video of pleo and was like "it's the dinosaur!" i was debating to get one for a couple of days (as there not cheap) then thought what the heck and have now got my little pleo on his way to me :)
Post by: RedwoodsMama on September 06, 2014, 12:30:07 PM
Post by: Sorel on October 30, 2014, 05:06:39 PM
For me I've always loved robots. I was heavy into transformers as a child and furby was my most beloved toy. The first time I ever saw pleo was when I was 17 and I used to love going in sharper image. I could never afford anything there but I loved to look! I'm a bit embarrassed to say I thought pleo was really gross when I first saw it ^_^; the poor pleo sharper image had as a demo model had no paint left on it at all and was very sticky looking. The mechanical noise when it moved was extremely loud and grating. Of course now I know that pleo had been through the wringer and pleos are actually very pretty and their motors and gears are not supposed to be that loud. At the time however, I was far more drawn to wowees roboraptor and robosapien. Wow what a disappointment those toys turned out to be for me. I still look back at the claims that roboraptor had "touch sensors" and "emotional A.I." and get a good laugh.
Through the years I ended up owning a meriod of robotic toys and every one of them left me disappointed. What I really wanted was a robot and the ones that came with remote controls always struck me as more like RC cars then real robots. It took me rediscovering pleo this month to recapture some of that magic that furby brought me when I was 10.
Post by: PinkPleo on January 11, 2017, 05:33:08 PM