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User Submitted Hungry Hungry Hippos Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-01-05 Its not the original! I agree with the other reviewers: 1) Why make a toy that doesn't fit in the box. This is a game children should be able to play by themselves but they need their parents to assemble the game every time. And, its not easy to assemble because the parts are so cheap which brings me to point two. 2) This game is made incredibly cheaply. Of course, I'm comparing this to the original but the balls are so lightweight they float in and out of the hippos mouths. 3) My game came missing a part. If you can't get the original, its not worth it! Date: 2007-12-27 UGH! I have to agree with most other reviewers in how cheaply this toy was made. Big disappointment! The biggest gripe is that you have to take the darned thing apart to store it each time. Are they kidding me? With the money they saved on the cheap plastic, they could have spent on making the cardboard box a little bigger to throw the thing into after the kids are done playing it. Like another reviewer wrote, get an older model on eBay or at a thrift store, you'll save a lot on all the aggrivation you'd get from this new one! Date: 2007-12-26 A classic My 4 year old daughter has been wanting this game for quite some time and now she finally has it, she loves it. I have to say that it surely isn't hours of fun, but it is a fun game for my 4 year old and 7 year old to play. Date: 2007-10-15 Total disappointment Just like most of these reviews, I was so disappointed to find that a childhood favorite has been cheapened so much. The BIGGEST complaint is that they think you are going to take it apart and put it back together every time you want to store it? I don't want it sitting out everyday after my son is done playing with it. And it's SO cheaply made. The marbles are plastic and bumpy. They don't come out of the hippos once gobbled. The hippo's heads get stuck and don't lift up like they should. I could go on but it's mostly what others have said. I wish companies stopped trying to save a buck and just left classics the way they were. Date: 2007-08-26 Another victim of the race to the bottom - this game is so cheaply made it's tragic If anyone is pining for a bit childhood wax nostalgia in the form of Hungry Hungry Hippos, I strongly suggest you steer your inhibitions well clear of the version lurking on the toy store shelf today. I bought this game for my four year old daughter because this was one my favorites from my childhood. What I pulled from the box was a horrible makeshift excuse for the game of the same name I owned circa 1980. Today's version of the classic frantic marble chomping mammalia game is a disgrace to its heritage. It suffers from the thinnest, cheapest grade plastic known to mankind, sticky hand pinching chomping mechanisms, and dubious low-grade marble launchers. That is, if one's suspension of belief is sound enough to convince yourself that the little plastic white pellets on offer are, indeed, "marbles". If these were the only infractions incurred to me by this bastardized version of the game I knew and loved so well as a child, it would be far, far enough. Sadly I can very easily go on, culminating with the outlandish claims on the box "Same Great Game! Easy Storage Box!" Claim number one has already been explored and soundly debunked. Claim number two is a fantasy. Once the game has been assembled completely it NO LONGER fits in the box. Easy Storage Box? Who are you going to believe? The Box's claim or your lying eyes? According to the instructions, when game play is finished one must decapitate the hippos and unhinge them from their plastic base to put them back in the box. How much unhinging can Harry, Happy, Henry, and Homer take before their shoddy plastic parts snap and break, particularly in the hands of a 4 year old? If your child is like mine,he/she has no difficulty in coming up with a million reasons why his/her toys are left scattered around the house. My daugther most certainly does not need this ill-suited box to act as an accomplice to her serial messiness. Oh well, at least Milton Bradley saved a few pennies by reducing the size of the box, eh? Having said that, though, aside from getting her hand repeatedly pinched in the chomping lever and fighting with marble launchers that may or may not work when pressed, my daughter loves the concept of the game.
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