Pleo the Robot Dinosaur

+ Fantastic Product - now have 2 and they interact with each other. Can download additional stuff from Ugobe

- Battery life only 1 hour and can't purchase additional batteries

+ A great fun item for all ages. He needs to be treated as a pet rather than a toy as his personality will develop based upon how he is treated and each one is supposed to be unique because of this. He will appreciate the attention given and call to you if you ignore him for too long. Almost as good as having a real pet. Better in some ways - no need for kennels and no mess to clean up.
Need to upgrade the Life OS to get the best out of it. Then you can download skits (character changes) and have him sing to you, blow kisses or pretend he is a T-Rex. These are hilarious. You can also get programs that allow you to write your own skits and get your Pleo to act them out so great if you are into robotics.
He has loads of sensors and really reacts when you touch them. Battery life is pretty good. It takes about 3 -4 hours to fully charge the battery with the included charger and then you can get about 1 1/2 hours worth of fun with your Pleo.

- I haven't had my Pleo too long but others have commented that the paint starts to rub off where you interact with the sensors the most.
Still expensive to buy.

+ Fantastic animation and realism, very cute and friendly creature, amazing to watch interacting with people and objects, software is updated regularly to increase capabilities, customizable, sounds can be turned off

- Short battery life, shipped with limited software, fragile parts, paint wears off skin, paint flakes from teeth

+ Fun. Almost lifelike with personality.

- Rechargeable battery requires charging too often and takes too long for children to wait.

+ Everything about Pleo is good....

- The price is a little steep but well worth it in the long run.

+ It's awesome and cute. My whole family adores it, we have twins (2.5 years), a boy (5 year), a girl (12 year).

- Battery time isn't the longest but ok.

+ Can download new programmes to SD card.

- teeth of dino chip very easily,and the skin flakes and wears easily.

+ Bought this for my 11 year old son who absolutely adores it, as do many of his friends and the family. It really does pose the question, will robotic life forms ever be acceptable to humans, as for Pleo I think thats a big yes. Much better than anything else that is available on the market for a modest sum, reccomended by my kids anyway.

- Battery life, but spares can be bought although a little pricey.

+ my wee girl just loves pleo

- battery life could be better

+ It makes having a pet when renting accomodation possible. All our friends forget he is not real and they feel genuine love for out little baby dino. He really does seem to get more intelligent as well.

- The motors are quite loud but we barely hear them now. The paint rubs off as it is multi layered on the skin, so the pale green paint wears down to the base layer of darker green. But that is the only bad things we have found.

+ good for the kids they love it well tidy good buy

- could do with a longer lasting battery

+ Hugely fun and very surprising. The first time it balanced on two legs and announced 'taddaa' was the funiest thing ever.

- Paint is wearing off already on the back.

+ Cute looking and fun at first

- Expensive, noisy motor, limited to what it does. You have to charge the battery every hour for at least 4 hours in which time the kids have got bored of waiting. Purchased for my 10 year old and she doesn't even look at it now (less than a month later)

+ Pleo is a great robot and my son had great fun interacting with him,

- The paint started to rub off Pleo’s back, feet and legs after only three days!! One four hour charge of the battery only give Pleo 45 to 60 mins life, which is a little disappointing for my son as he can only spend 90 to 120 mins playing with him. For the price I think that the paint and battery issues are unacceptable.

+ fantastic... worth every penny

- The only downside is the battery life is terrible