Amazing Ally

...never close.

Amazing Ally, what can I say, my daughter wanted one of these last Christmas but at £60.00 we thought that was too much money for Santa to spend, but the other day we spotted one in our local paper, an unwanted prize going for £20.00 – much more reasonable so off went hubby to fetch it.

When he bought it home I couldn’t believe what came with it and thought it looked really complicated to set ...
...out to be.

After putting batteries in (3aa and 3aaa – little pricey) and inserting the adventure ware pack, which came with her, she gives you instructions on how to set her up. Her clothes all have contact points so she even knows if she hasn’t got her tights, hairband, shoes or jumper on, when fully dressed and contact points have been met she tells you that she needs her book, this plugs very easily into a contact point ... more

She’s scary, she’s blonde, she talks, she resembles the bride of Chuckie – she is only a kid’s doll.

But she is spooky, she tells you the date, the time, when your birthday is, what your favourite colour, activity and animal are while glaring at you with big staring blue eyes, that never close.

Amazing Ally, what can I say, my daughter wanted one of these last Christmas but at £60.00 we thought that was too much money for Santa to spend, but the other day we spotted one in our local paper, an unwanted prize going for £20.00 – much more reasonable so off went hubby to fetch it.

When he bought it home I couldn’t believe what came with it and thought it looked really complicated to set up, but was pleasantly surprised at how easy it turned out to be.

After putting batteries in (3aa and 3aaa – little pricey) and inserting the adventure ware pack, which came with her, she gives you instructions on how to set her up. Her clothes all have contact points so she even knows if she hasn’t got her tights, hairband, shoes or jumper on, when fully dressed and contact points have been met she tells you that she needs her book, this plugs very easily into a contact point hidden beneath her watch, you then insert different cards into her book to set the date, time and year and also your childs date of birth and other favourites that your child may have.

She comes with her very own tea set and when these make contact she tells you a tea party story. You can play several games with her with different cards like simple guessing games and when you do play Ally will remember who won and with how many points. She asks you to brush her hair; the brush has a sensor in it so Ally tells you how nice her hair is looking now that you have brushed it. The more you play with her, the more fun she becomes, she starts telling silly jokes (all about tea parties) and you can go on a tea party adventure to rescue the golden tea cup.

You can buy other adventure ware packs other than the bog standard tea party one that comes with her, but I haven’t actually seen them in any shops nor do I know how much they cost as it only mentions them in the instruction leaflet.

There is no way I personally would have paid £60.00 for the doll but having said that It is worth the money. My daughter has a new best friend.

If you don’t play with her for a little while she goes into “sleep” mode which is quite ironic, because as I have already said she doesn’t actually close her eyes, but this does conserve the batteries. It is advisable not to switch her off but to pause her other wise you will have to reset the date, time etc. everytime you play.

Be afraid, be very afraid.
 

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