For those who aren't familiar with In The Night Garden, I will start with a very brief description of the show that Push and Play Upsy Daisy is from.
In The Night Garden is a show on CBeebies which is based in a magical garden halfway between dreamland and awake. It is a colourful land with many different characters and each 30minute show has its own different story. The story is narrated by a man and the characters communicate with eachother and the audience in their own different ways. There are a few main characters in the show and the story usually revolves around one of them.
- Iggle Piggle is the main character, A tall blue, teddy who doesn't talk only squeaks. He is always bouncing around the Night Garden and often gets suprised and just falls over! He carries around his red comfort blanket.
- Upsy Daisy is Iggle Piggle's best friend, she is a beautiful and colourful doll with wild, multi-coloured dreadlocked type hair and stripy clothes and a puffy skirt. Upsy Daisy is usually accompanied by her bed-on-wheels (which she is very protective of) or her megaphone, she loves nothing better than to sing and dance.
- Makka Pakka is a small brown teddy who seems to be like the baby of the group, he is usually seen speeding around on his Og-Pog Scooter or with his sponge trying to wash some of the other characters faces! Makka Pakka sleeps in a cave with a stone bed and very colourfil blanket, he is well known for the phrase ''Makka Pakka Akka Wakka, Mikka Makka Moo''.
- There are three Tombliboos - Unn, Ooo and Eee, all with stripy tops and spotty pants on, each a different colour, one brown and pink, one red and green and one pink and yellow. The Tombliboos live in a bush and often have musical instruments, usually a piano or drums as their accompanying objects.
- There are also two families of characters that live in houses at the bottom of a tree there are 10 in each family, The Wottingers are the blue family and the Pontipines are the red family.
- There is also a Pinky Ponk which looks like a barrage balloon is mainly turquoise with pink spots and other various coloured details. The Pinky Ponk floats around the garden taking the characters on journeys, crashing into trees along the way and making farting noises!!!
- The Ninky Nonk is a strange sort of train with five different coloured and different shaped characters which travels around the Night Garden at breakneck speeds usually with some of the characters in it.
- The Hahoos are big pillow like objects, different shapes and colours who just float around the garden at their leisure.
Back to Upsy Daisy......... I purchaced the toy for my Daughter Hallie who is 20months from a local car boot sale, she seen it and being the BIGGEST In The Night Garden fan, she just would not let up until she had it! Luckily for me it only cost me 50p although I know that brand new they can be priced around £5.00 on websites such as www.amazon.co.uk.
Push and Play Upsy Daisy is a model of Upsy Daisy lying in her bed, underneath there are wheels for you to push her along.
The wheels glide along lino and laminate flooring but on carpet it is a bit of a challenge, it usually ends up on its side after Hallie has tried to push as she is rather heavy handed and it just topples due to the friction.
On first looking at the toy, you notice the bright colours that are associated with Upsy Daisy. The colours on this were very bright as it had hardly been played with but after a week of Hallie playing with it non stop, to the extent of taking it to bed with her, you can notice the difference in patched where it is starting to fade!
Upsy Daisy is made of strong plastic and has been dropped a fair few times with no signs of damage!! Very durable and cosidering the paint fades, I have seen no chips from it colliding with whatever surface Hallie is aiming at. (She tends to just drop whatever she has where she stands when she gets bored of them!).
To be honest, that is about it, that is all that Upsy Daisy does, exactly as the name suggests - Push and Play. This is rather disappointing in my opinion because even though I only paid 50p, there will be other people who have paid more and their children will get bored of it easily as I know that Hallie will soon. All the joy and excitement that the In The Night Garden TV show gives them is NOT reflected in this toy! No matter how wild and extensive a childs imagination is, there is only so far that it will go.
If I hadn't of bought this where I did, I probably wouldn't have purchaced it. I would rate this product as Average and wold recommend it if you just wanted to build up a collection of the items from the show but not for much more than that purpose!
Push and Play Upsy Daisy....Thats All Really!!!! 
