I don't know...maybe its just me.  But I just don't see the long term appeal for Pleo.  I think initially it would be exciting but days/weeks/months later I  think I'd grow tired of it grunting and moving around -  after all this thing is still a dinosaur and is only going to do so much...even with the software upgrade...   pluse the whole paint peeling issue and how Uglobe has handled it kind of turns me off....

The videos are amazing, but I saw a live pleo at the sharper image and uglobe did not send them the power packs so it was like this corspe sitting under a glass bubble.  It looked like just a basic toy and turned me off of ever getting one.  I understand all the Sharper Image's have Pleo under a bubble without power.  What is Uglobe trying to hide?

Nice vid. 

I am not so sure about Pleo.  He looks cute and friendly, but he is too expensive for something that slow.  He seems like a laggard to me.  Just cut on the outside but so so slow.  Kinda boring actually.  

The noises are scarce and quiet, the movements are lagging and restricted, and he kept on moving his head in the same pattern.  This thing seems to be not worth my money. 

Keep the robotic dreams,
-BG
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bare in mind that if you buy a pleo through Sharper Image you can keep him for 30-60 days and return him no questions asked.  But again after I saw him at Sharper Image under that bubble lifeless, it just took away the illutions of the videos.  But on the other hand, he is the most interactive thing out thier.  I don't know if any of you ever heard of Wow Wee robots, but they are just fancy remote control cars.  Roboraptor is ok, ironically a dino, but try the rest of those sometime.  You will be like Pleo doesn't sound so bad.

Pleo is coming up on one month in my home and is still exibiting new behaviors.  Three people asked what it was thinking he was alive!  The thing is amazing.  And blabla, you are so right, i played with roboquad at some store and he was a fancy remote control car.  He did not react to verbal commands at all.   And it sounded like a robot.  Pleo sounds like a dino.  The less you forget that the robot is a robot is the first sign of quality.  It is like recogonizing acting in a movie.

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blabbermouth said: Pleo is coming up on one month in my home and is still exibiting new behaviors.  Three people asked what it was thinking he was alive!  The thing is amazing.  And blabla, you are so right, i played with roboquad at some store and he was a fancy remote control car.  He did not react to verbal commands at all.   And it sounded like a robot.  Pleo sounds like a dino.  The less you forget that the robot is a robot is the first sign of quality.  It is like recogonizing acting in a movie.

Dude, roboquad is suposed to sound like a robot. Wowwee calls all of their robots robots simply because they are robots and thy are robots because wowwee makes robots and they decide to call them robots for they are robots because they study robotics so they build robots and simply because they are robots, so they are robots. pleo is not sopposed to be a robot but to me it looks like a robot with some rubber dinosuar skin over it thus making roboquad better. Roboquad is a robot and sence he is a robot, he is more of himself than the pleo is, therefore making roboquad more superior than the robotic but not robotic robot pleo.

Roboquad is a robot and wowwee calls it a robot, therefore he is more like a robot

Pleo is a robot and they call him a dinosuar therefore, making him almost like a fake.

Now, kids. Remember to vote for roboquad on march 4 2010 next elections.

Last words I said to my Roboquad:
May the force be with you.
Remember the roboquad. I miss him.

I looked on top and saw that the guy that started this thread bought pleo at $315.  I got mine at $290.  Watch the prices on this because odds are he is the best robot up to date.  Thier could be a robot better than pleo like Aibo or I Cybie, but I never actually seen an Aibo or I Cybie.  So pleo is the top of the heap seeing as Aibo and I Cybie arn't being sold anymore and still may not be as good as Pleo.  Thier maybe a better one out thier and thier maybe such thing as Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny.  I defy someone to find me a robot as good as Pleo.  Can't be done!  Yet I have to say i still hate Ugobe, but I got to give them props on Pleo, hes brilliant and perfection as I'm sure every intelligent person in here will agree.