Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

v-tech grow and go ride, 18 Nov 2008
i bought this for my grandsons first birthday and he absolutely loves it well worth the money he loves using it as a rocker and as the driving wheel comes of he takes it in the car would recomment to anyone

OK - but there are much better ride ons., 17 Sep 2008
I like Vtech toys. They are great for learning providing they don't stop working, which I have found that some do easily - I know, I bought a glut of them when my son was a little baby. Recently we gave him the Vtech ride on, which had been stored since 6 months for his 1st birthday as we found it unsuitable for a 6 month despite it being advertised as 6-36 months. We set it straight up to the ride-on mode. I have found that the wheels stick and they don't turn as there is no steering - which I believe is a necessary feature for riding around small living rooms - and it is very difficult for him to mount as the side bars are rather wide. I have taken the interactive part of the toy off the rather useless ride-on as the toy is much better like this. Long story short - if you are looking for a ride on - buy something else like the excellent Leapfrog alphabet train.

Not interested yet, but a good quality toy!, 12 Sep 2008
I bought this for my 1 year son in his first birthday, unfortunately he seems not interested in sitting in it yet..Hopefully he will 'grow' to love this toy. However , definitely ,it is a good quality toy. The iritating part is the man who sing the song is not a great singer. I prefer a lady singing it..
Overall, no complaints on any defects.

absolutely brilliant , 05 Dec 2007
I am writing this review as my son has had this now for 12 months and it is still something he plays with every day. He moved from rocker to ride quite quickly but he is quite large for his age. He has learnt alot of words from this and I would highly recommend it.


Varied Toy, 30 May 2007
What a wonderful toy! My 9 month daughter adores it and so do I. The words/songs are pronounced using good, clear English. The variety of options is huge so your child won't be bored after 5 mins. The toy adapts to the child's age & ability too so although it's expensive, it will outlast all the age-specific speaking toys you may buy. I'm expecting a good couple of years play from this item.

This great baby walker has two grip handles to suit their growing height. Sturdy rubber wheels for a better grip on slippery surfaces and comes complete with its own set of wooden building bricks. Please note product may vary from illustration.

Contains everything you need to make a horse mobile! Set includes: approx. 2,000 beads, 2 pegboards: small square and horse, 1 display mobile ring, 1 string, a colour printed design sheet, instructions and ironing paper. 5 Years +

Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

v-tech grow and go ride, 18 Nov 2008
i bought this for my grandsons first birthday and he absolutely loves it well worth the money he loves using it as a rocker and as the driving wheel comes of he takes it in the car would recomment to anyone

OK - but there are much better ride ons., 17 Sep 2008
I like Vtech toys. They are great for learning providing they don't stop working, which I have found that some do easily - I know, I bought a glut of them when my son was a little baby. Recently we gave him the Vtech ride on, which had been stored since 6 months for his 1st birthday as we found it unsuitable for a 6 month despite it being advertised as 6-36 months. We set it straight up to the ride-on mode. I have found that the wheels stick and they don't turn as there is no steering - which I believe is a necessary feature for riding around small living rooms - and it is very difficult for him to mount as the side bars are rather wide. I have taken the interactive part of the toy off the rather useless ride-on as the toy is much better like this. Long story short - if you are looking for a ride on - buy something else like the excellent Leapfrog alphabet train.

Not interested yet, but a good quality toy!, 12 Sep 2008
I bought this for my 1 year son in his first birthday, unfortunately he seems not interested in sitting in it yet..Hopefully he will 'grow' to love this toy. However , definitely ,it is a good quality toy. The iritating part is the man who sing the song is not a great singer. I prefer a lady singing it..
Overall, no complaints on any defects.

absolutely brilliant , 05 Dec 2007
I am writing this review as my son has had this now for 12 months and it is still something he plays with every day. He moved from rocker to ride quite quickly but he is quite large for his age. He has learnt alot of words from this and I would highly recommend it.


Varied Toy, 30 May 2007
What a wonderful toy! My 9 month daughter adores it and so do I. The words/songs are pronounced using good, clear English. The variety of options is huge so your child won't be bored after 5 mins. The toy adapts to the child's age & ability too so although it's expensive, it will outlast all the age-specific speaking toys you may buy. I'm expecting a good couple of years play from this item.

Great litle thing for your kid, 25 Oct 2008
I bought this product 5 months ago for my daughter.. she is only 6 months now so I cant say how much she like it.. but me and my wife love this product.. music is good and projection is also very good.

I would recommend this product. Its definitely something that you will be happy to see in your kid's room.

Retro but cute...., 20 Apr 2008
I bought this for my ten week old baby girl whilst she was sleeping in her moses basket and couldn't have a cot mobile. It's very basic but very cute - it glows a subtle pink colour, has a lovely soothing lullaby that plays for 5 or 10 minutes and a teddy-bear light show that projects onto the ceiling. I turn it on as part of my daughters sleep routine and really works well.

Build your own Solar System mobile that glows in the dark. Each kit comes complete with a bonus wall chart full of fun solar system facts. (Mobile is 75cm x 75cm finished size). 7 Years +

Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

v-tech grow and go ride, 18 Nov 2008
i bought this for my grandsons first birthday and he absolutely loves it well worth the money he loves using it as a rocker and as the driving wheel comes of he takes it in the car would recomment to anyone

OK - but there are much better ride ons., 17 Sep 2008
I like Vtech toys. They are great for learning providing they don't stop working, which I have found that some do easily - I know, I bought a glut of them when my son was a little baby. Recently we gave him the Vtech ride on, which had been stored since 6 months for his 1st birthday as we found it unsuitable for a 6 month despite it being advertised as 6-36 months. We set it straight up to the ride-on mode. I have found that the wheels stick and they don't turn as there is no steering - which I believe is a necessary feature for riding around small living rooms - and it is very difficult for him to mount as the side bars are rather wide. I have taken the interactive part of the toy off the rather useless ride-on as the toy is much better like this. Long story short - if you are looking for a ride on - buy something else like the excellent Leapfrog alphabet train.

Not interested yet, but a good quality toy!, 12 Sep 2008
I bought this for my 1 year son in his first birthday, unfortunately he seems not interested in sitting in it yet..Hopefully he will 'grow' to love this toy. However , definitely ,it is a good quality toy. The iritating part is the man who sing the song is not a great singer. I prefer a lady singing it..
Overall, no complaints on any defects.

absolutely brilliant , 05 Dec 2007
I am writing this review as my son has had this now for 12 months and it is still something he plays with every day. He moved from rocker to ride quite quickly but he is quite large for his age. He has learnt alot of words from this and I would highly recommend it.


Varied Toy, 30 May 2007
What a wonderful toy! My 9 month daughter adores it and so do I. The words/songs are pronounced using good, clear English. The variety of options is huge so your child won't be bored after 5 mins. The toy adapts to the child's age & ability too so although it's expensive, it will outlast all the age-specific speaking toys you may buy. I'm expecting a good couple of years play from this item.

Great litle thing for your kid, 25 Oct 2008
I bought this product 5 months ago for my daughter.. she is only 6 months now so I cant say how much she like it.. but me and my wife love this product.. music is good and projection is also very good.

I would recommend this product. Its definitely something that you will be happy to see in your kid's room.

Retro but cute...., 20 Apr 2008
I bought this for my ten week old baby girl whilst she was sleeping in her moses basket and couldn't have a cot mobile. It's very basic but very cute - it glows a subtle pink colour, has a lovely soothing lullaby that plays for 5 or 10 minutes and a teddy-bear light show that projects onto the ceiling. I turn it on as part of my daughters sleep routine and really works well.

Good, but need adult help and child's patience, 07 Nov 2008
The planets come in 2 rigid plastic halves that are easily clipped together and are textured to help with painting. Lots of chance to talk about the planets and the differences between them. Had great fun painting the various planets with my 4 and 6yo kids, but connecting them to the hangers once dry was a really fiddly job that a kid could never do. You need to tie plastic fishing line to small plastic pegs that connect each planet to a hook that attaches to the hanger. Overall including the sun and the hanger itself, that's about 20 really fiddly connectors to tie to the thread (with invisible thread that you have to double or triple knot each time to ensure they stay attached. You need steady hands and good eyes for this bit!)

I'd recommend the toy, but be sure when you leave the planets overnight to dry that you prepare all the cables while the kids aren't about!

And woooo - Pluto is in there :D

Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

v-tech grow and go ride, 18 Nov 2008
i bought this for my grandsons first birthday and he absolutely loves it well worth the money he loves using it as a rocker and as the driving wheel comes of he takes it in the car would recomment to anyone

OK - but there are much better ride ons., 17 Sep 2008
I like Vtech toys. They are great for learning providing they don't stop working, which I have found that some do easily - I know, I bought a glut of them when my son was a little baby. Recently we gave him the Vtech ride on, which had been stored since 6 months for his 1st birthday as we found it unsuitable for a 6 month despite it being advertised as 6-36 months. We set it straight up to the ride-on mode. I have found that the wheels stick and they don't turn as there is no steering - which I believe is a necessary feature for riding around small living rooms - and it is very difficult for him to mount as the side bars are rather wide. I have taken the interactive part of the toy off the rather useless ride-on as the toy is much better like this. Long story short - if you are looking for a ride on - buy something else like the excellent Leapfrog alphabet train.

Not interested yet, but a good quality toy!, 12 Sep 2008
I bought this for my 1 year son in his first birthday, unfortunately he seems not interested in sitting in it yet..Hopefully he will 'grow' to love this toy. However , definitely ,it is a good quality toy. The iritating part is the man who sing the song is not a great singer. I prefer a lady singing it..
Overall, no complaints on any defects.

absolutely brilliant , 05 Dec 2007
I am writing this review as my son has had this now for 12 months and it is still something he plays with every day. He moved from rocker to ride quite quickly but he is quite large for his age. He has learnt alot of words from this and I would highly recommend it.


Varied Toy, 30 May 2007
What a wonderful toy! My 9 month daughter adores it and so do I. The words/songs are pronounced using good, clear English. The variety of options is huge so your child won't be bored after 5 mins. The toy adapts to the child's age & ability too so although it's expensive, it will outlast all the age-specific speaking toys you may buy. I'm expecting a good couple of years play from this item.

Great litle thing for your kid, 25 Oct 2008
I bought this product 5 months ago for my daughter.. she is only 6 months now so I cant say how much she like it.. but me and my wife love this product.. music is good and projection is also very good.

I would recommend this product. Its definitely something that you will be happy to see in your kid's room.

Retro but cute...., 20 Apr 2008
I bought this for my ten week old baby girl whilst she was sleeping in her moses basket and couldn't have a cot mobile. It's very basic but very cute - it glows a subtle pink colour, has a lovely soothing lullaby that plays for 5 or 10 minutes and a teddy-bear light show that projects onto the ceiling. I turn it on as part of my daughters sleep routine and really works well.

Good, but need adult help and child's patience, 07 Nov 2008
The planets come in 2 rigid plastic halves that are easily clipped together and are textured to help with painting. Lots of chance to talk about the planets and the differences between them. Had great fun painting the various planets with my 4 and 6yo kids, but connecting them to the hangers once dry was a really fiddly job that a kid could never do. You need to tie plastic fishing line to small plastic pegs that connect each planet to a hook that attaches to the hanger. Overall including the sun and the hanger itself, that's about 20 really fiddly connectors to tie to the thread (with invisible thread that you have to double or triple knot each time to ensure they stay attached. You need steady hands and good eyes for this bit!)

I'd recommend the toy, but be sure when you leave the planets overnight to dry that you prepare all the cables while the kids aren't about!

And woooo - Pluto is in there :D

Great features, but risk of faults too high, 21 Nov 2008
After the great success of the old BT digital monitor we bought 3 years ago for our daughter, we did not hesitate to buy the new version for our baby son.

Whilst all the features are great and we cannot find another monitor with everything this monitor has to offer at such a reasonable price, after a few weeks the monitor developed a fault - the parent unit will now only link to the child unit when held directly next to it!

BT were of no help (they ignore emails to their help address and the adviser on the phone just told us to swap for a new model).

However, reading other reviews I think we will be looking elsewhere for something more reliable.

very disapointed, 08 Nov 2008
This product works very well, the sound is clear all the features are great BUT there is obviously a problem with this item as I purchased the old version which broke down after six months (same problem as everyone keeps pointing out, the sound stops working)then I bought twice the new version and both broke down after a few months. So i am very disapointed and a stunned that BT has been able to solve this problem before the launch of their new version.

Faulty after 3 months, 19 Oct 2008
We bought this monitor as we thought bt would be the most reliable...how wrong we were! Less than 3 months after buying it the baby unit will not connect to the mains adaptor meaning that we have to put in 4 aa batteries every 2 days. Needless to say that we will be saving money and buying a different unit.

From reading other reviews there seems to be issues with the life span of this product.

A waste of £50.

Unacceptable software bug, no support. Could be great if fixed., 02 Oct 2008
I gave this 3 stars based on first impressions. Subsequent experience reduces it to one star but Amazon doesn't let you change your rating! If this product worked dependably, it would get 5 stars - when working it's better than the more expensive Philips model I eventually bought its place. But the Philips one is reliable and the BT one isn't.

It's a shame because the product could be great - I've owned a cheaper baby monitor and it wasn't worth having because of interference. This one has all the features you need and the sound is clear. But I've had two examples of this BT model and both had a problem: the sound was occasionally muted for no apparent reason. One reviewer hinted that this is just a question of not understanding the features, but it's not that. (The mute feature was off, and the sensitivity was set to maximum, yet no sound would be heard). So this product is not fit for purpose. It looks like a software bug (randomly occurs about 1 time in 10, and can only be fixed by power cycling the product). It affected both examples I had in Sept/Oct 2008.

BT offer an email support service which they ignore and a helpline number which just played me hold music.

Absolutely useless!, 28 Sep 2008
This monitor wouldn't work outside our house - not so handy on pleasant summer evenings! The sound then completely stopped working during the night (was working when we went to bed so wasn't something we were doing). By the 3rd time this happened we'd completely lost confidence in the monitor and went back to using our old Philips analogue model. Would not recommend.

Build an awesome winter trailblazer! Race over the slopes with the powerful Snowmobile, loaded with realistic functions and detailing. Rugged, movable tracks grip the terrain while the working handlebar steering and independent front ski suspension take c

For the younger child Thomas Sit n Ride is a walker, then it's a sit and ride toy for toddlers. Press the beeper to hear a tune, open Thomas' cab to reveal the secret storage compartment. Thomas Sit n Ride is ideal for use in summer or winter, indoors or

Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

v-tech grow and go ride, 18 Nov 2008
i bought this for my grandsons first birthday and he absolutely loves it well worth the money he loves using it as a rocker and as the driving wheel comes of he takes it in the car would recomment to anyone

OK - but there are much better ride ons., 17 Sep 2008
I like Vtech toys. They are great for learning providing they don't stop working, which I have found that some do easily - I know, I bought a glut of them when my son was a little baby. Recently we gave him the Vtech ride on, which had been stored since 6 months for his 1st birthday as we found it unsuitable for a 6 month despite it being advertised as 6-36 months. We set it straight up to the ride-on mode. I have found that the wheels stick and they don't turn as there is no steering - which I believe is a necessary feature for riding around small living rooms - and it is very difficult for him to mount as the side bars are rather wide. I have taken the interactive part of the toy off the rather useless ride-on as the toy is much better like this. Long story short - if you are looking for a ride on - buy something else like the excellent Leapfrog alphabet train.

Not interested yet, but a good quality toy!, 12 Sep 2008
I bought this for my 1 year son in his first birthday, unfortunately he seems not interested in sitting in it yet..Hopefully he will 'grow' to love this toy. However , definitely ,it is a good quality toy. The iritating part is the man who sing the song is not a great singer. I prefer a lady singing it..
Overall, no complaints on any defects.

absolutely brilliant , 05 Dec 2007
I am writing this review as my son has had this now for 12 months and it is still something he plays with every day. He moved from rocker to ride quite quickly but he is quite large for his age. He has learnt alot of words from this and I would highly recommend it.


Varied Toy, 30 May 2007
What a wonderful toy! My 9 month daughter adores it and so do I. The words/songs are pronounced using good, clear English. The variety of options is huge so your child won't be bored after 5 mins. The toy adapts to the child's age & ability too so although it's expensive, it will outlast all the age-specific speaking toys you may buy. I'm expecting a good couple of years play from this item.

Great litle thing for your kid, 25 Oct 2008
I bought this product 5 months ago for my daughter.. she is only 6 months now so I cant say how much she like it.. but me and my wife love this product.. music is good and projection is also very good.

I would recommend this product. Its definitely something that you will be happy to see in your kid's room.

Retro but cute...., 20 Apr 2008
I bought this for my ten week old baby girl whilst she was sleeping in her moses basket and couldn't have a cot mobile. It's very basic but very cute - it glows a subtle pink colour, has a lovely soothing lullaby that plays for 5 or 10 minutes and a teddy-bear light show that projects onto the ceiling. I turn it on as part of my daughters sleep routine and really works well.

Good, but need adult help and child's patience, 07 Nov 2008
The planets come in 2 rigid plastic halves that are easily clipped together and are textured to help with painting. Lots of chance to talk about the planets and the differences between them. Had great fun painting the various planets with my 4 and 6yo kids, but connecting them to the hangers once dry was a really fiddly job that a kid could never do. You need to tie plastic fishing line to small plastic pegs that connect each planet to a hook that attaches to the hanger. Overall including the sun and the hanger itself, that's about 20 really fiddly connectors to tie to the thread (with invisible thread that you have to double or triple knot each time to ensure they stay attached. You need steady hands and good eyes for this bit!)

I'd recommend the toy, but be sure when you leave the planets overnight to dry that you prepare all the cables while the kids aren't about!

And woooo - Pluto is in there :D

Great features, but risk of faults too high, 21 Nov 2008
After the great success of the old BT digital monitor we bought 3 years ago for our daughter, we did not hesitate to buy the new version for our baby son.

Whilst all the features are great and we cannot find another monitor with everything this monitor has to offer at such a reasonable price, after a few weeks the monitor developed a fault - the parent unit will now only link to the child unit when held directly next to it!

BT were of no help (they ignore emails to their help address and the adviser on the phone just told us to swap for a new model).

However, reading other reviews I think we will be looking elsewhere for something more reliable.

very disapointed, 08 Nov 2008
This product works very well, the sound is clear all the features are great BUT there is obviously a problem with this item as I purchased the old version which broke down after six months (same problem as everyone keeps pointing out, the sound stops working)then I bought twice the new version and both broke down after a few months. So i am very disapointed and a stunned that BT has been able to solve this problem before the launch of their new version.

Faulty after 3 months, 19 Oct 2008
We bought this monitor as we thought bt would be the most reliable...how wrong we were! Less than 3 months after buying it the baby unit will not connect to the mains adaptor meaning that we have to put in 4 aa batteries every 2 days. Needless to say that we will be saving money and buying a different unit.

From reading other reviews there seems to be issues with the life span of this product.

A waste of £50.

Unacceptable software bug, no support. Could be great if fixed., 02 Oct 2008
I gave this 3 stars based on first impressions. Subsequent experience reduces it to one star but Amazon doesn't let you change your rating! If this product worked dependably, it would get 5 stars - when working it's better than the more expensive Philips model I eventually bought its place. But the Philips one is reliable and the BT one isn't.

It's a shame because the product could be great - I've owned a cheaper baby monitor and it wasn't worth having because of interference. This one has all the features you need and the sound is clear. But I've had two examples of this BT model and both had a problem: the sound was occasionally muted for no apparent reason. One reviewer hinted that this is just a question of not understanding the features, but it's not that. (The mute feature was off, and the sensitivity was set to maximum, yet no sound would be heard). So this product is not fit for purpose. It looks like a software bug (randomly occurs about 1 time in 10, and can only be fixed by power cycling the product). It affected both examples I had in Sept/Oct 2008.

BT offer an email support service which they ignore and a helpline number which just played me hold music.

Absolutely useless!, 28 Sep 2008
This monitor wouldn't work outside our house - not so handy on pleasant summer evenings! The sound then completely stopped working during the night (was working when we went to bed so wasn't something we were doing). By the 3rd time this happened we'd completely lost confidence in the monitor and went back to using our old Philips analogue model. Would not recommend.

4 kids and still going strong, 25 Oct 2007
My eldest son was 2 when his Godmother bought him Thomas. He literally shook with excitement and used it constantly for months. Two younger sisters learnt to walk with thomas and use the box under the seat to store their precious cuddly toys. My youngest will be handed the torch in a few months and I expect a similar reaction to a toy that has stood the test of time.

Bomb proof - but battery draining, 02 Oct 2006
We bought this for our eldest son 2 years ago and even with heavy indoor use it looks as good as ever. And now our 1 year old son is starting to toddle he's discovering that it can be used for something more than hiding toys under the flip lid seat :-) The only downside is that both of our little darlings are gadgeteers and love to press the button for the horn and the three batteries are drained inside 2 weeks. If you can get a squeezy press button version then I'd give it 5 stars, but if your only option (but I need the Thomas one!) is the battery version I'd seriously consider removing the batteries as soon as its out of the box and telling your little ones "it's broken / doesn't work / I don't think it's meant to do anything son".

Peep Peep, 03 Apr 2006
Further to the other reviews the manufacturers have changed the horn to a squeezy press one that doesn't require batteries. hurrah. My son loves it and stores all his take along Thomas' in the seat.Easy to put together and looks like it will withstand hours of heavy 'boys' play.
Whoo whoo.

A lovely toy, 12 Sep 2005
This was a present we bought for my son's first birthday. It is one of the few toys he is still playing regularly with nearly a year later. The batteries do run out after a few months - but my son loves it just as much without the sound effects. He started by pushing it along, and now sits on it pushing himself up and down making his own train sound effects! An excellent toy - good value considering the hours of entertainment received from it.

Battery, Battery, Battery!, 21 Jun 2005
Where as 99.9% of toys tend to use standard 'AA' batteries, for some wierd reason this uses three watch batteries.
When you consider that these batteries cost around £3.00 each and only last for about a week, it's a very expensive toy to maintain.
Unless you're happy to be spending £20 a month on batteries, I would avoid this toy.

With this incredible 106cm Solar System Mobile you can explore the wonders of the universe from your own bedroom! The Remote Controlled, motorised mobile has nine planets that actually orbit the sun. The sun lights up and acts as a night light with automa

Ring, ring! Eh-oh, it's the Teletubbies! Enjoy lots of role-play fun with this toy mobile Tele-phone. With all the loveable Teletubbies characters, your little one can play with the real telephone sounds and sing along with the Teletubbies theme tune. Lis

Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

v-tech grow and go ride, 18 Nov 2008
i bought this for my grandsons first birthday and he absolutely loves it well worth the money he loves using it as a rocker and as the driving wheel comes of he takes it in the car would recomment to anyone

OK - but there are much better ride ons., 17 Sep 2008
I like Vtech toys. They are great for learning providing they don't stop working, which I have found that some do easily - I know, I bought a glut of them when my son was a little baby. Recently we gave him the Vtech ride on, which had been stored since 6 months for his 1st birthday as we found it unsuitable for a 6 month despite it being advertised as 6-36 months. We set it straight up to the ride-on mode. I have found that the wheels stick and they don't turn as there is no steering - which I believe is a necessary feature for riding around small living rooms - and it is very difficult for him to mount as the side bars are rather wide. I have taken the interactive part of the toy off the rather useless ride-on as the toy is much better like this. Long story short - if you are looking for a ride on - buy something else like the excellent Leapfrog alphabet train.

Not interested yet, but a good quality toy!, 12 Sep 2008
I bought this for my 1 year son in his first birthday, unfortunately he seems not interested in sitting in it yet..Hopefully he will 'grow' to love this toy. However , definitely ,it is a good quality toy. The iritating part is the man who sing the song is not a great singer. I prefer a lady singing it..
Overall, no complaints on any defects.

absolutely brilliant , 05 Dec 2007
I am writing this review as my son has had this now for 12 months and it is still something he plays with every day. He moved from rocker to ride quite quickly but he is quite large for his age. He has learnt alot of words from this and I would highly recommend it.


Varied Toy, 30 May 2007
What a wonderful toy! My 9 month daughter adores it and so do I. The words/songs are pronounced using good, clear English. The variety of options is huge so your child won't be bored after 5 mins. The toy adapts to the child's age & ability too so although it's expensive, it will outlast all the age-specific speaking toys you may buy. I'm expecting a good couple of years play from this item.

Great litle thing for your kid, 25 Oct 2008
I bought this product 5 months ago for my daughter.. she is only 6 months now so I cant say how much she like it.. but me and my wife love this product.. music is good and projection is also very good.

I would recommend this product. Its definitely something that you will be happy to see in your kid's room.

Retro but cute...., 20 Apr 2008
I bought this for my ten week old baby girl whilst she was sleeping in her moses basket and couldn't have a cot mobile. It's very basic but very cute - it glows a subtle pink colour, has a lovely soothing lullaby that plays for 5 or 10 minutes and a teddy-bear light show that projects onto the ceiling. I turn it on as part of my daughters sleep routine and really works well.

Good, but need adult help and child's patience, 07 Nov 2008
The planets come in 2 rigid plastic halves that are easily clipped together and are textured to help with painting. Lots of chance to talk about the planets and the differences between them. Had great fun painting the various planets with my 4 and 6yo kids, but connecting them to the hangers once dry was a really fiddly job that a kid could never do. You need to tie plastic fishing line to small plastic pegs that connect each planet to a hook that attaches to the hanger. Overall including the sun and the hanger itself, that's about 20 really fiddly connectors to tie to the thread (with invisible thread that you have to double or triple knot each time to ensure they stay attached. You need steady hands and good eyes for this bit!)

I'd recommend the toy, but be sure when you leave the planets overnight to dry that you prepare all the cables while the kids aren't about!

And woooo - Pluto is in there :D

Great features, but risk of faults too high, 21 Nov 2008
After the great success of the old BT digital monitor we bought 3 years ago for our daughter, we did not hesitate to buy the new version for our baby son.

Whilst all the features are great and we cannot find another monitor with everything this monitor has to offer at such a reasonable price, after a few weeks the monitor developed a fault - the parent unit will now only link to the child unit when held directly next to it!

BT were of no help (they ignore emails to their help address and the adviser on the phone just told us to swap for a new model).

However, reading other reviews I think we will be looking elsewhere for something more reliable.

very disapointed, 08 Nov 2008
This product works very well, the sound is clear all the features are great BUT there is obviously a problem with this item as I purchased the old version which broke down after six months (same problem as everyone keeps pointing out, the sound stops working)then I bought twice the new version and both broke down after a few months. So i am very disapointed and a stunned that BT has been able to solve this problem before the launch of their new version.

Faulty after 3 months, 19 Oct 2008
We bought this monitor as we thought bt would be the most reliable...how wrong we were! Less than 3 months after buying it the baby unit will not connect to the mains adaptor meaning that we have to put in 4 aa batteries every 2 days. Needless to say that we will be saving money and buying a different unit.

From reading other reviews there seems to be issues with the life span of this product.

A waste of £50.

Unacceptable software bug, no support. Could be great if fixed., 02 Oct 2008
I gave this 3 stars based on first impressions. Subsequent experience reduces it to one star but Amazon doesn't let you change your rating! If this product worked dependably, it would get 5 stars - when working it's better than the more expensive Philips model I eventually bought its place. But the Philips one is reliable and the BT one isn't.

It's a shame because the product could be great - I've owned a cheaper baby monitor and it wasn't worth having because of interference. This one has all the features you need and the sound is clear. But I've had two examples of this BT model and both had a problem: the sound was occasionally muted for no apparent reason. One reviewer hinted that this is just a question of not understanding the features, but it's not that. (The mute feature was off, and the sensitivity was set to maximum, yet no sound would be heard). So this product is not fit for purpose. It looks like a software bug (randomly occurs about 1 time in 10, and can only be fixed by power cycling the product). It affected both examples I had in Sept/Oct 2008.

BT offer an email support service which they ignore and a helpline number which just played me hold music.

Absolutely useless!, 28 Sep 2008
This monitor wouldn't work outside our house - not so handy on pleasant summer evenings! The sound then completely stopped working during the night (was working when we went to bed so wasn't something we were doing). By the 3rd time this happened we'd completely lost confidence in the monitor and went back to using our old Philips analogue model. Would not recommend.

4 kids and still going strong, 25 Oct 2007
My eldest son was 2 when his Godmother bought him Thomas. He literally shook with excitement and used it constantly for months. Two younger sisters learnt to walk with thomas and use the box under the seat to store their precious cuddly toys. My youngest will be handed the torch in a few months and I expect a similar reaction to a toy that has stood the test of time.

Bomb proof - but battery draining, 02 Oct 2006
We bought this for our eldest son 2 years ago and even with heavy indoor use it looks as good as ever. And now our 1 year old son is starting to toddle he's discovering that it can be used for something more than hiding toys under the flip lid seat :-) The only downside is that both of our little darlings are gadgeteers and love to press the button for the horn and the three batteries are drained inside 2 weeks. If you can get a squeezy press button version then I'd give it 5 stars, but if your only option (but I need the Thomas one!) is the battery version I'd seriously consider removing the batteries as soon as its out of the box and telling your little ones "it's broken / doesn't work / I don't think it's meant to do anything son".

Peep Peep, 03 Apr 2006
Further to the other reviews the manufacturers have changed the horn to a squeezy press one that doesn't require batteries. hurrah. My son loves it and stores all his take along Thomas' in the seat.Easy to put together and looks like it will withstand hours of heavy 'boys' play.
Whoo whoo.

A lovely toy, 12 Sep 2005
This was a present we bought for my son's first birthday. It is one of the few toys he is still playing regularly with nearly a year later. The batteries do run out after a few months - but my son loves it just as much without the sound effects. He started by pushing it along, and now sits on it pushing himself up and down making his own train sound effects! An excellent toy - good value considering the hours of entertainment received from it.

Battery, Battery, Battery!, 21 Jun 2005
Where as 99.9% of toys tend to use standard 'AA' batteries, for some wierd reason this uses three watch batteries.
When you consider that these batteries cost around £3.00 each and only last for about a week, it's a very expensive toy to maintain.
Unless you're happy to be spending £20 a month on batteries, I would avoid this toy.

OH OH ITS THE TUBBY PHONE, 18 Nov 2008
REALLY NICE,HARD WEARING, BUT YOU CAN HARDLY HEAR THE MUSIC,NOT WORTH BUYING NEW BUT OKAY IF YOU FIND A CHEAP ONE SECOND HAND.

The Sylvanian babies just love playing in the Baby Playpen! It's so much fun making music and looking at shapes and colours. With fun blocks to turn, different pictures to look at, cut out holes and instruments, the playpen keeps the little Sylvanians hap

Looks great and shows exactly the right temperature... is everyone elses broken?, 29 Nov 2008
I was in two minds whether or not to buy this because of all the bad reviews about it being inaccurate, but I thought 'What the heck, I can always send it back'. I'm so glad I took the risk because this little gadget is great! It looks brilliant, giving a lovely soft glow to the nursery and the colours are a great visual indicator of the temperature which save you stumbling around in the dark trying to peer at a non-light up one. On the subject of the thermometer being inaccurate, I have to say it is definately not a problem with my egg as I have compared it to an extreamly accurate thermocouple thermometer and they always read no more than 0.1 of a degree apart. I don't know whether there has been a bad batch of these eggs going out to cause them to give the wrong reading, but it's definately not all of them. One of the best things I've brought for the nursery.

I love my egg!, 21 Nov 2008
If I had to pick a nursery product that I couldn't do without, it would be this one. I have never had any problems with the temperature reading, it is always accurate. Can only assume the people who've experienced problems have eggs that maybe had a manufacturing fault.

Works for us!!, 05 Nov 2008
We purchased this item a week ago and have found it to be extremely accurate (It correlates with readings from two other thermometers).

The colour coded output is also very handy as you only need to glance into babys room to check that the room temperature is OK.

I understand that the latest Grobag Eggs have a relocated temperature sensor (moved from top of connector to rear of connector) which reduces incidence of false temperature readings - maybe its just the older units that have the problems ??

We are very happy with our purchase.

Served us well for years, 07 Oct 2008
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.

Apparently it's always hot!, 04 Oct 2008
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.

v-tech grow and go ride, 18 Nov 2008
i bought this for my grandsons first birthday and he absolutely loves it well worth the money he loves using it as a rocker and as the driving wheel comes of he takes it in the car would recomment to anyone

OK - but there are much better ride ons., 17 Sep 2008
I like Vtech toys. They are great for learning providing they don't stop working, which I have found that some do easily - I know, I bought a glut of them when my son was a little baby. Recently we gave him the Vtech ride on, which had been stored since 6 months for his 1st birthday as we found it unsuitable for a 6 month despite it being advertised as 6-36 months. We set it straight up to the ride-on mode. I have found that the wheels stick and they don't turn as there is no steering - which I believe is a necessary feature for riding around small living rooms - and it is very difficult for him to mount as the side bars are rather wide. I have taken the interactive part of the toy off the rather useless ride-on as the toy is much better like this. Long story short - if you are looking for a ride on - buy something else like the excellent Leapfrog alphabet train.

Not interested yet, but a good quality toy!, 12 Sep 2008
I bought this for my 1 year son in his first birthday, unfortunately he seems not interested in sitting in it yet..Hopefully he will 'grow' to love this toy. However , definitely ,it is a good quality toy. The iritating part is the man who sing the song is not a great singer. I prefer a lady singing it..
Overall, no complaints on any defects.

absolutely brilliant , 05 Dec 2007
I am writing this review as my son has had this now for 12 months and it is still something he plays with every day. He moved from rocker to ride quite quickly but he is quite large for his age. He has learnt alot of words from this and I would highly recommend it.


Varied Toy, 30 May 2007
What a wonderful toy! My 9 month daughter adores it and so do I. The words/songs are pronounced using good, clear English. The variety of options is huge so your child won't be bored after 5 mins. The toy adapts to the child's age & ability too so although it's expensive, it will outlast all the age-specific speaking toys you may buy. I'm expecting a good couple of years play from this item.

Great litle thing for your kid, 25 Oct 2008
I bought this product 5 months ago for my daughter.. she is only 6 months now so I cant say how much she like it.. but me and my wife love this product.. music is good and projection is also very good.

I would recommend this product. Its definitely something that you will be happy to see in your kid's room.

Retro but cute...., 20 Apr 2008
I bought this for my ten week old baby girl whilst she was sleeping in her moses basket and couldn't have a cot mobile. It's very basic but very cute - it glows a subtle pink colour, has a lovely soothing lullaby that plays for 5 or 10 minutes and a teddy-bear light show that projects onto the ceiling. I turn it on as part of my daughters sleep routine and really works well.

Good, but need adult help and child's patience, 07 Nov 2008
The planets come in 2 rigid plastic halves that are easily clipped together and are textured to help with painting. Lots of chance to talk about the planets and the differences between them. Had great fun painting the various planets with my 4 and 6yo kids, but connecting them to the hangers once dry was a really fiddly job that a kid could never do. You need to tie plastic fishing line to small plastic pegs that connect each planet to a hook that attaches to the hanger. Overall including the sun and the hanger itself, that's about 20 really fiddly connectors to tie to the thread (with invisible thread that you have to double or triple knot each time to ensure they stay attached. You need steady hands and good eyes for this bit!)

I'd recommend the toy, but be sure when you leave the planets overnight to dry that you prepare all the cables while the kids aren't about!

And woooo - Pluto is in there :D

Great features, but risk of faults too high, 21 Nov 2008
After the great success of the old BT digital monitor we bought 3 years ago for our daughter, we did not hesitate to buy the new version for our baby son.

Whilst all the features are great and we cannot find another monitor with everything this monitor has to offer at such a reasonable price, after a few weeks the monitor developed a fault - the parent unit will now only link to the child unit when held directly next to it!

BT were of no help (they ignore emails to their help address and the adviser on the phone just told us to swap for a new model).

However, reading other reviews I think we will be looking elsewhere for something more reliable.

very disapointed, 08 Nov 2008
This product works very well, the sound is clear all the features are great BUT there is obviously a problem with this item as I purchased the old version which broke down after six months (same problem as everyone keeps pointing out, the sound stops working)then I bought twice the new version and both broke down after a few months. So i am very disapointed and a stunned that BT has been able to solve this problem before the launch of their new version.

Faulty after 3 months, 19 Oct 2008
We bought this monitor as we thought bt would be the most reliable...how wrong we were! Less than 3 months after buying it the baby unit will not connect to the mains adaptor meaning that we have to put in 4 aa batteries every 2 days. Needless to say that we will be saving money and buying a different unit.

From reading other reviews there seems to be issues with the life span of this product.

A waste of £50.

Unacceptable software bug, no support. Could be great if fixed., 02 Oct 2008
I gave this 3 stars based on first impressions. Subsequent experience reduces it to one star but Amazon doesn't let you change your rating! If this product worked dependably, it would get 5 stars - when working it's better than the more expensive Philips model I eventually bought its place. But the Philips one is reliable and the BT one isn't.

It's a shame because the product could be great - I've owned a cheaper baby monitor and it wasn't worth having because of interference. This one has all the features you need and the sound is clear. But I've had two examples of this BT model and both had a problem: the sound was occasionally muted for no apparent reason. One reviewer hinted that this is just a question of not understanding the features, but it's not that. (The mute feature was off, and the sensitivity was set to maximum, yet no sound would be heard). So this product is not fit for purpose. It looks like a software bug (randomly occurs about 1 time in 10, and can only be fixed by power cycling the product). It affected both examples I had in Sept/Oct 2008.

BT offer an email support service which they ignore and a helpline number which just played me hold music.

Absolutely useless!, 28 Sep 2008
This monitor wouldn't work outside our house - not so handy on pleasant summer evenings! The sound then completely stopped working during the night (was working when we went to bed so wasn't something we were doing). By the 3rd time this happened we'd completely lost confidence in the monitor and went back to using our old Philips analogue model. Would not recommend.

4 kids and still going strong, 25 Oct 2007
My eldest son was 2 when his Godmother bought him Thomas. He literally shook with excitement and used it constantly for months. Two younger sisters learnt to walk with thomas and use the box under the seat to store their precious cuddly toys. My youngest will be handed the torch in a few months and I expect a similar reaction to a toy that has stood the test of time.

Bomb proof - but battery draining, 02 Oct 2006
We bought this for our eldest son 2 years ago and even with heavy indoor use it looks as good as ever. And now our 1 year old son is starting to toddle he's discovering that it can be used for something more than hiding toys under the flip lid seat :-) The only downside is that both of our little darlings are gadgeteers and love to press the button for the horn and the three batteries are drained inside 2 weeks. If you can get a squeezy press button version then I'd give it 5 stars, but if your only option (but I need the Thomas one!) is the battery version I'd seriously consider removing the batteries as soon as its out of the box and telling your little ones "it's broken / doesn't work / I don't think it's meant to do anything son".

Peep Peep, 03 Apr 2006
Further to the other reviews the manufacturers have changed the horn to a squeezy press one that doesn't require batteries. hurrah. My son loves it and stores all his take along Thomas' in the seat.Easy to put together and looks like it will withstand hours of heavy 'boys' play.
Whoo whoo.

A lovely toy, 12 Sep 2005
This was a present we bought for my son's first birthday. It is one of the few toys he is still playing regularly with nearly a year later. The batteries do run out after a few months - but my son loves it just as much without the sound effects. He started by pushing it along, and now sits on it pushing himself up and down making his own train sound effects! An excellent toy - good value considering the hours of entertainment received from it.

Battery, Battery, Battery!, 21 Jun 2005
Where as 99.9% of toys tend to use standard 'AA' batteries, for some wierd reason this uses three watch batteries.
When you consider that these batteries cost around £3.00 each and only last for about a week, it's a very expensive toy to maintain.
Unless you're happy to be spending £20 a month on batteries, I would avoid this toy.

OH OH ITS THE TUBBY PHONE, 18 Nov 2008
REALLY NICE,HARD WEARING, BUT YOU CAN HARDLY HEAR THE MUSIC,NOT WORTH BUYING NEW BUT OKAY IF YOU FIND A CHEAP ONE SECOND HAND.

Great fun for my 7 month old, 30 Nov 2008
I brought this when my son was only 3 months and he didn't do much at first. He just hung around. I have tried it again since at 6 months and at 7 months he still loves it. I put him it in 10 minutes a day and it's great fun and good exercise too. But remember to NEVER leave your baby unattended. Would highly recommend.

Not the best bouncer, 17 Sep 2008
This bouncer is first of all made of cotton, so it gets really manky, really fast.
It's not "middle balanced", so my son hung facedown in it a lot.
Straps are hard and in the way of his arms.
The gap between the legs is very wide, so he can't really jump.
Not much suspension in the spring, so there is not much bouncing.
I give it one star because it's cute and works as an indoor swing.


not very bouncey, 03 Sep 2008
i bought this for my grandson and found it was to hard for him to bounce he is 5 months old he liked being in it but could not bounce not even my son-in-law when pulled could pull it to bounce

Brilliant! A very good find!, 19 Jun 2008
My daughter went into this bouncer from about 4 months old and has absolutely loved every minute of it. She is so happy in there, and just laughes the whole time. Also, the Tigger head at the front and tail on back are really cute. She often stays in there for at least half an hour and I am confident that she is safe in there. I would definitely recommend this to anyone.

Dangerous, 18 Jun 2008
My son is 7 months and today leaned forward in this door bouncer and tipped out straight on to his head. The weight limit is 25lb, James is only 22.5lb. It says they must not be able to walk which James cant do being only 7 months old. I feel he fell out because it doesnt come up high enough on his chest, so he leant forward and toppled over. He now has a big bump and thankfully thats all. We are very shaken up, I would not recommend this product.