Kids Crawling Crab & Octopus Toy - Sensor Escape Chase Toy with Lights and Music
Kids Crawling Crab & Octopus Toy - Sensor Escape Chase Toy with Lights and Music
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The chase toy
It runs away from them. That is the whole game.
Set it down, let go, and it scuttles off across the floor on six jointed legs. When it reaches a wall or a chair leg it turns and goes the other way. A child crawls after it, catches it, sets it down, and the whole thing starts again.
There is no app, no remote and nothing to learn. You press the switch and it goes. The lights come on in its eyes, it plays a tune, and it keeps moving until someone picks it up or the battery runs down.
Why it turns
A sensor in the front rim
Set into the front edge of the body is a small dark sensor, flush with the plastic. It watches the ground ahead. When something solid comes up in front of it, the toy backs off and heads somewhere else. That is the "induction escape" in the name: an obstacle sensor, not a camera and not a brain. It does not map the room, recognize a person, or learn anything.
What it does do is stop the toy wedging itself against a baseboard and buzzing there, which is the thing that kills a toy like this within a minute.
Read this part first
The maker grades this toy for ages 3 and up.
It is printed on the carton in a red badge: 3+. We are telling you plainly because this listing has previously been written as though it were an infant toy, and it is not one.
- Small parts. This toy has raised eyes on short stalks and jointed legs. Toys in this class have been recalled elsewhere for parts coming away. Keep it away from any child under three, and check it over now and then for anything working loose.
- It is not a bath toy. There is no water rating on it anywhere. It holds a rechargeable battery behind a screwed-shut housing and it has an open charging socket. Keep it dry and keep it out of the tub.
- An adult should do the charging. Plug it in, stay nearby, unplug it when it is done, and put the cable away. Do not leave it charging overnight or unattended.
- Play on the floor, with someone watching. That is what it is for and it is the only way we would use it.
Power
It charges. There is nothing to unscrew and no cells to buy.
The battery is built in and sealed inside the body. There is no battery door, no tray and no loose cells to swallow or lose — the housing is closed with a screw. On the underside you will find one recessed socket, and the cable that plugs into it comes in the box.
We have not been given a charge time or a run time for this unit, so we are not going to quote you one. Owners on this listing describe a session rather than an afternoon.
The details
What it is, and what turns up
- Four to choose from. Two crabs and two octopuses. You get the one you pick, on its own — the color you choose is the toy that ships.
- Molded plastic with rounded edges and a smooth shell. We have no material certificate for it beyond that, so plastic is as far as we will go.
- Lights and sound. The eyes light up and it plays a tune while it moves. There is no volume control, and several owners say it is louder than they expected.
- No certification on file. We do not hold a Children's Product Certificate or third-party toy-safety test report for this item. If that matters to you, and for a child's toy it reasonably might, we would rather you knew before you bought it than after.
Put it down and let it go.
A preschooler will chase it around the room until one of you gives up first.
