Little Tikes Bathtime Band
From the Manufacturer
Play with these silly sea creatures two ways: pour water into any instrument to hear the whole bank jam. Or fill each instrument with water as fast as you can to hear its part added to the jazzy island song. Batteries included
Announcing the Little Tikes Bathtime band! These silly sea creatures will play a delightful bathtime tune for you. There are two ways to play: pour water into any instrument to hear the whole band jam, or fill each instrument as fast as you can to hear its part added to the jazzy island song. Suction cups hold it to the wall or tub. Includes fish-shaped pouring cup.
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This toy is cool. It attaches to the wall next to the tub with large suction cups and has two modes for music. One mode will play an entire fun and catchy tune when you fill up the Octopusses drum and the other mode allows you to trigger each instrument and its melody in the song. The single mode is fun for parents who are wanna be samplers who can’t figure out Korg loops or Yamaha triggers. This toy gets used at least once every bath session by my two year old son. My neice, a three year old dancing queen gives it a stronger workout when she is in for a shared bath. Not the coolest funkiest, but fun and interesting.
SPECIAL NOTE: WE HAVE HAD THIS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AND IT SEEMS TO STOP WORKING BUT THE REAL REASON was that the soap in the water my son bathes in, covered the metal sensors and made it so that they didn’t detect the presence of water. THE SOLUTION, just rub or scrape the metal sensors and VIOLA IT WORKS AGAIN! You just need to keep those clean- however you do it, doesn’t matter, but that’s how to keep it goin’.
We bought this from somewhere other than Amazon without the benefit of seeing these reviews beforehand. From now on, I’ll check here first! I am so frustrated with this toy that I wanted to come here and leave a review to warn other parents that this toy is not worth the money. It’s only 15 bucks, but I would recommend spending that 15 dollars elsewhere.
This toy has little cups that you pour water into. When you do, it completes a circuit and plays music through a little speaker. As long as there is water flowing through one of the cups, the music continues. It has a “soft - off - loud” switch for the music, though the “soft” setting is kind of weird — it sounds more like it plays just the bass track of the loud music rather than turns the volume down. You hook the toy to your bathroom wall with suction cups.
That’s how it is supposed to work, anyway. Ours never worked well. It was intermittent right from the start. I would pour water in it and sometimes it would play, sometimes not. Turning it off and on again a few times usually would kick start it into working. After a few minutes, though, it might cut out again. But I could usually get it restarted. We used to just leave the switch in the “on” position until one time when it started playing music randomly in the middle of the night (no water in it, of course). After that, we always turned it off when not in use.
After a week or two, it stopped working all together. I changed the batteries and it seemed to work about the same as it did when it was new (i.e., not all that great). Then after another week, it stopped working again and I could not get it started. I didn’t think the batteries could possibly be dead again, but I pulled it off the wall to check… and one of the suction cups broke. It’s going in the trash now.
On the plus side, our son loved it when it worked. As a one-year old, he’s pretty easy to please. He thought the music was a fun surprise. But it was frustrating for both of us that this music “reward” sometimes wouldn’t come even when he correctly poured the water in.
I would not recommend this toy. A nice idea, but very low quality manufacturing. Avoid it.
[EDIT - I see from the other reviews that I was mistaken about the "soft" setting I mentioned above. Apparently, it was just playing a single instrument. Still, that doesn't change my feeling this isn't worth the money. Also, there's a review that says to clean the metal sensors to keep it working. I had thought maybe the metal sensors on mine were the reason ours wasn't working, so I always kept them clean. Yet it didn't seem to help. I suspect this toy is not as watertight as it needs to be for a bath toy, and something inside gets fried.]