Hungry Hungry Hippos
by Hasbro
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: HasbroBrand: Hasbro
Model: 04533079
Product features:
- Includes Hippo Game Base, 4 Hippo Attachments, 4 Hippo Heads, 4 levers, 20 Marbles, Label Sheet, Instructions in English and Spanish.
- 2-4 Players
- Ages: 3+ yrs
Toys and Games Reviews of Hungry Hungry Hippos
Customer Review: Another victim of the race to the bottom - this game is so cheaply made it's tragic
Summary: 2 Stars
If anyone is pining for a bit childhood wax nostalgia in the form of Hungry Hungry Hippos, I strongly suggest you steer your inhibitions well clear of the version lurking on the toy store shelf today.
I bought this game for my four year old daughter because this was one my favorites from my childhood. What I pulled from the box was a horrible makeshift excuse for the game of the same name I owned circa 1980.
Today's version of the classic frantic marble chomping mammalia game is a disgrace to its heritage. It suffers from the thinnest, cheapest grade plastic known to mankind, sticky hand pinching chomping mechanisms, and dubious low-grade marble launchers. That is, if one's suspension of belief is sound enough to convince yourself that the little plastic white pellets on offer are, indeed, "marbles".
If these were the only infractions incurred to me by this bastardized version of the game I knew and loved so well as a child, it would be far, far enough. Sadly I can very easily go on, culminating with the outlandish claims on the box "Same Great Game! Easy Storage Box!"
Claim number one has already been explored and soundly debunked.
Claim number two is a fantasy. Once the game has been assembled completely it NO LONGER fits in the box. Easy Storage Box? Who are you going to believe? The Box's claim or your lying eyes? According to the instructions, when game play is finished one must decapitate the hippos and unhinge them from their plastic base to put them back in the box. How much unhinging can Harry, Happy, Henry, and Homer take before their shoddy plastic parts snap and break, particularly in the hands of a 4 year old?
If your child is like mine,he/she has no difficulty in coming up with a million reasons why his/her toys are left scattered around the house. My daugther most certainly does not need this ill-suited box to act as an accomplice to her serial messiness. Oh well, at least Milton Bradley saved a few pennies by reducing the size of the box, eh?
Having said that, though, aside from getting her hand repeatedly pinched in the chomping lever and fighting with marble launchers that may or may not work when pressed, my daughter loves the concept of the game.
Description of Hungry Hungry Hippos
These four hungry hippos want to munch a bunch of marbles! The faster you press their tails, the more marbles they try to chomp! If your hippo gobbles the most, you win! For 2 to 4 players. Game includes: Hippo game base, 4 Hippo heads, 4 levers, label sheet, 20 marbles, instructions. Color of parts may vary.Four hippos try to eat as many marbles as they can--as fast as they can. This game is fast-paced and riotous for kids who get to take turns popping a white marble into the ring, then furiously pressing on their hippo's levered tail to catch the prize. As if that's not enough, in the advanced game, all 20 marbles are released at the same time. Utter mayhem ensues, and whoever snares the most marbles wins. If only it would get kids to clean their plates as well as those pudgy hippos do! --Lynne Sampson
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