FunKeys Specialty Starter Kit
by Radica Games
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Our Price: $79.95 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: Toy See more product details |
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Toys and Games Reviews of FunKeys Specialty Starter Kit
Customer Review: MAJOR glitch makes this toy a huge DUD!!
Summary: 1 Stars
My kids got the starter kit 4 days ago and have since gone to 4 different stores looking for new characters. At $5-$8 a pop they have purchased 7 new ones in just 3 days. They have been hooked-until today. Immediately after the Login process a screen pops up asking you if you want to create a unique user ID for chats etc. If you select "no" it tells you that you will not be able to participate in many features of the product. My 10 year old decided to go ahead and create this new user ID. It does tell you at the end of the process that this will replace your old login info..no problem right? WRONG!! At login only original user IDs are available for selection, you cannot type in this new ID that was just created, therefore you can no longer gain access to your acct. After searching the website & google to figure out how to fix this, I discovered this is a universal problem with the system & there is no solution. The only thing I can think to do is reinstall the software which will force all 3 of my kids to start from scratch. And we will still have to deal with the pop up at login at the beginning of every game. With my 5 year old playing this game, I am sure we will find tgame (aside from the fact that you have to keep buying new characters to progress in the games), but today I say, my kids wasted a whole lot of their money & I hope they will consider returning these to the stores!!!Customer Review: PIECE OF JUNK
Summary: 1 Stars
My daughter was so excited to receive this for Christmas. First, I paid in extremely inflated price for the product on Amazon. Secondly, it would not install. I did everything the booklet told me several times to no avail. Evidently the USB port and device did not work together. I tried everything imaginable on my computer and online. All of this while my daughter cried. I never did get it to work properly and thought of buying another one to try again. Fortunately I read other reviews and found that I am not the only one experiencing this problem. We will not be buying more of this product and will be going back to Webkinz. Tried and true. Don't waste your money and sanity on this product.
Customer Review: Fun, but narely tolerable on older computers
Summary: 3 Stars
I got this for my son, who uses an older Windows 98 machine. It refused to work at first, until the website support eventually got it working. (After needing to install an unzip program on the Windows 98 machine. PKUNZIP is proprietary, Mattel!)
He enjoys it, but he doesn't realize how incredibly slow it is. If he ever sees a friend playing it on a faster computer, he'll get sick of it instantly. Characters crawl along the screen. The program is a total system hog, which is probably okay for Gigahertz-level CPU's, but not for the older computers that families tend to pass on down to their kids.
Customer Review: Crappy under engineered product
Summary: 1 Stars
Let's see,
I'm a 6/10 on technical competance (and modest). I've now spent 2.5 hours installing the software and "patches" for this product, and I'm nowhere.
Their online support is non-existant. Their phone support is conveniently inaccessible. The documentation is useless.
I suppose, if you are able to get this product running it may be a decent product. But come on, 2.5 hours of work and still no functionality? This is crap.
If you value your own time, buy your kids a real product not a joke like this.
Customer Review: Funkeys not compatible with Vista 64 bit
Summary: 1 Stars
My daughter received a Funkeys starter kit for her birthday. When I went to install it, I learned that it does not install on a Vista 64 bit machine. All of my computers are Vista 64 bit machines.
When I called Mattel help regarding this, they tried to blame it on Microsoft and the Operating System. The support person did not have a 64 bit solution. Looking on the various forums, this has been a reported problem for YEARS!
So warning to all purchasing this toy. It does not work on Vista 64 bit. Don't buy it.