Product Description

Is this dog making eyes at you? Futuristic Fido companion walks, talks, moves, grooves and glows, and reveals its many moods with more than 100 'eye-con' images that light up in its eyes! MIO PUP companion comes with a bone. Includes 4 'AA' batteries.Ages 6 and up.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16449 in Toys & Games
• Size: one size
• Color: one color
• Brand: Hasbro
• Model: 75048
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• MIO PUP is one ultra-cool highly interactive companion that walks, talks, moves, grooves and glows to a mash-up of high-tech robotics
• Virtual emotion and EMOTOTRONIC technology - As you get to know MIO PUP his eyes reveal when he's happy or sad, excited or hungry
• More than 100 "eye-con" images that light up in his eyes!
• MIO PUP gets excited when you tickle his sensors and is happy when you pet and play with him
• MIO PUP companion comes with a bone

From the Manufacturer
The future of Friendship has arrived! Get ready to meet Mio Pup! This is one ultra-cool, highly interactive companion that walks, talks, moves, grooves and glows to a mash-up of high-tech robotics, virtual emotion and EMOTOTRONIC technology! As you get to know MIO PUP, his eyes reveal when he's happy or sad, excited or hungr;y and loads of other emotions with more than 100 "eye-con" images that light up in his eyes! This futuristic Fido even plays cool techno-like music to get you up and dancing! But even MIO PUP gets hungry. "Feed" him his bone and he holds it in his mouth. Take it away too early, and MIO PUP will let you know! Bring home MIO PUP and you will be best friends forever. MIO PUP companion comes with a bone.

Customer Reviews

Don't Lose the Bone!!!
My daughter got this from her sister for Christmas and was excited about it. She wanted to take it everywhere in the house with her. Unfortunately, unknown to us she took it with her to the bathroom and as she flushed the potty, the bone fell in and went on through.

After looking on the Web and Hasbro's web site for a replacement form I ended up having to e-mail them to ask about a replacement. Their answer was that it is not available separately. The problem is that without the bone, the pup eventually gets "hungry." You need to give it the bone so it isn't hungry anymore. Now we either get to have a Mio Pup that's hungry all the time or press the "reset" button whenever it gets to that point.

My daughter will likely lose interest in it before we find a way to get a new bone.

Thanks Hasbro and Tiger Electronics. I'm sure you couldn't imagine any way the separate bone could get lost by a child.

Daughter loves it!
My 4 year old has been pining for one of these for months. She loves it. We've only had it since Christmas but so far it has given her lots of entertainment. I agree with the other reviewers that the Mio Pup manufacturers should offer bone replacements. In all actuality, there's not much to the thing really. It talks, sings, and interacts with the child. It would be up to the individual child as to how much actual entertainment value Mio Pup brings them. But overall, it's a pleasing design, not so robotic looking as the last few years of electronic animals. Brilliant bit of marketing to design robots to appeal to females in what had previously been a male dominated toy field. My 4 year old now says she wants to grow up to be a "Mio Pup Designer". I would have given this toy a "5" if the manufacturer was kind enough to offer replacement parts. I gave Mio Pup a lower educational value rating because while the toy does foster imaginative play and memory (non-reading children must memorize the icons to know what the dog is feeling) it offers little else development wise.

More interesting than our real dog
My 7 year old, 4 year old and their friends cannot get enough of this robotic dog. Which is a bit annoying considering we have an actual dog, but whatever. This toy responds to conversation, petting, cuddling and even feeding with it's special bone. It communicates by babbling back at you in R2D2 like noises and with digital clock style "eyecons" in it's eyes. My girls are constantly messing with it to get it to feel emotions in it's eyes. If you do the right combinations of things it will walk and even sing songs. All in all it's pretty cute for an annoying electronic toy. And there were 4 kids here yesterday who couldn't stop playing with it and wouldn't leave until it feel "asleep" A bit bothersome that it doesn't have a true off switch and it will babble, sing and walk until it gets "tired" enough to fall asleep. Also the manual is a bit long as it has more than 100 different "eyecons" that reflect it's emotion. All fine and good except when my kids keep saying "what does that mean Mommy" and I'm thumbing through the little pamphlet looking for the picture. Not sure they'll still be playing with it in February...