Zhu Zhu Pets Hamster Guide

I predict that the Zhu Zhu Pet hamster will be the wave of the toy future. If your kids are still at that stage where getting a pet is impractical or even dangerous, this is the toy for you. They are the new darlings of the toy world. So what are they? They are highly interactive animatronic little plush toys.

They’re equipped with cutting-edge electronics that mimic the intelligent responses of real animals. You can set the lifelike rodents in either loving mode or exploring mode, which allows your creature to either snuggle with you making the appropriate sounds as you pet it or go scampering across the room either on foot or in one of its cars. That’s right. The little hamsters have their own cars.

If you stroke the Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters back they, transform into adventure or Explorer mode and will zip across their little hamster playground or in their little hamster house making various noises as they go from room to room. You can even catch a wave with the little Zhu Zhu Pet hamster’s surfboard.

My assumption is that the engineers who created these toys thought about the general characteristics of children ages 3 to 8 and realized that they tend to have two modes themselves; they’re either stopping to recharge their batteries or going like whirling dervishes.

Zhu Zhu Pets will snuggle with you in their quiet mode or react like a sleeping pet if you put it to bed. The toy hamster’s starter set comes with a fun house for the toys with clear plastic tubes to allow you to watch the little things scamper back and forth. Of course, you’ll want to look into the exercise wheel, the hamster ball and other accessories as you and your children continue to play.

If you are thinking of getting out of your promise to purchase a pet for your child this holiday season, the Zhu Zhu Pet hamster will not disappoint as a replacement. Be sure to look into the hamster world accessories when buying this as a gift for children. The must-have add-ons for the toys include the garage, hamster mobile, slide, exercise wheel and fun house.

One of the smartest moves the toy makers made was integrating technology into the hamsters that mimic the child/pet interaction. When you watch kids ages 3 to 5 and even older interact with these toys, they’re using their imagination as well.

They managed to put enough of the idiosyncrasies of a live animal into their robots to get them to pause and react to their environment. This gives them certain lifelike qualities that have galvanized the interests of children. The electronics in the toys seem to invite this interaction as a way of continuing to improve its AI (artificial intelligence) responses.

So from my personal point of view, I would consider looking into these toys more closely if you have younger children. The Zhu Zhu Pet hamsters are just beginning to show their unique abilities.