They Are Coming For Us!

As detailed in this article at Wired, Ugobe, the maker of the popular robotic toy dinosaur Pleo, has been forced to file bankruptcy due to the ongoing global economic recession. While murderous robot dinosaurs are among my top fears (just imagine an army of mounted Terminators riding into action on robotic Velociraptors), I am somewhat saddened that Pleo will no longer be on toy store shelves.

I think the reason this upsets me more than it pleases me is because there really are too few mentally stimulating children’s toys on the market. Why, when I was growing up, I didn’t just sit around playing video games, I had a bunch of awesome educational toys. Like, I had this thing that could project constellations on ceiling. That was pretty cool. And then there was this other thing where I could catch bugs and look at them under a magnifying glass. Totally sweet. Don’t even get me started on my chemistry set! You know, in retrospect, it’s a wonder I ever got a girlfriend.

Check out the YouTube video below to see Pleo in action. He really was cute. Godspeed little friend. Godspeed.