February 8, 2010

Zhu Zhu Hamsters - How To Increase The Fun Your Kids Have With Them

by Laura Robbinson

Parents sometimes find it difficult to assess whether a certain toy that hits them out of the blue from the pleading of their kids, is worth buying in the first place, or increasingly more importantly, just how long will it be before it is stored away and gathering old toy dust. With the words Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters (often pronounced as Zoo Zoo Pets hamsters and Zu Zu Pets hamsters) on every kids lips, particularly with the run up to Christmas, are these furry creatures just another fast fad or are they really a great long term toy, that they will be interested way beyond…Christmas day!

Cepia Zhu Zhu Pets have done something incredible and to be quite honest, I’m not sure whether they did it intentionally or whether by accident, but for sure whatever the reasoning, they’re onto a huge money earner with these hamsters and their hamster accessories.

At a 7 dollar retail price, Cepia really have made the initial hamster purchase price point accessible to almost everyone. They could actually give it away for free and still make humungous amounts of cash. Hey, maybe that’s what will happen in the future? You see, the real profit for the company, come not from the cheap little hamsters themselves, but the wide range of mostly higher priced accessories that kids are driven to once they have their hamster and the parents in turn are forced to buy. However, this is not such a bad idea for the parent and if you play the game right, could actually cost you less than the alternatives available.

As fun and furry and cute and squeaky as these little hamster toys are, like so many animal toys these days, they really only have so much inbuilt fun capability and amusement for children today. There is a serious danger that the hamster obsession and fun days may be limited to the date when the next hot toy hits the market.

Step in the multitude of hamster accessories. Some of these accessories are just plain expensive in my opinion, but so many are pretty good value and widely affordable. The way I look at it, when the novelty of the solitary hamster wares off, my choice is to put them in the ‘bored’ toy box and buy a whole new toy, or, as I have seen, purchase an additional hamster add-on for less than the new toy and the fun and entertainment starts all over again. The other benefit of this is that these interactive hamsters have all sorts of clever abilities built into them and you really don’t get to see most of it until they encounter one of their accessories.

So for parents that are experiencing a down trend in the amount of time that your child spends playing with their lonely hamster, pick up a cheap hamster add on, and watch as the fun and games peaks once again. With so many kids now owning these Zhu Zhu hamsters and a couple of accessories, children are creatively combining all of the accessories into gigantic hamster cities which open all sorts of interactive extended fun and entertainment for your child.

So, I think that a hamster on its own probably does have a limited life expectancy when it comes to attention from kids, but with the great selection of accessories at hand, the fun just goes on and on and extends at an exponential rate.

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Visit Zhu Zhu Hamster Toys for some great price deals on these toy hamsters and accessories as well as detailed information, parent reviews and hamster action videos. Original article source published under: Zhu Zhu Hamster Toys