If your kid is anything like my kid, he or she has probably had some whacky ideas about what they wanted as a pet. When we first came to PE Nicky wanted a penguin. “But where would we put him?” I said. “In the pool,” came the simple reply. Similarly an elephant would go nicely in the backyard. Nicky would also like to have a dinosaur and now we can have one – virtually of course. Thanks to the Shifu Orboot interactive world of dinosaurs we can have any kind of dinosaur he likes wondering around our home – without doing any damage.
The Orboot is actually a globe full of dinosaurs spread throughout a prehistoric planet that works in conjunction with an app. If you download the app you’ll see it has four options:
1. Dinos on the globe
This is where you can point the app at the globe and watch the dinosaurs come to life. All you have to do is match the star to a star on the globe. They are quite life like and are positioned in places where their remains have been found. There are over 50 dinosaurs.
2. Dinos in your room
This is where you can have fun selecting a dino to walk around your house. You tap the ground the dino is walking on on your screen to make him walk. You can also feed him and get his statistics.
3. Who’s that dino?
You can find out more info on the dinosaur by unlocking them on the globe and then you’ll be greeted by an interactive informational experience about each dinosaur – a greeting, their height and weight. You have to drag the arrow then it compares these measurements to things we know e.g. an adult, a car. We also get instructions on how to say its name and all about the food it likes. You can hear all its secrets and even see it roar! Here you also tap the ground to make it walk. There are over 400 facts here.
4. DinO’clock adventures
These are stories with a difference – they are interactive. So you have to help the character (Jay) in the story. Help him reach the dino tooth. Cover him in leaves to hide him. Travel in time to see the dinosaurs with the help of a magic watch.
Help Jay fly over the mountains or put the Pteranodon together.
Orboot comes from the company PlayShifu: PlayShifu is an early learning toy company offering a variety of immersive, educational toys that connect the physical and digital worlds. The play experiences are specially designed for kids ages 4 to 12 years and build foundational STEAM skills through fun.
There are two other kinds of globes that are also available with similar interactive properties: Orboot Earth (travel through every nook and corner of our planet and learn scores of facts about wildlife, cultures, cuisines, monuments, maps, and much more) and Orboot Mars (discover the Red Planet through the Mars missions).
PlayShifu also have a range of two other interaractive games: Plugo and Tacto:
So where can you get hold of these globes? You can find them at Toys R Us and the iStore and also online.
Now that’s one way to have a dinosaur pet that doesn’t need looking after…
Disclaimer: We were provided with the globe for review.
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