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I have my kids start writing out their Christmas list around October. I’m an early shopper. I like to plan and budget. If I don’t have at least 75% of my Christmas shopping done by December 1 I go into panic mode. It’s just the way I’ve always been. My kids are 12, 10, 5, and 20 months old. The youngest being my only girl. The boys wrote out their lists. My older boys only had a few things on their list but they were expensive tech things. My 5 yr old son, well he pretty much wanted every toy he saw on TV. One toy he kept asking for though was Spinmaster Zoomer Dino.
You can find Spinmaster Zoomer Dino at Walmart Holiday Toyland. Zoomer has be #chosenbykids as one of the hot toys this holiday season. When we went to Walmart to pick him up we first went to the Zoomer Dino display. It was the day after Black Friday so I was hoping there would still be some Zoomers left. At the actual display there was only one purple Zoomer Dino left. My son said he didn’t care if it was purple he’d still play with it. So we put it in our cart.
Then we walked around the corner and we found the Zoomer Dino motherload. There were tons of purple ones. My youngest son’s favorite color is green. When he saw the green one, you can bet he was willing to put the purple one back. My 10 year old son was with me too. He said “I don’t think purple is too bad, I’d get a purple one” lol. I wasn’t sure if that was a hint or if he was really hoping his younger brother would have chosen the purple Zoomer Dino
If you haven’t been to a Walmart Holiday Toyland Event yet there are still 3 left in December. You can check out the dates and times for the remaining Walmart Holiday Toyland events HERE. You get to play with some of the cool toys #ChosenbyKids and see what they’re actually like before you spend your money.
I’ll admit for $80 I really expect a lot from a toy. It better be fun, it better be made well, it better do what it’s supposed to do. For as bad as my son wanted Spinmaster Zoomer Dino I was really hoping it would be what he wanted. All three of the boys could not wait to get Zoomer out of the box and start testing him out.
We found out that each color Zoomer Dino has a name. The green one we got is Boomer. The purple one’s name is Sparky. Spinmaster Zoomer Dino has two different modes. You can either use the remote control that comes with him or you can control him with hand gestures. The kids tried both ways and seem to like the hand gestures the most. There is an instruction booklet that explains to you how to do the different actions with both the remote and the gestures. It took us some trial and error for a few minutes. We found you have to hold the button on his back in for a second to switch modes. If you just press it quickly it doesn’t seem to switch. Once we figured that out it was pretty easy to get Zoomer Dino going.
My 5 yr old and 10 year old were quite happy to help me do a video showing the features and explaining how Zoomer Dino works:
We also found out that if you just turn him on and let him go, no remote, no hand gestures he just runs around explores, spins around, all that stuff. That’s what I do for my 20 month old daughter to play with him. Admittedly she was terrified of him at first. Her curiosity got the best of her though and she kept bringing it over for me to turn on and watch it. If you want a laugh, you can visit my YouTube channel and see a short video of my daughter freaking out the first time she saw Zoomer Dino in action.
Walmart Holiday Toyland has other toys #ChosenByKids too like Matchbox Wrecky the Wrecking Buddy, My Little Pony, and more!
This little guy is totally awesome and I want one for my daughter so very badly. I am still working on the hubs. He looks super cool and sounds FUN!
Thank you for sharing 😉
This little guy looks awesome. I have not seen him demoed at our Walmart but I will be on the lookout next time I am there. Thank you for sharing his awesomeness!
My son wants to SOOOOO much. Although the pricetag is too much for us. Maybe some day they were make a mini version and it will be in our budget.
What a fun toy – my boys would LOVE Zoomer!
hehehe, I feel like I would have been terrified by this as a small child, but I also really loved dinosaurs, so who knows! I bet my niece would love this! :]
My daughter has been asking me for this for the past month. We are going to check out Walmart Soon.
This looks like a fun toy but I’m like you I wouldn’t pay 80 dollars for it unless it cleaned the floors or something like that. Hehe
I hadn’t seen the purple one yet! What a fun toy my son certainly wants one for Christmas.
That Dino looks so cool! Can I make a confession? I want to play with it heehee. Not sure if I’ll share with the kids.
Oh my goodness, that’s pretty fun! I’m betting this is on my all of my nephews’ wish lists!
I enjoyed this post and I loved the video. Your boys are pretty good at showing us the product. I have an 8 year old and this would be perfect him!
That is one awesome toy and looks super fun to play with. It’s a little pricey though.
What a cool idea for Christmas! It looks like the whole family would enjoy playing with Zoomer!
My son loves Dinos and would love this!! Thanks for sharing
Awesome Review! Great video and helpers. Looks like a cool toy to get that is for sure. Thanks for sharing.
We loved reading about dinosaurs when I was a kid. Looks like a fun toy.
a friends son is in love with dinos, i’ll have to send this to her so she can check them out.
These are awesome indeed. My nephews would so love to have a Zoomer Dino. Thanks for sharing.
I’m impressed at how prepared you are for Christmas! I will try to remember that strategy when I have kids:).
My daughter wants the Zoomer robot dog. She tried the dinosaurs at our local Walmart toy land event and loved it too.
I’ve been seeing commercials and ads all over for these, I didn’t know they had it in purple, now I’m interested!
What a fun toy! I have a little dino fan that would probably love this. I hope Grammy and Grampy came through on this one 😉
I have time to attend one in my area. Thinking about taking my grandson. Is there an age limit? He’s only 2 years old but the boy knows his toys :).
Corina there are toys for all ages at the Walmart Holiday Toyland event. I’m sure he’d love to check out Wrecky the Wrecking Buddy or Zoomer. I took my 20 month old daughter to one.
This little guy looks so cool ! I got one for my son and cant wait for him to open it Christmas morning !