Butterscotch the Robotic Pony

by John P.

Butterscotch the Robot PonyThis toy is ridiculous. It’s like taking the Furby entirely to the next level.

I was at Sam’s Club (the warehouse equivalent of Wal-Mart) when I came across this miniature robotic pony, and I whipped out my cell phone and took the attached video.

I can’t believe these things even exist, and it just shows how close we are to having little robots walking around playing with our kids.


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1 hthth December 22, 2007 at 8:22 am

w00t! You found a robot I haven’t seen! :) Looks good, too bad it can’t walk with the kid on its back. We’ll give it a few more years.

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2 Lisa Marie Mary December 22, 2007 at 10:54 am

Oh my gosh! I heard about those things last year, and all the frenzy they were causing – but, I never saw one in action until now! I would have totally, completely fallen in love with that thing as a little girl – I mean totally!

It’s weird, when you’re watching it – a part of you almost forgets it’s a robot. Or maybe I’ve just got a touch of the ‘robot romance bug’, after having just watched “I, Robot” again the other day! Ha!

(Your Amazon link is messed up.)

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3 BradDet December 22, 2007 at 3:05 pm

Can it actually walk too? or just move it’s head and tail in response to being petted and “fed”? Pretty interesting.

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4 Mistergin December 22, 2007 at 5:03 pm

For $250 it better do more than that =P

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5 John P. December 22, 2007 at 6:04 pm

Nope. It can’t walk at all. :-) Just sit there and move around in response to being touched or sat on!

John

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6 deanna December 27, 2007 at 10:41 pm

shame on you for shopping at Sam’s Club ;-)

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7 John P. December 27, 2007 at 11:48 pm

Yes, and double shame on me for also shopping at Costco! :-)

John

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