Friday, December 4, 2009

   

Disney Clickables Fairy Charms Starter Set by Techno Source
From Techno Source

Fans of Disney's Fairies (like Tinkerbell) will love this amazing line of fashionable jewelry, charms, and bracelets. Each accessory holds a fairy's secret and unlocks gifts in Disney's PixieHollow.com Web site. Techno Source. Ages: 7+

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #6629 in Toys & Games
  • Brand: Techno Source
  • Model: 21300
  • Released on: 2008-10-15
  • Dimensions: 7.00" h x 9.00" w x 5.25" l,


Clickables Fairy Charms Starter Set allows you to unlock special online gifts for your Fairy with this magical jewelry box. This special set comes with the jewelry box, charm necklace with 3 Clickables charms.  Touch a Clickable charm to the jewelry box and Pixie Dust will sparkle and music play as the charm unlocks clothing and accessories for your Fairy in PixieHollow.com. Collect all the charms to earn online rewards. Jewelry box includes a storage drawer where you can keep your jewelry.  Use the included USB cable cord to connect to your computer online to let the magic begin!!! Recommended for ages 7 and up and requires 3 AAA batteries which are not included.


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My daughter asked for this toy for Christmas, and when I bought it for her, I had know idea what it was, really. Once I opened, I realized that it was a toy that you could only use with the computer and I had to upload software to my computer. So I was a little disappointed with that. On the positive side, the parts it comes with are jewelry, so my daughter is happy. We signed her up to Pixie Hollow which she loves playing. She has her own little fairy. The downside is that in order to purchase a lot of the stuff from the little shops within Pixie Hollow, you have to have a membership. But my daughter is content just flying her fairy around and doing the little quests.

If I'd known how glitchy the game was, I'd have NEVER have bought this (OR ANY of the Pixie Hollow Toys!)1
As for the jewelry box, it is cheap plastic, and you can only register it to one account, so if you are planning to have more than one account (which at the moment gives you three fairies to play the on-line game with!) You can NOT re-register ANY of the "Clickables" (Technosource) items! (this includes the hand-held game as well!)Disney Fairies: Tinkerbell and The Lost Treasure

As for the online game itself, there are TONS of bugs that prevent you from getting through the game. It took them 3 MONTHS!!! to correct a closet issue for clothes for your on-line fairies, thus you could not see or use many of the items you had earned through quests and/or clickables and/or bought in the game by collecting items! Even if you have collected items, used the codes from the toys you have bought, there is never enough room for the items you want to keep!

You can call, send reports, suggestions, and there is still never enough room! When there is a problem (that MANY other players are having as well) IF you get a response, it generally consists of "we're working on it", OR The problem must be at your end: e.g - When I reported a problem that many other players were having, I was requested to send a report to Pixie Hollow (Disney Interactive)that was a test of my machine, but contained personal info on my PC, the programs on it, etc. two friends who reported the same problem were sent two other reasons for the game not working properly (one was told she hadn't earned a "Badge" when she had even sent in a screen shot of it, and was basically called a liar according to her by the staff), then was told the problem must be with her computer.. blah, blah, blah... Another friend who reported the problems was also told at times basically it must be her computer, her settings, and so on.

If you get on the game forum and post anything but nice thoughts about it, they are buried into a "rant" section, which you will not know even exists unless you make such a post about the game not working and/or asking when things will be fixed so you can play the game! (AND Pixie Hollow staff will tell you that the forum basically has nothing to do with them (OK right, Disney is going to allow someone else to use their name!?! I think not!) AND if you look at the upload logs in the Wiki for the game, the same online names are used there as the moderators' names for that game and others (They seem to have a skeleton crew staff that attempts to run all of their games, and either because they are stretched to thin or don't know how, the game always has some problem going on. For the 6 months I played, I felt like I got about half of that out of it and was paying for it!

The game should have never left BETA testing, and it seems additions to the game (which are beautiful with what you'd expect from Disney from an art perspective)have such major problems in the game that you simply cannot play the game and enjoy it for more than about a couple of months, then you'll really notice the MAJOR problems of not enough storage space, quests not functioning properly for paid members, and run into walls where you simply cannot do any of the objectives of the game, or buy other things you'd like for your home, no more clothes, even though they release a LOT of things all at once, and you may have earned enough to buy things, there is simply not enough room for the items, and you have to delete something!

There are places where you can make your own clothes and household items, buying dyes and choosing your own colors for things you've already seen in the game, which is a great idea, but is a problem when you do not have room for the items! (I only made I believe 3 clothing items for myself, and two of those had to be deleted because there is simply no room!)

ALSO, items you earn disappear (from cookies you need to go into the wilderness, which for the last more than a week many of us have not been able to access!)

There is a theater where you are supposed to be able to put on a pre-scripted play, but the language and tone of the language of some of the "famous fairies" in the quests, the language in the game, the manipulative stories of your child basically being a gofer for especially Tinkerbell, seem to me to teach kids to be targets for bullies.

Bullying DOES go on in the game, and thus I would NOT recommend this game for children at all!

You can have parties at your home, yet the 3 games you can buy often crash (you'll still get the points towards a badge for hosting so many party games, or playing games at other people's parties, but

If you don't want your child (or yourself) subjected to high-pressure sales tactics, and don't want to be frustrated with everything in the game that does not work, then steer away from this game and the toys that interact with it! There is a huge push to buy T-Shirts, etc. with YOUR fairy's picture and name on it.

There are a lot of nice people on the game, but also be aware that there seems to be a population of teens that despite the limited chat talk about seriously inappropriate things on the game for small children to be reading!

The on-line game this item works with I played for about 6 months on subscription. I saw a few glitches at first, but figured it was a fluke and that Disney would get on it and fix the problems right away! Boy! was I wrong!

Every time the on-line game has an update, there are MAJOR problems where you literally cannot play entire portions of the game, IF you can even get logged onto the game and it seems you'll will spend more time sending error reports than you will playing the game, if things continue as they have been for the last 6-7 months.

This game *COULD BE* a blockbuster (AND a REALLY FUN GAME!), and I'm sure with the sales team will sell a LOT of subscriptions (I read somewhere they have 6 MILLION registered accounts already, and this is before the new movie comes out this month) along with the Nintendo DS game that is supposed to interact with this game, and they have already had, since at least last February, glitch after glitch after glitch! They may sell a lot of the new DS games, however it's a game that will likely be in the thrift stores before the year is out!

I'm uncertain if the DS game will be like the Technosource, and only be registerable to one account only, but if it is, I'd avoid that as well...

There are FAR too many free games that are FAR better maintained and operated.

IF you do buy the Clickables, I've read that if you delete a virtual item you get from it, it takes nearly an act of God to get it back if you change your mind, and hours on the phone with the "Never Council" as the staff like to refer to themselves. The Clickables charms only give you one item, and you can get badges for "collecting (buying) them, yet fr those who bought them all, know that there is one left empty in your "Leaf Journal" on the game, and I read a post from Disney that says they are no longer making these toys, and there are software problems with loading them as well,which makes for more frustrations for kids (AND even adults) who want to simply play a fun, interactive game!

I'd suggest looking elsewhere for a good on-line game to play with your kids, or simply play the game for free. The codes for ALL the toys you can buy are all listed on a Disney, and other, websites so you can get the codes for the other toys that have the codes for free, without buying the toys (Although Clickables DOES have extras you might like as well, but with so little room in the closets and storage for these and other items, there is plenty to choose from without buying these as well.

I have two account, one paid, and one free, and I found I can do almost everything (and sometimes more with the glitches) on my free account than I can the paid account!!!

This is like Pokemon was years ago... "BUY MORE STUFF!!!" Which doesn't seem like a good message to be sending to children, and they get bored with it in a short period of time anyhow. I chat with mostly adults on the game, but have moved onto playing other games that are free and FAR more fun (see myspace, [...] and other places for a LOT of fun games!) [...] has some really cute, free and frankly, more fun games that are non-violent!) You might try Cafe World or Farmville on myspace or other games by Zynga as well on myspace! Then you can choose to buy money (with real money) for your character or not! (They are more fun if you do!)

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Used a couple times. Too much money for what you get. Loses kids interest. Would not recommend

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