Players: 1
Replicating one of the most popular characters
from the Star Wars series, your little short friend is a replica of the
Jedi Master, featuring the actual voice of Frank Oz from the film,
a thrust of your trusty lightsaber should do away with the Darkside.
The main use here is in Jedi training, of which there are four levels. Courtesy of the sensors within the
hands, chest and an internal one, Yoda - who must be placed at the same height as your
sweeping movements - and your lightsaber, will instruct you to swipe your
stick around in short, sharp motions and gain the praise of the great one.
Be warned though, practice doesn't make perfect, but LOTS of practice makes
'getting nearly there'.
Two other games are built into the unit. They're quite simple ones, but are
effective and are suitable for all ages.
Yoda Says is "Simon Says". When I was a wee nipper, one of the hot toys
was a circular object with green, blue, red and yellow buttons. Press them
in sequence and, if you manage it, the same sequence will be repeated with
one extra addition. And so it goes on.
Here, it's a case of 'left hand', 'right hand', 'force' (chest sensor) or
'tilt'.Tiger Toys also have a variant on this called 'Copy Cat'.
Ask Yoda requires you to think of a question that can only be answered
with yes, no or maybe. After doing the necessary, he will reply, making it
rather like one of those 'magic 8-ball's.
I haven't really mentioned Yoda's voice, other than the name of the actor/director
who does it. As he talks his lips move, the eyes open and close, but he's
always speaking in backward-English tones, be it "Tired of this, I am",
"Put me down, you will", "You must unlearn what you have learned",
or if you've been rather cruel..., "Upside down, am I" !
When Yoda groaned though, he sounded exactly like the moment from an episode
of The Simpsons when they went back in time and we heard a young campus
security guard, who later rose through the ranks to become Police Chief Clancy
Wiggum, clearing his asthma.
Overall, Interactive Yoda is a toy that can teach some learning skills to the
young - and is mostly for their age group, while no doubt providing another
must-have for the Star Wars generation. I did tire of it fairly
quickly though.
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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.
For more information, please visit the
Tiger Toys.co.uk website.
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DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV
connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and
played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
