You know my affinity for LittlestPetShop.com. And I am not the only one. The adorable Littlest Pet Shop toys are favorites of girls everywhere.
Back in October 2007 I announced on this site the arrival of the Littlest Pet Shop VIPs. At the time these adorable stuffed animals (and their online counterparts) were only available in the New York City Metro area and at certain online retailers. Recently, Hasbro expanded their Littlest Pet Shop.com VIP line to include more interactive pets. And Littlest Pet Shop VIP’s are now available in stores across the country!
To celebrate this milestone – Hasbro has created some new and awesome Littlest Pet Shop toys, including the Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pen. My daughter and I have been playing with this pen all weekend and have been having a blast!
What exactly is a Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pen?
I would describe the Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pen as a cross between a Tamogatchi, a writing instrument, and a handheld video game.
This toy is an actual pen. In fact, it comes packaged with a cute little writing tablet adorned with a few of the Littlest Pet Shop characters and logo, some little notecards for writing notes to friends, and a set of fun stickers for girls to decorate their notes with.
But far from the standard pens that you find at the office supply store, the Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pen has, obviously, a digital component. On the front of each pen is a screen that houses a little digital pet. When you first turn the pen on, you must enter the correct time. As the day progresses you need to feed, groom, and clean up after your pet.
- Feeding your Pet – You must feed your digital pet 3 times a day. Breakfast (between 6 am and 12 pm), lunch (between 12 pm and 4 pm) and dinner (between 4 pm and 8 pm). There is fork and spoon icon on the screen that you click to find foods to feed the pet. This keeps your pet happy and healthy enough to play games. At the beginning of each feeding time the pen will play a musical reminder. If you neglect to feed your pet and try to play one of the games on the pen, then the pet will appear on the screen and shake it’s head “no” and point to it’s mouth to indicate that it is hungry. Once your pet is fed then you can play a game.
- Grooming – Before you can play games you must also groom your pet. Click on the brush icon and your pet will be groomed and ready to play.
- Cleaning Up after your pet – Just like a real life pet, what goes into your digital pet will eventually find it’s way out (this gave me a good chuckle!). Click on the shovel and dirt icon to clean up the virtual mess.
Games
Each Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pen comes with 6 games. Three are already unlocked and you can play these if you keep your pet groomed, fed, and clean. You can unlock the additional three games by feeding your pet three meals a day at the correct times.
The first three games on the pen I tried are bowling, Fish Toss, and Match the Patterns. These are fun and easy for older kids, but challenging to younger ones. If you score a certain amount of points on each game you will unlock an additional treat for your pet to eat.
Overall the Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pen is a cute novelty toy that is a nice addition to a Littlest Pet Shop collection.
There are 3 varieties to choose from and they are available at Amazon.com
If you landed here while looking for information on a digital planner – check out my post here.
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Hello. I have just bought a monkey pen for my daughter but alas the instructions have been tossed and I am at a loss as to how to play, set time, or anything. Could someone please tell me what to do or give me a link to find the instructions. Thankyou
I have the same problem as allison. My granddaughter has lost the instructions and we do not know how to play, etc. I would also like for someone to e-mail me the instructions or send me a ling to find the instructions. Thank you
Me too but with this explanantion I worked it out so thanks very much for that.
1. Get a pin and press the reset button at the back above the battery.
2. Now you get to set the time. How? The clue to it all is that the body of the pen can twist up and down (back and forward) and this is the actual control for everything.
3. So twist to increment the Hour setting. When you have it I think you press (click) the top of the pen which is the pet and it will move on to the Minute and then Seconds.
4. Once you set the time, it becomes active and shows you a fork and spoon to feed the pet. Again twisting the pen up or down controls the action. Tell your child that and they’ll work out the rest.
5. Print the rules above about feeding the pet on time and the fact there are 3 hidden games and let them read that too.
6. Then as I said, let your child work out the rest. Remember the clue is all in the twisting.
OK –
So we have been playing with the pen for a couple of weeks with no problems, other than unlocking the games. We follow the schedules for feeding to a tee and regularly groom, clean up after, and do everything else we are supposed to do. Afer two weeks of doing this perfectly every day, I finally reset the pen and started over again – still no luck unlocking additional games.
Anyone else having the same problems?
Any ideas?
Terry,
Is your clock set properly? Don’t forget it’s in military time. If the am and pm is messed up that would cause problems with unlocking the additional games. Hope that helps.
What does it mean when the lightning bolt appears infront of the pet walking across the screen icon.
thank you so much for these instruction i was ready to return my daughters pen so frustrating
how do i go to places on the digital pet
is there any cheats?
My daughter’s pen has a lightening bolt in front of a pet, and she can’t do anything. Can anyone tell me what that means (is that a signal that it needs a new battery?)
Jeff ~
I am not sure what that lightening bolt means. It sure sounds like a battery issue. I am sure if you email customer service at Hasbro they will be able to get to the bottom of it.