Can you make your own Zhu Zhu Pets Deluxe Giant Hamster City Game?
So your preschooler saw the TV commercials and fell in love with the Zhu Zhu mascots, or maybe you did, and bought one or two or a few of them. But, now he wants to give pets a place to live other than their floor or table without breaking the bank: There’s a recession.
Of course you can make your own game. The best way is to climb your way to the entire city. Why would you want to climb your way instead of buying it all? Actually, there are two reasons: 1) Children’s tastes in toys can change very quickly (the less you spend, the less the buyer will regret later), and 2) you can get what you want; If you don’t want an accessory with another Zhu Zhu pet, then don’t buy it. Here are four options to scale and build your city: the car and garage, the starter set, the fun house, and the city.
The Zhu Zhu Pet Car and Garage is a staple accessory. Most accessories are in the $15-$30 range and are clearly the budget route to do the city. This accessory includes a sedan, garage and track section. Put the car in the garage and close the door. Then place your pet on the track and it will crawl into the car, the door opens and it’s off. Not every accessory is designed to be a stand-alone item (ie you don’t need anything else to make it work), but this one is. Other accessories worth considering are Ramp and Slide, Hamster Wheel or Skateboard and U-turn. When it makes sense, all the fixtures are designed to connect to each other and to the houses.
The Zhu Zhu Pets Hamster House Starter Set is, well, exactly that: a complete starter set. It normally retails for $28-$30, it’s still cheap, but not like the accessories. It’s a small version of a figure 8 track and a basic house, with no special rooms. It is the equivalent of a bedroom or an efficient apartment without a kitchen or bathroom. The starter game also has patches, a difficult pet, some would say ‘rare’ to find. The heads also come with a push ball. The Starter Set can also be expanded by adding some of the accessories mentioned above.
Moving up, next is Zhu Zhu Pets Funhouse. The Funhouse also includes the “rare” patches; Unfortunately, it does not come with a ball. It retails in the $40 range. The Funhouse has a tunnel that connects the following rooms: bedroom, kitchen, and a study-bathroom. The tunnel track has special bumps that activate the built-in artificial intelligence to make your hamster move or make fun sounds; snoring in the bedroom or pretending to brush their teeth in the bathroom.
Lastly, we come to Zhu Zhu Pets Deluxe Giant Hamster City Playset. It really is a city. It retails for $140-170, depending on the retailer. wow! You could say, but wait. This is actually the cheapest option. Here’s what comes in the box, so to speak: Funhouse (see above), Sleep Dome, Garage And Car (see above), Hamster Wheel, Hamster Ball, and two Zhu Zhu Hamsters: Mr. Doodles and Patches aka the weird”. Depending on where you buy, it may actually cost you more than the price of this set to get everything included. Not to mention, you’ll save shipping or multiple trips to big box retailers to find all the accessories.
In short, can you make your own Zhu Zhu Pets Deluxe Giant Hamster City Game? If you can. You can start small with just one or two props, and then slowly add as many “buildings” as you like. Or, you can start mid-range with a Funhouse or Starter Set. And finally, you can go all out and get the Zhu Zhu Pets Deluxe Giant Hamster City Playset, and save in the long run by not buying each individual piece. What are you doing Zhu Zhu?
