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This Christmas’ New Fad: Zhu Zhu Pets!

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I saw on the news that these things are fly­ing off the shelves and peo­ple are pay­ing $$$ to get them off kijiji and stuff. Are you buy­ing one? I think my cats would love them. It’s basi­cally a bat­tery oper­ated toy hamster.

ToysRUs.ca has announced on their face­book page that Toronto stores will be receiv­ing a ship­ment of 400 Zhu Zhu Pets on Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 21, and an addi­tional 1100 for online sales.

They retail for $12.99, and are lim­ited to two ham­sters per fam­ily ! ToysRUs.ca rec­om­mends that online shop­pers try their luck before 7 AM. Happy hunting!

What the heck is a Zhu Zhu?

76 Responses to “This Christmas’ New Fad: Zhu Zhu Pets!”

  1. JSAM's Mom

    I asked my 9 year old son about them…he thought they looked kind of stu­pid and didn’t see the point of hav­ing a “pet” that does noth­ing. He wrin­kled his nose up and said maybe girls would like that kind of thing… lol :)

  2. CandyP

    Could be a great invest­ment!! Buy now and wait to post on eBay. I harken back to the days of the Care Bears (once again with Toys are Us) when I was phon­ing daily to see if the expected ship­ment was in. Had to get some for my 2 daugh­ters. These cud­dly crea­tures were sell­ing on the ‘free mar­ket’ for a HELL of a lot more than they were worth but some par­ents would pay any­thing for the ‘kids’ at Christ­mas. Luck­ily, I was not one of them and a ship­ment came in just in time to make it hap­pen. P.S. From the video it looks like there is a whole hamp­ster vil­lage to go along with them. The cost of this is ??$$$$$$. We have had live hamp­sters with lit­tle vil­lages and they are not cheap.

  4. Denise

    Why on earth do peo­ple have to com­ment neg­a­tively on here. So what if a per­son indulges in the lat­est craze, I know I did when my boys were younger — think Beanie Babies. Let’s not for­get the Cab­bage Patch kids, Care Bears, Tamogochi’s. Gosh, take it easy peo­ple, it’s not your $$$ they are spending!!

  5. Justine

    @Denise — peo­ple leave neg­a­tive com­ments on the blog all the time, I guess they just like to let their opin­ion be known. Sure there are bet­ter things you can spend your money on, but peo­ple throw money away at christ­mas gifts all the time. It’s Christ­mas, why not indulge a bit? and it’s a kids toy!!! when are they ever practical?

  6. Patricia

    Hi, I was into toys­rus web­site this morn­ing and if you go into exclu­sives on left hand side and then click on view all, it looks like Mr. Squig­gles is there for pur­chase, don’t know how many they have so good luck with it!

  7. Catherine V

    What to do? Do I go out and spend $40 each on two ham­sters for my kids? Or wait and hope that they get another ship­ment in and rush out to stand in line to get them? I found some­one on kijiji sell­ing them for $40 each, and some­one else sell­ing them for $50 each who told me that he/she has already sold 4 and only has 12 left. What is wrong with these peo­ple?? How were they able to get their hands on so many and then try to get all of us par­ents to fork over more than three times the price? What has our world come to??? :(

  8. Shashi

    I don’t get how this toy has become the “thing to get”. They dont do any­thing but wheel around and imi­take ham­ster noises. If you’re going to get your kid some­thing, get some­thing they can actu­ally use like LeapFrog or a base­ball mitt, or LEGO. Some­thing use­ful, and some­thing they can learn from.

  9. Srenaeb

    Fads will be fads, and peo­ple will find what they want to spend money on and spend it. Elmo, Tam­agochi, Beany­Ba­bies, trolls, what­ever. But this par­tic­u­lar one just isn’t cute at all…the nose is the worst part. Look for­ward to see­ing this piece of garbage in bar­gain bin hell next year.

  11. sharp1

    How is $45 the retail price? They retail for $12.99 at Toys R Us. You can get them on Ebay for $40 if you’re desperate.

  12. Justine

    sharp1 — who said the retail price is $45?. I clearly point out they are $12.99 on the toys r us website.

  13. sharp1

    Sorry Jus­tine. I was refer­ring to Jen’s link above my post. Hubby bought one for 12.99 that’s why I’m shocked it said retail $45.

  14. Sandra

    I went to Toys R Us today and they told me they are going to get more for mid-december with the same price $12.99

  15. Rob

    My daugh­ters go crazy for this sort of toy. For­tu­nately for us they have not seen any ads for them yet, but it would be nice to be able to pick a few up for them. It is sad to see peo­ple buy­ing them just to sell them for a ridicu­lous profit.

  17. Ciel

    After par­ents were con­cerned about phtha­lates in rub­ber duck toys and other plas­tic objects (mas­sive rush to bin them), I would think some of them would look into all future new toys with cau­tion until there was a lab or orga­ni­za­tion that assured them the chem­i­cal lev­els of a toy would not harm a child.

    But hey, par­ents have to be aware of sub­stances that can affect their off­springs’ growth vs hot new toys.

  18. wbmommy

    FYI TRU web­site updated that they are on their way and will be avail­able for sale again soon.

  19. Ryan Jacobs

    Are yall stu­pid, these are the gayest things i have ever seen. I wouldn’t take one of these if they were free!

  20. Jen

    I got mine yes­ter­day from zhuzhucanada.com They arrived and my girls went crazy for them right away.

  22. skatergirl

    those cute ham­sters look so real­is­tic and why do they have those but­tons on their noses that is what makes it wierd

  25. BrooklynGirl

    HEADS UP!!!! if you live near the wal­mart in sara­sota on cat­tle­man they get a new ship­ment tomor­row at 7!!!!!!

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