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 not sure! Jan 23, 2010
the product was purchased as a gift for my grand daughter. she lives in Nashville Ten and we have not seen her since Christmas. She did say if was fun when we talked to her on the phone.
 Not even close to dippin dots. Jan 17, 2010
Okay, I wasn't expecting it to taste like the real ice cream of the future, but it's not even close! It tastes like frozen sugar water. For forty dollars, they could have done better! My child has had other frozen treat makers such as the Icee maker and the McFlurry maker. Again, not the same thing but the product was tasty and they had fun making them. There seems to be no point to the steps you go through to produce the final product here. A real big disappointment for my kid. Don't waste your money.
 Dippon Dots Makers Jan 09, 2010
Purchased for my granddaughter who absolutely loves this toy. It takes time and patience but her mom has both.
 Will need a place to store this Jan 04, 2010
My kids got this for Christmas. It's actually a simple toy. Mix some powder with water (or use your own juice or drink mix), put it in the snowman-shaped bottles. Place the bottles in the holder, release the valve on the bottles to fill a cup with the liquid which then fills the molds. Freeze.
The big white contraption is not necessary. One could just fill the cup which fills the molds, but it makes for a good show and the kids think they are doing something special.
The dots tend to stick together when frozen, so instead of putting them into the cute plastic cups, I just dumped it all into bowls and had the kids eat it like that. They ate maybe a quarter of what they made and froze the rest for later, which they never came back to eat.
I tried a few dots. They're not bad. They are not like the real Dippin' Dots, but the kids didn't seem to notice.
I think the biggest problem I'm going to have with this toy is the storage. It's quite a lot of pieces to store (and wash) and it takes up space. It's more exciting than it looks, so maybe its more of a rainy day (err, ultra hot 110 degree summer day) toy.
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 Not what I expected, but my child is happy Jan 02, 2010
Like the other reviewers that I've seen on here, I expected this to be an ice cream maker. My daughter (6 yr old) got this for Christmas, and when I opened it up and realized that it wasn't going to make ice cream, I was initially disappointed and irritated. However, my daughter (who really doesn't know what dippin' dots are, and had no expectations) absolutely loves it. Basically, what you're getting is a very over-engineered ice cube tray. You put juice (or whatever) into the bright colored snow-globe-looking things on the top, and load one of the trays below it. You push the lever on the liquid-holder things to dispense the liquid / fill the trays. When the tray is filled (some liquid in each of the dots), you throw it in the freezer. After it's frozen, you pop them out like ice cubes. No electricity. No ice cream maker whirring for hours. Just little ice cube dots. My daughter really loves filling the trays, picking out what liquid we're going to use and trying to pop them out of the trays by herself. Then, she puts the dippin' dots into her water and/or juice and uses them like ice. Like I said, she really didn't have an expectation to get ice cream that she could eat with a spoon, so she thinks they're pretty neat. Also, we have an infant, so when we make his food too hot, we can throw a few dippin' dots in there to cool it down. Although it wasn't what I expected, I'm sold. It wasn't for me anyway, so if she's happy, I'm happy.
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