{"id":9101,"date":"2013-01-14T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=9101"},"modified":"2013-01-14T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:03:12","slug":"mr-potato-head-create-play-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/mr-potato-head-create-play-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Potato Head: Create & Play (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"POTATO_BOX\"<\/a>Did you know that Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on TV? Now the famous spud has entered the 21st century with Mr. Potato Head: Create & Play, a free app for IOS devices (reviewed on iPad here).<\/p>\n

There are two modes of play. In dress up, your child can drag Mr. Potato Head\u2019s mouth, eyes, appendages, and other body part and accessories to make Mr. (or Mrs.) Potato Head any way they like. Yes, they can even put arms where the eyes should go, and make him look like a Picasso Potato. When they\u2019re all done in this mode, they can take their potato to a backdrop, like a circus or space station. Here they can make him do various poses and silly actions, and take pictures. And that\u2019s pretty much all there is to this game.<\/p>\n

You can buy outfits and backdrops using stars, and there are tons of selections. The game initially comes with a few stars, enough to get a couple of backdrops and outfits. To get more stars, you\u2019ll have to buy them with real money. Which is unfortunate, but that\u2019s the nature of free-to-play games.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to complain about a free game, but I did notice a couple of nitpicky problems. To change body parts in dress up mode, you first have to drag the old piece to the chest, and then drag the new part on the spud. They don\u2019t just automatically get replaced, so it was a bit cumbersome. Mr. Potato Head still has his \u2018guy\u2019 chuckles and laughing voice, even if you dress him up in Mrs. Potato Head clothes, so that was kind of weird, too. And you\u2019d have to spend a lot of real money to buy all the parts and backgrounds. I actually reviewed a Mr. Potato Head activity center for the PC back when I was writing for The Dallas Morning News that I was hoping this app would be more akin to. Oh well.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading skill isn\u2019t needed to play Mr. Potato Head: Create & Play. In fact, I\u2019d say it\u2019s best for kids who CAN\u2019T read yet. In order to go to the parents\u2019 page and buy stars, you have to enter in digits by reading them in letter form. So if your kids can read and recognize numbers, they\u2019ll be able to bypass the block. While the game is mildly entertaining for a short while, I think a little kid would enjoy playing with a REAL Mr. Potato Head toy more. But then, I\u2019m just old fashioned like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on TV? Now the famous spud has entered the 21st century with Mr. Potato Head: Create & Play, a free app for IOS devices (reviewed on iPad here). There are two modes of play. In dress up, your child can drag Mr. Potato […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9106,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions\/9106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}