Peek-A-Roo

Peek-A-Roo is an interactive plush toy by Spinmaster. Only a Panda-Roo version, resembling a panda with a pouch and kangaroo tail, was released.

The toy was released in 2020, and uses four AA batteries.

Appearance

She has a pink nose, and a pair of cutesy, blue eyes. She has a little, pink, embroidered heart below her left eye. Each ear and foot has a paisley pattern, and the toy has colored fur shaped like a heart, around each eye. It has a little white, white muzzle with a mouth that's partially open, and its tummy area is heart-shaped.

Peek-A-Roo is canonically part kangaroo and part panda.

The toy comes in a purple and white color scheme, and a "rainbow" color scheme.

The rainbow version has pink, blue, green, and yellow in the fur for the arms, body, feet, the heart-shaped fur patches surrounding each of its eyes, and the fur on the back of its ears. The heart-shaped tummy area, face, and head are white. Its paw pads on its arms are purple, and its feet appear to be tan with purple paw pads. The insides of each ear appear to have been made from gray, iridescent fabric. It has a purple nose covered in specks of silver glitter, and a pink bow on its head, infront of its left ear.

The other version has dark purple fur for its ears, arms, legs, and the heart-shaped patch of fur around each eye. It has white fur for its face, head, and its heart-shaped tummy area. The paw pads on its arms and feet are blue, with silver flecks of glitter. The sole of each foot is colored with a light gradient of purple and and pink. The insides of its ears are pink, and the paisley pattern in its ears uses the colors purple and pink.

Babies

With the purple Peek-A-Roo, you could obtain one of three possible figures of a Peek-A-Roo baby. Each Peek-A-Roo baby has a name and small, fluffy ears.

With the rainbow Peek-A-Roo, you could obtain one of two possible babies.

Ray-Roo has a gradient of green and blue in her eyes, pink ears, and a pink bow around her head. She has a yellow heart on her tummy, purple paw pads on her feet, and a purple body. Her right eye is surrounded by a heart-shaped patch, with a pink and yellow gradient, and her left eye is surrounded by a yellow heart-shaped patch, with a pink paisley pattern. Her eyes have a greenish, curved stroke.

Sky-Roo has blue ears, a pink body with blue paw pads on her feet, and a blue tummy area. She has a pink bow around her head, her eyes have a gradient of red with purple and blue, and a light purple stroke. The heart-shaped patch on her right eye has a gradient of purple and blue, while her the one on her left eye is blue with a purple paisley pattern.

Functions

Peek-A-Roo can tilt her head left and right, and bend her head up or down. As her head moves, her arms sway in the directions she moves her head. Her pouch has a mechanism that makes the figure of the baby pandaroo move around in the pouch and peek out of it.

When you first switch her on, you immediately get to see her reveal what her baby looks like. You can pet her, press her foot, or leave her alone for less than a minute, and she will reveal what her baby looks like. The box mentions she has more than 150 different sounds and actions. You can get her baby to give her a kiss, by putting her baby near the heart below her left eye.

Prototypes

An edited photo of a prototype purple Peek-A-Roo exists. The prototype has glitter in its eyelashes, and while the mouth is still open, it looks a little different somehow? I can't tell for sure, but the mouth area doesn't look smooth and shiny like the one on the final toy. The eyes have more circular reflections of light in them, and there's a heart-shaped reflection of light in each eye (I don't know if this was edited in or if the toy actually has it). It has a lighter pink heart below its left eye, which might have been edited on. The pattern for the ears was edited in, since the ears don't have any creases.

The white patch of fur for the tummy area looks smaller, and you can't see plastic between each paw pad on its arms. Its feet have had a paisley pattern edited on, and I can't tell if the paw pads it has on each foot actually belong to the prototype or if even those were edited on.

The baby in the pouch is also a prototype. The baby one is supposed to be based on Violet-Roo. The eyes have a bit of green, and you can see a star in each eye. The eyebrows are shorter and closer to the hearts that are around each eye. Also, the hearts around each eye and her eyebrows are dark blue instead of purple.

There's a photo of the rainbow version which looks exactly like the prototype above, except the baby Panda-Roo isn't in the pouch. It looks like it could be an edit of the purple prototype, but I don't know for sure. The soles of its feet are colorful, instead of tan, and once again, no plastic between the paw pads on its arms is visible. This time, the ears look like they have creases, but the pattern for each ear looks like it's supposed to be multicolored, rather than being printed on iridescent, gray fabric.

LA Zoo Activation

In 2021, from the 28th of August until the 6th of September, there was an exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo for Peek-A-Roo, where children could interact with Peek-A-Roo toys and have their photos taken.

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