VTech Baby Lil' Critters Soothing Starlight Hippo, Blue
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VTech Baby Lil' Critters Soothing Starlight Hippo, Blue

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🌌100+ soothing sounds & melodies
🔊6-level adjustable volume & light
⏲️Customizable 10/20/30 min timer

Description

🌟 Light up your baby’s dreams with soothing stars and sounds!

  • CRY ACTIVATED COMFORT - Smart voice activation responds instantly to your baby’s cries, providing timely reassurance.
  • CUSTOMIZABLE NIGHT SKY - Six light settings project a calming, colorful starry sky to create the perfect sleep environment.
  • FLEXIBLE TIMER OPTIONS - Choose from 10, 20, or 30-minute play sessions to fit your baby’s unique bedtime routine.
  • ENDLESS SOOTHING SOUNDSCAPE - Over 100 songs, melodies, and nursery rhymes to calm and encourage early speech development.
  • PARENT APPROVED VOLUME CONTROL - Six volume levels ensure gentle sound that’s just right for your little one’s sensitive ears.

The VTechBaby Lil' Critters Soothing Starlight Hippo is a battery-powered infant crib toy that projects a calming night sky while playing over 100 soothing songs, melodies, and nursery rhymes. Designed for newborns and up, it features voice-activated sound response, adjustable volume and light settings, and a timer with 10, 20, or 30-minute options to create a personalized sleep environment.

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Specifications

Item Dimensions13.5 x 10.8 x 5.3 inches
SizeSmall
Material TypePlastic
ColorBlue
ThemeAnimal
Battery Type2 AA batteries required
Number of Batteries2 AA batteries required. (included)
Operation ModeManual
Educational ObjectiveMusic
Power Sourcebattery powered
Number of Players1

Have a Question? See What Others Asked

Can the voice activation be turned off?
How senstive is it? How close do you have to put hippo? Mine never goes off to baby's cry.
Does it play white noise?
Is there an option to make the stars flash?

Reviews

4.6

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P**V

Kids love these!

Kids love these

F**A

My daughter loves it

My daughter loves this before bed. She is 12 months and loves to play with all the buttons. She especially loves the stars projected on the wall. She will stare at them while listening to the soothing music and fall asleep most times. I love how much you can adjust the volume and even how bright the projector shines. There's a lot to choose from on this from nature sounds, music and stories. Definitely recommend.

J**N

Must have for baby

My baby has a hatch machine, but since I bought the hippo for her at her 3 month, she can fall asleep easily with the sweet dream mode. She is turning 11 month soon, we still using it.

S**O

Fantastic!!!

We love this hippo! Our daughter began enjoying this around 2 months of age and it has become an integral part of her falling asleep routine!1) The stars that shine on the ceiling gently change colors, keeping her attention without being distracting or stimulating.2) There are 4 basic sound options - story, song, nature, and combination. Then, depending on how many times you press each button, there are a number of sub-options. For example, the "song" button has options with and without a singing voice, lullaby-type songs, classical songs, etc. This is nice because, like any child's toy, it gets repetitive to adults and stuck in your head. I find that my husband and I prefer different options and love that we have the choice!3) The volume ranges from quite soft to loud.4) The timer has options for 15, 30, and 45 minutes. Fantastic way to not waste batteries.5) Speaking of batteries, we leave the power button in the "on" position out of pure laziness and batteries still last probably 8 weeks. Woohoo! I hate toys that cost more in battery power than they do to purchase. Of course, if you use cheapo batteries you won't get this result, but regular old Duracell seems to be working well for us. We activate it for each nap and then at night time as well as any time she activates it herself.6) The noise activation feature is really neat. It won't activate for quiet noise (cooing, regular baby talk, normal adult voice, etc) so you don't run the risk of waking baby up further if she's just kind of in that in-between stage. It takes a significant noise like a cry or scream to turn on.Over all, we love this thing, see the potential for long term use, and will definitely be putting it on our list of gifts to get expectant moms!

C**N

Be aware cry activation uses “Music + Nature” sounds

This hippo works great for my 1 year old! The music and gentle lights puts him back to sleep and he likes to play with it when he’s awake in the morning which keeps him happy and not mad to be in his crib.The volume control is good. The sounds are alright. It has different options, but if it turns on from “cry activation” it always uses the melody + nature sounds. I would personally design it differently like with a selection bar for the different sound options and a single activation button that way you can pick which type of sounds are played on cries, because I would rather not have nature sounds. My baby isn’t fond of loud rain.I also wish it had a low battery light indicator or something. For a couple nights my baby kept waking up and not going to sleep. I was half asleep so I heard the hippo activate and saw the lights were on in my monitor, but later I realized that with low battery, the lights still work and the music will play for 20 seconds then die. So with low battery it’s not fully functional but can be deceiving. No one wants to change batteries at 3 in the morning!Product seems durable and well made otherwise. Even with my critiques I would give it 4.5/5 stars (0.5 deduction since I can’t choose the sounds with cry activation)

C**O

Calidad duración

Hace unos meses compre uno de estos hipopótamos me gusta mucho ya que tiene muchas canciones sonidos y luces mi niño tiene uno desde hace 10 años y quise comprar otro para mi niña pero desafortunadamente solo funciono unos 5 meses no se si alguien de la compañía de fabricante me pudiera ayudar a revisarlo y ver si puede arreglarse en realidad siento que no a valido el gasto para que dure solo 4 meses

C**S

Best Musical Soother

My ten month old granddaughter loves music and needed a soother at my house after she outgrew her musical swing, which I was using as a soother when she was napping or spending the night.. I looked at several more expensive ones, but decided to try the Starlight Hippo. When the package came, the baby was already sleeping for the night, so my six year old grandson and I tried it out. We loved the stars and the option for 100+ sounds. He was delighted to be the one to introduce it to his baby sister the next day, who loved the plush parts of the hippo and didn't want to put it down. She gets very excited when I turn on the hippo and she goes right to sleep. I like all of the features and find that it performs better than the more expensive soothers. It even has a feature to automatically turn the soother back on if the baby wakes and cries for more than 4 seconds, which isn't a problem if you keep the volume low. It operates on 2 AA batteries, which will be much more economical than most soothers that require 6-8 D batteries. I just ordered a second one for her to have at home as the Baby Einstein soother that they were using went through a lot of batteries and could barely be heard when it was turned on. I am ordering a third Hippo for my granddaughter and her husband who are expecting their first baby. This would make a great shower gift and comes with demo batteries so the recipient can immediately see and hear all of the features.

J**T

Great toy!

I had bought one of these for my son a few years back and he loved it so I tried this with my little girl, and no doubt the same joy comes out of her when we turn this on at night. She loves to watch the stars appear and disappear and the different colors. Puts her right to sleep!!

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Great experience from order to delivery. Highly recommended!

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