Toy Review: Hallmark Northpole Good Deed Sender
God, Hallmark is producing the hell out of this stuff. I reviewed the Northpole Communicator last year. If you're too lazy to click on that link, it's a toy old-fashioned radio communicator that supposedly connects you to Santa's operation for a quick daily chat. The toy is kind of ridiculous, but in a good way: I thought they did a decent job with it. The Good Deed Sender is a similar concept, only it's pared back to a handheld device. Also, I was much less impressed with the content of the messages. Obviously, the selling point is the price. This is substantially cheaper than the larger, superior communicator. How much cheaper? Honestly, I don't know. I can't even tell you what we paid for it, and I can promise you it was less than retail. The instructions on the back are all this comes with - there's no "secret instructions" for parents this time. You just tear it off, pull out the plastic tab that limits its function to the ge