Radica Electronic Password Journal

The diary is okay but there is very little space in it for actual writing. The note pad is really little and will be finished quite soon. The fun of it was really that it has the electronic password.I bought it for a 9 year old a couple of weeks ago and she is a little bored by it already.

My daughter was thrilled when she received this as a gift for her 8th birthday. All girls her age suddenly develop a desire to have secrets which they can keep and whisper to their diary, and this was the perfect present which fulfilled that wish. After her party was over, she put away all her other presents but carried around this journal with her. She told me that she will entrust all her little secrets to this journal from now on.

However, the password system of the journal does not work very well. Although she recorded her password carefully, any high pitched sound of the same duration would open up the journal. It opened up even when I laughed and she was not thrilled! Added to that, she tried saying the password she had recorded and the journal did not open even she said it more or less the same way as recorded before!

So after a couple of days, when the novelty wore off, my daughter did not want to use it as she said her secrets were not safe any more in this journal.

Got this toy for both of my girls. They were very excited about it. It worked less than half the time. Very aggravating when it wouldn't recognize the password after many attempts. Don't waste your time or money on this one!

I bought this as a Christmas present for my 9 year old niece. She absolutely loves it. She likes that it will open to her voice only and a voice sounds an alarm if someone else tries to open it. She also loves the secret hidden compartment in the bottom of it. She's at the age where privacy is everything and this is perfect for that. It's a great buy.

I bought this for a 7yr old who's birthday I ended up not going to, so I let my 6,almost 7 yr old open it. I love the idea of the locked journal only opening to a "secret" password and the "invisible" writing that can only be seen with the special attached lighting on. The attached lighting has 2 positions and the "regular" light setting hides the writing. I've only had this for about 1 week so I hadn't thought about replacing the paper yet, but I could see that becoming an issue soon since my daughter is already half way through the small memo pad size of paper. My gripe was the difficulty in setting the password. It was very difficult! The toy just kept repeating, "try again" each time I tried to set the password. We even tried speaking with a british accent since the toy seems to have a british accent. I finally went into another room with all background noise off, doors closed and eventually was able to set a password after about 10 tries. The set password opened the journal well for about 3 tries, after that it didn't seem to understand, kept setting the "alarm" off which was annoying even to my 6yr old and we reset it to open with no password, just the push button. It's still a fun toy with the invisible writing and the enclosed case that makes it easy to travel with regular paper and a few pens, but the password feature is missed.