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| Brand: Tiger
Category: Toy
List Price: $74.99
Buy New: $38.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 135
Color: white
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 4 x 15.8 x 10.5
Model: 48318
UPC: 653569357773
EAN: 0653569357773
ASIN: B00168ISYA
Release Date: October 1, 2008
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| Features:
| • | U-Dance is the latest innovation in dance gaming. Become your own game controller with this incredible, motion-sensing dance system! Simply plug the console into your television (not included), attach the wireless foot tags to your feet and groove to your | | • | Bust a move to some of today's most popular hit songs, performing real dance moves, like steps, slides and jumps. Rock out without the confines of a dance mat or game controller. You are the controller! There's no mat to step on and nothing to hold. | | • | As you dance virtual footprints appear on your TV screen, mirroring your every step. Follow the beat of the music and you decide the pace and level of difficulty. | | • | Dance on your own or challenge a friend to a dynamic dance-off! Need to take a break? Stop by the "lounge" for a quick-steppin' game or jump on the treadmill game and add a great workout to your dance routine! | | • | 12 popular dance songs are included. With fast paced graphics and cool dance venues that you can discover, this is one game that's sure to keep you on your toes! Game tower comes with connection cords and 2 attachable foot tags. |
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Amazon.com Review
Change your living room into a music-filled dance floor with Tiger Electronics' U-Dance motion-based dance game. This high-energy dance game challenges kids ages 8 and over to follow fast-paced dance moves that are set to a variety of fun, upbeat songs. Whether they're practicing in the Lounge, warming up in the Workout area, or struttin' their stuff on the Dance Floor, this entertaining game will get the whole family moving!  | What We Think
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The Good: Challenging and entertaining, this game accommodates a variety of player levels
The Bad: The Motion Tower can not be disassembled once it is put together
In a Nutshell: The U-Dance is a fun, motion-based game that gets your whole body moving | At a Glance Ages: 8 and up
Requires: Television, Philips screwdriver and 4 AA batteries
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The U-Dance encourages your child to get off the couch and practice real dance moves.View larger. | 
No controller needed. U-Dance uses Motion Tags that slip over your shoes. |
Put Your Best Foot Forward
Tiger Electronics' U-Dance interactive video game encourages your child to get off the couch and practice real dance moves like sweeps, jumps, slides, and crossovers without the need for a mat or any other game controller. Instead, the U-Dance uses lightweight Motion Tags that slip over your child's shoes. The reflective surface on the Motion Tags is read by the Motion Tower placed next to your television and follows the movements of your child's feet. Set-up is easy. Simply use a Philips screwdriver to insert 4 AA batteries into the battery compartment located on one of the three tower pieces, snap the three tower pieces together, and place it in front of your television. Next, connect the provided AV cables to any regular television set and slide the On/Off switch on the back of the Motion Tower to "on." Finally, slip the elastic bands of the Motion Tags over your child's shoes so that they are positioned on top of each foot. Be sure to keep pant cuffs out of the way and avoid wearing shoes with reflective detailing as this might cause interference between the Motion Tower and the Motion Tags. Now you're child is ready to get down! Get Into The Groove
The U-Dance provides three modes of dance-oriented game play for one or two players. In the beginning, your child may find the foot-eye coordination a little difficult to get used to. So, to warm up and get familiar with the game, your child may want to start with one of two mini-game modes. In the Lounge mode your child can practice moving with the Motion Tags by kicking lounge lizards out of the spotlight indicated on the screen. In the Workout mode they must step on diamonds while avoiding hazards on a moving treadmill. While both of the mini-game modes are entertaining, neither is as fun and exciting as the main game mode, the Dance Floor. In this mode, your child may choose to warm up with a basic tutorial provided at the beginning of the game. Once your child has completed the tutorial they will be sent back to the main Dance Floor menu where they can choose from three difficulty levels and several upbeat songs before heading to the dance floor. On the dance floor the goal is to match foot movements with the target feet on the screen. As the song progresses, your child's progress is scored for accuracy and timing by the Dance Meter. If they successfully dance their way through a song, they will have their overall performance scored by the judges. If not, they may choose to repeat the same song or choose another from the main menu. As your child makes their way through the various songs and different levels of difficulty their performance can be saved so they can review their progress. What's in the Box
Motion Tower, Motion Tags, and AV cables.
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| Customer Reviews:
U-Dance - Great innovation, fun & sensitive December 1, 2008
LanaFire (li, ny)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ok, you've seen trailer here & it's also on youtube. Here's another video on youtube under "U-dance game - I like to move it" of a girl using it in action for the whole dance sequence on HARD level: youtube com/watch?v=Td57iyOBTk8
Plastic structure: It's basic hard plastic in 3 peices that you click together. Once put together, you can't take it apart as the plastic tabs amke it very hard to pull apart. Luckily it's not that big. It take 4 AA batteries that you have to unscrew small screw on the lid. I'm surprised it's not a simple tab & why isn't it able to have a DC pout/plug out? It comes with sealed in the unit w/place for it to wind around for storage the a/v cable which is composite yellow for video & white for MONO sound which plugs directly to the tv. You cannot use any ohter cable for better a/v. The unit has a simple on/off slider switch on the back. The sensors are nice, simple, fabric, comfortable straps even for bare feet with simple grey colored semi-reflective octagon top. I'm surprised that's all it needs to work & it works great.
Video/Audio - Very simple graphics, but great choices considering all the memory/programing is somewhere small in the plastic housing. The background dancers on are a loop, but they are good choices & you don't notice while you're concentrating on the feet graphics. Knowing which is your feet & the ones you are suppose to step on is very easy to see. The background colors are bright & positive w/o being so colorful you can't see where you are suppose to go or where you are at the time. The menu is very simple & you step & hold on the "buttons" on screen to make your selection. It has profiles using 3 initials & multi player (I assume you take turns). You can choose which song & easy medium & hard (unlocked until do easy & medium). There doesn't seem to be any score retention that I can see, only a check mark by a song if you did ok, I'm not sure even how well you have to do to get a check mark. This is one of the only cons. The score is done like a reality judging show as there are a static drawing cartoon of 3 "judges" who turn over a circular card to show you a score up to 9.9. If you do very poorly, the song won't finish. The scoring on Easy is VERRRRRYYY generous which is a good touch for kids & not be too negative & keep them motivated. The sound of the songs was done very well & the songs not done by the origional artist was done very well.
Extra Mini Games: There is "Lounge lizard" with even more basic floating static drawn lizards you kick out of the way to keep them out of the center spotlight. I found it too simply done & not enough time/effort on programming. As you get into higher level, there are just more of them moving faster. There is also "Workout" which looks like a treadmill & with tiny sneakers being your feet, you step on the diamonds & lightening feet & avoid gum, etc. & the air hockey looking circular controllers since they will literally put bars to keep you from moving fwd & then untimely push you back until you can't move & ends the game.
There are 12 songs to choose from: ABC (Jackson 5) Run It! (Chris Brown) Dont Stop the Music (Rihanna) 1, 2 Step (Ciara) Everybody Dance Now (C + C Music Factory) U Cant Touch This (MC Hammer) I Like to Move It (Reel to reel) Cotton Eye (Joe Rednex) Temperature (Sean Paul) Crazy in Love (Beyonce) Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy) Get the Party Started (Pink)
Gameplay:
Your "feet" turn smoldering if do well & small flames if do really well. The crowd boos & cheers & you get a metal bell ding or a low buzzer sound depending on how you do as well. You step into the newly displayed feet when the feet turn from dull green/red (green = left, red = right) to bright. This is handy in EASY mode where the movement demand is very slow & you'll move too fast & off tempo sometimes. The feet displayed are numbered as well so you can tell how to do them in order when several are on the screen. As I said, the sensitivity to your movements is precise & impossible to do any better. I was blown away by this. You step where it tells you & even sweep over any arrows between where you are & should be. You don't have to be perfect on the steps, a good 60% is fine, it only comes an issue if when you're a bit off & the next step shows up is partially where you are & it will see that as out of order or too soon & therefore a miss. Easy I would say is 1/8 the time of normal dancing. Very slow & easy for anyone. In Medium, the speed was 2/3 the speed of normal dancing, quite a difference, but doable, though not without mistakes. Great for teenagers or adults to play with for many hours. Step styles are repeated during the song which helps. I haven't unlocked Hard yet, medium is killer enough to get just try to keep up with. Oh, btw, there is almost no learning curve, you get used to watching what you see & knowning where your left/right feet are within 2-3 song attempts for teenagers or adults. Young kids may take longer, but that's what Easy mode is for, as well as for older kids & adult with "2 left feet".
At the end of the song, before you get "judged" there is a bonus 10 seconds where you sweep/move your feet to get rid of all the arrows to add to your score. In some songs, watch out for the "bumpers", if you hit them, you lose all bonus.
It's a GREAT idea, works well, almost perfect toy & a GREAT gift for anyone who likes to move/dance. The only cons/minor inconveniences are the batteries, the a/v plugs, lack of score retention & lack of foldability in half to make it really compact for storage.
I really hope this kills DDR & opens up more games ideas & play both for dancing & possibly other game ideas & uses. This really has a potential to be used for other games for great interaction, maybe even for the hands???? I hope this game idea takes off & is marketed unlike the Playsation 2's Eye Toy camera game line which was also great but didn't take off due to lack of marketing. Would have been even greater if there was an expansion ability for more songs & mini games. This is a great alternative or add-on for people who love video games w/movement, who want to learn to dance or like dancing or also a fun game to share with friends.
 Here's More Info: November 22, 2008
Se
29 out of 40 found this review helpful
Ok, admittedly I haven't played this myself, but there are several aspects that are not mentioned in the article description or other reviews, but on reviews on other sites. I feel this is good information the buyer would want to know:
The Good:
Udance is great for creativity; I love the idea of no dancemat, and the tracking is quite good, since they censors are on your shoes, and you can do more steps (such as sidestep, slide, etc).
There are several original songs, and the celebrity endorsement by Chris Brown can vouch for those original hits and the game's quality.
It's easy to set up.
The sales are doing very well, vouching for this game's success.
The Bad:
While there are some original songs, others are not.
There is a total of twelve songs on this game. (For comparison, DDR has around 60-75 songs a game.)
Good or Bad:
Since this game is it's own system; you will have to have this device taking up lots of space for only one game (as far as we know at the moment), but you also don't need another system to play it.
Three levels of play; no more, no less.
 U-Dance Rocks October 19, 2008
San Francisco Dad (San Francisco)
30 out of 33 found this review helpful
This game rocks. It tracks your feet like magic--however you move, that's what you see on the screen. The dancing starts easy, and gets really tough on the hard levels. It really gets you dancing, even someone like me who can't dance at all. We've tried Dance Dance Revolution, but that doesn't feel at ALL like dancing, this one really does feel like dancing. You actually need to sweep your feet, jump, cross...My 7 year old loves it, and it's also really great exercise, it got me sweating. Even my 4 year old can play one of the games that comes with it (the funny lizard one). The song selection is great too--there are new songs I don't know (yes, I'm a Dad), but some great older songs like ABC (Jackson 5). I would never spend the money on a Wii, but this is totally worth it. It takes a little bit to really get used to the menus, but once you do it's totally intuitive. When we hit the rainy season, this is going to be a great way to keep the kids exercising (without them knowing it...)
I Dance...U Dance too!!! lol October 15, 2008
Music Fan (Detroit, Mi)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
Ok, first off let me say, thanks to Hasbro because I don't have a lot of money to buy a Nintendo Wii! So this is sooo great. I'm a huge fan of Dance Dance Revolution, so this was right up my alley! U Dance is sooo fun and user friendly lol I got it last night at target for 74.99. I mean come on...whats 10cents? Anyhoo, my friends were with me and I hooked up to my TV, we were laughing and making fun of each other, because we looked crazy but it was soooo much fun!!
Also, I saw Chris Brown advertise this on The Ellen Degeneres show and I immediately fell in love because I haven't the money for a Wii yet. So thanks to Chris Brown too! His 'Run It' song is on there as well as Rihanna's 'Please Don't Stop the Music'. Balls of fun people!!
The music is up to date, a bit, but then there's some old school MC Hammer "Can't Touch This' and Jackson 5 'ABC' on there, I'm 21 by the way and I can recall all the music on there. I recommend this, simply because it's fun, my friends and I were hanging out and having fun, plus all 3 of us worked up a sweat!!! lol It was great.
If I'm wrong someone tell me I'm wrong...but I know I'm right...this game rocks my socks!! lol BUY IT!! What's a little splurge in life...lol
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