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Lelo Ida
Reviewed By: Jenne
First Impressions:
I knew very little about the Lelo Ida when I was first offered it for review from the great girls over at Good Vibrations and I tend to like to review that way. I can go into a review with no preconceived ideas of what to expect from a toy.
So my Ida arrived just before Christmas and like every other toy I receive I can’t resist opening it and exploring. I love the packaging that this toy arrives in, it has an air of quality about it and I for one appreciate that, it always makes me excited to explore further.
The trouble was that my excitement quickly turned to confusion as I looked at the contents of the box. I was presented with a pink disc and what I assumed at this point was the actual toy and to be honest it didn’t seem to make much sense to me. Add to this the charger, a soft carrying bag, 2 AAA batteries, and a strange piece of plastic that I had no idea what to do with at that point and my confusion only grew. This seemed like it might be a lot more work than I was used to when using a toy. At this point I put the Ida to one side and decided to come back to it when, my head was clearer, or I was in the mood to figure out the puzzle it seemed to present.
Fast forward a couple of days and I decided to dive back into my Ida box once more. This time, I read the instructions (Note to self: Read the bloody instructions) Well, I use the words loosely as although they made things clearer I would still hazard a guess that a Rubic cube would be easier to solve. After some playing around, I managed to figure out that the batteries were supposed to fit into the pink disk, which is actually a remote control and the piece of plastic was the key to turn the battery compartment that made it waterproof. Now I had to charge the toy itself, which was easy enough. Simply plug the charger into the toy base and let it charge. It has the usual handy-dandy flashing light that lets you know it’s charging.
When I came back later in the day, I now have two pieces of toy and I’m still not completely sure what to do with it. I start by turning on the remote, which has somewhat confusing controls. Three small depressed buttons, one to turn it on, one to turn it off and the other one to well, I’m still not entirely sure what that one does, but I played for more than a few minutes and kinda figured out what it did. It does have a lock on it that I like as a feature, if one it could easily be found. The remote buzzes and vibrates and has different pulses but I still wasn’t sure whether I was supposed to be using this thing on any part of my body or not at this point. I decided to turn on the fully charged toy itself and was met by the strangest sight. The pink thing that reminds me of some weird elephants truck both rotated and vibrated at the same time. It was then it sort of dawned on me, what this was supposed to do, insert said toy into self and hope it feels good.
Solo Test
Without further ado, I set about getting in the mood for this review, and once warmed up, inserted the elephant trunk and hoped for the best. I’m not sure what I was expecting as a sensation, but the one I got was not it. As the trunk rotated it felt kind of good, for about a minute, and then it became annoying. After 5 minutes it was plain and simply put frustrating. It just rotated and did nothing, and when I say nothing, I mean nothing for me. It simply wasn’t long enough to reach,